The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle today announced the winners of the 2020 awards, with Minari named Best Picture along with receiving Best Supporting Actress honors for Yuh-Jung Youn. Nomadland received multiple honors including Best Actress for Frances McDormand along with Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Chloé Zhao.
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced its 2020 AWFJ EDA winners, with Nomadland winning six awards including Best Film, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Director for Chloé Zhao.
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) announced the winners of its ninth annual awards for achievements in film. Minari won 4 awards including Best Narrative Film and Nomadland also won 4 awards including Best Director for Chloé Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. For the third year in a row, the NCFCA voted as Best Narrative Film a film not primarily in English. Parasite won the award in 2019, and Roma won in 2018.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe and adapted from August Wilson’s stage play, dominated the 2020 Chicago Indie Critics Awards, winning seven of its nine nominations.
The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) announced the winners of the third annual end-of-year Film Awards lead by Nomadland with 6 wins including Best Picture, Best Director along with Adapted Screenplay for Chloé Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand.
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced the nominees for the 2020 EDA Awards, with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland this year’s most nominated film with nine EDA nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Woman Director, Best Actress, Grand Dame Award, and Most Daring Performance Award for Frances McDormand.
The North Carolina Film Critics Association announced its nominations for its ninth annual awards for achievements in film. Minari and Nomadland received 6 nominations including Best Narrative Film. Winners will be announced on January 4, 2021.
The Chicago Indie Critics announced their nominees for their fifth annual film awards. Leading all films with an impressive nine nominations is Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom helmed by Best Director nominee George C. Wolfe and starring acting nominees Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis.
The Music City Film Critics Association (MCFCA) – based in Nashville announced their nominees representing the best in film for 2020. Films receiving multiple nominations including for Best Film include Nomadland, Sound of Metal, and The Father.
The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s announced the nominations for the third annual end-of-year Film Awards. Leading the 2020 nominations are Sound of Metal (8 nominations), Nomadland (6 nominations), and Mank, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and The Father (5 nominations each).
The Florida Film Critics Circle awarded its 2020 Best Picture prize to First Cow, Kelly Reichardt’s adaptation of Jonathan Raymond’s The Half Life. Los Fuertes, the Chilean drama about young men in love, won the Best Foreign Film category; and You Don’t Nomi, about the filming of the 1995 camp classic Showgirls, won Best Documentary.
