2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards
| 55th NSFC Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | January 9, 2021 |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film | Nomadland |
The 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 9, 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:
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Best Picture
[edit]- Nomadland (52)
- First Cow (50)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41)
Best Director
[edit]- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58)
- Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41)
- Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30)
Best Actor
[edit]- Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (52)
- Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (47)
- Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (32)
Best Actress
[edit]- Frances McDormand – Nomadland (46)
- Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (33)
- Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (29)
Best Supporting Actor
[edit]- Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (53)
- Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (36)
- Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (35)
Best Supporting Actress
[edit]- Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47)
- Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40)
- Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33)
Best Screenplay
[edit]- Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (38)
- Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (35)
- Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things (29)
Best Cinematography
[edit]- Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47)
- Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41)
- Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Varela (34)
Best Foreign Language film
[edit]- Collective – Alexander Nanau (38)
- Beanpole – Kantemir Balagov / Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (36)
Best Non-Fiction Film
[edit]- Time – Garrett Bradley (46)
- City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (28)
- 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]- ^ "Nomadland Tops 2020 Awards". National Society of Film Critics. January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ^ Beresford, Trilby (January 9, 2021). "'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ Barnes, Mike (April 2, 2020). "William Wolf, Former Drama Desk President, Dies of Coronavirus Complications at 94". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 2, 2020.