The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced their 2020 award winners with the top honors going to Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which earned a leading five wins: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography (Joshua James Richards). Never Rarely Sometimes Always earned two awards (Best Original Screenplay, Eliza Hittman; Most Promising Performer, Sidney Flanigan), while the rest of the Association’s honors were awarded to a diverse mix of the year’s best films.
Other highlights among the winners this year include Chadwick Boseman named Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Another Round as Best Foreign Language Film); Wolfwalkers as Best Animated Film; Dick Johnson Is Dead as Best Documentary; and finally, the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award was presented to Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman.
2020 Chicago Film Critics Award winners
BEST PICTURE: Nomadland
BEST DIRECTOR: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
BEST ACTOR: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Nomadland by Chloé Zhao
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Wolfwalkers
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Dick Johnson is Dead
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Another Round
BEST ART DIRECTION: Mank
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nomadland, Joshua James Richards
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Emma., Alexandra Byrne
BEST EDITING: I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Soul, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: The Invisible Man
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
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