Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2020

The 33rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 21, 2020.^[1]^[2]^[3] The awards honor the best in film for 2020. The nominations were announced on December 18, 2020.^[4]^[5]^[6] Nomadland received the most nominations (7), followed by Da 5 Bloods (6), First Cow (6) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (6).

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 33rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Nomadland Da 5 Bloods First Cow Lovers Rock Promising Young Woman	Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods Steve McQueen – Lovers Rock Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom* as Levee Green** (posthumous) Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi	*Frances McDormand – Nomadland* as Fern** Jessie Buckley – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Young Woman Carrie Coon – The Nest as Allison O'Hara Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Paul Raci – Sound of Metal* as Joe** Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods as "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway (posthumous) Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke David Strathairn – Nomadland as David	*Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm* as Tutar Sagdiyev** Toni Collette – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Mother Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies Letitia Wright – Mangrove as Altheia Jones-LeCointe Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Eliza Hittman Da 5 Bloods – Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Spike Lee, and Kevin Willmott Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell Soul – Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin	Nomadland – Chloé Zhao The Father – Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller First Cow – Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Charlie Kaufman One Night in Miami... – Kemp Powers
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Nora Twomey, and Paul Young Onward – Kori Rae and Dan Scanlon A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – Will Becher, Paul Kewley, and Richard Phelan Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray The Wolf House – Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León, and Catalina Vergara	Another Round (Denmark) in Danish – Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Bacurau (Brazil) in Portuguese and English – Directed by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho Beanpole (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Kantemir Balagov Collective (Romania) in Romanian – Directed by Alexander Nanau La Llorona (Guatemala) in Spanish, Mayan-Ixil, and Mayan-Caqchickel – Directed by Jayro Bustamante Vitalina Varela (Portugal) in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole – Directed by Pedro Costa
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
Dick Johnson Is Dead – Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, and Marilyn Ness American Utopia – David Byrne and Spike Lee Collective – Hanka Kastelicová, Bernard Michaux, Alexander Nanau, and Bianca Oana The Social Dilemma – Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes Time – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, and Kellen Quinn	Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Branford Marsalis Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Tenet – Ludwig Göransson
Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
Mank – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale Birds of Prey – Production Design: K. K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Florencia Martin Emma – Production Design: Kave Quinn; Set Decoration: Stella Fox First Cow – Production Design: Anthony Gasparro; Set Decoration: Vanessa Knoll I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Production Design: Molly Hughes; Set Decoration: Mattie Siegal	Emma – Alexandra Byrne Birds of Prey – Erin Benach First Cow – April Napier Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ann Roth Mank – Trish Summerville
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Robert Frazen Lovers Rock – Chris Dickens and Steve McQueen Nomadland – Chloé Zhao Tenet – Jennifer Lame The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten	Nomadland – Joshua James Richards First Cow – Christopher Blauvelt Lovers Rock – Shabier Kirchner Mank – Erik Messerschmidt The Vast of Night – Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
Best Use of Visual Effects	Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award
The Invisible Man I'm Thinking of Ending Things The Midnight Sky Possessor Tenet	Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Darius Marder – Sound of Metal Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night
Most Promising Performer
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami... Kelly O'Sullivan – Saint Frances Helena Zengel – News of the World

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
7	Nomadland
6	Da 5 Bloods
	First Cow
	I'm Thinking of Ending Things
5	Mank
5	Promising Young Woman
4	Lovers Rock
4	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
3	Minari
	One Night in Miami...
	Soul
	Sound of Metal
	Tenet
2	Birds of Prey
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
	Collective
	Emma
	The Father
	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	The Trial of the Chicago 7
	The Vast of Night

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
5	Nomadland
2	Never Rarely Sometimes Always

References

^ Pedersen, Erik (December 21, 2020). "Chicago Film Critics Awards: 'Nomadland' Scores Best Picture, Director, Actress & Two Others". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ "Nomadland Leads Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Awards, Wins Five Honors". Chicago Film Critics Association. December 21, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ Jevens, Darel (December 21, 2020). "Chicago critics choose 'Nomadland' as 2020's best movie". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ McNary, Dave (December 18, 2020). "'Nomadland' Scores Seven Nominations From Chicago Film Critics Association". Variety. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ Adams, Ryan (December 18, 2020). "Chloé Zhao's Nomadland Leads Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Nominations". Awards Daily. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
^ "Chloé Zhao's Nomadland Leads Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Award Nominations". Chicago Film Critics Association. December 18, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2020.