Daily News (Los Angeles)

‘Nomadland’ best picture at Critics Choice Awards

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“Nomadland” won its second top film honor in eight days, receiving the best picture award at the 26th annual Critics Choice Awards on

Sunday while its director,

Chloe Zhao, also repeated her victory from the Golden Globe Awards.

“The Crown”

Zhao topped the television winners with four awards, including best drama series.

“The Queen’s Gambit” won for limited miniseries and “Ted Lasso” for best comedy.

Zhao also won for best adapted screenplay for her script based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book, “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century.” “Nomadland” topped the film winners with four awards.

The late Chadwick Boseman won for best actor in a motion picture for his role as trumpeter Levee Green in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

Boseman also had a best supporting actor nomination at the Critics Choice Awards for his role as squad leader “Stormin’ ” Norman Earl Holloway in “Da 5 Bloods,” but lost in that category to Daniel Kaluuya from “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

The best actress award went to Carey Mulligan for “Promising Young Woman.”

“Mank” carried a leading 12 nomination­s into the ceremony, including best picture, but only won for best production design. Jason Sudeikis won for best actor in a comedy series for “Ted Lasso.”

Netflix won 14 awards, Amazon Studios and Searchligh­t Pictures four each and Apple TV+ three. The only award won by the four major broadcast networks was for best talk show for NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” The awards were presented in a virtual fashion, with the broadcast originatin­g from Los Angeles.

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