West Side Story Leads Chicago Film Critics Association Nominations

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story leads the nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association with a record-making 11 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog scored eight nominations, David Lowery’s The Green Knight earned seven nods, and Drive My Car, Dune, and Licorice Pizza each received six nominations.

Full list of nominations below. The winners will be announced on December 15.

BEST PICTURE
Drive My Car 
The Green Knight 
Licorice Pizza 
The Power of the Dog 
West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
David Lowery, The Green Knight
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage, Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car
Simon Rex, Red Rocket

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Colman Domingo, Zola
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jeffrey Wright, The French Dispatch

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Catriona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Riley Keough, Zola
Ruth Negga, Passing

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Drive My Car by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami & Takamasa Oe
The Green Knight by David Lowery
The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog by Jane Campion
West Side Story by Tony Kushner

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Card Counter by Paul Schrader
The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson
Pig by Michael Sarnoski
Red Rocket by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Belle
Encanto 
Flee 
Luca 
The Mitchells vs. The Machines

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Flee 
Procession 
The Sparks Brothers
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 
The Velvet Underground

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Drive My Car 
A Hero  
Petite Maman 
Titane 
The Worst Person in the World

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune 
The French Dispatch  
The Green Knight  
Nightmare Alley  
West Side Story

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune, Greig Fraser
The Green Knight, Andrew Droz Palermo
The Power of the Dog, Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Bruno Delbonnel
West Side Story, Janusz Kaminski

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella, Jenny Beavan
Dune, Robert Morgan & Jacqueline West
The Green Knight, Malgosia Turzanska
Spencer, Jacqueline Durran
West Side Story, Paul Tazewell

BEST EDITING
Drive My Car, Azusa Yamazaki
Dune, Joe Walker
The French Dispatch, Andrew Weisblum
The Power of the Dog, Peter Sciberras
West Side Story, Michael Kahn & Sarah Broshar

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Annette, Ron Mael & Russell Mael
Dune, Hans Zimmer
The French Dispatch, Alexandre Desplat
The Power of the Dog, Jonny Greenwood
Spencer, Johnny Greenwood

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
Annette 
Dune 
The Green Knight 
Nightmare Alley 
Titane

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Rachel Sennott, Shiva Baby
Rachel Zegler, West Side Story

MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Sian Heder, CODA
Michael Sarnoski, Pig
Emma Seligman, Shiva Baby

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.