Mank Leads North Dakota Film Society Nominations

Despite failing to nab a nod for Best Picture, David Fincher’s Mank leads the way at this year’s nominations from the North Dakota Film Society with eight nominations. Full nominations list below. Winners will be announced on 15th January.

Best Picture

FIRST COW
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
NOMADLAND
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Best Director

Emerald Fennell – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
David Fincher – MANK
Charlie Kaufman – I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Kelly Reichardt – FIRST COW
Chloé Zhao – NOMADLAND

Best Actress

Viola Davis – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Sophia Loren – THE LIFE AHEAD
Frances McDormand – NOMADLAND
Carey Mulligan – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Kate Winslet – AMMONITE

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – SOUND OF METAL
Chadwick Boseman – MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Delroy Lindo – DA 5 BLOODS
Gary Oldman – MANK
Steven Yeun – MINARI

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Ellen Burstyn – PIECES OF A WOMAN
Saoirse Ronan – AMMONITE
Amanda Seyfried – MANK
Yuh-Jung Youn – MINARI

Best Supporting Actor

Bo Burnham – PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Sacha Baron Cohen – THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Orion Lee – FIRST COW
Paul Raci – SOUND OF METAL
David Strathairn – NOMADLAND

Best Screenplay

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS – Charlie Kaufman
MANK – Jack Fincher
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS – Eliza Hittman
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Emerald Fennell
SOUND OF METAL
– Darius Marder, Abraham Marder (screenplay by) Darius Marder, Derek Cianfrance (story by)

Best Production Design

EMMA.
Kave Quinn (production designer)
Stella Fox (set decorator)
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

Molly Hughes (production designer)
Mattie Siegal (set decorator)
MANK

Donald Graham Burt (production designer)
Jan Pascale (set decorator)
NEWS OF THE WORLD

David Crank (production designer)
Elizabeth Keenan (set decorator)
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

Cristina Casali (production designer)
Charlotte Dirickx (set decorator)

Best Cinematography

EMMA.
Christopher Blauvelt
FIRST COW

Christopher Blauvelt
MANK
Erik Messerschmidt
NOMADLAND
Joshua James Richards
TENET
Hoyte Van Hoytema

Best Film Editing

I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
Robert Frazen
MANK
Kirk Baxter
NOMADLAND

Chloé Zhao
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Frédéric Thoraval
TENET

Jennifer Lame

Best Original Score

AMMONITE
Dustin O’Halloran, Volker Bertelmann
THE INVISIBLE MAN
Benjamin Wallfisch
MANK

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
SOUL

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
TENET

Ludwig Göransson

Best Original Song

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
”Wuhan Flu”
Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Erran Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Swimer, Jena Friedman, Jim Russell, Jerry Holleman
MISS AMERICANA
”Only the Young”
Written by Taylor Swift and Joe Little
ON THE ROCKS
”Identical”
Written by Thomas Pablo Croquet, Christian Mazzalai, Laurent Mazzalai, Frederic Jean Joseph Moulin
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
”Speak Now”
Written by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth
OVER THE MOON
”Rocket to the Moon”
Written by Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield, Helen Park

Best International Feature

AND THEN WE DANCED
ANOTHER ROUND
BEANPOLE
COLLECTIVE
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Best Documentary Feature

ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
BOYS STATE
COLLECTIVE
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
TIME
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

Best Animated Feature

THE CROODS: A NEW AGE
ONWARD
OVER THE MOON
SOUL
WOLFWALKERS

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.