Nomadland Leads San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Nominations

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland leads the way at the nominations from the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle with seven nods including Best Picture. Full nominations list below. The winners will be announced on January 18.

Best Picture

  • “First Cow”
  • “Minari”
  • “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
  • “Nomadland”
  • “Promising Young Woman”

Best Director

  • Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
  • Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
  • Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
  • Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow”
  • Lee Issac Chung, “Minari”

Best Original Screenplay

  • Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
  • Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
  • Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
  • Jack Fincher, “Mank”
  • Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Charlie Kaufman, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
  • Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
  • Kelly Reichardt, Jon Raymond, “First Cow”
  • Kemp Powers, “One Night in Miami”
  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

  • Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
  • Elisabeth Moss, “The Invisible Man”
  • Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
  • Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
  • Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Supporting Actor

  • Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”
  • David Strathairn, “Nomadland”
  • Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”
  • Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
  • Sacha Baron Cohen, “Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Supporting Actress

  • Amanda Seyfriend, “Mank”
  • Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
  • Olivia Colman, “The Father”
  • Toni Collette, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
  • Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”

Best Animated Feature

  • “Marona’s Fantastic Tale”
  • “Onward”
  • “Over the Moon”
  • “Soul”
  • “Wolfwalkers”

Best Foreign Language Film

  • “Another Round”
  • “Bacurau”
  • “Collective”
  • “La Llorona”
  • “Two of Us”

Best Documentary

  • “Collective”
  • “Crip Camp”
  • “Boys State”
  • “The Truffle Hunters”
  • “Time”

Best Cinematography

  • Christopher Blauvelt, “First Cow”
  • Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank”
  • Hoyte Van Hoytema, “Tenet”
  • Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
  • Newton Thomas Sigel, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Production Design

  • “First Cow”
  • “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
  • “Mank”
  • “One Night in Miami”
  • “Tenet”

Best Film Editing

  • Alan Baumgarten, “The Trial of Chicago 7”
  • Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
  • Jennifer Lame, “Tenet”
  • Kirk Baxter, “Mank”
  • Yorgos Lamprinos, “The Father”

Best Original Score

  • Emile Mosseri, “Minari”
  • Terence Blanchard, “Da 5 Bloods”
  • Terence Blanchard, “One Night in Miami”
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Mank”
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Soul”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

  • “La Llorona”
  • “The Last Tree”
  • “Sh*thouse”

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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.