2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards

The 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January 2021, honored the best in film for 2020.^[1][2]

Winners[edit]

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

Best Picture[edit]

1. Nomadland (52)
2. First Cow (50)
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41)

Best Director[edit]

1. Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58)
2. Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41)
3. Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30)

Best Actor[edit]

1. Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (52)
2. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (47)
3. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (32)

Best Actress[edit]

1. Frances McDormand – Nomadland (46)
2. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (33)
3. Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (29)

Best Supporting Actor[edit]

1. Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (53)
2. Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (36)
3. Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (35)

Best Supporting Actress[edit]

1. Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47)
2. Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40)
3. Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33)

Best Screenplay[edit]

1. Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (38)
2. Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (35)
3. Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things (29)

Best Cinematography[edit]

1. Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47)
2. Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41)
3. Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Varela (34)

Best Foreign Language Film[edit]

1. Collective – Alexander Nanau (38)
2. Beanpole – Kantemir Balagov / Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (36)

Best Non-Fiction Film[edit]

1. Time – Garrett Bradley (46)
2. City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (28)
3. Collective – Alexander Nanau (22)

Film Heritage Award[edit]

• Film Comment, founded in 1962 and currently on hiatus, has long been the most substantial and wide-ranging American film magazine.
• Women Make Movies, which, since the 1970s, has been releasing daring and distinctive female-directed movies that more conventional distributors wouldn't touch.
• The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among America's premier repertory houses, showing arthouse movies steadily since 1953, and holding strong in continuing the time-honored tradition of daily double features.

Dedication[edit]

The meeting to decide the winners was dedicated to former Drama Desk president, and film and theater critic William Wolf, who died on March 28, 2020, due to COVID-19. Wolf was a longtime NSFC member whose career spanned Cue and New York magazines as well as his online Wolf Entertainment Guide.^[3]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website