Minari Declared Best Narrative Film by North Carolina Film Critics Association

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari has been declared Best Narrative Film by the North Carolina Film Critics Association. The film picked up four awards in total including Best Original Screenplay. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland also scored four wins including Best Director and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Winners in bold below.

Best Narrative Film

Da 5 Bloods
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
David Strathairn – Nomadland

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Toni Collette – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Original Screenplay

Danny Bilson; Paul De Meo; Kevin Willmott; Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Jack Fincher – Mank
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

Jon Raymond; Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami

Best Cinematography

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

Best Music

Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
Soul
Tenet

Best Special Effects

The Invisible Man
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984

Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round
Bacurau
Beanpole
La Llorona
Night of the Kings

Best Documentary

All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson is Dead
Time

Best Restoration (film or home video release)

Beau Travail (The Criterion Collection)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Warner Bros.)
Mädchen in Uniform (Kino Lorber)
Native Son (Kino Lorber)
Roman Holiday (Paramount Home Entertainment)

Ken Hanke Memorial Tarheel Award

The Dancin’ Bulldogs — Film
Will Patton (Minari) — Performer
Gary Wheeler — Producer/Industry Professional