Nomadland Named Best Picture by Detroit Film Critics Society

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has been named Best Picture by the Detroit Film Critics Society. The film also picked up Best Director and Adapted Screenplay for Zhao, and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Elsewhere, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari collected three awards for Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress for Youn Yuh-Jung, and Best Original Screenplay for Chung. Winners in bold below.

BEST PICTURE
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

 
BEST DIRECTOR 
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
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
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
Christopher Abbott – Possessor
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal 
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari 
 
BEST ENSEMBLE 
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7
 
 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Nomadland
One Night in Miami 

 
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7 

 
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers 

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY 
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Dissident
Time

 
BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
News of the World
Possessor
Soul
Sound of Metal
Tenet

  
BREAKTHROUGH 
Maria Bakalova – Actress – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Jasmine Batchelor – Actress – The Surrogate
Radha Blank – actress/writer/director/producer – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Orion Lee – Actor – First Cow
Wunmi Mosaku – Actress – His House


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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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