A familiar title leads the 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle award nominations: Chloe Zhao's Nomadland. By now the clear current frontrunner for the industry awards starting next month, Zhao's elegiac drama starring Frances McDormand has seven nods from the San Francisco critics including Best Picture and Director. Those two top categories match here nod-for-nod, with four female directors and two directors of colour recognizes in each category. Winners will be announced on Monday, the 18th of January.
Best Picture
First Cow
Minari
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Jack Fincher, Mank
Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
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 Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Steven Yeun, Minari
Best Actress
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
David Strathairn, Nomadland
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Toni Collette, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Youn Yuh Jung, Minari
Best Animated Feature
Marona’s Fantastic Tale
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Best Foreign Language Film
Another Round
Bacurau
Collective
La Llorona
Two of Us
Best Documentary
Boys State
Collective
Crip Camp
Time
The Truffle Hunters
Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt, First Cow
Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Newton Thomas Sigel, Da 5 Bloods
Hoyte van Hoytema, Tenet
Best Production Design
First Cow
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
One Night in Miami
Tenet
Best Film Editing
Alan Baumgarten, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Kirk Baxter, Mank
Jennifer Lame, Tenet
Yorgos Lamprinos, The Father
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Original Score
Terence Blanchard, Da 5 Bloods
Terence Blanchard, One Night in Miami
Emile Mosseri, Minari
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Mank
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Soul
Special Citation for Independent Cinema
The Last Tree
La Llorona
Sh*thouse