I've given the Utah Film Critics Association some flack in the past for some less-than-stellar choices in their year-end awards, but their 2020/21 crop offers a handsome corrective to that criticism. There are some cool choices in here, including Regina King for Achievement in Directing and considerable love for I'm Thinking of Ending Things, though quite how Soul could place above Wolfwalkers in Best Picture but not in Best Animated Feature, and quite how Minari could win Best Picture but not place at all in Best Non-English Language Feature are beyond me.
Best Picture
Minari
Runner-up: Soul
Best Achievement in Directing
Regina King, One Night in Miami
Runner-up: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Best Lead Performance, Male
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Runners-up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom / Steven Yeun, Minari
Best Lead Performance, Female
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Performance, Female
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runner-up: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Supporting Performance, Male
Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami
Runnerup: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film
Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man
Runner-up: Cristin Milioti, Palm Springs
Best Original Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-up: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Runner-up: Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Runner-up: Lukasz Zal, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Best Original Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Soul
Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, Tenet
Best Film Editing
Alan Baumgarten, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runners-up: Jennifer Lame, Tenet / Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Sound of Metal
Best Documentary Feature
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Runner-up: Time
Best Animated Feature
Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Soul
Best Non-English Language Feature
Another Round
Runner-up: Bacarau