San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2020
# San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2020

19th SFBAFCC Awards

January 18, 2021

Picture:

Nomadland

Animated Feature:

Soul

Documentary:

Collective

Foreign Language Picture:

Another Round

The 19th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2020, were given on January 18, 2021.

## Winners and nominees

These are the nominees for the 19th SFFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:

| Best Film | Best Director |
| - | - |
| Nomadland First Cow Minari Never Rarely Sometimes Always Promising Young Woman | Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Kelly Reichardt – First Cow |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (posthumously) Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal Anthony Hopkins – The Father Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods Steven Yeun – Minari | Frances McDormand – Nomadland Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Paul Raci – Sound of Metal Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (posthumously) Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... David Strathairn – Nomadland | Youn Yuh-jung – Minari Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Olivia Colman – The Father Toni Collette – I'm Thinking of Ending Things Amanda Seyfried – Mank |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Original Screenplay |
| Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami... Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Chloé Zhao – Nomadland | Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Jack Fincher – Mank (posthumously) Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Best Animated Feature | Best Documentary Film |
| Soul Marona's Fantastic Tale Onward Over the Moon Wolfwalkers | Collective Boys State Crip Camp Time The Truffle Hunters |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Best Cinematography |
| Another Round Bacurau Collective La Llorona Two of Us | Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow Erik Messerschmidt – Mank Joshua James Richards – Nomadland Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet |
| Best Film Editing | Best Production Design |
| Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 Kirk Baxter – Mank Jennifer Lame – Tenet Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father | Anthony Gasparro and Vanessa Knoll – First Cow Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale – Mank Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas – Tenet Janessa Hitsman and Mark Zuelzke – One Night in Miami... Karen O'Hara and Mark Ricker – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Best Original Score | |
| Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – Soul Terence Blanchard – Da 5 Bloods Terence Blanchard – One Night in Miami... Emile Mosseri – Minari Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank | |

## Special awards

### Special Citation for Independent Cinema

* La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante (TIE)
* S#!%house, directed by Cooper Raiff (TIE)
   * The Last Tree, directed by Shola Amoo

### Marlon Riggs Award

* Dawn Porter
