The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced their 2020 award winners with the top honors going to Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which earned a leading five wins: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography (Joshua James Richards). Never Rarely Sometimes Always earned two awards (Best Original Screenplay, Eliza Hittman; Most Promising Performer, Sidney Flanigan), while the rest of the Association’s honors were awarded to a diverse mix of the year’s best films.

Other highlights among the winners this year include Chadwick Boseman named Best Actor for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Another Round as Best Foreign Language Film); Wolfwalkers as Best Animated Film; Dick Johnson Is Dead as Best Documentary; and finally, the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award was presented to Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman.

2020 Chicago Film Critics Award winners

BEST PICTURE: Nomadland

BEST DIRECTOR: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

BEST ACTOR: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, Nomadland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Nomadland by Chloé Zhao

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Wolfwalkers

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Dick Johnson is Dead

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Another Round

BEST ART DIRECTION: Mank

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nomadland, Joshua James Richards

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Emma., Alexandra Byrne

BEST EDITING: I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Robert Frazen

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Soul, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: The Invisible Man

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER AWARD: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman