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Mank nabs 12 nominations as 2021 Critics’ Choice Awards nominees announced

February 8, 2021 by EJ Moreno

While it may not be gaining insane nominations anywhere else, the Critics Choice Association has awarded Mank with 12 nominations at their upcoming award show. Between the film and television nominations, Netflix leads with a total of 72 possible wins here. Also, Amazon Studios expands its total to 18 with today’s film additions.

Other films nominated at the Critics Choice Awards, which will air March 7th on The CW, include Promising Young Woman, Nomadland, and even Ben Affleck walked away with a Best Actor nomination for The Way Back!

Check out the full list of nominees here…

BEST PICTURE 
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Mank (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) 
News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 
One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 

BEST ACTOR 
Ben Affleck – The Way Back (Warner Bros.) 
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Tom Hanks – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Anthony Hopkins – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Gary Oldman – Mank (Netflix) 
Steven Yeun – Minari (A24) 

BEST ACTRESS 
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 
Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix) 
Frances McDormand – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Zendaya – Malcolm & Marie (Netflix) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.) 
Bill Murray – On the Rocks (A24/Apple TV+) 
Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios) 
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix) 
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix) 
Olivia Colman – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Amanda Seyfried – Mank (Netflix) 
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari (A24) 

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS 
Ryder Allen – Palmer (Apple TV+) 
Ibrahima Gueye – The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
Alan Kim – Minari (A24) 
Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Caoilinn Springall – The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Helena Zengel – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 
Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) 
One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 

BEST DIRECTOR 
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari (A24) 
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
David Fincher – Mank (Netflix) 
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Regina King – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari (A24) 
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Jack Fincher – Mank (Netflix) 
Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features) 
Darius Marder & Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (A24) 
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 
Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow (A24) 
Erik Messerschmidt – Mank (Netflix) 
Lachlan Milne – Minari (A24) 
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 
Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) 
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet (Warner Bros.) 
Dariusz Wolski – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 
Cristina Casali, Charlotte Dirickx – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures) 
David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas – Tenet (Warner Bros.) 
Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank (Netflix) 
Kave Quinn, Stella Fox – Emma (Focus Features) 
Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara & Diana Stoughton – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 

BEST EDITING 
Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix) 
Kirk Baxter – Mank (Netflix) 
Jennifer Lame – Tenet (Warner Bros.) 
Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics) 
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios) 
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures) 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 
Alexandra Byrne – Emma (Focus Features) 
Bina Daigeler – Mulan (Disney) 
Suzie Harman & Robert Worley – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures) 
Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Nancy Steiner – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
Trish Summerville – Mank (Netflix) 

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 
Emma (Focus Features) 
Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix) 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix) 
Mank (Netflix) 
Promising Young Woman (Focus Features) 
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 
Greyhound (Apple TV+) 
The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures) 
Mank (Netflix) 
The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Mulan (Disney) 
Tenet (Warner Bros.) 
Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros.) 

BEST COMEDY 
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios) 
The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix) 
The King of Staten Island (Universal Pictures) 
On the Rocks (A24/Apple TV+) 
Palm Springs (Hulu and NEON) 
The Prom (Netflix) 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 
Another Round (Samuel Goldwyn Films) 
Collective (Magnolia Pictures) 
La Llorona (Shudder) 
The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
Minari (A24) 
Two of Us (Magnolia Pictures) 

BEST SONG  
Everybody Cries – The Outpost (Screen Media Films) 
Fight for You – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.) 
Husavik (My Home Town) – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix) 
Io sì (Seen) – The Life Ahead (Netflix) 
Speak Now – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios) 
Tigress & Tweed – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu) 

BEST SCORE 
Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky (Netflix) 
Ludwig Göransson – Tenet (Warner Bros.) 
James Newton Howard – News of the World (Universal Pictures) 
Emile Mosseri – Minari (A24) 
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank (Netflix) 
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste – Soul (Disney)

Taye Diggs will host the Critics Choice Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 7th, airing only on The CW.

 

Filed Under: Awards Season, EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Critics' Choice Awards

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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