Mar 7, 2021
The 26th Critics Choice Awards were held on March 7, 2021, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The ceremony was hosted by Taye Diggs for the third year in a row. "Nomadland" won the most awards with four including Best Picture. "Mank" had the most nominations with 12.
| Best Picture |
Nomadland Other Nominees: Da 5 Bloods; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Mank; Minari; News of the World; One Night in Miami...; Promising Young Woman; Sound of Metal; The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Best Director |
| Chloé Zhao Nomadland Other Nominees: Lee Isaac Chung (Minari); Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman); David Fincher (Mank); Regina King (One Night in Miami...); Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods); Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7) |
| Best Actor |
Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Other Nominees: Ben Affleck (The Way Back); Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal); Tom Hanks (News of the World); Anthony Hopkins (The Father); Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods); Gary Oldman (Mank); Steven Yeun (Minari) |
| Best Actress |
Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman Other Nominees: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday); Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always); Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman); Frances McDormand (Nomadland); Zendaya (Malcolm & Marie) |
| Best Supporting Actor |
Daniel Kaluuya Judas And The Black Messiah Other Nominees: Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods); Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7); Bill Murray (On the Rocks); Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami...); Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) |
| Best Supporting Actress |
Maria Bakalova Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Other Nominees: Ellen Burstyn (Pieces of a Woman); Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy); Olivia Colman (The Father); Amanda Seyfried (Mank); Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) |
| Best Young Actor/Actress |
Alan Kim Minari Other Nominees: Ryder Allen (Palmer); Ibrahima Gueye (The Life Ahead); Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always); Caoilinn Springall (The Midnight Sky); Helena Zengel (News of the World) |
| Best Acting Ensemble |
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Other Nominees: Da 5 Bloods; Judas and the Black Messiah; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Minari; One Night in Miami... |
| Best Original Screenplay |
| Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman Other Nominees: Lee Isaac Chung (Minari); Jack Fincher (Mank); Eliza Hittman (Never Rarely Sometimes Always); Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (Sound of Metal); Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7) |
| Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Chloé Zhao Nomadland Other Nominees: Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies (News of the World); Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami...); Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt (First Cow); Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom); Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton (The Father) |
| Best Cinematography |
| Joshua James Richards Nomadland Other Nominees: Christopher Blauvelt (First Cow); Erik Messerschmidt (Mank); Lachlan Milne (Minari); Newton Thomas Sigel (Da 5 Bloods); Hoyte van Hoytema (Tenet); Dariusz Wolski (News of the World) |
| Best Production Design |
Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale Mank Other Nominees: Cristina Casali and Charlotte Dirickx (The Personal History of David Copperfield); David Crank and Elizabeth Keenan (News of the World); Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas (Tenet); Stella Fox and Kave Quinn (Emma); Karen O'Hara, Mark Ricker, and Diana Stoughton (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) |
| Best Editing (TIE) |
| Alan Baumgarten The Trial Of The Chicago 7 Mikkel E.G. Nielsen Sound Of Metal  Other Nominees: Kirk Baxter (Mank); Jennifer Lame (Tenet); Yorgos Lamprinos (The Father); Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) |
| Best Costume Design |
| Ann Roth Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Other Nominees: Alexandra Byrne (Emma); Bina Daigeler (Mulan); Suzie Harman and Robert Worley (The Personal History of David Copperfield); Nancy Steiner (Promising Young Woman); Trish Summerville (Mank) |
| Best Hair & Makeup |
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Other Nominees: Emma; Hillbilly Elegy; Mank; Promising Young Woman; The United States vs. Billie Holiday |
| Best Visual Effects |
Tenet Other Nominees: Greyhound; The Invisible Man; Mank; The Midnight Sky; Mulan; Wonder Woman 1984 |
| Best Comedy Movie |
Palm Springs Other Nominees: The 40-Year-Old Version; Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; The King of Staten Island; On the Rocks; The Prom |
| Best Foreign Language Film |
| Minari United States Other Nominees: Another Round (Denmark); Collective (Romania); La Llorona (Guatemala); The Life Ahead (Italy); Two of Us (France) |
| Best Score |
Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross Soul Other Nominees: Alexandre Desplat (The Midnight Sky); Ludwig Göransson (Tenet); James Newton Howard (News of the World); Emile Mosseri (Minari); Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Mank) |
| Best Song |
"Speak Now" One Night In Miami... Other Nominees: "Everybody Cries" (The Outpost); "Fight for You" (Judas and the Black Messiah); "Husavik (My Home Town)" (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga); "Io sì (Seen)" (The Life Ahead); "Tigress & Tweed" (The United States vs. Billie Holiday) |