Mank Dominates the Music City Film Critics Association Nominations

David Fincher’s Mank leads the way at the nominations for the Music City Film Critics Association 2020 Film Awards with nine nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Winners will be announced on 11th January. Full nominations list below.

Best Picture

Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Father
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round
Bacurau
Collective
I’m No Longer Here
The Platform

Best Animation

Onward
Over the Moon
Scoob!
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary

Collective
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Social Dilemma
Time
You Cannot Kill David Arquette

Best Director

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Florian Zeller – The Father
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actress

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Gary Oldman – Mank

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Supporting Actor

Sasha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Bill Burr – The King of Staten Island
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Acting Ensemble

Da 5 Bloods
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Screenplay

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Jack Fincher – Mank
Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography

Erik Messerschmidt – Mank
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods
Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
Dariusz Wolski – News of the World

Best Editing

Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Kirk Baxter – Mank
Andy Canny – The Invisible Man
Jennifer Lame – Tenet
Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Score

Terence Blanchard – Da 5 Bloods
Ludwig Göransson – Tenet
Emile Mosseri – Minari
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Song

“Hear My Voice” – The Trial of the Chicago 7
“Husavik (My Hometown)” – Eurovision Song Contest
“Just Sing” – Trolls: World Tour
“Rocket to the Moon” – Over the Moon
“Speak Now” – One Night in Miami
“The Plan” – Tenet

Best Production Design

Donald Graham Burt – Mank
Kave Quinn – Emma.
Mark Ricker – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Wynn Thomas – Da 5 Bloods
Christina Casali – The Personal History of David Copperfield

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.