# Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2020

The 33rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 21, 2020. The awards honor the best in film for 2020. The nominations were announced on December 18, 2020. Nomadland received the most nominations (7), followed by Da 5 Bloods (6), First Cow (6) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (6).

## Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 33rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

### Awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Nomadland Da 5 Bloods First Cow Lovers Rock Promising Young Woman | Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods Steve McQueen – Lovers Rock Kelly Reichardt – First Cow |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous) Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi | Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern Jessie Buckley – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Young Woman Carrie Coon – The Nest as Allison O'Hara Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods as "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway (posthumous) Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke David Strathairn – Nomadland as David | Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev Toni Collette – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Mother Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies Letitia Wright – Mangrove as Altheia Jones-LeCointe Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Eliza Hittman Da 5 Bloods – Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Spike Lee, and Kevin Willmott Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell Soul – Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin | Nomadland – Chloé Zhao The Father – Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller First Cow – Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Charlie Kaufman One Night in Miami... – Kemp Powers |
| Best Animated Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
| Wolfwalkers – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Nora Twomey, and Paul Young Onward – Kori Rae and Dan Scanlon A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon – Will Becher, Paul Kewley, and Richard Phelan Soul – Pete Docter and Dana Murray The Wolf House – Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León, and Catalina Vergara | Another Round (Denmark) in Danish – Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Bacurau (Brazil) in Portuguese and English – Directed by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho Beanpole (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Kantemir Balagov Collective (Romania) in Romanian – Directed by Alexander Nanau La Llorona (Guatemala) in Spanish, Mayan-Ixil, and Mayan-Caqchickel – Directed by Jayro Bustamante Vitalina Varela (Portugal) in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole – Directed by Pedro Costa |
| Best Documentary Film | Best Original Score |
| Dick Johnson Is Dead – Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, and Marilyn Ness American Utopia – David Byrne and Spike Lee Collective – Hanka Kastelicová, Bernard Michaux, Alexander Nanau, and Bianca Oana The Social Dilemma – Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes Time – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, and Kellen Quinn | Soul – Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross Da 5 Bloods – Terence Blanchard Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Branford Marsalis Mank – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Tenet – Ludwig Göransson |
| Best Art Direction | Best Costume Design |
| Mank – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale Birds of Prey – Production Design: K. K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Florencia Martin Emma – Production Design: Kave Quinn; Set Decoration: Stella Fox First Cow – Production Design: Anthony Gasparro; Set Decoration: Vanessa Knoll I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Production Design: Molly Hughes; Set Decoration: Mattie Siegal | Emma – Alexandra Byrne Birds of Prey – Erin Benach First Cow – April Napier Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ann Roth Mank – Trish Summerville |
| Best Editing | Best Cinematography |
| I'm Thinking of Ending Things – Robert Frazen Lovers Rock – Chris Dickens and Steve McQueen Nomadland – Chloé Zhao Tenet – Jennifer Lame The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten | Nomadland – Joshua James Richards First Cow – Christopher Blauvelt Lovers Rock – Shabier Kirchner Mank – Erik Messerschmidt The Vast of Night – Miguel Ioann Littin Menz |
| Best Use of Visual Effects | Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award |
| The Invisible Man I'm Thinking of Ending Things The Midnight Sky Possessor Tenet | Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Darius Marder – Sound of Metal Andrew Patterson – The Vast of Night |
| Most Promising Performer | |
| Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami... Kelly O'Sullivan – Saint Frances Helena Zengel – News of the World | |

## Awards breakdown

| Nominations | Film |
| 7 | Nomadland |
| 6 | Da 5 Bloods |
| 6 | First Cow |
| 6 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things |
| 5 | Mank |
| 5 | Promising Young Woman |
| 4 | Lovers Rock |
| 4 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 3 | Minari |
| 3 | One Night in Miami... |
| 3 | Soul |
| 3 | Sound of Metal |
| 3 | Tenet |
| 2 | Birds of Prey |
| 2 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm |
| 2 | Collective |
| 2 | Emma |
| 2 | The Father |
| 2 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| 2 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2 | The Vast of Night |
| Wins | Film |
| 5 | Nomadland |
| 2 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |