Online Film & Television Association awards ‘Minari’ Best Picture, ‘Promising Young Woman’ tops with seven wins

Erik Anderson April 4, 2021

The Online Film & Television Association has selected Minari as 2020’s best film. In addition, it was presented three other prizes. Lee Isaac Chung’s film about a family of Korean immigrants who tried to find a better life in rural Arkansas also received honors for Best Supporting Actress (Yuh-jung Youn), Youth Performance (Alan Kim), and Foreign Language Film.

Promising Young Woman garnered seven awards out of its thirteen nominations, plus an additional two wins for its marketing nominations, earning prizes for Carey Mulligan as Best Actress, Casting, Feature Debut from Emerald Fennell, Original Screenplay, Titles Sequence, and Cinematic Moment awards with wins for Best Poster and Best Trailer rounding out its accolades for the year. Four films, Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Soul, and Sound of Metal, picked up two prizes apiece. Nomadland was recognized for Chloé Zhao’s directing, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography; One Night in Miami won Breakthrough Performance: Male for Kingsley Ben-Adir, Best Ensemble, and Best Original Song for “Speak Now;” Best Animated Feature, Soul, also won the Voice Over Performance award for Jamie Foxx, and Best Original Score; and Sound of Metal earned prizes for Best Film Editing, Sound, and Sound Effects.

The other acting awards were presented to Chadwick Boseman for his lead actor performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which also took the Best Costume Design award; Daniel Kaluuya won the award for Best Supporting Actor; and Maria Bakalova was named Best Breakthrough Performance: Female for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Here is the full list of winners and runners-up.

BEST PICTURE

Minari
Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
Nomadland
Sound of Metal
Judas and the Black Messiah
Soul
One Night in Miami
Da 5 Bloods
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mank

BEST ANIMATED PICTURE

The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalkers (runner-up)

BEST ACTOR

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (runner-up)
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
Steven Yeun – Minari

BEST ACTRESS

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand – Nomadland (runner-up)
Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (runner-up)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (runner-up)
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman
Olivia Colman – The Father
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Yuh-jung Youn – Minari

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE

Ella Jay Basco – Birds of Prey
Millie Bobby Brown – Enola Holmes
Alexis Chikaeze – Miss Juneteenth
Alan Kim – Minari
Helena Zengel – News of the World (runner-up)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: MALE

Kingsley Ben-Adir – One Night in Miami
Bo Burnham – Promising Young Woman
Alan Kim – Minari
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (runner-up)

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: FEMALE

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (runner-up)
Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

BEST VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE

Tina Fey – Soul
Jamie Foxx – Soul
Tom Holland – Onward
Honor Kneafsey – Wolfwalkers (runner-up)
Eva Whittaker – Wolfwalkers

BEST ENSEMBLE

Da 5 Bloods
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Minari
One Night in Miami
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (runner-up)

BEST CASTING

Da 5 Bloods
Minari
One Night in Miami (runner-up)
Promising Young Woman
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST DIRECTOR

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
David Fincher – Mank
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

BEST FEATURE DEBUT

Kitty Green – The Assistant
Regina King – One Night in Miami
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Darius Marder – Sound of Metal (runner-up)
Florian Zeller – The Father

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mank
Minari (runner-up)
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Father
First Cow
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Nomadland
One Night in Miami (runner-up)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Another Round (runner-up)
Bacurau
Collective
La Llorona
Minari

BEST DOCUMENTARY

All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Collective
Dick Johnson Is Dead (runner-up)
Time

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Mank
Minari (runner-up)
News of the World
Soul
Tenet

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Fight for You – Judas and the Black Messiah
Husavik – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (runner-up)
Poverty Porn – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Speak Now – One Night in Miami
Wuhan Flu – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

BEST ADAPTED SONG

Reflection – Mulan
A Change Is Gonna Come – One Night in Miami (runner-up)
Toxic – Promising Young Woman
It’s All Right – Soul
Strange Fruit – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

BEST FILM EDITING

Mank
Nomadland (runner-up)
Sound of Metal
Tenet
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Da 5 Bloods
Mank (runner-up)
Minari
Nomadland
Tenet

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Emma.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
Tenet

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Birds of Prey
Emma. (runner-up)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Promising Young Woman

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR

Birds of Prey
Emma.
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (runner-up)
Promising Young Woman

BEST SOUND

The Invisible Man
Mank
Soul
Sound of Metal
Tenet (runner-up)

BEST SOUND EFFECTS

Greyhound
The Invisible Man (runner-up)
Soul
Sound of Metal
Tenet

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Birds of Prey
The Invisible Man
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Tenet (runner-up)

BEST STUNT COORDINATION

Birds of Prey (runner-up)
The Invisible Man
Mulan
Tenet
Wonder Woman 1984

BEST TITLES SEQUENCE

Birds of Prey (Closing)
Da 5 Bloods (Closing)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Closing)
The Invisible Man (Opening) (runner-up)
Promising Young Woman (Opening)

MOST CINEMATIC MOMENT

Another Round – The dance
Birds of Prey – Harley Quinn in the Police Station
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Rudy Giuliani
The Invisible Man – The knife at the table scene (runner-up)
Promising Young Woman – Cassie’s plan comes together

BEST MOVIE TRAILER

Birds of Prey (Trailer #1)
The Invisible Man (Trailer #1)
Judas and the Black Messiah
Promising Young Woman (Trailer #1)
Tenet (Trailer #1) (runner-up)

BEST MOVIE POSTER

Birds of Prey (Poster #1)
Birds of Prey (Poster #2)
Da 5 Bloods (Poster #1) (runner-up)
Mank (Poster #1)
Promising Young Woman (Poster #1)

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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.