2020–2021 Film Awards and Nominees

The following women have received awards or nominations for their work in cinema throughout the 2020–2021 awards season. List updated regularly.

April 25, 2021: 93rd Academy Awards NOMINATIONS

Best Picture: Nomadland – Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, Producers
Directing: Nomadland – Chloé Zhao
Actress in a Leading Role: Frances McDormand – Nomadland
Actress in a Supporting Role: Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari
Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman – Written by Emerald Fennell
Documentary Feature: My Octopus Teacher – Pippa Ehrlich
Animated Feature: Soul – Dana Murray
Documentary Short: Colette – Alice Doyard
Production Design: Mank – Jan Pascale
Costume Design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Ann Roth
Makeup and Hairstyling: Mank – Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri, Colleen LaBaff
Sound: Sound of Metal – Michelle Couttolenc
Original Song: “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah – H.E.R., Tiara Thomas

April 22, 2021: Film Independent Spirit Awards NOMINATIONS

Best Feature: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director/producer; Mollye Asher, Frances McDorman, producers
Best First Feature: Sound of Metal, Kathy Benz, producer
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Screenplay: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Female Lead: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Documentary: Crip Camp, Nicole Newnham, director/producer; Sara Bolder
Best Supporting Female: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Best International Film: Quo Vadis, Aida?, Jasmila Žbanić, director (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Best Editing: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Robert Altman Award: One Night in Miami, Regina King, director; Kimberly R. Hardin, casting director
Someone to Watch Award: Ekwa Msangi

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

April 18, 2021: 35th American Society of Cinematographers ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards

No women winners in either film or television categories.

April 17, 2021: 57th Cinema Audio Society Awards

Live Action: Sound of Metal, Re-Recording Mixer Michelle Couttolenc

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

April 16, 2021: 48th Annie Awards

Best Feature: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Best Indie Feature: Wolfwalkers, Nora Twomey, producer
Best FX for Feature: Soul, Kylie Wijsmuller
Best Production Design – Feature: Wolfwalkers, María Pareja
Best Voice Acting – Feature: Wolfwalkers, Eva Whittaker

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

April 13, 2021: 23rd Costume Designers Guild Awards

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film: Mulan, Bina Daigeler
Excellence in Contemporary Film: Promising Young Woman, Nancy Steiner
Excellence in Period Film: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ann Roth

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

April 11, 2021: 11th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million: Dawn Sutter Madell, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million: Susan Jacobs, Promising Young Woman
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million: Dondrea Erauw, The Cuban
Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film: Celeste Waite, Alison Litton, “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7

[Full list of winners, including for television and advertising categories, available here.]

April 10–11, 2021: British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards

Best Film: Nomadland, Mollye Asher, Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao
Outstanding British Film: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell, Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara
Film Not in the English Language: Another Round, Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Documentary: My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich
Animated Film: Soul, Dana Murray
Director: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell
Leading Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Supporting Actress: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Casting: Rocks, Lucy Pardee
Production Design: Mank, Jan Pascale
Costume Design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ann Roth
Makeup & Hair: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Matiki Anoff, Mia Neal
Sound: Sound of Metal, Michelle Couttolenc
British Short Animation: The Owl and the Pussycat, Laura Duncalf

April 10, 2021: 73rd Directors Guild of America Awards

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Unit Production Manager, First Assistant Director: Mary Kerrigan
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Sound of Metal
- Unit Production Manager: Amy Greene

[Full list of winners, including for television and commercial categories, available here.]

April 10, 2021: 25th Art Directors Guild Awards

No women winners in the film categories. Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.

April 8, 2021: 32nd GLAAD Media Awards

Outstanding Film – Wide Release: Happiest Season, Clea DuVall, director/writer
Outstanding Film – Limited Release: The Boys in the Band, Alexis Martin Woodall, producer
Outstanding Documentary: Disclosure, Amy Scholder, producer

[Full list of winners, including for television, music, journalism, and Spanish-language categories, available here.]

April 7, 2021: 12th African American Film Critics Association Awards

Innovator Award: Mariah Carey
Icon Award: Viola Davis
Best Director: Regina King, One Night in Miami…
Best Actress: Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Best Supporting Actress: Dominique Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Documentary: All In: The Fight for Democracy, Lisa Cortes & Liz Garbus (directors/producers), Stacey Abrams, producer
Best Animation: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Breakout Performance: Radha Blank

April 6, 2021: 19th Visual Effects Society Awards

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature: Soul, Dana Murray
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature: The One and Only Ivan (Ivan), Valentina Rosselli
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature: Soul (You Seminar), Sungyeon Joh
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature: Project Power, Michelle Lee
Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature: Soul, Aimei Kutt, Melissa Tseng
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project: Migrants, Zoé Devise

[Full list of winners, including for television, game, and commercial categories, available here.]

April 4, 2021: 27th Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 27, 2021: 52nd NAACP Image Awards

Social Justice Impact: Stacey Abrams
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Phylicia Rashad, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Outstanding International Motion Picture: Night of the Kings, Delphine Jaquet, producer
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture: Madalen Mills, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Viola Davis
Outstanding Animated Motion Picture: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Outstanding Short Form (Live Action): Black Boy Joy, Martina Mossell Lee, director; Jhanvi Motla, producer
Outstanding Short Form (Animated): Canvas, Paige Johnstone, producer
Outstanding Breakthrough Creative: Nadia Hallgren, Becoming
Outstanding Documentary Film: John Lewis: Good Trouble, Dawn Porter, director/producer; Erika Alexander, Laura Michalchyshyn, producers
Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture: Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
Outstanding Writing in a Documentary: Melissa Haizlip, Mr. Soul!
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture: Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Old Guard

[Full list of winners, including for television, recording, and literary categories, available here.]

March 24, 2021: 32nd Producers Guild of America Awards

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: Nomadland, Mollye Asher, Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao
Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures: Soul, Dana Murray

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 21, 2021: Writers Guild Awards

Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell
Adapted Screenplay: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Screenply by Erica Rivinoja & Jena Friedman; Story by Nina Pedrad

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

March 12, 2021: César Awards

Best Actress: Laure Calamy, Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes
Best Supporting Actress: Emilie Dequenne, Les Choses Qu’On Dir, Les Choses Qu’On Fait
Best Editing: Tina Baz, Adolescentes
Best Costume Design: Madeline Fontaine, La Bonne Épouse
Best Sound: Adolescentes, Yolande Decarsin, Jeanne Delplanco, Fanny Martin
Best Animated Short: L’Heure De L’Ours, dir: Agnès Patron
Best Short Film: Qu’Importe Si Les Bêtes Meurent, dir: Sofia Alaoui
Best Female Newcomer: Fathia Youssouf, Cuties

March 7, 2021: 26th Critics Choice Awards

Best Picture: Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Original Screenplay: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Best Adapted Screenplay: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Production Design: Mank, Jan Pascale
Best Costume Design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ann Roth
Best Hair and Makeup: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Matiki Anoff, Mia Neal, Sian Richards, Deidra Dixon, Jamika Wilson
Best Comedy: Palm Springs, Becky Sloviter
Best Foreign Language Film: Minari, Dede Gardner, Christina Oh

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

February 28, 2021: Golden Globe Awards

Best Motion Picture – Drama: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director/writer/producer/editor; Mollye Asher, Frances McDormand, producers
Best Motion Picture – Comedy: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Monica Levinson, producer
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama: Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy: Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma.
Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster, The Mauritanian
Best Picture – Animated: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Best Picture – Foreign Language: Minari (USA), Dede Gardner, Christina Oh, producers
Best Song: “Io Sì (Seen)” from The Life Ahead
Cecil B. deMille Award: Jane Fonda

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

February 13, 2021: AMPAS Scientific & Technical Awards

Technical Achievement Awards
- Hayley Iben, for the Taz Hair Simulation System
- Kelly Ward Hammel and Maryann Simmons, for the Walt Disney Animation Studios Hair Simulation System

January 26, 2021: National Board of Review Awards

Best Film: Da 5 Bloods, Beatriz Levin, producer
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting Actress; Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari
Breakthrough Performance: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Directorial Debut: Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth
Best Animated Feature: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Best Documentary: Time, Garrett Bradley, director/producer; Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, producers
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: One Night in Miami, Regina King, director; Jess Wu Calder, producer
NBR Spotlight Award: Radha Blank for writing, directing, producing, and starring in The Forty-Year-Old Version
Top Films (in alphabetical order)
- First Cow, Kelly Reichardt, director/writer/editor
- The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank, director/writer/producer; Inuka Bacote-Capiga, Jennifer Semler, Lena Waithe, producers
- Minari, Dede Gardner, Christina Oh, producers
- News of the World, Gail Mutrux, producer
- Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director/writer/producer/editor; Mollye Asher, Frances McDormand, producers
- Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell, director/writer/producer; Ashley Fox, Josey McNamara, Margot Robbie, producers
- Soul, Dana Murray, producer
- Sound of Metal, Kathy Benz, producer
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
- Collective (Romania), Hanka Kastelicová, Bianca Oana, producers
- The Mole Agent (Chile), Maite Alberdi, director/writer; Marcela Santibanez, producer
- Night of the Kings (Ivory Coast), Delphine Jaquet, producer
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
- All In: The Fight for Democracy, Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus, directors/producers; Stacey Abrams, producer
- Boys State, Amanda McBaine, co-director/producer
- Dick Johnson Is Dead, Kirsten Johnson, director/writer/producer; Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness, producers
- Miss Americana, Lana Wilson, director; Christine O’Malley, Caitrin Rogers, producers
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
- Driveways, Celine Rattray, producer
- Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi, director/writer/producer; Huriyyah Muhammad, producer
- Miss Juneteenth, Channing Godfrey Peoples, director/writer; Jeanie Igoe, Theresa Steele Page, producers
- The Nest, Rose Garnett, Amy Jackson, Christina Piovesan, Derrin Schlesinger, producers
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman, director/writer; Lia Buman, Rose Garnett, Sara Murphy, Elika Portnoy, Adele Romanski, producers
- Relic, Natalie Erika James, director/writer; Riva Marker, Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw, producers
- Wolfwalkers, Nora Twomey, producer

January 16, 2021: 36th IDA Documentary Awards

Best Feature: Crip Camp, Nicole Newnham, director/producer; Sara Bolder, producer
Best Music Documentary: Universe, Esther Dere, Leah Natasha Thomas, producers
Best Writing: Kirsten Johnson, Dick Johnson is Dead
Pare Lorentz Award: My Octopus Teacher, Pippa Ehrlich, director
- Honorable Mention: Crip Camp, Nicole Newnham, director/producer; Sara Bolder, producer
ABC News VideoSource Award: Crip Camp, Nicole Newnham, director/producer; Sara Bolder, producer
Honorary Awards:
- Amicus Award: Regina S. Scully
- Courage Under Fire Award, Olga Baranova and the filmmakers and activists from Welcome to Chechnya
- Truth to Power Award: Maria Ressa

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

January 11, 2021: 30th IFP Gotham Awards

Best Feature: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers
Best Documentary (TIE):
- A Thousand Cuts: Ramona S. Diaz, director; Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, producers
- Time: Garrett Bradley, director/producer; Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, producers
Best International Feature: Identifying Features, Fernanda Valadez, director; Astrid Rondero, producer
Best Screenplay (TIED): The Forty-Year-Old Version, Radha Blank
Best Actress: Nicole Beharie, Miss Juneteenth
Actress Tribute: Viola Davis
Ensemble Tribute: The cast of The Trial of the Chicago 7, including Caitlin Fitzgerald and Alice Kremelberg
Gotham Audience Award: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

January 10, 2021: Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards

Best Action Movie: Da 5 Bloods, Beatriz Levin, producer
Best Actress in an Action Movie: Betty Gilpin, The Hunt
Best Animated Movie: Soul, Dana Murray, producer
Best Voice Actress in an Animated Movie: Tina Fey, Soul
Best Superhero Movie: The Old Guard, Gina Prince-Bythewood, director; Dana Goldberg, Beth Kono, Charlize Theron, producers
Best Actress in a Superhero Movie: Margot Robbie, Birds of Prey
Best Horror Movie: The Invisible Man, Kylie Du Fresne, producer
Best Actress in a Horror Movie: Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie: Palm Springs, Becky Sloviter, producer
Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie: Cristin Milioti, Palm Springs

[Full list of winners, including for television categories, available here.]

January 9, 2021: 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture: Nomadland: Chloé Zhao, director, Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers
- Runner-up: First Cow, Kelly Reichardt, director
- Runner-up: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman, director; Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, producers
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Runner-up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
- Runner-up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Runner-up: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
- Runner-up: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Runner-up: Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
Best Foreign-Language Film: Collective, Hanka Kastelicová, Biana Oana, producers
- Runner-up: Bacurau, Emilie Lesclaux, producer
- Runner-up: Beanpole, Natalia Gorina, Ellen Rodnianski, producers
Best Non-Fiction Film: Time, Garrett Bradley, director/producer; Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn, producers
- Runner-up: City Hall, Karen Konicek, producer
- Runner-up: Collective, Hanka Kastelicová, Biana Oana, producers

December 20, 2020: 46th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture
- Runner-up: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao, director; Frances McDormand, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
- Runner-up: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-Jung, Minari
- Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Best Screenplay: Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
- Runner-up: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film: Time, director/producer Garret Bradley; producer: Lauren Domino
- Runner-up: Collective, producers: Bianca Oana, Hanka Kastelicová; writer: Antoaneta Opris
Best Animation: Wolfwalkers, producer: Nora Twomey
- Runner-up: Soul, producer: Dana Leigh Murray
New Generation Award: Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version

December 18, 2020: New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Picture: First Cow, directed and written by Kelly Reichardt
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers, produced by Nora Twomey
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Time, directed/produced by Garrett Bradley; produced by Lauren Domino
Best First Film: Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version

December 12, 2020: European Film Awards

European Discovery – Prix Fipresci: Sole, written by Giulia Moriggi
European Documentary: One Night in Miami, written by Antoaneta Opris
European Actress: Paula Beer, Undine
European Editing: Maria Fantastica Valmori, Once More Unto the Breach / Il Varco
European Production Design: Cristina Casali, The Personal History of David Copperfield
European Costume Design: Ursula Patzak, Hidden Away / Volevo Nascondermi
European Make-Up & Hair: Yolanda Piña, The Endless Trench / La Trinchera Infinita
European Original Score: Dascha Dauenhauer, Berlin Alexanderplatz
European Sound: Yolande Decarsin, Little Girl / Petite Fille
European University Film Award: Saudi Runway, directed & written by Susanne Regina Meures

December 9, 2020: SFFILM Awards

SFFILM Award for Acting: Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Irving M. Levin Award for Film Direction: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

September 20, 2020: 45th Toronto International Film Festival Awards

People’s Choice Award: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
- People’s Choice Award, First Runner Up: One Night in Miami, Regina King
- People’s Choice Award, Second Runner Up: Beans, Tracey Deer
- People’s Choice Award, Documentaries: Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer
- People’s Choice Award, Midnight Madness: Shadow in the Cloud, Roseanne Liang
Best Canadian Feature Film: Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer
Best International Short Film: Dustin, Naïla Guiguet
FIPRESCI Award: Beginning (Dasatskisi), Dea Kulumbegashvili
Changemaker Award: Black Bodies, Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Share Her Journey: Sing Me a Lullaby, Tiffany Hsiung
TIFF Tribute Awards: Chloé Zhao, Mira Nair, and Kate Winslet

September 12, 2020: 77th Venice International Film Festival Awards

Golden Lion: Nomadland, Chloé Zhao
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Ann Hui and Tilda Swinton