Nomadland Declared Best Film by Southeastern Film Critics Association

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has been declared Best Film by the Southeastern Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Zhao, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, and Best Cinematography. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Top 10 Films
1. Nomadland
2. Minari
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Sound of Metal
6. One Night in Miami…
7. Da 5 Bloods
8. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
9. Soul
10. Mank

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

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

Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-Up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Ensemble
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-Up: One Night in Miami…

Best Director
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Regina King, One Night in Miami…

Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami…

Best Documentary
Time
Runner-Up: Dick Johnson Is Dead

Best Foreign-Language Film
Another Round
Runner-Up: Bacurau

Best Animated Film
Soul
Runner-Up: Wolfwalkers

Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Erik Messerschmidt, Mank

The Gene Wyatt Award (Dedicated to the film that best embodies the spirit of the South)
Minari
Runner-Up: One Night in Miami…

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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