Online Association of Female Film Critics: ‘Promising Young Woman,’ ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ lead winners list

The Online Association of Female Film Critics revealed their winners in 2020 film on Monday and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman was named Best Film. Its star, Carey Mulligan, was named Best Actress and Fennell received wins for Original Screenplay (in a tie with Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and Breakthrough Filmmaker.

Along with the screenplay win, Hittman’s film received wins for star Sidney Flanigan as well as the group’s “Rosie Award,” named after Rosie the Riveter, which celebrates the film that best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Film: “Promising Young Woman”
Runner-Up (TIE): “Nomadland” / “Minari”

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”

Best Male Lead: Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
Runner-Up (TIE):
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” / Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Female Lead: Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Runner-Up (TIE):
Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman” / Elisabeth Moss, “The Invisible Man”

Best Supporting Male: Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Runner-Up: Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”

Best Supporting Female: Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari”
Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

Best Acting Ensemble: “One Night in Miami”
Runner-Up: “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Original Screenplay: (TIE)
Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” and Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Runner-Up: Kemp Powers, “One Night in Miami”

Best Documentary: “Collective”
Runner-Up: “Time”

Best Animated Feature: “Wolfwalkers”
Runner-Up: “Soul”

Best Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
Runner-Up: Christopher Blauvelt, “First Cow”

Breakthrough Filmmaker: Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
Runner-Up: Radha Blank, “The Forty-Year-Old Version”

Breakthrough Performance: Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Runner-Up: Cristin Milioti, “Palm Springs”

The “Rosie” Award: “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”

Photos courtesy of Focus Features