Columbus Film Critics Association Award Nominations

Best Film

First Cow

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mank

Minari

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Soul

Sound of Metal

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

David Fincher – Mank

Darius Marder – Sound of Metal

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods

Gary Oldman – Mank

Steven Yeun – Minari

Best Actress

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Julia Garner – The Assistant

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Elisabeth Moss – Shirley

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Bill Murray – On the Rocks

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Mark Rylance – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Movie Film

Olivia Colman – The Father

Olivia Cooke – Sound of Metal

Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Ensemble

Da 5 Bloods

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Minari

Promising Young Woman

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods & Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat Subsequent Movie Film & The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man & Shirley)

Breakthrough Film Artist

Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version (for producing, directing, screenwriting, and acting)

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (for producing, directing, and screenwriting)

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (for acting)

Kitty Green – The Assistant (for producing, directing, screenwriting, and film editing)

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (for directing and screenwriting)

Alan S. Kim – Minari (for acting)

Darius Marder – Sound of Metal (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow

Eric Messerschmidt – Mank

Lachlan Milne – Minari

Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet

Best Film Editing

Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Kirk Baxter – Mank

Robert Frazen – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal

Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sarah Gubbins – Shirley

Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami

Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Original Screenplay

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Darius Marder & Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal

Andy Siara – Palm Springs

Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Score

Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky

Ludovico Einaudi – Nomadland

Emile Mosseri – Minari

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Documentary

Boys State

Collective

Crip Camp

Dick Johnson is Dead

The Painter and the Thief

Time

Best Foreign Language Film

Bacurau

Beanpole

Martin Eden

Minari

The Whistlers

Best Animated Film

The Croods: A New Age

Onward

Over the Moon

Soul

Wolfwalkers

Best Overlooked Film

The Assistant

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Palm Springs

Possessor

The Vast of Night