NOMADLAND LEADS CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION 2020 AWARDS, WINS FIVE HONORS

Chicago, IL (December 21, 2020) — 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.

Highlights among the winners this year include: Chadwick Boseman named Best Actor for MA’S RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM; ANOTHER ROUND as Best Foreign Language Film); WOLFWAKERS as Best Animated Film; DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD as Best Documentary; and finally, the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award was presented to Emerald Fennell for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN. 

The complete list of 2020 Chicago Film Critics Award winners is as follows:

BEST PICTURE: Nomadland

BEST DIRECTOR: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

BEST ACTOR: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, Nomadland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Nomadland by Chloé Zhao

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Dick Johnson is Dead

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Another Round

BEST ART DIRECTION: Mank

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nomadland, Joshua James Richards

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Emma., Alexandra Byrne

BEST EDITING: I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Soul, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: The Invisible Man

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

About the Chicago Film Critics Association

A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) was founded in 1990 to support and celebrate quality filmmaking that has something to say about our world, our lives, and our society. Membership includes Chicago-based journalists, broadcasters, critics and media personalities who actively work in the area of film across a wide variety of local, regional and national outlets. The annual Chicago Critics Film Festival presents a selection of recent festival favorites and as-yet-undistributed works from established voices and talented newcomers alike, curated by the CFCA membership. Every December, the CFCA votes on and announces their selections for best films of the year, contributing to the annual national discourse on cinema. Learn more at www.chicagofilmcritics.org.