More prizes: LEJA, Detroit, Las Vegas, Hollywood, and more...

by Nathaniel R

The film prizes don't stop. We've recently updated the "Movies for Grownups AARP Awards" post (they surprisingly chose United States vs Billie Holiday as the year's best) and the Goya Awards post with the winners lists from those nominations, in case you haven't caught wind of those yet.

But other film critics associations have also continued to hand out prizes in this very extended awards season. So let's catch up shall we. Here are the prizes from various critics organizations like LEJA, WFCC, OAFFC, SEFCA, Detroit, Hollywood, Phoenix,  and Las Vegas... 

LATINO ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION
LEJA is only in its third year. Here's what they selected this time. 

Best Picture Nomadland

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Voice or Motion Capture Performance Alice Braga, Soul

Delightful and unexpected choice!

Best Animated Feature Soul

Best International Feature La Llorona from Guatemala - Jayro Bustamante

Best Documentary Feature Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado– Cristina Costantini Kareem Tabsch

Best Original Screenplay Minari – Lee Isaac Chung

Best Adapted Screenplay One Night in Miami - Kemp Powers

Best Ensemble Casting Hamilton – Bethany Knox and Bernard Telsey

What a strange film prize to give out since the Hamilton casting was done six year ago for the stage and this is the original Broadway cast performing the show for cameras, no new casting required. I really love Hamilton but this past year keeps trying to turn me against it due to the bizarre communal desire to pretend its a movie and not a filmed stage show. We should all be eternally grateful that it was recorded so beautifully for posterity. But we should not pretend that it is a movie. If we do what are we going to call the real movie adaptation when it comes around? A remake?  On the other hand there is no Tony Award for casting so maybe this is just a way of thanking Bethany Knox and Bernard Telsey for their shared theater genius six years ago since they weren't eligible for a Tony Award back then? But if we're going to start handing current film prizes out to Broadway achievements of the past, then what does anything mean anymore? 

Best Production & Set Design Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Mark Ricker and Karen O’Hara

Best Cinematography Nomadland – Joshua James Richards

Best Costume Design Emma– Alexandra Byrne

Best Editing Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

Best Hair and Makeup Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Mia Neal, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Jamika Wilson

Best Sound Sound of Metal– Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, and Carolina Santana

Best Visual Effects The Invisible Man -Marcus Bolton, Aevar Bjarnason, Jonathan Dearing, and Matt Ebb

Best Stunt Design Tenet

Best Musical Score Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross

Best Song “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami – Leslie Odom Jr and Sam Ashworth

DETROIT FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
DFCS established in 2007. Detroit shout-out! In a different life I might have ended up a member if I hadn't moved to NYC.

Best Picture Nomadland

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Actor Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Ensemble Minari

Breakthrough Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Original Screenplay Minari

Best Adapted Screenplay Nomadland

Best Animated Feature Soul

Best Documentary Feature Dick Johnson is Dead

Best Music/Sound Sound of Metal

Major domination from Minari and Nomadland there. Nice to see Delroy Lindo pop up again!

WOMEN'S FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
The WFCC was founded in 2004. We've said this about other critics organizations so we're not trying to single them out but how do we get critics organizations to tak their HQ seriously? They haven't updated their website since 2016 (!) though their Facebook page is active. 

Best Movie About Women Promising Young Woman

Best Movie Directed by a Woman Nomadland

Best Actress Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Female Writer: Eliza Hittman for Never Rarely...

Best Documentary Directed by a Woman about Women Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story

Best Sex Equality Emma

Best Animated Woman: Fei Fei, Over the Moon

Best Heroine Janelle Monae in Antebellum

Best Cast Radium Girls

Best Onscreen Couple  Kate Winslet & Saoirse Ronan for Ammonite

Bravest Directing: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Bravest Interpretation: Janelle Monae, Antebellum

Color me shocked that Antebellum did so well with Women's Film Critics Circle (Two prizes and a runner up citation in their top category) as I was under the assumption that critics truly hated it given that 28% TomatoMeter Score and I hadn't heard that there was any gender divide in terms of that critical feeling.

Adrienne Shelley Award Promising Young Woman

Josephine Baker Award Miss Juneteenth

Karen Morley Award United States vs Billie Holiday

Invisible Woman Award Cicely Tyson - A Fall from Grace

Mommie Dearest Award Sarah Paulson in Run

Women Saving Themselves Award Claire Dunn - Herself

Best Kept Secret Ammonite

Acting and Activism Award Regina King

Lifetime Achievement Award Julie Andrews

WFCC Hall of Shame Rudy Guiliani (Politician), Dennis Harvey (Variety critic for his Promising Young Woman review), The Prom (for casting straight actors), Dallas Sonnier & Adam Donaghy (Cineaste magazine sexual harassment)

HOLLYWOOD CRITICS ASSOCIATION 
The HCA is only in its 4th year. Here are their prizes. 

Best Picture Promising Young Woman

Best Female Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Male Director Darius Marder, Sound of Metal

Best First Feature Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Actress Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Animated of VFX Performance Ben Schwartz, Sonic the Hedgehog

Best Ensemble Da 5 Bloods

Best Original Screenplay Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay One Night in Miami

Best Cinematography Nomadland

Best Hair and Makeup Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Costume Design The Personal History of David Copperfield

Best Production Design Mank

Best Film Editing Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Visual Effects The Invisible Man

Best Stunts Birds of Prey

Best Score Soul

Best Song Husavik from Eurovision Song Contest

Best Animated Feature Wolfwalkers

Best Action Film Birds of Prey

Best Blockbuster Birds of Prey

Best Comedy/Musical Palm Springs

Best Horror Film The Invisible Man

Best Indie Film Minari

Best Short Film The Heart Still Hums

Best Documentary Feature [TIE] All In: Fight for Democracy and  Class Action Park

Best International Feature La Llorona (Guatemala)

Promising Young Woman was dominant there with four prizes though why didn't they nominate it for costume design if they loved it so much. We always hope critics (and the Academy) will open their minds up when it comes to costume design. Sometimes contemporary films are great at it, too! On a more surprising note Birds of Prey took 3 prizes!

LAS VEGAS FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Founded in 1997. They went big for Nomadland but Judas was also a favourite...

Best Picture Nomadland

1. Nomadland
2. Sound of Metal
3. Promising Young Woman
4. Minari
5. The Outpost
6. Selah and the Spades
7. Da 5 Bloods
8. Mank
9. Trial of the Chicago 7
10. Judas and the Black Messiah

Unusual top ten list. Always nice to see a few different titles pop up. It gives you a sense that it's real people and not pundit algorithyms choosing the awards.

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Actor Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Original Screenplay Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Adapted Screenplay  One Night in Miami

Best Cinematography Nomadland

Best Film Editing Sound of Metal

Best Art Direction Mank

Best Visual Effects Invisible Man

Best Action Film Birds of Prey

Best Comedy Palm Springs

Best Horror/Sci-Fi Invisible Man

Best Family Film Soul

Breakout Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Male Performance (Under 21) Alan S Kim, Minari

Best Female Performance (Under 21) Millie Bobby Brown Enola Holmes

Lifetime Achivement Rita Moreno

Best Score Soul

Best Song "Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Animated Feature Soul

Best Documentary Feature Boys State

Best International Feature Another Round

Though Judas and the Black Messiah just barely made their top ten list it picked up 3 awards when all was said and done. It definitely feels like it has some momentum this week.

SOUTHEASTERN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
This group, formed back in 1992, covers a broad range of critics working across multiple states like Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia (some of which have their own critics organizations as well) 

Best Picture Nomadland

 top ten 

1. Nomadland
2. Minari
3. Chicago 7
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Sound of Metal
6. On Nigh in Miami
7. Da 5 Bloods
8. Ma Rainey's
9. Soul
10. Mank 

Minari is runner up to Nomadland once again (seems like it's been running that way critically all season, right?)

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, Chicago 7

Best Ensemble Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Original Screenplay Minari

Best Adapted Screenplay  Nomadland

Best Cinematography Nomadland

Best Animated Feature Soul

Best Documentary Feature Time

Best Foreign-Language Film Another Round

Gene Wyatt Award Minari

ONLINE ASSOCIATION OF FEMALE FILM CRITICS 
I believe this is the newest of three separate organizations for female critics. I think they've been around since 2017 though their website doesn't say specifically when they were founded. 

Best Picture Promising Young Woman

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Ensemble One Night in Miami

Best Original Screenplay [TIE] Never Rarely Sometimes Always AND Promising Young Woman 

Best Adapted Screenplay  Nomadland

Best Cinematography Nomadland

Best Animated Feature Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary Feature Collective

Breakthrough Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Breakthrough Performance Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

The "Rosie" Award Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Four prizes for Promising Young Woman but Never Rarely and Nomadland were not far behind with three each. I wonder why they don't have an international film category?

PHOENIX FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Founded in 2000. Trial of the Chicago 7 took the most prizes but Nomadland was the Best Picture winner.

Best Picture Nomadland

 top ten alpha order

• The Dig
• Judas and...
• Minari
• News of
• Nomadland
• One Night in Miami
• Promising Young Woman
• Soul
• Sound of Metal
• Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Breakthrough Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Yough Performance Helena Zengel News of the World

Best Ensemble Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Original Screenplay Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay  One Night in Miami

Best Cinematography Nomadland

Best Costume Design Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Film Editing Trial of Chicago 7

Best Art Direction Mank

Best Visual Effects Tenet

Best Score Soul

Best Song "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami

Best Animated Feature Soul

Best Documentary Feature Boys State

Best International Feature Another Round

Overlooked Film Palm Springs

And that's a lovely note to end on. An honor for the undervalued Palm Springs which is one of my five choices for Best Picture of the year. 

Comments

[Connie]

More legitimate awardage! You're really mqking it up to is for that turd of a Critics Choice piece. That shpuld have been dumped in the link round up. The true essence of this meeting could have been an email.

[Jesus Alonso]

If Youn doesn't get nominated for Oscar, is going to be the snub of the year. Same with Bakalova. I think both are in, along Colman, Close and Seyfried.

[Unknown]

The Prom (for casting straight actors)

What's the story here?

[Jose Luis]

In my opinion suporting actres Oscar nominees:
Youn, Colman, Close, Seyfried
For the 5th place, Foster, Burstyng or Zengel, with Maria Bakalova getting snubbed.

[Hildy]

Jose gets it. Just vocalise the sure thing that Close is and you've got comment of the week!

[Gilbert]

Here are my guesses for Oscar nominations

Acfor- Bozeman, Hopkins, Ahmed, Yeun, Oldman
Actress- Mulligan, Kirby, Day, McDormand, Davis
S. Actor- Bozeman, Kaluuya, SBC, Odom Jr, Raci
S. Actress- Youn, Colman, Foster, Zengel, Seyfried

I feel confident about everything but S. Actress. I think Seyfried and Zengel are vulnerable to Bakalova, Fishback, Close, and Burstyn.

[Feline Justice]

" Mommie Dearest Award " 😁 What's this about?

[Charles O]

THESE BAFTA NOMS ARE CHAOS AND I LOVE IT !!!

[Golden]

Minari overperformed but missed Writing and Actor (but made Supporting Actor!!!!). The BAFTA noms this year is so much fun and different, glad they made the change!

[Amy Camus]

BAFTA pulls its nose out of Oscar's ass! Will this be more than one year? Nominations for Tahar Rahim, Alan Kim and Paul Raci!! No nominations for Sascha Baron Cohen!! Woo Hoo!

[NewMoonSon]

Alright, Detroit! That Top 6 would be perfect Oscar winners.