Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman has been bestowed four awards by the Columbus Film Critics Association including Best Film, Best Actress for Carey Mulligan, and Best Original Screenplay. Full list of winners and runners-up below.
Best Film
- Promising Young Woman
- Nomadland
- Sound of Metal
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Minari
- Soul
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
- First Cow
- Mank
Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
David Fincher – Mank
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (winner)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (winner)
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (runner-up)
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari
Best Actress
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Julia Garner – The Assistant
Frances McDormand – Nomadland (runner-up)
Elisabeth Moss – Shirley
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (winner)
Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (runner-up) (tie)
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (winner)
Mark Rylance – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (runner-up) (tie)
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Movie Film
Olivia Colman – The Father (runner-up)
Olivia Cooke – Sound of Metal
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (winner)
Best Ensemble
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (winner)
Minari
Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat Subsequent Movie Film & The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods & Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) (winner)
Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man & Shirley) (runner-up)
Breakthrough Film Artist
Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version (for producing, directing, screenwriting, and acting) (runner-up)
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (for producing, directing, and screenwriting) (winner)
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (for acting)
Kitty Green – The Assistant (for producing, directing, screenwriting, and film editing)
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (for directing and screenwriting)
Alan S. Kim – Minari (for acting)
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal (for directing and screenwriting)
Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow
Eric Messerschmidt – Mank (runner-up)
Lachlan Milne – Minari
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (winner)
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet
Best Film Editing
Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (winner)
Kirk Baxter – Mank
Robert Frazen – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Mikkel E.G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal (runner-up)
Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Gubbins – Shirley
Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami
Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (runner-up)
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (winner)
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (winner)
Darius Marder & Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal
Andy Siara – Palm Springs
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (runner-up)
Best Score
Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky
Ludovico Einaudi – Nomadland
Emile Mosseri – Minari
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank (runner-up)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul (winner)
Best Documentary
Boys State (runner-up)
Collective
Crip Camp
Dick Johnson is Dead (winner)
The Painter and the Thief
Time
Best Foreign Language Film
Bacurau
Beanpole
Martin Eden (runner-up)
Minari (winner)
The Whistlers
Best Animated Film
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul (runner-up)
Wolfwalkers (winner)
Best Overlooked Film
The Assistant
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Palm Springs (runner-up)
Possessor
The Vast of Night (winner)