‘Minari’ tops Austin Film Critics winners with six awards including Best Film, Director and Ensemble

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The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2020 awards, with Minari at the top of the pack, winning 6 awards from its 11 nominations.

Acting award winners include Carey Mulligan as Best Actress for Promising Young Woman, Riz Ahmed as Best Actor for Sound of Metal, Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress for Minari, and Daniel Kaluuya as Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah. The outstanding performers in Minari garnered that film the AFCA’s Best Ensemble award.

The winner of this year’s Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award is Radha Blank for her remarkable work, The 40-Year-Old Version.

Other major awards include a Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing win for Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), Wolfwalkers winning Best Animated Feature, and Boys State winning Best Documentary.

Here is the full list of winners, plus the AFCA Top Ten Films of 2020.

Best Film: Minari (dir: Lee Isaac Chung)

Best Director: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Ensemble: Minari

Best Original Screenplay: Lee Issac Chung, Minari

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland

Best Score: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste, Soul

Best Editing: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Foreign-Language Film: Minari (dir: Lee Isaac Chung)

Best Documentary: Boys State (dir: Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine)

Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers (dir: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart)

Best Stunts: The Invisible Man

Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance: Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man

Best First Film: Promising Young Woman (dir: Emerald Fennell)

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version

Austin Film Award: Greenland (dir: Ric Roman Waugh)

Special Honorary Award: Honoring Miss Juneteenth with a “Texas Spirit” award, for exemplifying the creative output of the film industry here in the Lone Star State, as well as embodying the character of our community.

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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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