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

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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
Erik Anderson

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. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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