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.
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North Carolina Film Critics 2020 Award Nominations – MINARI and NOMANDLAND Among Top Nominees
Steven Yeun appears in Minari by Lee Isaac Chung
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THE FATHER, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, NOMADLAND Among Nominees for Chicago Indie Critics 2020 Awards
THE FATHER Starring Olivia Colman And Anthony Hopkins 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.
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Music City Film Critics 2020 Awards Nominations – Nomadland, Sound of Metal, The Father Receive Nods
THE FATHER Starring Olivia Colman And Anthony Hopkins 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.
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SOUND OF METAL and NOMADLAND Lead Greater Western New York Film Critics 2020 Awards Nominations
Sound of Metal by Darius Marder 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).
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Florida Film Critics Circle 2020 Winners – FIRST COW Wins Best Picture
First Cow by Kelly Reichardt 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.
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2020 Indiana Film Journalists Awards – “Nomadland” “Dick Johnson is Dead” “Another Round” Win Awards
“Nomadland,” “Dick Johnson is Dead,” “Another Round” “Nomadland” took top honors at the 2020 Indiana Film Journalists Association awards, winning four prizes including Best Picture, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Chloé Zhao.
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Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Awards, NOMADLAND Wins 5 Awards, Chadwick Boseman Wins Best Actor
Frances McDormand and David Strathairn in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved 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.
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Canada Submits ’14 Days 12 Nights’ for Best International Feature Film at 2021 Oscars
14 Days 12 Nights by director Jean-Philippe Duval Following the rejection of their first submission, 14 Days 12 Nights by director Jean-Philippe Duval, to will now represent Canada in the race for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, taking place on April 25, 2021.
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Los Angeles Film Critics 2020 Awards – Steve McQueen’s SMALL AXE Wins Best Picture of 2020
Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) today named “Small Axe” Steve McQueen’s anthology series, as Best Picture of the Year. Small Axe is an anthology series comprised of five original films set from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s that tell personal stories from London’s West Indian community, whose lives have been shaped by their own force of will despite rampant racism and discrimination. The title is derived from the African proverb, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.”
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Deepa Mehta’s FUNNY BOY Rejected as Canada’s Oscar Entry for Best International Feature Film
Funny Boy directed by Deepa Mehta Funny Boy, by cowriter-director Deepa Mehta, originally submitted by Canada as the country’s entry for Best International Feature Film at 2021 Oscars, has been rejected because the film does not meet the Academy’s eligibility requirements for the International Feature Film category due to the amount of English dialogue in the film. The Academy mandates that a film cannot contain more than 50% English to be eligible. The film will now be submitted for consideration in the Best Picture and general entry categories for the 93rd Academy Awards®.
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New York Film Critics Circle Announces 2020 Winners, Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW Wins Best Film
First Cow by Kelly Reichardt The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday announced the annual award winners with Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow receiving the honor of Best Film of 2020. The film is based on the novel “The Half Life” by Jonathan Raymond, and stars John Magaro as a cook who joins a group of fur trappers in the Oregon Territory. The cook befriends a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) and the two collaborate on a successful business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a nearby wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow. First Cow also stars Alia Shawkat, Scott Shepherd, Toby Jones, and Ewen Bremner.
