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