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Washington, D.C. | February 9th, 2021 \u2014 A slice-of-life from filmmaker Chlo\u00e9 Zhao about a widow who loses her job and sells her belongings to travel the American West, \u201cNomadland\u201d won Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.<\/p>\n
WAFCA posthumously awarded Best Actor to the late Chadwick Boseman for his searing turn as a talented trumpeter and songwriter struggling to make a name for himself in 1927 Chicago in George C. Wolfe\u2019s film adaptation of August Wilson\u2019s play \u201cMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom.\u201d Best Supporting Actor was awarded to Leslie Odom, Jr. for his powerful performance as soul musician Sam Cooke in Regina King\u2019s 1964-set \u201cOne Night in Miami\u2026\u201d and Best Supporting Actress went to Yuh-Jung Youn, a standout in Lee Isaac Chung\u2019s \u201cMinari.\u201d Best Youth Performance also went to \u201cMinari,\u201d for Alan Kim\u2019s memorable work as the young son of South Korean immigrants relocating from California to rural Arkansas in the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Best Original Screenplay honors went to writer-director Emerald Fennell for her complex, genre-busting tale of revenge and the trauma of sexual assault \u201cPromising Young Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pete Docter\u2019s emotionally resounding fable \u201cSoul\u201d earned three WAFCA awards, for Best Animated Feature, Best Voice Performance for Jamie Foxx, and Best Score. Best Documentary kudos went to \u201cBoys State,\u201d Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine\u2019s fascinating look at the teenage attendees of summer leadership and citizenship program American Legion Boys State, while Best International\/Foreign Language Film was awarded to Thomas Vinterberg\u2019s Danish midlife-crisis comedy-drama \u201cAnother Round.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other technical categories, Best Production Design was given to David Fincher\u2019s transporting Hollywood period piece \u201cMank,\u201d and Best Editing was awarded to Christopher Nolan\u2019s time-reversal sci-fi thriller \u201cTenet.\u201d
\nThe Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC, given each year in honor of one of WAFCA\u2019s cherished late members, went to Patty Jenkins\u2019 \u201cWonder Woman 1984.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association comprises over 60 DC-VA-MD-based film critics from television, radio, print and the Internet. Voting was conducted from February 5-7, 2021.<\/p>\n
THE 2020 WAFCA AWARD WINNERS:<\/p>\n
Best Film:
\nNomadland<\/p>\n
Best Director:
\nChlo\u00e9 Zhao (Nomadland)<\/p>\n
Best Actor:
\nChadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom)<\/p>\n
Best Actress:
\nFrances McDormand (Nomadland)<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actor:
\nLeslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami\u2026)<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actress:
\nYuh-Jung Youn (Minari)<\/p>\n
Best Acting Ensemble:
\nOne Night in Miami\u2026<\/p>\n
Best Youth Performance:
\nAlan Kim (Minari)<\/p>\n
Best Voice Performance:
\nJamie Foxx (Soul)<\/p>\n
Best Original Screenplay:
\nEmerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)<\/p>\n
Best Adapted Screenplay:
\nChlo\u00e9 Zhao [Based on the Book by Jessica Bruder] (Nomadland)<\/p>\n
Best Animated Feature:
\nSoul<\/p>\n
Best Documentary:
\nBoys State<\/p>\n
Best International\/Foreign Language Film:
\nAnother Round<\/p>\n
Best Production Design:
\nProduction Designer: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decorator: Jan Pascale (Mank)<\/p>\n
Best Cinematography:
\nJoshua James Richards, Director of Photography (Nomadland)<\/p>\n
Best Editing:
\nJennifer Lame, ACE (Tenet)<\/p>\n
Best Original Score:
\nTrent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste (Soul)<\/p>\n
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
\nWonder Woman 1984<\/p>\n
The 2020 WAFCA AWARD NOMINEES WERE:<\/p>\n
Best Film:
\nFirst Cow
\nMinari
\nNomadland
\nOne Night in Miami\u2026
\nPromising Young Woman<\/p>\n
Best Director:
\nLee Isaac Chung (Minari)
\nEmerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
\nRegina King (One Night in Miami\u2026)
\nKelly Reichardt (First Cow)
\nChlo\u00e9 Zhao (Nomadland)<\/p>\n
Best Actor:
\nRiz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
\nChadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom)
\nAnthony Hopkins (The Father)
\nDelroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods)
\nSteven Yeun (Minari)<\/p>\n
Best Actress:
\nViola Davis (Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom)
\nVanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
\nFrances McDormand (Nomadland)
\nElisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man)
\nCarey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actor:
\nSacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
\nDaniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
\nBill Murray (On the Rocks)
\nLeslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami\u2026)
\nPaul Raci (Sound of Metal)<\/p>\n
Best Supporting Actress:
\nMaria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
\nOlivia Colman (The Father)
\nDominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah)
\nAmanda Seyfried (Mank)
\nYuh-Jung Youn (Minari)<\/p>\n
Best Acting Ensemble:
\nDa 5 Bloods
\nMa Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom
\nMinari
\nOne Night in Miami\u2026
\nThe Trial of the Chicago 7<\/p>\n
Best Youth Performance:
\nMillie Bobby Brown (Enola Holmes)
\nSidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
\nAlan Kim (Minari)
\nTalia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
\nHelena Zengel (News of the World)<\/p>\n
Best Voice Performance:
\nTina Fey (Soul)
\nJamie Foxx (Soul)
\nTom Holland (Onward)
\nHonor Kneafsey (Wolfwalkers)
\nOctavia Spencer (Onward) Best Original Screenplay:
\nLee Isaac Chung (Minari)
\nAndy Siara (Palm Springs)
\nEmerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
\nDarius Marder & Abraham Marder [Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance] (Sound of Metal)
\nAaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)<\/p>\n
Best Adapted Screenplay:
\nJon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)
\nCharlie Kaufman (i\u2019m thinking of ending things)
\nRuben Santiago-Hudson (Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom)
\nChlo\u00e9 Zhao [Based on the Book by Jessica Bruder] (Nomadland)
\nKemp Powers [Based on the Stage Play by Kemp Power] (One Night in Miami\u2026)<\/p>\n
Best Animated Feature:
\nThe Croods: A New Age
\nOnward
\nOver the Moon
\nSoul
\nWolfwalkers<\/p>\n
Best Documentary:
\nBoys State
\nCollective
\nCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution
\nDick Johnson Is Dead
\nTime<\/p>\n
Best International\/
\nForeign Language Film:
\nAnother Round
\nBacurau
\nLa Llorona
\nNight of the Kings
\nThe Mole Agent<\/p>\n
Best Production Design:
\nProduction Designer: Kave Quinn; Set Decorator: Stella Fox (Emma.)
\nProduction Designer: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decorator: Jan Pascale (Mank)
\nProduction Designer: Mark Ricker; Set Decorator: Karen O\u2019Hara (Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom)
\nProduction Designer: David Crank; Set Decorator: Elizabeth Keenan (News of the World)
\nProduction Designer: Nathan Crowley; Set Decorator: Kathy Lucas (Tenet)<\/p>\n
Best Cinematography:
\nNewton Thomas Sigel, ASC (Da 5 Bloods)
\nErik Messerschmidt, ASC (Mank)
\nDariusz Wolski, ASC (News of the World)
\nJoshua James Richards, Director of Photography (Nomadland)
\nHoyte van Hoytema, ASC, FSF, NSC (Tenet)<\/p>\n
Best Editing:
\nKirk Baxter, ACE (Mank)
\nChlo\u00e9 Zhao (Nomadland)
\nMikkel E. G. Nielsen (Sound of Metal)
\nJennifer Lame, ACE (Tenet)
\nAlan Baumgarten, ACE (The Trial of the Chicago 7)<\/p>\n
Best Original Score:
\nTrent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Mank)
\nEmile Mosseri (Minari)
\nJames Newton Howard (News of the World)
\nTrent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste (Soul)
\nLudwig G\u00f6ransson (Tenet)<\/p>\n
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
\nCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution
\nThe Fight
\nJimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
\nJohn Lewis: Good Trouble
\nWonder Woman 1984<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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