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2020 Music City Film Critics Association award winners announced


Carey Mulligan in Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan in Promising Young Woman

As awards season 2020-21 slowly gathers form, Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman is only garnering more and more prizes. Today, it wins the Music City Film Critics Association's Best Picture award alongside Best Actress for Carey Mulligan. Nomadland's Chloe Zhao wins Best Director, while there's significant support for The Trial of Chicago 7... unfortunately. Check out the MCFCA's 2020 award nominations here.


Best Picture

Promising Young Woman (Tom Ackerley, Ben Browning, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara and Margot Robbie)


Best Director

Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)


Best Actress

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)


Best Actor

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)


Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)


Best Supporting Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)


Best Screenplay

Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)


Best Cinematography

Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)


Best Editing

Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Andy Canny (The Invisible Man)


Best Production Design

Donald Graham Burt (Mank)


Best Score

Ludwig Goransson (Tenet)


Best Song

Sam Ashworth and Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)


Best Acting Ensemble

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

One Night in Miami


Best Animated Feature

Soul (Pete Docter, Dana Murray, Kemp Powers, Jonas Rivera and Jessie Thiele Schroeder)


Best Documentary

The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski, Larissa Rhodes and Shawna Schultz)


Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round (Jessica Balac, Karen Bentzon, Kasper Dissing, Sisse Graum Jorgensen, Kristina Kornum and Thomas Vinterberg)


Jim RIdley Award

William Tyler (First Cow)

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