Monday, February 8, 2021

Nominees for the 2021 Critics Choice Awards

The year 2020 may have been ...
Oh well, pick your own adjective.
Despite a larger than usual amount of election- and Covid-induced  craziness, the Critics Choice Association (CCA) -- a group to which I belong -- has revealed its nominations for this year's film awards. Winners will be announced on March 7 at on an awards show to be broadcast on the CW network beginning at 7 p.m.

Mank
, director David Fincher's look at the writing of the script for Citizen Kane, led the field with 12 nominations, including best director, best actor, best supporting actress, and best screenplay.

Minari, the story of a Korean family trying to establish a farm in Arkansas during the 1980s, came in second with 10 nominations.

For those prepping for the coming awards season, here's a complete list of this year's nominees:*
*Nominees for this year's Oscars, by the way,  will be announced on March 15. 

 BEST PICTURE  

Da 5 Bloods 

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

Mank 

Minari

News of the World 

Nomadland 

One Night in Miami 

Promising Young Woman  

Sound of Metal 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 

 

BEST ACTOR  

Ben Affleck – The Way Back  

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal 

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

Tom Hanks – News of the World 

Anthony Hopkins – The Father  

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods 

Gary Oldman – Mank

Steven Yeun – Minari 

 

BEST ACTRESS  

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday 

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman 

Frances McDormand – Nomadland 

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR  

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah  

Bill Murray – On the Rocks

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)  

Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari 

 

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS  

Ryder Allen – Palmer 

Ibrahima Gueye – The Life Ahead 

Alan Kim – Minari  

Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always 

Caoilinn Springall – The Midnight Sky  

Helena Zengel – News of the World 

 

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE  

Da 5 Bloods 

Judas and the Black Messiah 

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

Minari 

One Night in Miami 

The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

BEST DIRECTOR  

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari 

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman 

David Fincher – Mank  

Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods 

Regina King – One Night in Miami   

Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland  

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY  

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari 

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman 

Jack Fincher – Mank 

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always 

Darius Marder & Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal  

Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY  

Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies – News of the World

Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller – The Father 

Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami   

Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow  

Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom )  

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY  

Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow  

Erik Messerschmidt – Mank 

Lachlan Milne – Minari

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland  

Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods   

Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet 

Dariusz Wolski – News of the World   

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN  

Cristina Casali, Charlotte Dirickx – The Personal History of David Copperfield 

David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan – News of the World 

Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas – Tenet   

Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank  

Kave Quinn, Stella Fox – Emma 

Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara & Diana Stoughton – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 

 

BEST EDITING  

Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 

Kirk Baxter – Mank   

Jennifer Lame – Tenet 

Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father 

Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal   

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland 

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN  

Alexandra Byrne – Emma

Bina Daigeler – Mulan 

Suzie Harman & Robert Worley – The Personal History of David Copperfield

Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Nancy Steiner – Promising Young Woman  

Trish Summerville – Mank 

 

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP  

Emma  

Hillbilly Elegy)  

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom  

Mank

Promising Young Woman 

The United States vs. Billie Holiday   

 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS  

Greyhound  

The Invisible Man 

Mank 

The Midnight Sky  

Mulan 

Tenet 

Wonder Woman 1984   

 

BEST COMEDY  

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 

The Forty-Year-Old Version

The King of Staten Island

On the Rocks

Palm Spring

The Prom 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM  

Another Round 

Collective

La Llorona 

The Life Ahead 

Minari 

Two of Us 

 

BEST SONG  

Everybody Cries – The Outpost 

Fight for You – Judas and the Black Messiah  

Husavik (My Home Town) – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 

Io sì (Seen) – The Life Ahead 

Speak Now – One Night in Miami  

Tigress & Tweed – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

 

BEST SCORE  

Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky

Ludwig Göransson – Tenet  

James Newton Howard – News of the World 

Emile Mosseri – Minari 

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank 

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste – Soul 



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