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

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

  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 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 Actress

  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

  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

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

Best Screenplay

  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

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

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Non-Fiction Film

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

Film Heritage Award

Dedication

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

  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.
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