As we come toward the end of one of the quietest weeks of the current awards season, approaching a Sunday that will instead host the Golden Globes, not what would traditionally have occupied the final Sunday in February - the Oscars - the Online Association of Female Film Critics has rung in with their nominations for the best achievements in film of the past 14 months. It's a strong slate overall with some nice choices, including substantial love for First Cow, and an all-female Best Breakthrough Filmmaker list, though the OAFFC's appraisal of Tahar Rahim's turn in The Mauritanian as "breakthrough" is... odd. Winners will be announced on the 1st of March.
Best Film
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
Promising Young Woman
Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Regina King - One Night in Miami
Kelly Reichardt - First Cow
Chloe Zhao - Nomadland
Best Female Lead
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand - Nomadland
Elisabeth Moss - The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman
Best Male Lead
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods
Mads Mikkelsen - Another Round
Steven Yeun - Minari
Best Supporting Female
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn - Pieces of a Woman
Dominque Fishback - Judas and the Black Messiah
Amanda Seyfried - Mank
Youn Yuh Jung - Minari
Best Supporting Male
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 Acting Ensemble
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Miranda July - Kajillionaire
Andy Siara - Palm Springs
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sarah Gubbins - Shirley
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller - The Father
Charlie Kaufman - I'm Thinking Of Ending Things
Kemp Powers - One Night In Miami
Chloe Zhao - Nomadland
Best Documentary
Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Mole Agent
The Painter and the Thief
Time
Best Animated Feature
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers
Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt - First Cow
Stephane Fontaine - Ammonite
Matthew Libatique - Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Erik Messerschmidt - Mank
Joshua James Richards - Nomadland
Best Breakthrough Filmmaker
Radha Blank - The Forty-Year-Old Version
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Kitty Green - The Assistant
Natalie Erika James - Relic
Channing Godfrey Peoples - Miss Juneteenth
Best Breakthrough Performance
Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami
Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Orion Lee - First Cow
Cristin Milioti - Palm Springs
Tahar Rahim - The Mauritanian
THE ROSIE (The OAFFC’s signature award celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema”)
The Assistant
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman