Critics Choice Awards: ‘Mank’ Leads With 12 Nominations, Netflix Makes History With Four B

Streaming services dominated the nominations for the 26th Critics Choice Awards, with Netflix garnering four best picture nominations, a record-setting number for any studio in the history of the CCA. “Da 5 Bloods” from Spike Lee, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” from George C. Wolfe, “Mank” from David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” represented for the platform.

“Mank,” an examination of “Citizen Kane” co-writer Herman Mankiewicz, led the field with 12 nominations, including best picture, director, actor for Gary Oldman and supporting actress for Amanda Seyfried.

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Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari,” the semi-autobiographical tale of a Korean family moving to Arkansas in the 1980s, was second with 10 nominations, including best picture, foreign language film, actor for Steven Yeun and supporting actress for Yuh-Jung Youn.

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” landed eight mentions, while Universal Pictures’ “News of the World,” from director and co-writer Paul Greengrass, garnered seven.

Netflix received 46 film nominations, and combined with the 26 TV nods announced last month, the streamer’s total comes to 72, the most for any studio or network. A24 was the second most-nominated film studio with 14, and Amazon Studios was close behind with 13. Across film and TV, HBO was the second most-nominated with 24, and Amazon Studios garnered 18 in total.

With a nomination for supporting actress for “The Father,” Olivia Colman is the only person recognized for their work in both film and television. Colman was also nominated for best actress in a drama series for “The Crown.”

Chadwick Boseman becomes the first actor to receive two posthumous nominations in the same year for his work in “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” He wasn’t the only double nominee on the list as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were both cited for their works on “Mank” and Pixar’s “Soul,” the latter they share with co-composer Jon Batiste. Andra Day is also one of the credited songwriters on “Tigress & Tweed” from “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” along with her best actress mention.

In the 26 years of the Critics Choice Awards, there have been a few years in which studios received three best picture nominations in a single year. The last time was in 2012 by the Weinstein Company with “Django Unchained,” “The Master” and “Silver Linings Playbook.” They all lost to the eventual best picture winner “Argo.”

Several nominated actors, who were left out of the Golden Globes and SAG Awards’ mentions, include Ben Affleck for “The Way Back,” Delroy Lindo for “Da 5 Bloods,” Sidney Flanigan for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Paul Raci for “Sound of Metal” and Ellen Burstyn for “Pieces of a Woman.”

Notable snubs include “Judas and the Black Messiah” in best picture and cinematography, and there were complete shutouts for STXfilms’ “The Mauritanian” and Vertical Entertainment’s “Miss Juneteenth.”

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Critics Choice Awards will be an in-person/virtual hybrid show with host Taye Diggs and some of the presenters filming from a stage in Los Angeles, while nominees appear remotely from various locations around the world. The Critics Choice Awards will air on the CW on Sunday, March 7.

Critics Choice Awards: ‘Mank’ Leads With 12 Nominations, Netflix Makes History With Four B

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