Nomadland Declared Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has won four awards from the National Society of Film Critics including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture

Nomadland (52 points)
Runners-up: First Cow (50 points) & Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41 points)

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58 points)
Runners-up: Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41 points) & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30 points)

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Nomadland (46 points)
Runners-up: Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (33 points) & Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (29 points)

Best Actor

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (52 points)
Runners-up: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (47 points) & Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (32 points)

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47 points)
Runners-up: Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40 points) & Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33 points)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (53 points)
Runners-up: Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (36 points) & Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (35 points)

Best Screenplay

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (38 points)
Runners-up: Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (35 points) & Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (29 points)

Best Cinematography

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47 points)
Runners-up: Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41 points) & Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Verela (34 points)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Collective (38 points)
Runners-up: Bacurau and Beanpole (36 points) & Vitalina Varela (32 points)

Best Non-Fiction Film

Time (46 points)
Runners-up: City Hall (28 points) & Collective (22 points)