26th Critics’ Choice Awards: ‘Nomadland’ win Best Picture, ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ take series prizes

The 26th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were held tonight in a partially in person but mostly virtual ceremony and Nomadland was named Best Picture. Chloé Zhao won Best Director for the film and used her speech to thank sound designer Michael Wolf Snyder, who passed away this week. “We’ll see you down the road,” she said. Zhao also won Adapted Screenplay.

Chadwick Boseman won Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, one of his four posthumous nominations; two individual and two as part of ensembles. As she did at the Golden Globes, the late Boseman’s wife Taylor Simone Ledward accepted the award saying “it’s hard to find joy in these moments.” Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom also won for Hair & Makeup and Costume Design.

Carey Mulligan won Best Actress for Promising Young Woman, remarking that it’s the eve of International Women’s Day and thanked director and Original Screenplay winner Emerald Fennell for pulling off the film in with a 23-day shoot.

There was one tie this evening, in Editing. The winners were The Trial of the Chicago 7 (which also won the Ensemble award) and Sound of Metal. One Night in Miami won Best Song, leaving just two Best Picture nominees going home empty handed tonight, Da 5 Bloods and News of the World. Mank went into tonight’s ceremony with 12 nominations but managed just a single win, for Production Design.

8-year old Alan Kim won the Best Young Actor/Actress award for his performance in Minari and went through in his speech, first happy and giggling to crying but all the while remembering everyone’s names to thank, a consummate professional and the most heartwarming speech of the night. Minari also won the Foreign Language Film award.

The Crown dominated the television drama wins, winning four of its six nominations including Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series fo Josh O’Connor, Best Actress in a Drama Series for Emma Corrin and Gillian Anderson for Best Supporting Actress. Ironically, going on at the very same time was the highly anticipated Oprah interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, on their exit from royal life.

Ted Lasso went 3/3 winning Best Comedy Series, Actor in a Comedy Series for Jason Sudeikis and Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Hannah Waddingham, in the best TV speech of the night, thanking her girlfriend and screaming “What is going on?!?”

Emmy Award winner Zendaya (HBO’s Euphoria, Netflix’s Malcolm & Marie, for which she’s nominated tonight) will receive the 5th annual See Her Award. The honor will be presented by her Malcolm & Marie co-star John David Washington during the live ceremony. The SeeHer Award recognizes a woman who embodies the values set forth by the SeeHer movement, to push boundaries, defy stereotypes and acknowledge the importance of authentic portrayals of women across the entertainment landscape. SeeHer is the leading global movement for accurate portrayals of women and girls in media. Led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), SeeHer is a collective of leading marketers, media organizations and industry influencers committed to creating advertising and media content that portrays women and girls as they truly are. Previous award recipients are Kristen Bell, Viola Davis, Claire Foy, and Gal Gadot.

Taye Diggs returned to host for his third consecutive year at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.

Here is the full list of nominees for film and television with winners in bold.

FILM

BEST PICTURE 
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Mank (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) 
News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) – WINNER
One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 

BEST DIRECTOR 
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari (A24) 
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
David Fincher – Mank (Netflix) 
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Regina King – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) – WINNER
 
BEST ACTOR 
Ben Affleck – The Way Back (Warner Bros.) 
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) – WINNER
Tom Hanks – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Anthony Hopkins – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Gary Oldman – Mank (Netflix) 
Steven Yeun – Minari (A24) 
 
BEST ACTRESS 
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix) 
Frances McDormand – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) – WINNER
Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie (Netflix) 
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros) – WINNER
Bill Murray – On the Rocks (A24/Apple TV+) 
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios) – WINNER
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix) 
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix) 
Olivia Colman – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Amanda Seyfried – Mank (Netflix) 
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari (A24) 
 
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS 
Ryder Allen – Palmer (Apple TV+) 
Ibrahima Gueye – The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
Alan Kim – Minari (A24) – WINNER
Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Caoilinn Springall – The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Helena Zengel – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
 
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) 
One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) – WINNER
 
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari (A24) 
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) – WINNER
Jack Fincher – Mank (Netflix) 
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Darius Marder & Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (A24) 
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) – WINNER
 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 
Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow (A24) 
Erik Messerschmidt – Mank (Netflix) 
Lachlan Milne – Minari (A24) 
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) – WINNER
Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet (Warner Bros) 
Dariusz Wolski – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 
Cristina Casali, Charlotte Dirickx – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures) 
David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas – Tenet (Warner Bros) 
Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank (Netflix) – WINNER
Kave Quinn, Stella Fox – Emma (Focus Features) 
Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara & Diana Stoughton – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
 
BEST EDITING (tie)
Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) – WINNER
Kirk Baxter – Mank (Netflix) 
Jennifer Lame – Tenet (Warner Bros) 
Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) – WINNER
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 
 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN 
Alexandra Byrne – Emma (Focus Features) 
Bina Daigeler – Mulan (Disney) 
Suzie Harman & Robert Worley – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures) 
Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) – WINNER
Nancy Steiner – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Trish Summerville – Mank (Netflix) 
 
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 
Emma (Focus Features) 
Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) – WINNER
Mank (Netflix) 
Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 
 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 
Greyhound (Apple TV+) 
The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures) 
Mank (Netflix) 
The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Mulan (Disney) 
Tenet (Warner Bros) – WINNER
Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros) 
 
BEST COMEDY 
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios) 
The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix) 
The King of Staten Island (Universal Pictures) 
On the Rocks (A24/Apple TV+) 
Palm Springs (Hulu and NEON) – WINNER
The Prom (Netflix) 
 
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 
Another Round (Samuel Goldwyn Films) 
Collective (Magnolia Pictures) 
La Llorona (Shudder) 
The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) – WINNER
Two of Us (Magnolia Pictures) 
 
BEST SONG  
“Everybody Cries” – The Outpost (Screen Media Films) 
“Fight for You” – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros) 
“Husavik (My Home Town)” – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix) 
“Io Sì (Seen)” – The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
“Speak Now” – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) – WINNER
“Tigress & Tweed” – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 
 
BEST SCORE 
Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Ludwig Göransson – Tenet (Warner Bros) 
James Newton Howard – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Emile Mosseri – Minari (A24) 
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank (Netflix) – WINNER
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste – Soul (Disney)

TELEVISION

BEST DRAMA SERIES

• Better Call Saul (AMC)
• The Crown (Netflix) – WINNER
• The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
• Lovecraft Country (HBO)
• The Mandalorian (Disney+)
• Ozark (Netflix)
• Perry Mason (HBO)
• This Is Us (NBC)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Jason Bateman – Ozark (Netflix)
• Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)
• Jonathan Majors – Lovecraft Country (HBO)
• Josh O’Connor – The Crown (Netflix) – WINNER
• Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason (HBO)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
• Olivia Colman – The Crown (Netflix)
• Emma Corrin – The Crown (Netflix) – WINNER
• Claire Danes – Homeland (Showtime)
• Laura Linney – Ozark (Netflix)
• Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul (AMC)
• Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)
• John Lithgow – Perry Mason (HBO)
• Tobias Menzies – The Crown (Netflix)
• Tom Pelphrey – Ozark (Netflix)
• Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO) – WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Gillian Anderson – The Crown (Netflix) – WINNER
• Cynthia Erivo – The Outsider (HBO)
• Julia Garner – Ozark (Netflix)
• Janet McTeer – Ozark (Netflix)
• Wunmi Mosaku – Lovecraft Country (HBO)
• Rhea Seehorn – Better Call Saul (AMC)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

• Better Things (FX)
• The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)
• Mom (CBS)
• PEN15 (Hulu)
• Ramy (Hulu)
• Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
• Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) – WINNER
• What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Hank Azaria – Brockmire (IFC)
• Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Nicholas Hoult – The Great (Hulu)
• Eugene Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
• Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) – WINNER
• Ramy Youssef – Ramy (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Pamela Adlon – Better Things (FX)
• Christina Applegate – Dead to Me (Netflix)
• Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)
• Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Catherine O’Hara – Schitt’s Creek (Pop) – WINNER
• Issa Rae – Insecure (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES 

• William Fichtner – Mom (CBS)
• Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop) – WINNER
• Alex Newell – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC)
• Mark Proksch – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Andrew Rannells – Black Monday (Showtime)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Lecy Goranson – The Conners (ABC)
• Rita Moreno – One Day at a Time (Pop)
• Annie Murphy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)
• Ashley Park – Emily in Paris (Netflix)
• Jaime Pressly – Mom (CBS)
• Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) – WINNER

BEST LIMITED SERIES

• I May Destroy You (HBO)
• Mrs. America (FX)
• Normal People (Hulu)
• The Plot Against America (HBO)
• The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) – WINNER
• Small Axe (Amazon Studios)
• The Undoing (HBO)
• Unorthodox (Netflix)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Bad Education (HBO)
• Between the World and Me (HBO)
• The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel (Lifetime)
• Hamilton (Disney+) – WINNER
• Sylvie’s Love (Amazon Studios)
• What the Constitution Means to Me (Amazon Studios)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• John Boyega – Small Axe (Amazon Studios) – WINNER
• Hugh Grant – The Undoing (HBO)
• Paul Mescal – Normal People (Hulu)
• Chris Rock – Fargo (FX)
• Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much is True (HBO)
• Morgan Spector – The Plot Against America (HBO)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Cate Blanchett – Mrs. America (FX)
• Michaela Coel – I May Destroy You (HBO)
• Daisy Edgar-Jones – Normal People (Hulu)
• Shira Haas – Unorthodox (Netflix)
• Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) – WINNER
• Tessa Thompson – Sylvie’s Love (Amazon Studios)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Daveed Diggs – The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)
• Joshua Caleb Johnson – The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)
• Dylan McDermott – Hollywood (Netflix)
• Donald Sutherland – The Undoing (HBO) – WINNER
• Glynn Turman – Fargo (FX)
• John Turturro – The Plot Against America (HBO)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION  

• Uzo Aduba – Mrs. America (FX) – WINNER
• Betsy Brandt – Soulmates (AMC)
• Marielle Heller – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)
• Margo Martindale – Mrs. America (FX)
• Winona Ryder – The Plot Against America (HBO)
• Tracey Ullman – Mrs. America (FX)

BEST TALK SHOW

• Desus & Mero (Showtime)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC/Syndicated)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) – WINNER
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
• Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL (tie)

• Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty (Netflix)
• Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix)
• Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (Netflix) – WINNER
• Marc Maron: End Times Fun (Netflix)
• Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia (Netflix) – WINNER
• Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (Netflix)

BEST SHORT FORM SERIES

• The Andy Cohen Diaries (Quibi)
• Better Call Saul: Ethics Training with Kim Wexler (AMC/Youtube) – WINNER
• Mapleworth Murders (Quibi)
• Nikki Fre$h (Quibi)
• Reno 911! (Quibi)
• Tooning Out the News (CBS All Access)

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