2020 Awards: North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations

Here are the nominations for the 10th Annual North Carolina Film Critics Association Awards.

Check out more about the NCFCA.

Da 5 Bloods leads with 6 Nominations including Picture, Director, Actor, and Supporting Actor.

Winners will be announced January 4, 2021.

Best Narrative Film:

• Da 5 Bloods
• Minari
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director:

• Emerald Fennel (Promising Young Woman)
• David Fincher (Mank)
• Regina King (One Night in Miami)
• Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods)
• Chloé 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)
• Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
• Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
• Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man)
• Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

Best Supporting Actor:

• Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods)
• Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
• Bill Murray (On the Rocks)
• Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
• David Strathairn (Nomadland)

Best Supporting Actress:

• Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
• Toni Colette (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
• Olivia Colman (The Father)
• Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
• Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

Best Documentary Film:

• All In: The Fight for Democracy
• Boys State
• David Byrne’s American Utopia
• Dick Johnson is Dead
• Time

Best Animated Film:

• The Croods 2: A New Age
• Onward
• Over the Moon
• Soul
• Wolfwalkers

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Another Round
• Bacarau
• Beanpole
• La llorona
• Night of Kings

Best Cinematography:

• Hoyte Van Hoytema (Tenet)
• Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
• Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
• Newton Thomas Sigel (Da 5 Bloods)
• Dariusz Wolski (News of the World)

Best Original Screenplay:

• Da 5 Bloods (Danny Bilson; Paul De Meo; Kevin Willmott; Spike Lee)
• Mank (Jack Fincher)
• Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
• Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• First Cow (Jon Raymond; Kelly Reichardt)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Ruben Santiago-Hudson)
• Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
• One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)

Best Special Effects:

• The Invisible Man
• The Midnight Sky
• Mulan
• Tenet
• Wonder Woman 1984

Best Music in a Motion Picture:

• Da 5 Bloods
• Mank
• Minari
• Soul
• Tenet

2020 Ken Hanke Memorial Tarheel Award:

• The Dancin’ Bulldogs – The Gardner-Webb University basketball team’s 2018-2019 season.
• Will Patton (Minari) – Attended North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem
• Gary Wheeler (Blue Ridge; The Warrant) – North Carolina based film producer; Appalachian State University Alum.

Best Restoration:

• Beau travail (The Criterion Collection)
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Warner Bros.)
• Mädchen in Uniform (Kino Lorber) Native Son (Kino Lorber)
• Roman Holiday (Paramount Home Entertainment)