New York Film Critics Circle Awards Go For “First Cow”
One of the bigger critics groups gave out their citations today, with the New York Film Critics Circle announcing award winners for 2020. After doling out a Best Picture win last year for The Irishman, they went decidedly smaller this time around, citing First Cow with Picture. Da 5 Bloods (Best Actor for Delroy Lindo and Best Supporting Actor for Chadwick Boseman) and Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Best Actress for Sidney Flanigan and Best Screenplay for Eliza Hittman) tied for the most wins with two apiece. NYFCC spread things out, also giving the thumbs up to Chloé Zhao and Nomadland, as well as something as off the wall as Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Best Supporting Actress for Maria Bakalova). If this is how awards season is going to be throughout, we’re in for something pretty fun…
Here is who and what took the NYFCC prizes:
Best Picture: First Cow
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers
Best Cinematography: Small Axe (all films)
Best First Film: The 40-Year-Old Version
Best Foreign-Language Film: Bacurau
Best Nonfiction Film: Time
Special Award 1: Kino Lorber’s Kino Marquee
Special Award 2: Spike Lee
Here also from today are the nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association:
BEST PICTURE
Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Lovers Rock
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
BEST DIRECTOR
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Chloe 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
Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Carrie Coon, The Nest
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Bill Murray, On the Rocks
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
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Letitia Wright, Mangrove
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Da 5 Bloods by Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Wilmott & Spike Lee
Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell
Soul by Pete Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers
The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Aaron Sorkin
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Father by Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
First Cow by Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman
Nomadland by Chloe Zhao
One Night in Miami by Kemp Powers
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Onward
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
The Wolf House
Wolfwalkers
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Collective
David Byrne’s American Utopia
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Social Dilemma
Time
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Another Round
Bacurau
Beanpole
Collective
La Llorona
Vitalina Varela
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
First Cow, Christopher Blauvelt
Lovers Rock, Shabier Kirchner
Mank, Erik Messerschmidt
Nomadland, Joshua James Richards
The Vast of Night, Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Da 5 Bloods, Terence Blanchard
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Branford Marsalis
Mank, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Soul, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste
Tenet, Ludwig Goransson
BEST ART DIRECTION
Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Mank
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Birds of Prey
Emma.
First Cow
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
The Invisible Man
The Midnight Sky
Possessor
Tenet
BEST EDITING
I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen
Lovers Rock, Chris Dickens & Steve McQueen
Nomadland, Chloe Zhao
Tenet, Jennifer Lame
The Trial of the Chicago 7, Alan Baumgarten
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR PROMISING FILMMAKER
Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Darius Marder, Sound of Metal
Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Kelly O’Sullivan, Saint Frances
Helena Zengel, News of the World
Stay tuned for more precursors!
