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

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

1. Minari
2. Promising Young Woman (runner-up)
3. Nomadland
4. Sound of Metal
5. Judas and the Black Messiah
6. Soul
7. One Night in Miami
8. Da 5 Bloods
9. The Trial of the Chicago 7
10. 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 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.

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