As the major televised awards have started being broadcast and industry nominations have all been announced, the narrative of the Oscar race has begun to consolidate its disparate threads in pursuit of a unified objective, with Nomadland seemingly at the heart of that goal. Not so for the Austin Film Critics Association, ever idiosyncratic, who've today named Minari their Best Film of the 2020/21 movie season. They announced their own nominations just a week ago, though what few fellow movie awards announcements have passed in that space make it feel like only yesterday - Minari led there and leads here still, with an extremely impressive haul of six prizes. There was space yet for Nomadland, though, as it wins three. All the details below.
Best Film
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
One Night in Miami
Palm Springs / Sound of Metal
N/A
The Invisible Man / Mank
Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Ensemble
Minari
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Best Editing
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Score
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Soul)
Best Stunts
The Invisible Man
Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart)
Best Documentary
Boys State (Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss)
Best Foreign Language Film
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
Best First Film
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Best Motion Capture / Special Effects Performance
Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man)
Austin Film Award
Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
Special Honorary "Texas Spirit" Award
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