The 18th Annual Columbus Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2019, were announced on January 2, 2020, with Parasite, Florence Pugh and Adam Driver all taking multiples awards.
The complete list of winners and runners-up:
Best Film
- Parasite (Gisaengchung)
- Knives Out
- 1917
- Little Women
- Marriage Story
- The Farewell
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
- The Irishman
- Uncut Gems
- Jojo Rabbit
Best Director
- Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (Gisaengchung)
- Runner-up: Sam Mendes, 1917
Best Actor
- Adam Driver, Marriage Story
- Runner-up: Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Best Actress
- Lupita Nyong’o, Us
- Runner-up: Florence Pugh, Midsommar
Best Supporting Actor
- Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
- Runner-up: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Best Supporting Actress
- Florence Pugh, Little Women
- Runner-up: Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Best Ensemble
- Knives Out
- Runner-up: Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
- Adam Driver (The Dead Don’t Die, Marriage Story, The Report, and Star Wars: Episode IX – The
Rise of Skywalker) - Runner-up: Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar)
Breakthrough Film Artist
- Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar) – (for acting)
- Runner-up: Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco – (for directing, producing and
screenwriting)
Best Cinematography
- Roger Deakins, 1917
- Runner-up: Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse
Best Film Editing
- Bob Ducsay, Knives Out
- Runner-up: Lee Smith, 1917
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Greta Gerwig, Little Women
- Runner-up: Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit
Best Original Screenplay
- Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won, Parasite (Gisaengchung)
- Runner-up: Rian Johnson, Knives Out
Best Score
- Michael Abels, Us
- Runner-up: Thomas Newman, 1917
Best Documentary
- Apollo 11
- Runner-up: American Factory
Best Foreign Language Film
- Parasite (Gisaengchung)
- Runner-up: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
Best Animated Film
- Toy Story 4
- Runner-up: I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps)
Best Overlooked Film
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Runner-up: Ready or Not
For the complete list of 2019 nominees, click here.
For more information about the Columbus Film Critics Association, please visit www.cofca.orgor e-mail info@cofca.org.
The complete list of members and their affiliations:
Richard Ades (Freelance); Dwayne Bailey (Bailey’s Buzz); Adam Barney (The Film Coterie); Sam Brady (I Am Sam Reviews); Logan Burd (Cinema or Cine-meh?); Kevin Carr (www.7mpictures.com, FilmSchoolRejects.com); Bill Clark (www.fromthebalcony.com); Olie Coen (Archer Avenue, DVD Talk); John DeSando (90.5 WCBE); Johnny DiLoretto (90.5 WCBE, PencilStorm.com); Chris Feil (FilmMixTape.com, TheFilmExperience.net); Frank Gabrenya (The Columbus Dispatch); Mark Jackson (MovieManJackson.com); Brad Keefe (Columbus Alive); Kristin Dreyer Kramer (NightsAndWeekends.com, 90.5 WCBE); Adam Kuhn (Corndog Chats); Roger Legg (The Film Coterie, Faith and Film); Joyce Long (Freelance); Rico Long (Freelance); Hope Madden (Columbus Underground, MaddWolf.com and WTTE-TV); Paul Markoff (Filmbound); David Medsker (Bullz-Eye.com); Lori Pearson (Kids-in-Mind.com, critics.com); Mark Pfeiffer (Filmbound, Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema); Melissa Starker (Freelance); George Wolf (Columbus Radio Group, MaddWolf.com, Columbus Underground, and WTTE-TV); Jason Zingale (Bullz-Eye.com); Nathan Zoebl (PictureShowPundits.com).