2020 Awards: Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) Nominations

Here are the nominees for the 2020 CFCA Awards.

Check out more about the Chicago Film Critics Association.

BEST PICTURE

• Da 5 Bloods
• First Cow
• Lovers Rock
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman

BEST DIRECTOR

• Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
• Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
• Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock
• Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
• Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

BEST ACTOR

• Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Anthony Hopkins, The Father
• Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
• Steven Yeun, Minari

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• Carrie Coon, The Nest
• Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Frances McDormand, Nomadland
• Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
• Bill Murray, On the Rocks
• Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
• Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
• David Strathairn, Nomadland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Toni Collette, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• Amanda Seyfried, Mank
• Letitia Wright, Mangrove
• Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Da 5 Bloods by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
• Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
• Soul by Pete Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Aaron Sorkin

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Father by Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
• First Cow by Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
• Nomadland by Chloe Zhao
• One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• Onward
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• Soul
• The Wolf House
• Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Collective
• David Byrne’s American Utopia
• Dick Johnson is Dead
• The Social Dilemma
• Time

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Another Round
• Bacurau
• Beanpole
• Collective
• La Llorona
• Vitalina Varela

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• First Cow, Christopher Blauvelt
• Lovers Rock, Shabier Kirchner
• Mank, Erik Messerschmidt
• Nomadland, Joshua James Richards
• The Vast of Night, Miguel Ioann Littin Menz

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Da 5 Bloods, Terence Blanchard
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Brandford Marsalis
• Mank, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Soul, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
• Tenet, Ludwig Goransson

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Birds of Prey
• Emma.
• First Cow
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• Mank

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Birds of Prey
• Emma.
• First Cow
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Mank

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things
• The Invisible Man
• The Midnight Sky
• Possessor
• Tenet

BEST EDITING

• I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen
• Lovers Rock, Chris Dickens & Steve McQueen
• Nomadland, Chloe Zhao
• Tenet, Jennifer Lame
• The Trial of the Chicago 7, Alan Baumgarten

MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR PROMISING FILMMAKER

• Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
• Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
• Darius Marder, Sound of Metal
• Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER

• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami
• Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Kelly O’Sullivan, Saint Frances
• Helena Zengel, News of the World