Nomadland Named Best Film by Iowa Film Critics Association

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has been named Best Film by the Iowa Film Critics Association. The film also picked up Best Director for Zhao, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, and its first win of the season for Best Score. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

BEST FILM
Nomadland
Runners-up: Minari and Sound of Metal

BEST DIRECTOR
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Runners-up: Darius Marder, Sound of Metal, and Florian Zeller, The Father

BEST ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Runners-up: Anthony Hopkins, The Father, and Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runners-up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Runners up: Bill Murray, On the Rocks, and Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Runners-up: Olivia Colman, The Father, and Amanda Seyfried, Mank

BEST ANIMATED FILM 
Soul
Runners-up: Over the Moon and Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Dick Johnson is Dead
Runners-up: Crip Camp and The Dissident

BEST SCORE
Ludovico Einaudi, Nomadland
Runners-up: James Newton Howard, News of the World, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Mank

BEST SONG
“Speak Now,” One Night in Miami
Runners-up: “Green,” Sound of Metal, and “Rain Song,” Minari


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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.

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