Parasite, Little Women Lead 2019 Chicago Film Critics Awards, Winning Four Wins Each
Bong Joon Ho claims top honors with Best Picture, Director, Foreign Language Film and Original Screenplay wins for masterful send up of classism and capitalism
Chicago, IL (December 14, 2019) — 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).
After garnering a leading nine nominations, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood earns two wins for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt). The remaining nine films honored at the reception held in Chicago on Saturday night each receive one win each, including Marriage Story (Adam Driver, Best Actor); Us (Lupita Nyong’o, Best Actress); Apollo 11 (Best Documentary) and Toy Story 4 (Best Animated Feature). Filmmaker Lulu Wang (The Farewell) receives the CFCA’s Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award, while Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale) is named Most Promising Performer.
The complete list of 2019 Chicago Film Critics Award winners is as follows:
BEST PICTURE: Parasite
BEST DIRECTOR: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
BEST ACTOR: Adam Driver, Marriage Story
BEST ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o, Us
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Florence Pugh, Little Women
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Parasite by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Little Women by Greta Gerwig
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Parasite
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Apollo 11
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Toy Story 4
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, 1917
BEST EDITING: Thelma Schoonmaker, The Irishman
BEST ART DIRECTION: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Little Women
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: Ad Astra
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale
MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Lulu Wang, The Farewell
About the Chicago Film Critics Association
The Chicago Film Critics Association supports and celebrates quality filmmaking that has something to say about our world, our lives, and our society. In the past, while the CFCA’s priority was to support and fight for the continued role of film critics in the media, the CFCA's public interaction was limited to the announcement of its annual film awards. In recent years, the CFCA has expanded its presence on the Chicago arts scene, promoting critical thinking about cinema to a wider base through several initiatives, including the re-launch of a late-winter film awards ceremony; CFCA-hosted film screenings throughout Chicagoland; and a Young People's Film Criticism Workshop at Facets Multimedia. The annual Chicago Critics Film Festival further builds on the organization’s goal to be an active part of the Chicago film landscape. Learn more at www.chicagofilmcritics.org.
