29th Chlotrudis Awards: ‘After Yang,’ ‘Aftersun’ among top winners, Dale Dickey named Best Actress

The 29^th annual Chlotrudis Awards were announced this past weekend, where Kogonada’s sophomore film, After Yang garnered 4 wins, including Best Movie and Best Director as well as Best Production Design and Best Adapted Screenplay. The intimate awards dinner was held at the beautiful, newly renovated French Library in Boston’s Back Bay.

A trio of films received a pair of awards each. Aftersun, the directorial debut from Charlotte Wells, won Best Actor for Paul Mescal’s turn in the coming of age, father-daughter story, and Best Original Screenplay for Wells. The Ireland-set The Banshees of Inisherin won two acting awards for its supporting players Barry Keoghan and Kerry Condon for Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, a romantic mystery tracking the obsession between a detective and a widow/suspect took top tech awards Best Editing and Best Cinematography for its stunning framing and visuals.

Best Actress was awarded to Dale Dickey for her moving portrait of a widow meeting a longtime flame, in A Love Song. The cast of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking earned the Best Ensemble award and Best Documentary was awarded posthumously to filmmaker Lucia Small’s last feature, Girl Talk, which follows the Newton North debate team with particular focus on the female members.

The winner of the group’s Buried Treasure award was Finland’s Compartment No. 6, a road film which follows a Finnish student traveling on a train to northern Russia on an archeological quest, and finds herself assigned a compartment with a Russian miner.

The Buried Treasure is the only category with eligibility requirements: nominated films must be considered overlooked (previously the only requirement was that it had a US box office of less than $250,000).  Members submit a film they feel strongly was given such short shrift and deserve a wider audience. Once the final ballot is set, all members voting in the category must verify that they have watched all or at least 5 of the nominated films.

Here is the complete list of the winners for the 29^th Chlotrudis Awards.

BEST MOVIE
After Yang

BURIED TREASURE

Compartment No. 6

BEST DIRECTOR

Kogonada – After Yang

BEST ACTRESS

Dale Dickey – A Love Song

BEST ACTOR

Paul Mescal – Aftersun

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE CAST

Women Talking

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

After Yang

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Aftersun

BEST USE OF MUSIC IN FILM

Ali & Ava

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Memoria

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

After Yang

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Decision to Leave

BEST EDITING

Decision to Leave

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Girl Talk