St. Louis Film Critics go for ‘Nomadland,’ Carey Mulligan, Chadwick Boseman

The St. Louis Film Critics Association has chosen Nomadland the best film of 2020, also awarding the film best director for Chloé Zhao and best cinematography for Joshua James Richards. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow and Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman tied for runner-up in best film.

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman) and Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) picked up the lead acting prizes while Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) and Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) took home the supporting honors.

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

Best Film

First Cow – Runner up (tie)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Nomadland – WINNER
Promising Young Woman – Runner-up (tie)
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman – Runner-up
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods – Runner-up
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland – Runner-up
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman – WINNER

Best Supporting Actor

Bo Burnham, Promising Young Woman
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Runner-up
Bill Murray, On the Rocks
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal – WINNER

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 – WINNER

Best Original Screenplay

Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman – WINNER
Jack Fincher, Mank
Andy Siara, Palm Springs
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Runner-up

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

Benjamin Kracun, Promising Young Woman
Erik Messerschmidt, Mank – Runner-up
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland – WINNER
Newton Thomas Sigel, Da 5 Bloods
Dariusz Wolski, News of the World

Best Editing

Jonah Moran, Hamilton
Robert Frasen, I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Runner-up
Kirk Baxter, Mank
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER
Alan Baumgarten, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Production Design

Kave Quinn, Emma. – Runner-up
Mark Ricker, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Donald Graham Burt, Mank – WINNER
Cristina Casali, The Personal History of David Copperfield
Michael Perry, Promising Young Woman

Best Music Score

Ludovico Einaudi, Nomadland – Runner-up
Ludwig Goransson, Tenet
James Newton Howard, News of the World
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Baptiste, Soul – WINNER
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Mank

Best Soundtrack

Birds of Prey
Da 5 Bloods
Hamilton – Runner-up
Lovers Rock
Promising Young Woman – WINNER

Best Visual Effects

Birds of Prey
The Invisible Man – Runner-up
Mank
The Midnight Sky
Tenet – WINNER

Best Scene

HR scene in The Assistant
Rudy Giuliani in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – Runner-up
Dinner with parents in I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Sisters dine in The Invisible Man – WINNER
Questionnaire in Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Animated Feature

Onward
Over the Moon
Soul – WINNER
The Wolf House
Wolfwalkers – Runner-up

Best Documentary

City Hall
Collective – WINNER
Dick Johnson Is Dead
My Octopus Teacher
The Social Dilemma

Best Foreign Language Film

Another Round – WINNER
Bacurau
Beanpole – Runner-up
Collective
Vitalina Varela

Best Action Film

Birds of Prey – Runner-up
The Gentlemen
Greyhound
The Old Guard
Tenet – WINNER

Best Comedy Film

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – WINNER
Emma.
The King of Staten Island
On the Rocks
Palm Springs – Runner-up

Best Horror Film

Alone
The Invisible Man – WINNER
La Llorona
Possessor: Uncut
The Vast of Night

Worst Film

Artemis Fowl
The Doorman
Downhill – WINNER
Hillbilly Elegy
Wonder Woman 1984

Image credit: David Lee / Netflix

• 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), 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.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• 2024 North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) Nominations - December 24, 2024
• 2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) Winners: ‘The Substance” Dominates - December 23, 2024
• 2024 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA) Nominations - December 23, 2024