If any group was going to land on Promising Young Woman for Best Film, I would definitely have expected it from this group, which is great. Chloé Zhao managed to top Emerald Fennell, though, but she got two other awards, so it’s probably a wash.

Awards Tallies

(4) Promising Young Woman
(3) Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Nomadland

The Nominations

Best Film

Promising Young Woman (Runners-Up: TIE: Minari, Nomadland)

Best Animated Feature

Wolfwalkers (Runner-Up: Soul)

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Runner-Up: Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman)

Best Male Lead

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Runners-Up: TIE: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods)

Best Female Lead

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Runners-Up: TIE: Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman, Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man)

Best Supporting Male

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Runner-Up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal)

Best Supporting Female

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Best Original Screenplay

TIE:
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay

Nomadland (Runner-Up: One Night in Miami)

Best Cinematography

Nomadland (Runner-Up: First Cow)

Best Documentary

Collective (Runner-Up: Time)

Best Acting Ensemble

One Night in Miami (Runner-Up: Da 5 Bloods)

Best Breakthrough Filmmaker

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Runner-Up: Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version)

Best Breakthrough Performance

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Runner-Up: Cristin Milioti – Palm Springs)

The Rosie

The OAFFC’s signature award celebrates the film that “best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema.”

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Online Association of Female Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 2017
First Awards: 2017 (4)