Minari Declared Best Picture by Utah Film Critics Association

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari has been declared Best Picture by the Utah Film Critics Association. Elsewhere, Regina King picked up her second win of the season for Best Director for One Night in Miami, while Riz Ahmed added to his growing total of Best Actor victories for Sound of Metal. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture
Minari
Runner-up: Soul

Best Director
Regina King, One Night in Miami…
Runner-up: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Runners-up (tie): Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Steven Yeun, Minari

Best Actress
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami…
Runner-up: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runner-up: Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari

Best Original Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-up: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

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: Lukasz Zal, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Soul
Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, Tenet

Best Editing
Alan Baumgarten, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runners-up (tie): Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Sound of Metal; Jennifer Lame, Tenet

Best Documentary
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Runner-up: Time

Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Soul

Best Non-English Film
Another Round
Runner-up: Bacurau

Vice/Martin Award (for outstanding performance in a science fiction, horror or fantasy film)
Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man
Runner-up: Cristin Milioti, Palm Springs

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.

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