The 19th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on February 8, 2021.^[1][2][3]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Nomadland
  • First Cow
  • Minari
  • One Night in Miami...
  • Promising Young Woman

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
  • Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
  • Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  • Regina King – One Night in Miami...
  • Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Best Actor

• Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous)
  • Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
  • Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
  • Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul
  • Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi

Best Actress

• Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
  • Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
  • Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
  • Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man as Cecilia Kass
  • Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas

Best Supporting Actor

• Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
  • Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
  • Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
  • Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane
  • Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe

Best Supporting Actress

• Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
  • Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
  • Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne
  • Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah as Deborah Johnson
  • Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies

Best Original Screenplay

• Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  • Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
  • Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance) – Sound of Metal
  • Andy Siara – Palm Springs
  • Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
  • Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami...
  • Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Animated Feature

• Soul
  • The Croods: A New Age
  • Onward
  • Over the Moon
  • Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary Film

• Boys State
  • Collective
  • Crip Camp
  • Dick Johnson Is Dead
  • Time

Best International/Foreign Language Film

• Another Round
  • Bacurau
  • La Llorona
  • The Mole Agent
  • Night of the Kings

Best Cinematography

• Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
  • Erik Messerschmidt – Mank
  • Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods
  • Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
  • Dariusz Wolski – News of the World

Best Editing

• Jennifer Lame – Tenet
  • Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Kirk Baxter – Mank
  • Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal
  • Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Original Score

• Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – Soul
  • Ludwig Göransson – Tenet
  • James Newton Howard – News of the World
  • Emile Mosseri – Minari
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank

Best Production Design

• Donald Graham Burt (production design) and Jan Pascale (set decoration) – Mank
  • David Crank (production design) and Elizabeth Keenan (set decoration) – News of the World
  • Nathan Crowley (production design) and Kathy Lucas (set decoration) – Tenet
  • Kave Quinn (production design) and Stella Fox (set decoration) – Emma
  • Mark Ricker (production design) and Karen O'Hara (set decoration) – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Acting Ensemble

• One Night in Miami...
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Minari
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Youth Performance

• Alan Kim – Minari as David Yi
  • Millie Bobby Brown – Enola Holmes as Enola Holmes
  • Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Autumn Callaghan
  • Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Skylar
  • Helena Zengel – News of the World as Johanna Leonberger

Best Voice Performance

• Jamie Foxx – Soul as Joe Gardner
  • Tina Fey – Soul as 22
  • Tom Holland – Onward as Ian Lightfoot
  • Honor Kneafsey – Wolfwalkers as Robyn Goodfellowe
  • Octavia Spencer – Onward as Corey

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.

• Wonder Woman 1984
  • Crip Camp
  • The Fight
  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

Multiple nominations and wins