It’s hard to say much original about any of the precursors coming out now and this group, while doing their awards differently than everyone else, still manages to feel like it’s in line with estimations.

Award Tallies

(3) Nomadland
(2) Mank, Minari, Promising Young Woman

The Awards

Top Ten Films

1. Nomadland
2. Promising Young Woman
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Minari
5. One Night in Miami
6. Mank
7. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
8. Sound of Metal
9. Da 5 Bloods
10. First Cow

Best Animated Film

1. Soul
2. Wolfwalkers

Best Director

1. Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
2. Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
3. Regina King – One Night in Miami
4. David Fincher – Mank
5. Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor

1. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
2. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
3. Gary Oldman – Mank
4. Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
5. Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Best Actress

1. Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
2. Frances McDormand – Nomadland
3. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
4. Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman
5. Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Best Supporting Actor

1. Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah
2. Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
3. Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Bill Murray – On the Rocks
5. Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress

1. Amanda Seyfried – Mank
2. Youn Yuh-jung – Minari
3. Helena Zengel – News of the World
4. Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
5. Olivia Colman – The Father

Best Screenplay

1. Promising Young Woman
2. The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Musical Score

1. Mank
2. News of the World

Best Cinematography

1. Nomadland
2. Mank

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Minari
2. Another Round
3. The Life Ahead
4. La Llorona
5. Martin Eden

Best Documentary

1. Time
2. Dick Johnson Is Dead
3. Boys State
4. The Dissident
5. Crip Camp

Russell Smith Award (best low-budget, cutting-edge independent film)

Minari

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1993 (28)