Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2019 Explained

Number:	32
Award:	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date:	December 14, 2019
Site:	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Best Picture:	Parasite
Most Wins:	Little Women (4) Parasite (4)
Most Nominations:	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (9)
Last:	31st
Next:	33rd

The 32nd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 14, 2019.^[1] The awards honor the best in film for 2019. The nominations were announced on December 12, 2019. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood received the most nominations (9), followed by The Irishman (8).^[2]

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 32nd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae The Irishman – Robert De Niro, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Martin Scorsese Little Women – Amy Pascal Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach and David Heyman Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh, and Quentin Tarantino	Bong Joon-ho – Parasite Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Greta Gerwig – Little Women Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory as Salvador Mallo Robert De Niro – The Irishman as Frank Sheeran Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / Joker Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems as Howard Ratner	Lupita Nyong'o – Us as Adelaide Wilson / Red Awkwafina – The Farewell as Billi Wang Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber Elisabeth Moss – Her Smell as Becky Something Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers Shia LaBeouf – Honey Boy as James Lort Al Pacino – The Irishman as Jimmy Hoffa Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino	Florence Pugh – Little Women as Amy March Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers as Ramona Vega Zhao Shu-zhen – The Farewell as Nai Nai Cho Yeo-jeong – Parasite as Choi Yeon-gyo
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won The Farewell – Lulu Wang Knives Out – Rian Johnson Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino	Little Women – Greta Gerwig (based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood – Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (inspired by the article "Can You Say ... Hero?" by Tom Junod) Hustlers – Lorene Scafaria (based on the article "The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves" by Jessica Pressler) The Irishman – Steven Zaillian (based on the book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt) Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi (based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens)
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Toy Story 4 – Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen, and Jonas Rivera Frozen II – Peter Del Vecho – Bonnie Arnold, Dean DeBlois, and Brad Lewis I Lost My Body – Jérémy Clapin and Marc du Pontavice Missing Link – Chris Butler, Travis Knight, and Arianne Sutner	Parasite (South Korea) in Korean – Directed by Bong Joon-ho The Farewell (United States) in Mandarin and English – Directed by Lulu Wang Pain and Glory (Spain) in Spanish – Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France) in French – Directed by Céline Sciamma Transit (Germany) in German and French – Directed by Christian Petzold
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
Apollo 11 – Evan Krauss, Todd Douglas Miller, and Thomas Petersen American Factory – Steven Bognar, Jeff Reichert, and Julia Reichert For Sama – Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts Hail Satan? – Gabriel Sedgwick Honeyland – Atanas Georgiev, Tamara Kotevska, and Ljubomir Stefanov	Little Women – Alexandre Desplat 1917 – Thomas Newman Marriage Story – Randy Newman Uncut Gems – Daniel Lopatin Us – Michael Abels
Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh 1917 – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales Knives Out – Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: David Schlesinger Little Women – Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Claire Kaufman Parasite – Production Design: Lee Ha-jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won-woo	Little Women – Jacqueline Durran Dolemite Is My Name – Ruth E. Carter Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Dorothée Guiraud Rocketman – Julian Day
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker 1917 – Lee Smith Little Women – Nick Houy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Fred Raskin Uncut Gems – Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie	1917 – Roger Deakins The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Robert Richardson Parasite – Hong Kyung-pyo Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Claire Mathon
Best Use of Visual Effects	Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award
Ad Astra 1917 The Irishman Midsommar	Lulu Wang – The Farewell Mati Diop – Atlantics Alma Har'el – Honey Boy Joe Talbot – The Last Black Man in San Francisco Olivia Wilde – Booksmart
Most Promising Performer
Aisling Franciosi – The Nightingale Julia Butters – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Roman Griffin Davis – Jojo Rabbit Julia Fox – Uncut Gems Taylor Russell – Waves

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
9	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
8	The Irishman
	Little Women
7	Marriage Story
	Parasite
5	The Farewell
	1917
4	Uncut Gems
3	Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
	Honey Boy
	Hustlers
	Jojo Rabbit
	Knives Out
	Pain and Glory
	Us

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Film
4	Little Women
	Parasite
2	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2019 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards . December 31, 2018 . . February 22, 2020.
2. Web site: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood leads Chicago Film Critics Association 2019 Nominations . December 12, 2018 . . February 22, 2020.