San Francisco Film Critics nominations: ‘Nomadland’ leads with 7

The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) announced their nominations on Friday and Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland led the field with seven, including Best Picture, Director, Actress and Adapted Screenplay.

Minari and Promising Young Woman were next with six apiece, First Cow with 5 and Never Rarely Sometimes Always rounded out Best Picture as one of its four nominations.

Winners will be announced Monday, January 18, at 9 a.m. PT. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Picture

• “First Cow”
• “Minari”
• “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• “Nomadland”
• “Promising Young Woman”

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow”
• Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

Best Original Screenplay

• Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• Jack Fincher, “Mank”
• Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Charlie Kaufman, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Kelly Reichardt, Jon Raymond, “First Cow”
• Kemp Powers, “One Night in Miami”
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Actor

• Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
• Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”
• Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
• Steven Yeun, “Minari”

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
• Elisabeth Moss, “The Invisible Man”
• Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
• Sidney Flanigan, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
• Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Supporting Actor

• Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”
• David Strathairn, “Nomadland”
• Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”
• Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
• Sacha Baron Cohen, “Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Supporting Actress

• Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
• Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
• Olivia Colman, “The Father”
• Toni Collette, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
• Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”

Best Animated Feature

• “Marona’s Fantastic Tale”
• “Onward”
• “Over the Moon”
• “Soul”
• “Wolfwalkers”

Best Foreign Language Film

• “Another Round”
• “Bacurau”
• “Collective”
• “La Llorona”
• “Two of Us”

Best Documentary

• “Collective”
• “Crip Camp”
• “Boys State”
• “The Truffle Hunters”
• “Time”

Best Cinematography

• Christopher Blauvelt, “First Cow”
• Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank”
• Hoyte Van Hoytema, “Tenet”
• Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
• Newton Thomas Sigel, “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Production Design

• “First Cow”
• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• “Mank”
• “One Night in Miami”
• “Tenet”

Best Film Editing

• Alan Baumgarten, “The Trial of Chicago 7”
• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
• Jennifer Lame, “Tenet”
• Kirk Baxter, “Mank”
• Yorgos Lamprinos, “The Father”

Best Original Score

• Emile Mosseri, “Minari”
• Terence Blanchard, “Da 5 Bloods”
• Terence Blanchard, “One Night in Miami”
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Mank”
• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Soul”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

• “La Llorona”
• “The Last Tree”
• “Sh*thouse”

Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

• Author
• Recent Posts

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.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• 2026 Critics Choice Awards Land Early January 2026 Date - April 25, 2025
• Adam Sandler in ‘Happy Gilmore 2,’ ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Double Tyler Perry Headed to Netflix This Summer - April 25, 2025
• 2025 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations: ‘Death Becomes Her’ Leads with 12 - April 25, 2025