The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced their 2019 award winners and claiming the organization’s top honors was, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is named both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film; the film also claims Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Matching Parasite’s four wins, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women earns Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design and Best Supporting Actress (Florence Pugh).
After garnering a leading nine nominations, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood earns two wins for Best Art Direction and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Pitt). The remaining nine films honored at the reception held in Chicago on Saturday night each receive one win each, including Marriage Story (Adam Driver, Best Actor); Us (Lupita Nyong’o, Best Actress); Apollo 11 (Best Documentary) and Toy Story 4 (Best Animated Feature). Filmmaker Lulu Wang (The Farewell) receives the CFCA’s Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award, while Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale) is named Most Promising Performer.
Here is the full list of nominations and winners (in bold) for the 2019 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.
BEST PICTURE
The Irishman
Little Women
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Parasite – WINNER
BEST DIRECTOR
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Bong Joon Ho, Parasite – WINNER
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
BEST ACTRESS
Awkwafina, The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
Lupita Nyong’o, Us – WINNER
Renée Zellweger, Judy
BEST ACTOR
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Robert De Niro, The Irishman
Adam Driver, Marriage Story – WINNER
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cho Yeo Jeong, Parasite
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Florence Pugh, Little Women – WINNER
Shuzhen Zhao, The Farewell
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Shia Labeouf, Honey Boy
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – WINNER
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster
Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria
The Irishman by Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi
Little Women by Greta Gerwig – WINNER
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Farewell by Lulu Wang
Knives Out by Rian Johnson
Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
Parasite by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won – WINNER
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Farewell
Pain and Glory
Parasite – WINNER
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Transit
BEST DOCUMENTARY
American Factory
Apollo 11 – WINNER
For Sama
Hail Satan?
Honeyland
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Frozen 2
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Missing Link
Toy Story 4 – WINNER
BEST EDITING
1917
The Irishman – WINNER
Little Women
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Uncut Gems
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
1917
Ad Astra – WINNER
Avengers: Endgame
The Irishman
Midsommar
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Dolemite is My Name
Little Women – WINNER
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Rocketman
BEST ART DIRECTION
1917
Knives Out
Little Women
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – WINNER
Parasite
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1917 – Thomas Newman
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat – WINNER
Marriage Story – Randy Newman
Uncut Gems – Daniel Lopatin
Us – Michael Abels
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1917 – Roger Deakins – WINNER
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood – Robert Richardson
Parasite – Hong Kyung Pyo
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Claire Mathon
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Julia Butters, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Julia Fox, Uncut Gems
Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale – WINNER
Taylor Russell, Waves
MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER
Mati Diop, Atlantics
Alma Har’el, Honey Boy
Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Lulu Wang, The Farewell – WINNER
Olivia Wilde, Booksmart
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