Nomadland and Promising Young Woman Tie Best Film From Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman have tied for Best Film from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. Nomadland also picked up wins for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, while Promising Young Woman took home Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Best Original Screenplay. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film
Nomadland and Promising Young Woman (tie)

Robert Altman Award for Best Director
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Runner-up: Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Runner-up: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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

Best Supporting Actor
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami
Runner-up: Paul Race – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari
Runner-up: Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Adapted Screenplay
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
Runner-up: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)

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

Best Cinematography
The Vast of Night
Runner-up: Mank

Best Animated Feature
Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Soul

Best International Feature
Another Round
Runner-up: 76 Days, Bacurau, and The Life Ahead

Best Documentary
The Dissident
Runner-up: Crip Camp

Tom Poe LGBTQ+ Award
Kajillionaire
Runner-up: The Prom

Vince Kohler Award for Best Horror/Science-Fiction Film
The Invisible Man
Runner-up: The Vast of Night


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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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