Minari Declared Best Picture by Phoenix Critics Circle

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari has been declared Best Picture by the Phoenix Critics Circle. The film also picked up wins for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Supporting Actress for Youn Yuh-jung. Elsewhere, Chloé Zhao added yet another Best Director prize to her staggering tally of wins this season, while Carey Mulligan and Chadwick Boseman were named Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively. Winners in bold below.

Best Picture
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal

Best Comedy Film
Another Round
Boray Subsequent Moviefilm
The Forty-Year-Old Version
On the Rocks
Palm Springs

Best Science Fiction Film
Possessor
Sputnik
Tenet

The Vast of Night

Best Horror Film
Antebellum
La Llorona
The Invisible Man
Possessor
Relic

Best Animated Film
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Foreign Language Film
Another Round
Bacurau
Collective
La Llorona
Minari

Best Documentary
Boys State
Crip Camp
Dick Johnson is Dead
Gunda
Time

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari

Best Actress
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Olivia Colman, The Father
Dominque Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Helena Zengel, News of the World

Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
David Fincher, Mank
Regina King, One Night in Miami
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Cinematography
Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Newton Thomas Sigel, Da 5 Bloods
Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
Łukasz Żal, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Score
Ludwig Göransson, Tenet
James Newton Howard, News of the World
Emile Mosseri, Minari
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Mank
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, & Jon Batiste, Soul

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.