Columbus Film Critics Association nominations: ‘Little Women,’ Once Upon a Time…’ lead

Erik Anderson December 30, 2019

Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan and Emma Watson in Greta Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN (Wilson Webb/Sony)

The Columbus Film Critics Association has announced the nominees for its 18th annual awards and Little Women leads the way with 9 mentions including Best Film, Best Director and Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig) and two nominations for Florence Pugh; one in Supporting Actress and one for her 2019 body of work that includes Little Women.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood also earned 9 nominations, Marriage Story followed closely with 8 and The Irishman and Parasite with seven each.

Winners will be announced on the evening of January 2nd, 2020. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Film

1917
The Farewell
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Uncut Gems

Best Director

Bong Joon -ho, Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Sam Mendes, 1917
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Actor

Robert De Niro, The Irishman
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

Best Actress

Awkwafina, The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Florence Pugh, Midsommar
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Supporting Actress

Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

Best Ensemble

The Irishman
Knives Out
Little Women
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Parasite (Gisaengchung)

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

Adam Driver (The Dead Don’t Die, Marriage Story, The Report, and Star Wars: Episode IX – The
Rise of Skywalker)
Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Luce and Waves)
Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Jojo Rabbit, and Marriage Story)
Brad Pitt (Ad Astra and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar)

Breakthrough Film Artist

Rowan Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit – (for acting)
Julia Fox, Uncut Gems – (for acting)
Florence Pugh, Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar – (for acting)
Honor Swinton Byrne, The Souvenir – (for acting)
Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco – (for directing, producing, and screenwriting)
Lulu Wang, The Farewell – (for directing, producing and screenwriting)
Olivia Wilde, Booksmart – (for directing)

Best Cinematography

Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Roger Deakins, 1917
Hong Kyung-pyo, Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar
Robert Richardson, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Hoyte Van Hoytema, Ad Astra

Best Film Editing

Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
Bob Ducsay, Knives Out
Fred Raskin, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Lee Smith, 1917
Yang Jin-mo, Parasite (Gisaengchung)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Lorene Scafaria, Hustlers
Taiki Waititi, Jojo Rabbit
Steve Zaillian, The Irishman

Best Original Screenplay

Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won, Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Rian Johnson, Knives Out
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Lulu Wang, The Farewell

Best Score

Michael Abels, Us
Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
Hildur Guðnadóttir, Joker
Randy Newman, Marriage Story
Thomas Newman, 1917

Best Documentary

Amazing Grace
American Factory
Apollo 11
Honeyland
One Child Nation

Best Foreign Language Film

Atlantics (Atlantique)
Les Misérables
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria)
Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)

Best Animated Film

Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps)
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

Best Overlooked Film

Her Smell
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Missing Link
Ready or Not
Wild Rose

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

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