‘Nomadland’ Continues Awards Season Sweep with Critics Choice Win
BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN
The Critics Choice Awards has never quite found its groove in terms of production as its tried to cement itself as an important stop in awards season for the past quarter of a century. For its 26th ceremony, which now celebrates both television and film, the accolades from the Critics Choice Association were delivered in a hybrid format we’ve come to know throughout the pandemic. However, like last weekend’s Golden Globe Awards, technical difficulties were in attendance and, unlike at the Globes, a bizarre laugh track distracted from the lackluster entertaining by return host Taye Diggs. Fingers crossed that each of these mostly-virtual awards shows, which began with last fall’s Emmy Awards, will give enough examples of things for The Academy to avoid, should this year’s Oscars have to follow a similar format.
Outside of the ceremony’s highs and lows, the winners were a mix of expected achievements and welcome surprises. Maria Bakalova is back in the awards race after her Best Supporting Actress win for “Borat 2” and Chloé Zhao continued her reign as the most-awarded individual in a single awards season for her work on “Nomadland”. Her sweeping American drama picked up the night’s biggest award, signaling that it is the movie to beat this season.
Of the night’s best acceptance speeches, Alan Kim’s tearful thank-you after winning Best Young Actor/Actress is enough to cleanse your pandemic-riddled mind. If we’re lucky, we’ll get at least one more acceptance speech from him this season.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS:
BEST PICTURE
NOMADLAND
(Searchlight Pictures)
BEST DIRECTOR
Chloé Zhao
NOMADLAND
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
BEST ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maria Bakalova
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya
JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Alan Kim
MINARI
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Emerald Fennell
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chloé Zhao
NOMADLAND
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joshua James Richards
NOMADLAND
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale
MANK
BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten (TIE)
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
SOUND OF METAL
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ann Roth
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
TENET
BEST COMEDY
PALM SPRINGS
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
MINARI
BEST SONG
“Speak Now”
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
BEST SCORE
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste
SOUL
