Nomadland Leads at the Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland leads the way at this year’s nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association with seven nods including Best Picture, while Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things all scored six nominations each. Full list of nominations below. The winners will be announced on December 21.

Best Picture

Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Lovers Rock
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman

Best Director

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Steve McQueen – Lovers Rock
Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Carrie Coon – The Nest
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
David Strathairn – Nomadland

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Toni Collette – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Letitia Wright – Mangrove
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

Best Original Screenplay

Da 5 Bloods by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
Soul by Pete Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers
The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Aaron Sorkin

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Father by Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
First Cow by Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
Nomadland by Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers

Best Animated Film

Onward
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
The Wolf House
Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary

Collective
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Social Dilemma
Time

Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round
Bacurau
Beanpole
Collective
La Llorona
Vitalina Varela

Best Cinematography

First Cow – Christopher Blauvelt
Lovers Rock – Shabier Kirchner
Mank – Erik Messerschmidt
Nomadland – Joshua James Richards
The Vast of Night – Miguel Ioann Littin Menz

Best Original Score

Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Branford Marsalis
Mank – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Soul – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
Tenet – Ludwig Goransson

Best Art Direction

Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Mank

Best Costume Design

Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank

Best Use of Visual Effects

I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Invisible Man
The Midnight Sky
Possessor
Tenet

Best Editing

I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Robert Frazen
Lovers Rock – Chris Dickens & Steve McQueen
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Tenet – Jennifer Lame
The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten

Milos Stehlik Award for Promising Filmmaker

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night

Most Promising Performer

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly O’Sullivan – Saint Frances
Helena Zengel – News of the World