San Diego Film Critics Society Award Winners

Best Picture
Winner: Promising Young Woman
Runner-Up: Sound of Metal

Best Director
Winner: Chloe Zhao, NOMADLAND
Runner-Up: Aaron Sorkin, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN

Best Actor
Winner: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Runner-Up: Anthony Hopkins, THE FATHER

Best Actress
Winner: Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Runner-Up: Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Runner-Up: Peter Macdissi, UNCLE FRANK

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Runner-Up: Amanda Seyfried, MANK

Best Comedic Performance
Winner: Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM, Bill Murray, ON THE ROCKS

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Derek Cianfrance, SOUND OF METAL, Aaron Sorkin, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, THE FATHER
Runner-Up: Charlie Kaufman, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

Best Documentary
Winner: TIME
Runner-Up: THE SOCIAL DILEMMA

Best Animated Film
Winner: WOLFWALKERS
Runner-Up: OVER THE MOON

Best International Film
Winner: THE LIFE AHEAD
Runner-Up: THE PLATFORM

Best Editing
Winner: Andy Canny, THE INVISIBLE MAN
Runner-Up: Alan Baumgarten, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

Best Cinematography
Winner: Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Runner-Up: Erik Messerschmidt, MANK

Best Production Design
Winner: Donald Graham Burt, MANK
Runner-Ups: Molly Hughes, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Shane Valentino, THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

Best Visual Effects
Winner: TENET
Runner-Up: THE INVISIBLE MAN

Best Costumes
Winner: Alexandra Byrne, EMMA
Runner-Up: Erin Benach, BIRDS OF PREY

Best Use of Music
Winner: HAMILTON
Runner-Ups: DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA, MA RAINEY’s BLACK BOTTOM

Best Ensemble
Winner: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI
Runner-Up: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7

Breakthrough Artist
Winner: Radha Blank, THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Runner-Up: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL

Body of Work
Steve McQueen, The SMALL AXE film series (MANGROVE, LOVER’S ROCK, RED WHITE AND BLUE, ALEX WHEATLE, EDUCATION)