Chicago Indie Critics Award Winners

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM (BUDGETS UNDER $20 MILLION)
NOMADLAND

BEST STUDIO FILM (BUDGETS OVER $20 MILLION)
(TIE) DA 5 BLOODS and MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (tie)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
HIS HOUSE

BEST DOCUMENTARY
BOYS STATE

BEST ANIMATED FILM
SOUL

BEST DIRECTOR
Spike Lee, DA 5 BLOODS

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
(TIE) PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Emerald Fennell  and THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Aaron Sorkin 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Ruben Santiago-Hudson

BEST ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Chadwick Boseman, DA 5 BLOODS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Donald Graham Burt, MANK

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND

BEST EDITING
Alan Baumgarten, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, SOUL

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Speak Now” – ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Written by Leslie Odom Jr. and Sam Ashworth, Performed by Leslie Odom Jr

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Jonathan Dearing and Dan Oliver, THE INVISIBLE MAN

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ann Roth, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

BEST MAKEUP
Matiki Anoff, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, and Mia Neal, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM

TRAILBLAZER AWARD 
Steve McQueen

IMPACT AWARD
Chadwick Boseman