2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards
# 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.

## Winners

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

### Best Picture

* Nomadland (52)
* First Cow (50)
* Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41)

### Best Director

* Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58)
* Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41)
* Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30)

### Best Actor

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

### Best Actress

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

### Best Supporting Actor

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

### Best Supporting Actress

* Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47)
* Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40)
* Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33)

### Best Screenplay

* 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

* Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47)
* Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41)
* Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Varela (34)

### Best Foreign Language Film

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

### Best Non-Fiction Film

* Time – Garrett Bradley (46)
* City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (28)
* Collective – Alexander Nanau (22)

### Film Heritage Award

* 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

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.

