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2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards

55th NSFC Awards

January 9, 2021

Best Film:
Nomadland

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:

 
Chloé Zhao, Best Director winner
 
Delroy Lindo, Best Actor winner
 
Frances McDormand, Best Actress winner
 
Maria Bakalova, Best Supporting Actress winner
 
Eliza Hittman, Best Screenplay winner

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

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

  1. ^ "Nomadland Tops 2020 Awards". National Society of Film Critics. January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  2. ^ Beresford, Trilby (January 9, 2021). "'Nomadland' Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  3. ^ Barnes, Mike (April 2, 2020). "William Wolf, Former Drama Desk President, Dies of Coronavirus Complications at 94". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 2, 2020.

External links edit

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