We are pleased to announce the nominees for 2020, check back here on January 18 for the final winners.

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Best Picture

• “First Cow”
• “Minari”
• “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• “Nomadland”
• “Promising Young Woman”

Best Director

• Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow”
• Lee Issac Chung, “Minari”

Best Original Screenplay

• Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• Jack Fincher, “Mank”
• Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
• Elisabeth Moss, “The Invisible Man”
• Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
• Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Supporting Actor

• Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”
• David Strathairn, “Nomadland”
• Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”
• Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
• Sacha Baron Cohen, “Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Supporting Actress

• Amanda Seyfriend, “Mank”
• Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
• Olivia Colman, “The Father”
• Toni Collette, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
• Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”

Best Animated Feature

• “Marona’s Fantastic Tale”
• “Onward”
• “Over the Moon”
• “Soul”
• “Wolfwalkers”

Best Foreign Language Film

• “Another Round”
• “Bacurau”
• “Collective”
• “La Llorona”
• “Two of Us”

Best Documentary

• “Collective”
• “Crip Camp”
• “Boys State”
• “The Truffle Hunters”
• “Time”

Best Cinematography

• Christopher Blauvelt, “First Cow”
• Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank”
• Hoyte Van Hoytema, “Tenet”
• Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
• Newton Thomas Sigel, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Production Design

• “First Cow”
• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• “Mank”
• “One Night in Miami”
• “Tenet”

Best Film Editing

• Alan Baumgarten, “The Trial of Chicago 7”
• Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Jennifer Lame, “Tenet”
• Kirk Baxter, “Mank”
• Yorgos Lamprinos, “The Father”

Best Original Score

• Emile Mosseri, “Minari”
• Terence Blanchard, “Da 5 Bloods”
• Terence Blanchard, “One Night in Miami”
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Mank”
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Soul”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

• “La Llorona”
• “The Last Tree”
• “Sh*thouse”

Jacob is a Graduate of Western Kentucky University where he earned a History/Film Studies Degree. He is a film critic and co-founder of the Music City Drive-In. He is also a member of the North American Film Critics Association and the Music City Film Critics’ Association. You can find him on Twitter @Tberry57.