Chloe Zhao named Best Director for "Nomadland"; Chadwick Boseman Best Actor for "Ma Rainey," Carey Mulligan Best Actress for "Promising Young Woman"
The virtual vote tally is in and Steve McQueen’s Amazon Prime anthology series Small Axe won the Best Picture honor from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association today (12/20).
Taking the Best Director honor was Chloe Zhao for Nomadland. Just a couple days earlier she earned the same distinction from the New York Film Critics Association Awards.
Time was named Best Documentary while Wolfwalkers was tabbed Best Animation picture.
Small Axe also earned Shabier Kirchner the Best Cinematography honor. Best Editing went to Yorgos Lamprinos for The Father. Taking the Best Music Score mantle were Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Soul. And Donald Graham Burt won for Best Production Design for Mank.
Chadwick Boseman was named Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom while Carey Mulligan won Best Actress for Promising Young Woman, a film which additionally landed its director Emerald Fennell the Best Screenplay honor.
Best Supporting Actor and Actress honors went, respectively, to Glynn Turman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Youn Yuh-Jung for Minari.
Radha Blank won the New Generation Award for The Forty-Year-Old Version.
Here’s a full rundown of winners and runners up:
46TH ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
2020
BEST PICTURE
“SMALL AXE”
RUNNER UP: “NOMADLAND”
BEST DIRECTOR
CHLOÉ ZHAO
“NOMADLAND”
RUNNER UP: STEVE MCQUEEN
“SMALL AXE”
BEST ACTOR
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
“MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM”
RUNNER UP: RIZ AHMED
“SOUND OF METAL”
BEST ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN
“PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN”
RUNNER UP: VIOLA DAVIS
“MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
GLYNN TURMAN
“MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM”
RUNNER UP: PAUL RACI
“SOUND OF METAL”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
YOUN YUH-JUNG
“MINARI”
RUNNER UP: AMANDA SEYFRIED
“MANK”
BEST SCREENPLAY
EMERALD FENNELL
“PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN”
RUNNER UP: ELIZA HITTMAN
“NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
SHABIER KIRCHNER
“SMALL AXE”
RUNNER UP: JOSHUA JAMES RICHARDS
“NOMADLAND”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
DONALD GRAHAM BURT
“MANK”
RUNNER UP: SERGEY IVANOV
“BEANPOLE”
BEST EDITING
YORGOS LAMPRINOS
“THE FATHER”
RUNNER UP: GABRIEL RHODES
“TIME”
BEST MUSIC SCORE
TRENT REZNOR, ATTICUS ROSS
“SOUL”
RUNNER UP: MICA LEVI
“LOVERS ROCK”
BEST DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM
“TIME”
RUNNER UP: “COLLECTIVE”
BEST ANIMATION
“WOLFWALKERS”
RUNNER UP: “SOUL”
NEW GENERATION AWARD
RADHA BLANK
“THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION”
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
HARRY BELAFONTE
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HOU HSIAO-HSIEN
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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.
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