33rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2020)
Best Film
Nomadland
Da 5 Bloods
First Cow
Lovers Rock
Promising Young Woman
Best Director
Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Spike Lee - Da 5 Bloods
Steve McQueen - Lovers Rock
Kelly Reichardt - First Cow
Best Actor
Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous)
Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
Anthony Hopkins - The Father as Anthony
Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods as Paul
Steven Yeun - Minari as Jacob Yi
Best Actress
Frances McDormand - Nomadland as Fern
Jessie Buckley - I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Young Woman
Carrie Coon - The Nest as Allison O'Hara
Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci - Sound of Metal as Joe
Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods as "Stormin'" Norman Earl Holloway (posthumous)
Bill Murray - On the Rocks as Felix Keane
Leslie Odom Jr. - One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
David Strathairn - Nomadland as David
Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
Toni Collette - I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Mother
Amanda Seyfried - Mank as Marion Davies
Letitia Wright - Mangrove as Altheia Jones-LeCointe
Youn Yuh-jung - Minari as Soon-ja
Best Original Screenplay
Never Rarely Sometimes Always - Eliza Hittman
Da 5 Bloods - Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Spike Lee, and Kevin Willmott
Promising Young Woman - Emerald Fennell
Soul - Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Aaron Sorkin
Best Adapted Screenplay
Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
The Father - Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
First Cow - Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Charlie Kaufman
One Night in Miami... - Kemp Powers
Best Editing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Robert Frazen
Lovers Rock - Chris Dickens and Steve McQueen
Nomadland - Chloé Zhao
Tenet - Jennifer Lame
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Alan Baumgarten
Best Cinematography
Nomadland - Joshua James Richards
First Cow - Christopher Blauvelt
Lovers Rock - Shabier Kirchner
Mank - Erik Messerschmidt
The Vast of Night - Miguel Ioann Littin Menz
Best Art Direction
Mank - Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Birds of Prey - Production Design: K. K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Florencia Martin
Emma - Production Design: Kave Quinn; Set Decoration: Stella Fox
First Cow - Production Design: Anthony Gasparro; Set Decoration: Vanessa Knoll
I'm Thinking of Ending Things - Production Design: Molly Hughes; Set Decoration: Mattie Siegal
Best Costume Design
Emma - Alexandra Byrne
Birds of Prey - Erin Benach
First Cow - April Napier
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth
Mank - Trish Summerville
Best Use of Visual Effects
The Invisible Man
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Midnight Sky
Possessor
Tenet
Best Original Score
Soul - Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross
Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Branford Marsalis
Mank - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Tenet - Ludwig Göransson
Best Foreign Language Film
Another Round (Denmark) in Danish - Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Bacurau (Brazil) in Portuguese and English - Directed by Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho
Beanpole (Russia) in Russian - Directed by Kantemir Balagov
Collective (Romania) in Romanian - Directed by Alexander Nanau
La Llorona (Guatemala) in Spanish, Mayan-Ixil, and Mayan-Caqchickel - Directed by Jayro Bustamante
Vitalina Varela (Portugal) in Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole - Directed by Pedro Costa
Best Documentary Film
Dick Johnson Is Dead - Katy Chevigny, Kirsten Johnson, and Marilyn Ness
American Utopia - David Byrne and Spike Lee
Collective - Hanka Kastelicová, Bernard Michaux, Alexander Nanau, and Bianca Oana
The Social Dilemma - Jeff Orlowski and Larissa Rhodes
Time - Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino, and Kellen Quinn
Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers - Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Nora Twomey, and Paul Young
Onward - Kori Rae and Dan Scanlon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon - Will Becher, Paul Kewley, and Richard Phelan
Soul - Pete Docter and Dana Murray
The Wolf House - Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña, Cristobal León, and Catalina Vergara
Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award
Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman
Radha Blank - The Forty-Year-Old Version
Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
Darius Marder - Sound of Metal
Andrew Patterson - The Vast of Night
Most Promising Performer
Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami...
Kelly O'Sullivan - Saint Frances
Helena Zengel - News of the World