Garners Best Picture, Director, Actress, Cinematography
Nomadland won Best Picture distinction at the 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards. Nomadland led the way by topping four categories, the others being Best Director for Chloé Zhao, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Cinematography for Joshua James Richards.
Delroy Lindo won Best Actor for Da 5 Bloods. Best Supporting Actress and Actor laurels went to Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Movie Film and Paul Raci for Sound of Metal, respectively.
Eliza Hittman penned the Best Screenplay for Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
Best Nonfiction Film was Time. The Best Foreign-Language Film honor went to Collective.
Winners were announced on the National Society of Film Critics Twitter account as each category was voted upon during a judging meeting on Saturday (1/9). Voters listed their first, second and third choices in each category with points assigned accordingly. Here’s a rundown of the results with final vote totals, including the runners-up in each category:
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Picture
NOMADLAND (52 points)
Runners-up: FIRST COW (50 points)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (41 points)
Best Director
Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND (58 points)
Runners-up: Steve McQueen, SMALL AXE (41 points)
Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (30 points)
Best Foreign-Language Film
COLLECTIVE (38 points)
Runners-up: BACURAU and BEANPOLE (36 points)
VITALINA VARELA (32 points)
Best Nonfiction Film
TIME (46 points)
Runners-up: CITY HALL (28 points)
COLLECTIVE (22 points)
Best Actress
Frances McDormand, NOMADLAND (46 points)
Runners-up: Viola Davis, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (33 points)
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (29 points)
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (47 points)
Runners-up: Amanda Seyfried, MANK (40 points)
Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI (33 points)
Best Actor
Delroy Lindo, DA 5 BLOODS (52 points)
Runners-up: Chadwick Boseman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (47 points)
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL (32 points)
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL (53 points)
Glynn Turman, MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (36 points)
Chadwick Boseman, DA 5 BLOODS (35 points)
Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND (47 points)
Runners-up: Shabier Kirchner, LOVERS ROCK (41 points)
Leonardo Simões, VITALINA VARELA (34 points)
Best Screenplay
Eliza Hittman, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (38 points)
Runners-up: Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt, FIRST COW (35 points)
Charlie Kaufman, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (29 points)
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More