Promising Young Woman Declared Best Picture by San Diego Film Critics Society

Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman has been declared Best Picture by the San Diego Film Critics Society. The film also won Best Actress for Carey Mulligan. Winners in bold below.

Best Picture
BLACK BEAR
FIRST COW
NOMADLAND
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
SOUND OF METAL
(runner-up)

Best Director
Darius Marder, SOUND OF METAL
Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW
Aaron Sorkin, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (runner-up)
Florian Zeller, THE FATHER
Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Brian Dennehy, DRIVEWAYS
Anthony Hopkins, THE FATHER (runner-up)
Steven Yeun, MINARI

Best Actress
Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Vanessa Kirby, PIECES OF A WOMAN
Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND (runner-up)
Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Aubrey Plaza, BLACK BEAR

Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Frank Langella, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Peter Macdissi, UNCLE FRANK (runner-up)
Bill Murray, ON THE ROCKS
Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Ellen Burstyn, PIECES OF A WOMAN
Olivia Cooke, SOUND OF METAL
Amanda Seyfried, MANK (runner-up)
Yuh-jung Youn, MINARI

Best Comedic Performance
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (runner-up)
Sacha Baron Cohen, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Bill Murray, ON THE ROCKS (runner-up)
Andy Samberg, PALM SPRINGS

Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Sofia Coppola, ON THE ROCKS
Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (runner-up)
Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance, SOUND OF METAL (runner-up)
Aaron Sorkin, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (runner-up)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, THE FATHER
Charlie Kaufman, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (runner-up)
Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond, FIRST COW
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND

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Best Documentary
ATHLETE A
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
REWIND
THE SOCIAL DILEMMA
TIME

Best Animated Film
ONWARD
OVER THE MOON
(runner-up)
SOUL
TROLLS: WORLD TOUR
WOLFWALKERS

Best International Film
ANOTHER ROUND
THE LIFE AHEAD
MARTIN EDEN

THE PLATFORM (runner-up)
SPUTNIK

Best Editing
Alan Baumgarten, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (runner-up)
Andy Canny, THE INVISIBLE MAN
Andrew Dickler, Matthew Friedman, PALM SPRINGS
Jennifer Lame, TENET
Matthew L. Weiss, BLACK BEAR

Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt, FIRST COW
Erik Messerschmidt, MANK (runner-up)
Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Hoyte Van Hoytema, TENET
Dariusz Wolski, NEWS OF THE WORLD

Best Production Design
Donald Graham Burt, MANK
Nathan Crowley, TENET
Molly Hughes, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (runner-up)
Kave Quinn, EMMA.
Shane Valentino, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (runner-up)

Best Visual Effects
BIRDS OF PREY
GREYHOUND
THE INVISIBLE MAN
(runner-up)
THE MIDNIGHT SKY
SPUTNIK
TENET

Best Costumes
Erin Benach, BIRDS OF PREY (runner-up)
Alexandra Byrne, EMMA.
April Napier, FIRST COW
Ann Roth, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
Trish Summerville, MANK

Best Use of Music
DA 5 BLOODS
DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA
(runner-up)
HAMILTON
MA RAINEY’s BLACK BOTTOM
SOUND OF METAL

Best Ensemble
DA 5 BLOODS
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
PALM SPRINGS
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
(runner-up)
UNCLE FRANK

Breakthrough Artist
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL (runner-up)
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Vanessa Kirby, PIECES OF A WOMAN

Body of Work
Steve McQueen, The SMALL AXE film series


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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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