‘Nomadland’ sweeps Vancouver Film Critics winners

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Nomadland has won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao) and Best Actress (Frances McDormand), sweeping all three of its nominations with the Canadian critics.

Mank, which led the nominations with five, went home empty-handed. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) and Yuh-jung Youn (Minari) joined McDormand in the actors’ winner circle.

Here is the full list of nominees and winners.

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS

Best Picture

  • Mank
  • Nomadland – WINNER
  • Promising Young Woman

Best Director

  • Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
  • David Fincher, Mank
  • Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER

Best Screenplay

  • Jack Fincher, Mank
  • Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
  • Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 – WINNER

Best Actor

  • Anthony Hopkins, The Father
  • Gary Oldman, Mank
  • Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
  • Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

Best Actress

  • Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Frances McDormand, Nomadland – WINNER
  • Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor

  • Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
  • Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
  • Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Supporting Actress

  • Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Amanda Seyfried, Mank
  • Yuh-jung Youn, Minari – WINNER

Best Documentary

  • Athlete A
  • Collective – WINNER
  • Totally Under Control

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Another Round
  • Dear Comrades
  • Minari – WINNER
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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