Nomadland wins big at OFCS Awards

Frances McDormand as Fern in Nomadland

Nomadland has made a splash at the OFCS Awards with no fewer than six wins, including Best Director for Chloé Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand, who plays a woman who packs her life into and RV and travels across the US. The film blends fiction and reality, looking at the lives of numerous different people who have chosen or been forced by circumstance to live that way.

Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman, which garnered a lot of attention on the festival circuit, won Best Début Feature and Best Original Screenplay.

Technical awards went to Sound Of Metal for sound design, Emma for costumes, Mank for Production Design and Tenet and The Invisible Man for visual effects, whilst there were lifetime achievement awards for Rob Bottin, David Byrne, Jane Fonda, Jean-Luc Godard and Frederick Wiseman.

The Online Film Critics Society is based in the US but has members around the world.

Those winners in full:-

Best Picture

• Nomadland

Best Animated Feature

• Soul

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao - Nomadland

Best Actor

• Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods

Best Actress

• Frances McDormand - Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor

• Leslie Odom Jr - One Night In Miami

Best Supporting Actress

• Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Original Screenplay

• Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Nomadland

Best Editing

• Nomadland

Best Cinematography

• Nomadland

Best Original Screenplay

• Soul

Best Début Feature

• Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman

Best Film Not In The English Language

• Minari

Best Documentary

• Dick Johnson Is Dead