Columbus Film Critics Association Award Winners

Best Film

1. Promising Young Woman

2. Nomadland

3. Sound of Metal

4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

5. Minari

6. Soul

7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

8. The Trial of the Chicago 7

9. First Cow

10. Mank

Best Director

Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Runner-up: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Runner-up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Runner-up: Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Runners-up (tie): Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods and Mark Rylance, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Supporting Actress

Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Runner-up: Olivia Colman, The Father

Best Ensemble

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Runner-up: Promising Young Woman

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

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

Runner-up: Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man and Shirley)

Breakthrough Film Artist

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

Runner-up: Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version – (for producing, directing, screenwriting,

and acting)

Best Cinematography

Joshua James Richards, Nomadland

Runner-up: Eric Messerschmidt, Mank

Best Film Editing

Alan Baumgarten, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Runner-up: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Sound of Metal

Best Adapted Screenplay

Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Runner-up: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Original Screenplay

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Runner-up: Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Score

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Soul

Runner-up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Mank

Best Documentary

Dick Johnson is Dead

Runner-up: Boys State

Best Foreign Language Film

Minari

Runner-up: Martin Eden

Best Animated Film

Wolfwalkers

Runner-up: Soul

Best Overlooked Film

The Vast of Night

Runner-up: Palm Springs