The Critics Choice award nominations have been announced for the 2020/21 season and it's great news for David Fincher's Mank. The Herman J. Mankiewicz biopic leads all nominees with 12 mentions including Best Picture and Director. To many, these nominations will serve as a welcome corrective to some of last week's less impressive major awards offerings such as the Golden Globes and SAG awards, with mentions here for Da 5 Bloods in Best Picture and its lead, Delroy Lindo in Best Actor, alongside recognition for other favourites like Pieces of a Woman's Ellen Burstyn and Sound of Metal's Paul Raci. To others, these may look like yet another case of Oscar-itis run rampant at the Critics Choice Association (formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association), with such peculiar choices as News of the World in Best Picture and The Way Back's Ben Affleck in Best Actor. Winners will be revealed on the 7th of March.
BEST PICTURE
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
News of the World
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST ACTOR
Ben Affleck – The Way Back
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Tom Hanks – News of the World
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari
BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Bill Murray – On the Rocks
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Youn Yuh Jung – Minari
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Ryder Allen – Palmer
Ibrahima Gueye – The Life Ahead
Alan S. Kim – Minari
Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Caoilinn Springall – The Midnight Sky
Helena Zengel – News of the World
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Da 5 Bloods
Judas and the Black Messiah
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
David Fincher – Mank
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Jack Fincher – Mank
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Abraham Marder and Darius Marder – Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Luke Davies and Paul Greengrass – News of the World
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller – The Father
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami
Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow
Erik Messerschmidt – Mank
Lachlan Milne – Minari
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods
Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
Dariusz Wolski – News of the World
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale – Mank
Cristina Casali and Charlotte Dirickx – The Personal History of David Copperfield
David Crank and Elizabeth Keenan – News of the World
Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas – Tenet
Stella Fox and Kave Quinn – Emma.
Karen O'Hara, Mark Ricker and Diana Stoughton – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Kirk Baxter – Mank
Jennifer Lame – Tenet
Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alexandra Byrne – Emma.
Bina Daigeler – Mulan
Suzie Harman and Robert Worley – The Personal History of David Copperfield
Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Nancy Steiner – Promising Young Woman
Trish Summerville – Mank
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Emma.
Hillbilly Elegy
Mank
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Promising Young Woman
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Greyhound
The Invisible Man
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984
BEST COMEDY
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Forty-Year-Old Version
The King of Staten Island
On the Rocks
Palm Springs
The Prom
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Another Round
Collective
The Life Ahead
La Llorona
Minari
Two of Us
BEST SONG
"Everybody Cries" – The Outpost
"Fight for You" – Judas and the Black Messiah
"Husavik" – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
"Io Sì" – The Life Ahead
"Speak Now" – One Night in Miami
"Tigress & Tweed" – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
BEST SCORE
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul
Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky
Ludwig Göransson – Tenet
Emile Mosseri – Minari
James Newton Howard – News of the World
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank