San Francisco Critics winners: ‘Nomadland,’ ‘First Cow,’ ‘Minari’ and more

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The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle have announced their winners and Nomadland led the day with wins for Best Picture, Director and Editing (Chloé Zhao) and Actress (Frances McDormand).

Minari and Soul picked up a pair of wins each, and First Cow earned three wins including Adapted Screenplay Chadwick Boseman won Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Paul Raci took home Best Supporting Actor for Sound of Metal.

Bay Area resident Dawn Porter was awarded with with the Marlon Riggs Award for her two impactful and timely films in this political climate: John Lewis: Good Trouble and The Way I See It.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Picture: Nomadland

Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari

Best Original Screenplay: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Best Adapted Screenplay: Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond, First Cow

Best Animated Feature: Soul
Best Documentary: Collective
Best Foreign Language Film: Another Round

Best Cinematography: Christopher Blauvelt, First Cow
Best Film Editing: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Production Design: First Cow (Production Designer: Anthony Gasparro, Set Decorator: Vanessa Knoll)
Best Original Score: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, Soul

Special Citation for Independent Cinema (tie): La Llorona and Sh*thouse

Marlon Riggs Award: Dawn Porter

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.

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