Philadelphia Film Critics Circle go mad for ‘Ma Rainey,’ Amanda Seyfried and ‘Da 5 Bloods’

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The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle gave Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom its first Best Picture win of the season and with it Viola Davis’s second Best Actress win. The film was also runner-up in Best Actor for Chadwick Boseman, who won Supporting Actor for Da 5 Bloods.

Boseman’s Da 5 Bloods co-star Delroy Lindo won Best Actor and was the runner-up in Best Picture. Amanda Seyfried won Best Supporting Actress for Mank, making all acting awards going to Netflix films.

The Best Directorial Debut went to Regina King for One Night in Miami and the group’s Best Script prize was given to Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt for their adaptation of First Cow.

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

Best Picture: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (RU: Da 5 Bloods)

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland (RU: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow)

Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods (RU: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Best Actress: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (RUs: Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear and Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman)
Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods (RU: Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami)
Best Supporting Actress: Amanda Seyfried, Mank (RU: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Best Script: Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond, First Cow (RU: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always)

Best Animated Film: Soul (RU: Wolfwalkers)
Best Documentary: Time (RU: Dick Johnson Is Dead)
Best Foreign Language Film: Jumbo (RU: La Llorona)

Best Breakthrough Performance: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always (RU: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
Best Directorial Debut: Regina King, One Night in Miami (RU: Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night)

Best Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland (RU: Chris Blauvelt, First Cow)
Best Soundtrack/Score: Soul (RU: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

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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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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