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)