Southern Eastern Film Critics Association winners: ‘Nomadland,’ ‘Minari’ on top
The Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) has selected Nomadland the best film of 2020, also awarding the film best director (Chloé Zhao), best actress (Frances McDormand), adapted screenplay and best cinematography.
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari was the group’s #2 film of the year, winning original screenplay for Chung and supporting actress for Youn Yuh-jung.
The Southeastern Film Critics Association, established in 1992, aim to represent as an impartial, organized working unit–the profession of film criticism, and to recognize the highest creative achievements in the field of motion pictures, and thereby to uphold the integrity and significance of film criticism. They are a coalition of critics from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Here is the full list of winners and runners-up.
Top 10 Films
1. Nomadland
2. Minari
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Promising Young Woman
5. Sound of Metal
6. One Night in Miami…
7. Da 5 Bloods
8. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
9. Soul
10. Mank
Best Actor
Winner: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Runner-Up: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Best Actress
Winner: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-Up: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Ensemble
Winner: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Runner-Up: One Night in Miami…
Best Director
Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Regina King, One Night in Miami…
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami…
Best Documentary
Winner: Time
Runner-Up: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: Another Round
Runner-Up: Bacurau
Best Animated Film
Winner: Soul
Runner-Up: Wolfwalkers
Best Cinematography
Winner: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Runner-Up: Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
The Gene Wyatt Award
Winner: Minari
Runner-Up: One Night in Miami…
Photo credit: Josh Ethan Johnson/A24
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