The New York Film Critics Online has announced their winners for Best Films and Performances of the Year, with A24 ‘Minari’ being the best picture category. This is the third consecutive year that the group recognizes a foreign language film after ‘Parasite’ and ‘Roma’ in 2018.
Lee Isaac Chung’s portrait of a Korean family who immigrated to Arkansas in the 1980s won a total of three awards, including Foreign Language and Yuh-Jung Youn as Best Supporting Actor. Youn shared was not the only winner in her category, and co-awarded Ellen Burstyn, co-awards, for her turn in Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman” on Netflix.
With Focus Features’ “Promising Young Woman,” he also won three awards for Carey Mulligan, screenwriter and debut director, both for Emerald Fennell. Mulligan’s 11th win this season, closing the gap by critics’ leader Frances McDormand for “Nomadland”.
Speaking of Nomadland, Chloé Zhao has more than three dozen wins for directing this season, adding another from NYFCO. She became the fifth woman to be recognized in the category, following Kathyrn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty”), Sofia Coppola (“Lost in Translation”) and Dee Rees (“Mudbound”).
The performance of Riz Ahmed in ‘Sound of Metal’ by Amazon Studios achieved the best actor, his tenth awards this forerunner. He won just twice as much as his closest rivals Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) and Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods”). Also from Amazon Studios is Leslie Odom Jr. ‘s turn as Sam Cooke in Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” was named Best Supporting Actor, and is still the second recognition in a category where Paul Raci has run away with it over the past few years. weeks.
Dawn Porter’s “The Way I See It”, a beautiful reflection of Barack Obama by the eyes of his photographer Pete Souza, achieves his first victory this season for documentary rendering.
The eligibility period for movies was from January 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021. It has movies like ‘Cherry’, ‘French Exit’, ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ and ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday ‘leaves. “Not eligible for recognition. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, members virtually voted for the first time in the group’s 21-year history.
The full list of winners and the top ten films of the year are below. You can see all the winners so far on the Award Track Winner Card (2020-2021).
Best picture: “Minari” (A24)
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” (searchlight photos)
Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios)
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, ‘A Promising Young Woman’ (Focus Features)
Best city player: Leslie Odom Jr, “One Night in Miami” (Amazon Studios)
Best city player: Ellen Burstyn, “Pieces of a Woman” (Netflix) and Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari” (A24) – *TIE*
Best screenplay: “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Emerald Fennell
Best animated feature: “Soul” (Pixar)
Best Cinematography: “Nomadland” (Searchlight Pictures) – Joshua James Richards
Best use of music: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (Netflix) – Branford Marsalis
Best Documentary Feature: “The way I see it” (focus functions)
Best foreign language: “Minari” (A24)
Best Debut Director: Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features)
Breakthrough achiever: Kingsley Ben-Adir, “One Night in Miami” (Amazon Studios) and Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (Amazon Studios) – *TIE*
Best Ensemble Cast: “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix)
Top 10 Movies (Alphabetically)
- “The assistant” (Bleecker Street)
- “First cow” (A24)
- “I’m thinking of ending things” (Netflix)
- Minari (A24)
- “Never seldom sometimes always” (focus functions)
- “Nomadland” (searchlight photos)
- “A Night in Miami” (Amazon Pictures)
- “Promising young woman” (focus functions)
- “Tommaso” (Kino Lorber)
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix)