by Nathaniel R
With over 30 critics groups now in the US (and *still* literally more each year) and many of them now doing two rounds of announcements we don't give everyone two posts or even one here at TFE (we need time to actually write about movies!) but we do like to check in once in a while. Chloe Zhao continues to be a literal sweeper in Best Director (with no one else ever winning) while Maria Bakalova continues to dominate in Supporting Actress though some, including the upcoming Golden Globe Awards argue it's a leading role.
Here's a few more prizes, the most famous being the Chicago Film Critics Association...
CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 1990. They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before final voting
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Most Promising Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Most Promising Performer Sidney Flanagan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Original Screenplay Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, SOUL
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Editing Robert Frazen, I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Best Costume Design EMMA.
Best Use of Visual Effects INVISIBLE MAN
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
How close did Ma Rainey come to the top prize with IFJAA?
INDIANA FILM JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AWARD
Established in 2009
Best Film NOMADLAND
runner up: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the rest of the top ten list alphabetically...
- Another Round
- The Assistant
- Da 5 Bloods
- First Cow
- i'm thinking of ending things
- Minari
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- The Twentieth Century
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Regina King, One Night in Miami
Best Actor Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
runner up: Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
runner up: Jessie Buckley, I'm thinking of ending things
Best Supporting Actor Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
runner up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Vocal/MoCap Performance Jamie Foxx, SOUL
runner up: Sean Bean, Wolfwalkers
Best Ensemble Acting: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runner up: One Night in Miami
Breakout of the Year Maria Bakalova BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
Best Original Screenplay Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
runner up: Matthew Rankin, Twentieth Century
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Charlie Kaufman, I'm thinking of ending things
Best Score Ludwig Göransson, TENET
runner up: Emile Mosseri, Minari
Original Vision Award THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
runner up: Dick Johnson is Dead
Best Documentary DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
runner up: Athlete A
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
runner up: Song Without a Name
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers
Hoosier Award: ATHLETE A
Sound of Metal is a big favourite for the GWNYC
GREATER WESTERN NEW YORK CRITICS
Established in 2018. They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before final voting. Which is surely whey they also have so many repeat winners, as that doesn't happen quite as often in a more conversational "round" approach to voting.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
No runners up but the other nominees were:
- Da 5 Bloods
- Driveways
- The Father
- First Cow
- i'm thinking of ending things
- Mank
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock
- Sound of Metal
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Actress Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Breakthrough Director Darius Marder, SOUND OF METAL
Breakthrough Performer Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Original Screenplay Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Adapted Screenplay Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, SOUL
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Editing Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Film in a Foreign Language MINARI
As we see also happening with the Globes controversy, some people are looking at this as a "foreign" film even though it's about America and the immigrant experience (note that it wasn't nominated for their best picture list). They changed the name of the category to "best film in a foreign language" from last year's "best foreign film". Still, last year and the year before some of their foreign film nominees were also up for their Best Picture prize so maybe they just didn't love Minari all that much?
Best Animated Film WOLFWALKERS
Best Documentary TIME