The Chicago Indie Critics Awards released their 2019 nominations for the fourth annual awards yesterday, and a lot of familiar faces were present. Leading the nominations was Little Women, with eight total. Rian Johnson’s Knives Out and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story also nabbed a few, along with Avengers: Endgame and of course, another critic-favorite The Irishman.
The Chicago Indie Critics Awards, hosted by comedian Katie Baker, will stream on YouTube live from the Cards Against Humanity Theater in Chicago on January 4 at 5 p.m.
The full list of nominations are:
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM (budgets under $20 million)
Booksmart
The Farewell
Jojo Rabbit
Marriage Story
Parasite
BEST STUDIO FILM (budgets over $20 million)
The Irishman
Knives Out
Little Women
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
1917
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Birds of Passage
Monos
Pain and Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Apollo 11
Hail, Satan?
Honeyland
The Kingmaker
One Child Nation
BEST ANIMATED FILM
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
Missing Link
Toy Story 4
BEST DIRECTOR
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917
Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Lulu Wang, The Farewell
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Farewell, Lulu Wang
Knives Out, Rian Johnson
Marriage Story, Noam Baumbach
Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho and Jin Won-Han
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Irishman, Steve Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi
Little Women, Greta Gerwig
Luce, J.C. Lee and Julius Onah
The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten
BEST ACTOR
Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite is My Name
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
BEST ACTRESS
Awkwafina, The Farewell
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Florence Pugh, Midsommar
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Al Pacino, The Irishman
Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Kang-ho Song, Parasite
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Florence Pugh, Little Women
Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Octavia Spencer, Luce
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Avengers: Endgame, Sarah Finn (casting director)
The Irishman, Ellen Lewis (casting director)
Knives Out, Mary Vernieu (casting director)
Little Women, Kathy Driscoll and Francine Maisler (casting directors)
Marriage Story, Francine Maisler and Douglas Aibel (casting directors)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ad Astra, Hoyte Van Hoytema
Ford vs Ferrari, Phedon Papamichael
The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
1917, Roger Deakins
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Robert Richardson
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Ad Astra, Kevin Thompson
Knives Out, David Crank
1917, Dennis Gassner
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Barbara Ling
Parasite, Ha-Jun Lee
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Dolemite is My Name, Ruth E. Carter
Knives Out, Jenny Eagan
Little Women, Jacqueline Durran
Midsommar, Andrea Flesch
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Arianne Phillips
BEST MAKEUP
Bombshell, Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, and Anne Morgan
Dolemite is My Name, Debra Denson, Carla Joi Farmer, Stacey L. Morris, Vera Steimberg
The Irishman, Sean Flanigan, Nicki Ledermann, and Carla White
Joker, Kay Georgiou and Nicki Ledermann
Us, Camille Friend and Scott Wheeler
BEST EDITING
Ford vs Ferrari, Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, and Dirk Westervelt
Knives Out, Bob Ducsay
Little Women, Nick Houy
1917, Lee Smith
Parasite, Jinmo Yang
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Avengers: Endgame, Alan Silvestri
Little Women, Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story, Randy Newman
1917, Thomas Newman
Us, Michael Abels
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Catchy Song” from The LEGO Movie Part 2: The Second Part (Dillion Francis featuring T-Pain and That Girl Lay Lay and written by Jon Lajoie)
“Glasgow (No Place Like Home)” from Wild Rose (Jessie Buckley and written by Mary Steenburgen, Caitlin Smith, and Kate York)
“I Punched Keanu Reeves” from Always Be My Maybe (Randall Park)
“Not Evil” from The LEGO Movie Part 2: The Second Part (Tiffany Haddish and written by Jon Lajoie)
“Speechless” from Aladdin (Naomi Scott and written by Pasek & Paul)
“Stand Up” from Harriet (Cynthia Erivo and written by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Ad Astra, Scott R. Fisher, Allan Maris, Guillaume Rocheron, and Jedediah Smith
Avengers: Endgame, Matt Aitken, Russell Earl, Dan Leeluw, and Dan Sudick
The Irishman, Leandro Estebecorena, Stephanie Grabli, Pablo Helman, and Nelson Sepulveda
1917, Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, and Dominic Tuohy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, and Dominic Tuohy
TRAILBLAZER AWARD – Honors the work of an artist who truly pushes the boundaries of the medium in terms of form and content.
Greta Gerwig
Rian Johnson
Sam Mendes
Martin Scorsese
Lena Waithe
Taika Waititi
IMPACT AWARD – Given to a person whose work has had a positive impact on society.
Pedro Almodovar
Bong Joon-Ho
Martin Scorsese
Milos Stehlik
Lulu Wang
