The National Society of Film Critics calls Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand, the best picture of 2020.
Runners-up for the best picture category were First cow and Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Nomadland won big during Saturday’s annual voting ceremony when Zhao walked away with Best Director and McDormand Best Actress category.
Additional honors were Da 5 bloods‘Delroy Lindo en Borat subsequent Moviefilm the breakthrough Maria Bakalova, who won the best actor and supporting actor awards of the ceremony, respectively.
The NSFC’s 55th Annual Voting Meeting selected winners and runners-up in 11 categories via a weighted voting system.
Any movie that opens on a screen or streaming platform in the US during the year is eligible. Last year, the group handed over Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite the highest prize, the best picture, an achievement that the film duplicated during the Oscars.
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The 60 members of the NSFC include critics from major newspapers and stores in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, including from stores Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the New York resident, the Christian Science Monitor and NPR.
The LA TimesJustin Chang is the current chairman of the organization.
See the full list of winners below.
Best picture:
WINNER: NOMADLAND (52 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
FIRST COW (50 marks)
NEVER NEVER BE ALWAYS ALWAYS (41 marks)
Director:
WINNER: Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND (58 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Steve McQueen, KLEIN AX (41 points)
Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (30 points)
Actress:
WINNER: Best Actress: Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND (46 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK UNDER (33 points) S
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER EVER ALWAYS (29 points)
Actor:
WINNER: Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOOD (52 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (47 points)
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL (32 marks)
Supporting actress:
WINNER: Best Supporting Actress, Maria Bakalova, BORAT NEXT FILM (47 marks)
RUNNERS-UP:
Amanda Seyfried, MANK (40 points)
Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI (33 points)
Supporting actor:
WINNER: Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL (53 points)
RUNNER-UPS:
Glynn Turman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (36 points)
Chadwick Boseman, DA 5 BLOOD (35 points)
Screenplay:
WINNER: Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, ALWAYS ALWAYS RARE (38 marks)
RUNNERS-UP:
Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (35 points)
Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking About Ending Things (29 points)
Non-fiction movie:
Cinematography:
WINNER: Best Film Art: Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND (47 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
Shabier Kirchner, LOVERS ROCK (41 points)
Leonardo Simões, VITALINA VARELA (34 points)
Foreign language film:
WINNER: COLLECTIVE (38 points) Runners-up:
RUNNERS-UP:
BACURAU and BEANPOLE (36 points)
VITALINA VARELA (32 points)
Non-fiction movie:
WINNER: TIME (46 points)
RUNNERS-UP:
CITY HALL (28 points)
COLLECTIVE (22 marks)
Film Heritage Award:
WINNERS:
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