Nomadland Wins Big at Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland was the big winner at this year’s Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, taking home three awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film

Nomadland

(runner-up: First Cow)

Best Non-English Language Film

La Llorona

(runner-up: The Painted Bird)

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

(runner-up: Kelly Reichardt – First Cow)

Best Ensemble

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

(runner-up: Minari)

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

(runner-up: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal)

Best Actress

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

(runner-up: Julia Garner – The Assistant)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

(runner-up: Brian Dennehy – Driveways)

Best Supporting Actress

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

(runner-up: Amanda Seyfried – Mank)

Best Screenplay

Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

(runner-up: Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond – First Cow)

Best First Film

Florian Zeller – The Father

(runner-up: Autumn de Wilde – Emma.)

Best Documentary

Collective

(runner-up: The Painter and the Thief)

Best Animated Film

The Wolf House

(runner-up: Wolfwalkers)

Best Cinematography

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

(runner-up: Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock)

Best Editing

Robert Frazen – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

(runner-up: Chloé Zhao – Nomadland)

Best Score

Emile Mosseri – Minari

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.