San Diego Film Critics Society's 2020 award winners announced
The awards just keep on coming for Promising Young Woman. Emerald Fennell's dark comedy is riding a wave of critical and industry buzz en route to potentially claiming a spot near the top of the Oscar race, here taking in a Best Picture prize from the San Diego Film Critics Society. Lead Carey Mulligan wins Best Actress and is among several familiar honorees among the SDFCS' roster: Nomadland director Chloe Zhao and Mulligan's countryman Riz Ahmed winning Best Actor for Sound of Metal. This lot really likes The Trial of the Chicago 7, though luckily not enough to net it any awards - five runner-up slots will just have to cut it! Check out the San Diego critics' nominations at this link.
Best Picture
Promising Young Woman
Runner-up: Sound of Metal
Best Director
Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Runner-up: Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Runner-up: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Runner-up: Peter Macdissi (Uncle Frank)
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Runner-up: Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder and Darius Marder (Sound of Metal) / Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) / Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman (I'm Thinking of Ending Things)
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Runner-up: Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
Best Editing
Andy Canny (The Invisible Man)
Runner-up: Alan Baumgarten (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Production Design
Donald Graham Burt (Mank)
Runner-up: Molly Hughes (I'm Thinking of Ending Things) / Shane Valentino (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Best Costumes
Alexandra Byrne (Emma.)
Runner-up: Erin Benach (Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Best Visual Effects
Tenet
Runner-up: The Invisible Man
Best Use of Music
Hamilton
Runner-up: David Byrne's American Utopia / Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Ensemble
One Night in Miami
Runner-up: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Over the Moon
Best Documentary
Time
Runner-up: The Social Dilemma
Best International Film
The Life Ahead
Runner-up: The Platform
Best Breakthrough Artist
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Runner-up: Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Best Comedic Performance
Radha Blank (The Forty-Year-Old Version)
Runner-up: Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) / Bill Murray (On the Rocks)
Best Body of Work
Steve McQueen (Small Axe)