The AFCA presents their winners list for the 2020 awards season
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2020 awards, with Minari at the top of the pack, winning 6 awards from its 11 nominations.
Acting award winners include Carey Mulligan as Best Actress for Promising Young Woman, Riz Ahmed as Best Actor for Sound of Metal, Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress for Minari, and Daniel Kaluuya as Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah. The outstanding performers in Minari garnered that film the AFCA’s Best Ensemble award.
The winner of this year’s Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award is Radha Blank for her remarkable work, The 40-Year-Old Version.
Other major awards include a Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing win for Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), Wolfwalkers winning Best Animated Feature, and Boys State winning Best Documentary.
The full list of winners, plus the AFCA Top Ten Films of 2020, is included below.
Best Film: Minari (dir: Lee Isaac Chung)
Best Director: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Ensemble: Minari
Best Original Screenplay: Lee Issac Chung, Minari
Best Adapted Screenplay: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Best Score: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste, Soul
Best Editing: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Foreign-Language Film: Minari (dir: Lee Isaac Chung)
Best Documentary: Boys State (dir: Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine)
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers (dir: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart)
Best Stunts: The Invisible Man
Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance: Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man
Best First Film: Promising Young Woman (dir: Emerald Fennell)
The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version
Austin Film Award: Greenland (dir: Ric Roman Waugh)
Special Honorary Award: Honoring Miss Juneteenth with a “Texas Spirit” award, for exemplifying the creative output of the film industry here in the Lone Star State, as well as embodying the character of our community.
AFCA 2020 Top Ten Films:
- Minari
- Nomadland
- Promising Young Woman
- First Cow
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- One Night in Miami…
- (tie) Palm Springs and Sound of Metal
9. (tie) The Invisible Man and Mank
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