‘Minari’ leads Detroit Film Critics nominations

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari led the Detroit Film Critics Society nominations with six on Thursday, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Steven Yeun) and Best Supporting Actress (Youn Yuh-jung).

Sound of Metal and The Trial of the Chicago 7 were next with five apiece. All were nominated for Best Picture along with First Cow (3 nominations) and Nomadland (4 nominations).

The group’s eligibility period covered any film released from 1/1/2020 until 2/28/2021.

The winners in each category will be announced via Live-Tweet on the official Detroit Film Critics Society Twitter on Monday, March 8th, and they will be dedicated to former DFCS member and critic, Corey Hall, who passed away in 2020.

Here is the full list of nominations.

BEST PICTURE
First Cow
Minari
Nomadland
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
 
BEST ACTOR 
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
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
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
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 
 
BEST ENSEMBLE 
Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
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
One Night in Miami 
 
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
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
Wolfwalkers 
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY 
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson is Dead
The Dissident
Time
 
BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
News of the World
Possessor
Soul
Sound of Metal
Tenet
  
BREAKTHROUGH 
Maria Bakalova – Actress – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
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

Photo credit: Josh Ethan Johnson/A24