Detroit Film Critics winners: ‘Nomadland’ is top film, ‘Minari,’ Delroy Lindo also score

Nomadland has been named the best picture of 2020 by the Detroit Film Critics Society (DFCS) with Chloé Zhao also picking up best director and adapted screenplay.

Minari was a three-time winner, taking supporting actress for Youn Yuh-jung, ensemble and original screenplay for director Lee Isaac Chung.

Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) was named Best Actor, Frances McDormand (Nomadland) won Best Actress and Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) won supporting actor. Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) earned the group’s breakthrough award.

Here is the full list of nominees and winners in bold.

BEST PICTURE
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland – WINNER
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST DIRECTOR
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland – WINNER

BEST ACTOR
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods – WINNER
Steven Yeun – Minari

BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland – WINNER
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Abbott – Possessor
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman – The Father
Youn Yuh-jung – Minari – WINNER

BEST ENSEMBLE
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari – WINNER
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
First Cow
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Nomadland – WINNER
One Night in Miami

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari – WINNER
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul – WINNER
Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson is Dead – WINNER
The Dissident
Time

BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
News of the World
Possessor
Soul
Sound of Metal – WINNER
Tenet

BREAKTHROUGH
Maria Bakalova – Actress – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – WINNER
Jasmine Batchelor – Actress – The Surrogate
Radha Blank – actress/writer/director/producer – The Forty Year Old Version
Orion Lee – Actor – First Cow
Wunmi Mosaku – Actress – His House

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