More critics prizes: St Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, and Houston
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 2:35PM Here's five more groups of prizes from critics groups that have announced in the past handful of days. Chloe Zhao continues her total sweep of Best Director prizes for Nomadland , an achievement we haven't seen in quite some time. Generally there's one award where someone steamrolls but it's usually in one of the acting categories. Promising Young Woman, Trial of the Chicago 7, Soul, First Cow, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom also do well in this week's regional critics haul...
ST LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Established in 2004. Even though they have a nomination round, they also announce runners up.
Best Picture NOMADLAND
runner up [TIE]: Promising Young Woman and First Cow
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Emerald Fennel, Promising Young Woman
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runner up: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Best Supporting Actor Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Runner up: Sacha Baron Cohen, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Supporting Actress Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Original Screenplay Emerald Fennel, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Charlie Kaufman, I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
runner up: Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
runner up Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
Best Visual Effects TENET
runner up: Invisible Man
Best Editing Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Robert Frazen, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Best Production Design Donald Graham Burt, MANK
runner up: Kave Quinn, Emma.
Best Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Jon Baptiste, SOUL
runner up: Ludovico Einaudi, Nomadland
Best Soundtrack: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
runner up: Hamilton
Best Scene: Sisters Dine, INVISIBLE MAN
runner up: Rudy Guiliani, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
runner up: Beanpole
Best Documentary COLLECTIVE
no runner up announced
Best Action Film TENET
runner up: Birds of Prey
Best Comedy BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
runner up: Palm Springs
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers
Best Horror Film: INVISIBLE MAN
no runner up announced
PHILADELPHIA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Founded in 2017.
Best Picture MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Runner up: Da 5 Bloods
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
runner up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Best Actor Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS
runner up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Actress Viola Davis, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
runners up: Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear and Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor Chadwick Bosteman, Da 5 Bloods
runner up: Leslie Odom Jr, One Night in Miami
Best Supporting Actress Amanda Seyfried, MANK
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Breakthrough Performance Sidney Flanagan NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
runner up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Screenplay Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, FIRST COW
runner up: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
runner up: Christopher Blauvelt, First Cow
Directorial Debut: Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
runner up: Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
Best Soundtrack/Score SOUL
runner up: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Foreign Language Film JUMBO
runner up: La Llorona
Best Documentary TIME
runner up: Dick Johnson is Dead
Best Animated Film SOUL
runner up: Wolfwalkers
HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Established in 2007. No runners up were announced
Best Picture NOMADLAND
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor Leslie Odom Jr, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Supporting Actress Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Best Screenplay Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Cinematography Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Best Score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Baptiste, SOUL
Best Song "Speak Now" ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Visual Effects TENET
Best Movie Poster Art DA 5 BLOODS
Outstanding Cinematic Achievement: Sound Design SOUND OF METAL
Best Foreign Language Film A SUN
Best Documentary MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
Best Animated Film SOUL
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Established in 1976. No runners up were announced
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 YOUN YUH-JUNG, MINARI
Best Original Screenplay Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Best Adapted Screenplay Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, FIRST COW
Best Cinematography Christopher Blauvelt, FIRST COW
Best Production Design Anthony Gasparro and Vanessa Knoll, FIRST COW
Best Score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, SOUL
Best Foreign Language Film ANOTHER ROUND
Best Documentary COLLECTIVE
Best Animated Film SOUL
Special Citation for Indie Cinema [TIE] LA LLORONA and SH*THOUSE
Marlon Riggs Award: DAWN PORTER
DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY
Founded in ??? Their website isn't functioning and their facebook page hasn't been updated since 2016. But they're apparently still giving out awards? They do not announce runners up as they have a nomination round before voting.
Best Picture TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND
Best Actor Chadwick Boseman MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Supporting Actress Ellen Burstyn, PIECES OF A WOMAN
Best Original Screenplay Aaron Sorkin, TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Best Adapted Screenplay Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW
Best Score Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste SOUL
Best Original Song "Speak Now" ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Best Visual Effects TENET
Best Sci-Fi Forror Film INVISIBLE MAN
Best Comedy PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Best Foreign Language Film MINARI
Best Documentary BOYS STATE
Best Animated Film SOUL
Score one for Ellen Burstyn. It's strange to see a Critics Society without a cinematography prize. That's usually the only constant in visual categories that regional critics groups honor.
Reader Comments (27)
I just don't understand how Bakalova has generated so much relative consensus. If NYFCC hadn't set this off, would all these groups be following suit?
Trina -- no. as we see, year in and year out, smaller regional critics groups almost always take a variety of cues from NY and LA.
St Louis has Best Score and Best Soundtrack awards and yet no Best Song?
I’m interested to see if Youn Yuh-jung and Maria Bakalova will actually make it to Oscars as these are two fascinating performances that the Academy usually wouldn’t recognize. Amanda Seyfried was excellent and all (props for over delivering) but Youn and Maria would be more daring choices.
(My gut is telling me they’ll both be snubbed).
@Bushwick- perhaps if they are snubbed it means Toni Collette can get in for I'm Thinking of Ending Things. She is having a moment- had a hit last year with Knives Out and is considered due since she missed a nom for Hereditary. She is well respected so it is possible she gets votes this year and maybe even gets nominated this year since there just doesn't seem to be a lot of competition.
Jumbo !
Philadelphia giving us a wackadoo runner-up citation for Aubrey Plaza in BLACK BEAR!
Carey Mulligan is really killing it with the critics. I'm still not sure if she's going to go all the way and win Best Actress or if voters aren't going to embrace the movie and she won't even get nominated at all.
If Denver don't have a website/facebook/twitter account how do you know the results?
I'm imagining a News of the World situation where Tom Hanks pops by to read a printed copy of them.
BJT -- i read it online at other awards sites so there must be a press release. Strange situation though so i almost didn't share it.
I think the race is shaping up now
Actor 4 frontrunners
Lindo,Boseman,Hopkins,Ahmed
Actress 3 frontrunners
McDormand,Davis,Mulligan
S/Actor 3 frontrunners
Odom,Raci,Cohen
S/Actress 3 frontrunners
Seyfried,Bakalova,Burstyn
Given the unanimous critical hype around Nomadland, I'm halfway expecting a mild disappointment when I finally see it.
Oh, please don't tell me this is gonna be another year in which Pixar will take all the awards. Boooooooooooooring...
The beautiful Emerald Fennell is in her moment. Directing and writing and being deservedly praised and awarded by critics for her enjoyable and smart Promising Young Woman. She is also in The Crown season 3 and 4 justifying why Charles preferred Camilla over Diana. Congrats.
@Rafaello - wow, I did not realize Emerald Fennell was the actress who plays Camilla in The Crown! Mind blown. What a talent. She deserves all the accolades for PYW.
Charlie -- i dont know what Jumbo is so i will now be looking it up.
NIN wins again!
I wish Mads MIkkelsen was popping up for some of these prizes even as a frontrunner. I thought he was excellent in "Another Round."
Nomadland seems to be sweeping critics awards. I hope something else wins Oscar or gg like trial of the Chicago 7, ma Rainey’s , one night in Miami, news of the world or the father or even tenet
I really want to see Carey Mulligan nominated for Promising Young Woman. I can also see her bid evaporating into thin air come Oscar time like Elizabeth Olsen in Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene or Toni Colette in Hereditary. It's going to come down to if enough voters are willing to sit through that story and subject matter to recognize an incredible performance in a very dark film.
To honor the films of three (female) filmmakers I personally admire is thrilling: Nomadland, Never Rarely Sometimes Always and First Cow. Big ups to Kelly R., Chloe Z., and Eliza H. May you create even more challenging films in the future.
But I really just want to express how pleasantly surprised I am to see Sh*thouse [a rather unfortunate title, true] honored by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle! I thought it'd be one of those beautiful small-ish films that will not be mentioned at all by any critics circle the year it came out but will always be remembered later on as: "why wasn't this film noticed at all that year?". I liken the exquisite intimacy of Sh*thouse to Tommy Weber's Quand je ne dors pas (2014).
I wish Kajillionaire were picking up more Score prizes
markgordonuk, i think your assessment feels very on-target, but it is a zany year.
Tony Ruggio, i was worried about Nomadland before seeing it too, fearing it would be misery porn and Frances would scowl her way through it. It's not. It's so much more and absolutely worthy of the hype...so much surprising beauty in it. Eager to hear once you see.
while Nomadland continues to steam roll the way to best picture...
... I am already thinking that the only one that can beat it is... Minari.
Has anyone seen "Swallow"? That movie is super bonkers, but really good. I appreciate the consistent tone (which is a problem with some of the more recent award recipients) and Haley Bennett does some good work. While I wish it would get more love, I think it got swept up in the endless space and time that is COVID-time?
Charlie, that was one of the first films that shifted from a theatrical release to a digital rental due to Covid. It had a limited release in theatres and got pulled right when it was going to expand. I loved Swallow, but it definitely got forgotten because of that.
The awards for the screenplay of Promising Young Woman genuinely astonish me, since the silliness that passes for a script is the film's weakest element. Mulligan is mesmerizing, and Fennell shows promise as a filmmaker, but she's concocted one of the most laughably bad scripts (sealed by that eye-rollingly idiotic ending) of recent years.