Awards Season 2020

[lacritfan]

National Society of Film Critics

Best picture: Nomadland
Runners up: First Cow
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best actor: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Runners up: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Best actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runners up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best supporting actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Runners up: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best supporting actor: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Runners up: Glynn Turman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods

Best director: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Runners up: Steve McQueen, Small Axe
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow

Best screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Runners up: Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Charlie Kaufman, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Best cinematography: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Runners up: Shabier Kirchner, Lovers Rock
Leonardo Simoes, Vitalina Varela

Best foreign language film: Collective
Runners up: Bacurau and Beanpole
Vitalina Varela

Best nonfiction film: Time
Runners up: City Hall
Collective

Film heritage award: Film Comment
Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA
Women Make Movies

[domino harvey]

Foreign film Oscar no longer has "committee saves" in the shortlist process

[domino harvey]

AFI Top 10

“Da 5 Bloods” (Netflix)

“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros.)

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (Netflix)

“Mank” (Netflix)

“Minari” (A24)

“Nomadland” (Searchlight)

“One Night in Miami” (Amazon Studios)

“Soul” (Pixar/Disney)

“Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios)

“The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix)

[therewillbeblus]

Golden Globe noms

Like others, I don’t care for this award ceremony nor do I accredit it much value, but it’s heartening to see Promising Young Woman featured so prominently, and even more surprisingly within the Drama vs Comedy categories. Not that it isn’t a drama, but for an awards show that seems to default any film with a single laugh into the comedy sectors, it’s admirable to see that they’ve considered its purpose beneath the satire, because the film- in many ways- is most glaringly a (at times very) dark comedy.

[domino harvey]

The studio decides what category their films compete in, not the Globes, so that’s more a strategic thing from them

[therewillbeblus]

Interesting, that makes a whole lot more sense than the Globes suddenly changing their approach, or being worthy of praise

[Pavel]

Wouldn't placing Promising Young Woman in Comedy be more beneficial for the studio, since it doesn't have to compete with Chicago 7 and Nomadland and has a much bigger shot at victory? (Though, considering how well it's doing, I wouldn't put it past the Globes to do their own thing and give it Drama Film)

[therewillbeblus]

If it actually wins I'll issue my first-ever bouquet for the Globes

[swo17]

Golden Globe noms

Like others, I don’t care for this award ceremony

Meaning the Globes in general, or the acknowledgment of 2020 as a year of cinema?

[therewillbeblus]

Globes, but now that you mention it, both. Unless films like Promising Young Woman, that would never get nominated in a "normal" year, win- in which case I'm down. But the obliviously-uneven Nomadland will probably win everything.

[aox]

Not to derail the thread, but where did you guys see Nomadland? I've been searching for it since my partner mentioned it a few months ago. And unlike Capernaum, there is nowhere to even purchase it even when renting is unavailable. Pretty Young Woman is another that can only be purchased but not rented/streamed, but at least it is available in some capacity.*

*I do not own a region-free BD player

[Never Cursed]

It played at virtual film festivals (NYFF if I remember correctly), and will be available to stream on Hulu starting on the 19th of this month

[aox]

It played at virtual film festivals (NYFF if I remember correctly), and will be available to stream on Hulu starting on the 19th of this month

Thanks so much. :cheers

[lacritfan]

Three out of the five Best Director nominees are women, so that's something.

[DarkImbecile]

Academy Awards shortlists for International Feature, shorts, docs, VFX, etc.