Nomadland wins Best Picture at the inaugural Catholic Film Critics Awards.

 

The inaugural Catholic Film Critics Awards is complete, with Nomadland winning Best Picture, and Minari taking the Human and Gospel Values Award.

In total, Nomadland claimed the most awards with three. The only other film going home with multiple awards was Minari, which also won Best Supporting Actress.

Chloe Zhao, whose film earned six nominations, won Best Director.

Best Picture was determined by Academy-style instant-runoff voting. Critics ranked each nominee in order of their preference, ensuring that the winning film has broad support.

Critics could vote for one film for the Human and Gospel Values Award, but the winner must also be approved by 50 percent of all voters in order to claim the award. Otherwise, no award would be given.

All other categories were determined by popular vote.

Best Picture

Winner: Nomadland

  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

  • Sound of Metal

  • Minari

  • Mank

  • The Father

  • Another Round

  • Tenet

Human and Gospel Values Award

Awarded to the film that best reflects human and Gospel values as determined by Catholic critics.

Winner: Minari

  • Nomadland

  • Soul

  • Hope Gap

  • The Father

Best Director

Winner: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

  • David Fincher, Mank

  • Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7

  • Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

  • Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor

Winner: Anthony Hopkins, The Father

  • Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

  • Gary Oldman, Mank

  • Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

  • Steven Yuen, Minari

Best Actress

Winner: Frances McDormand, Nomadland

  • Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman

  • Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

  • Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

  • Julia Garner, The Assistant

Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

  • Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

  • Robert Pattinson, Tenet

  • Mark Rylance, The Trial of the Chicago 7

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Youn Yu-jung, Minari

  • Olivia Colman, The Father

  • Amanda Seyfried, Mank

  • Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

  • Olivia Cooke, Sound of Metal

Best Screenplay

Winner: Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7

  • Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

  • Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

  • Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeler, The Father

Best Cinematography

Winner: Erik Messerschmidt, Mank

  • Joshua James Richards, Nomadland

  • Hoyte van Hoytema, Tenet

  • Shelly Johnson, Greyhound

Best Documentary

Winner: Collective

  • Crip Camp

  • Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton

Best Original Score

Winner: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste, Soul

  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Mank

  • Emile Mosseri, Minari

  • James Newton Howard, News of the World

Honor for Outstanding Criticism (Non-Member)

Winner: Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

  • Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert

  • Manohla Dargis, New York Times

  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

  • Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

Honor for Outstanding Criticism (ICFCA Member)

Winner: John Mulderig, Catholic News Service

  • Peter Malone

  • Kate O'Hare

  • Hosea Rupprecht

  • John Anderson

  • Peter W. Sheehan