Winners and nominees
Winners are listed at the top of each list in bold, while the runner-ups and nominees for each category are listed under them.
| 25th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | January 11, 2021 |
| Site | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Promising Young Woman |
| Most awards | The Forty-Year-Old Version / Nomadland / Promising Young Woman / Sound of Metal (2) |
| Most nominations | Sound of Metal (8) |
The 25th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on January 11, 2021. [1] The nominations were announced on January 8, 2021, with Sound of Metal leading the nominations with eight. [2]
Winners are listed at the top of each list in bold, while the runner-ups and nominees for each category are listed under them.
Ruth Negga is an Irish actress known for her roles in the AMC television series Preacher (2016–2019) and the film Loving (2016). For her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the latter, Negga received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. For her Broadway debut as Lady Macbeth in a production of Shakespeare's Macbeth in 2022, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie is a New Zealand actress. A daughter of actress Miranda Harcourt, she began working as a teenager. After a minor role in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), she rose to critical prominence for playing a young girl living in isolation in Debra Granik's drama film Leave No Trace (2018), winning the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance, as well as her role as Elsa Korr in the Academy Award-winning satirical comedy film Jojo Rabbit (2019).
Brooklynn Prince is an American child actress known for her roles as Moonee in the comedy-drama film The Florida Project (2017) and Hilde Lisko in the Apple TV+ series Home Before Dark (2020–2021).
Higher Ground Productions, also which is known simply as Higher Ground, is an American production company which was founded in 2018 by former United States President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Sidney Jeanne Flanigan is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Flanigan made her acting debut with the acclaimed independent drama film Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), for which she received nominations for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
Another Round is a 2020 black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, from a screenplay by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm. An international co-production between Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, the film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe. It follows four high school teachers who embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
The Hand of God is a 2021 Italian drama film written, directed, and produced by Paolo Sorrentino. It stars Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri, Renato Carpentieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Betti Pedrazzi, Biagio Manna, and Ciro Capano. The film refers autobiographically to Sorrentino's youth in Naples.
The 26th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on January 10, 2022. The nominations were announced on January 7, 2022, with Belfast leading the nominations with twelve, followed by Dune with nine and The Power of the Dog with eight.
The 27th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on January 6, 2023. The nominations were announced on January 3, 2023, with The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the nominations with eleven each, followed by The Fabelmans with eight.