Chicago Critics Film Festival To Take Place November 12-14 at Music Box Theatre

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2020 award winners. Claiming the organization’s top honors is 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.

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2020; winners will be announced at the organization’s annual awards ceremony, a virtual event for Association members to be held on Monday, December 21. Leading with seven total nominations is Chloé Zhao’s NOMADLAND; Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS, Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW and Charlie Kaufman’s I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS each earned six nominations, while MANK and PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN are each recognized with five. A complete list of nominees is below.

The group is proud to welcome the following new members: Robert Daniels (he/him) is a freelance film critic who holds an MA in English. He is the founder of 812filmreviews, and is a contributor to RogerEbert.com, Polygon, ThePlaylist, and Consequence of Sound. He is a member of AAFCA, values representation and diversity, and can always be found at a coffee shop. Cody Corrall (they/them) is a culture critic for the Chicago Reader and Cine-File—among other places on the world wide web—with a focus on genre, identity, and the moving image. They also co-host the weekly podcast "Into the Twilight."

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces that the upcoming Chicago Critics Film Festival (scheduled for May 1-7 at Music Box Theatre) is postponed until further notice, in response to the developing public health concerns around COVID-19 and its impact on presenting a safe, enjoyable experience for attendees, guests and organizers.

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2019 award winners. Claiming the organization’s top honors, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is named both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film; the film also claims Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Matching Parasite’s four wins, Greta Gerwing’s Little Women earns Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh).

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2019; winners will be announced at the organization’s annual Awards Dinner on Saturday, December 14 in Chicago. Leading with nine nominations in all is Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women claim eight nominations each, while Marriage Story and Parasite, from Noah Baumbach and Bong Joon Ho respectively, each receive seven.

In addition to honoring the best films of 2019 at its annual awards dinner on December 14th, the Chicago Film Critics Association will be paying tribute to three colleagues and members who passed away over the past year. The Breakthrough Filmmaker Award, given annually to a newly emerging talent, will be renamed the Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker in honor of Milos Stehlik, who championed the careers of countless new talents as the founder of the internationally renowned Facets Multimedia and who died in July. In addition, the ceremony itself will be dedicated to the memories of Andrea Gronvall and David Schultz, two long-standing Chicago critics who passed away in September.

The Chicago Film Critics Association is saddened to report that two members of our organization have died. David Schultz, film critic for the North Lawndale Community News, passed away last week, reportedly of an apparent heart attack. Andrea Gronvall, who wrote about film for the Chicago Reader and the Movie City News website, died on September 4th. The CFCA extends its most sincere condolences to their loved ones and friends for their loss.

It is impossible to understate the importance of Milos Stehlik on Chicago’s film community and its influence throughout the world. The Czechoslovakian-born Stehlik passed away on July 6 at his home in Lincoln Park. Having lived in the city since the early 1960s, along with stage director Nicole Dreiska (whom he later married for a time), he established Facets Multimedia in 1975, first in a church with projectors placed where the choir once stood, and eventually in a permanent home on Fullerton Avenue, where it continues to thrive today.

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA), the Chicago-area print, online and broadcast critics group that celebrates the art of film and film criticism, today announces the Audience Award winners following the 7th Chicago Critics Film Festival. Audiences selected Opening Night feature presentation Saint Frances as winner of the Audience Award for narrative features…