NOMADLAND TOPS 2020 AWARDS

AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2020

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Nomadland – 52

2. First Cow – 50

3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — 41

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) – 58

2. Steve McQueen (Small Axe) – 41

3. Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) – 30

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) – 38

2. First Cow (Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt) – 35

3. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman) – 29

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:

*1. Collective – 38

2. Beanpole and Bacurau – tied at 36

BEST NONFICTION FILM:

*1.  Time – 46

2. City Hall — 28

3.  Collective – 22

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1.  Nomadland (Joshua James Richards) – 47

2. Lovers Rock (Shabier Kirchner) – 41

3. Vitalina Varela (Leonardo Simões) – 34

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Frances McDormand (Nomadland) – 46 points

2. Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 33

3. Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) – 29

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) – 47

2. Amanda Seyfried (Mank) – 40

3. Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) – 33

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) – 52

2. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 47

3. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) – 32

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: 

*1.  Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) – 53

2. Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 36

3. Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods) – 35

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

• Women Make Movies, which, since the 1970s, has been releasing daring and distinctive female-directed movies that more conventional distributors wouldn’t touch. 
• Film Comment, founded in 1962 and currently on hiatus, has long been the most substantial and wide-ranging American film magazine.
• The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. 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.

We dedicated this meeting to our beloved friend and colleague William Wolf, who died in April of COVID-19. Bill was a longtime NSFC member whose career spanned Cue and New York magazines as well as his online Wolf Entertainment Guide. We miss him dearly.