“Mank” led all films in nominations for the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association announced on Monday.
Boosted by seven nominations in below-the-line categories, David Fincher’s drama set in 1930s Hollywood received 12 nominations, two more than the runner-up, Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari.”
Other films with multiple nominations include “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” with eight; “News of the World,” with seven; “Da 5 Bloods,” “Nomadland,” “One Night in Miami.” “Promising Young Woman” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” with six; and “Sound of Metal” and “Tenet” with five.
In the acting categories, which contained between six and eight nominees, almost all of the performers nominated for the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards were also recognized by Critics Choice voters, with the exception of Amy Adams for “Hillbilly Elegy,” Sophia Loren for “The Life Ahead,” Jared Leto for “The Little Things” and Jodie Foster for “The Mauritanian.” “News of the World” actress Helena Zengel, a Globes and SAG supporting-actress nominee, was not nominated in that category at the Critics Choice Awards, but was nominated in the Best Young Actor/Actress category.
Chadwick Boseman received two posthumous nominations, one in the Best Actor category for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and one as Best Supporting Actor for “Da 5 Bloods.”
In the past, the Critics Choice Awards have been a fairly reliable predictor of Oscar success. A few years ago, though, the organization began increasing the size of its categories in an apparent attempt to recognize as many films and studios as possible. In the process, it significantly diminished its value as an Oscar predictor.
Last year, for instance, 77 of the 94 Oscar nominees in the 18 categories that the two shows have in common received Critics Choice nominations before being honored by the Academy — but so did 39 people or films that made it into the expanded Critics Choice categories but were not nominated by the Oscars.
(Excerpt) Read more in: The Wrap