‘Nomadland,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ top Georgia Film Critics winners

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The Georgia Film Critics Association has named Nomadland the best film of 2020 with Chloé Zhao winning Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. The film also won Best Cinematography.

Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman was another big winner with Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Fennell taking Original Screenplay and the group’s Breakout Award.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Picture: Nomadland

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Original Screenplay: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Ensemble: One Night in Miami

Best Animated Film: Soul
Best Documentary Film: Time
Best Foreign Language Film: Another Round

Best Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Best Production Design: Donald Graham Burt, Chris Craine, & Dan Webster, Mank
Best Original Score: Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, & Atticus Ross, Soul
Best Original Song: “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami

Breakthrough Award: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema: John Lewis: Good Trouble (Dawn Porter)

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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