Traditionally, when an organization gives out yearly awards, it’s for the prior year. Unless you’re getting screeners and seeing more than a couple movies every week, it’s hard to have seen all the worthy films of a given year before March, when the traditional “award season” ends.
That’s why it made sense to us to give it an extra 12 months to give people extra time.
Here are the awards for the Best of 2020, with the nominees and winners as voted on by reviewers and regular movie viewers.
Best Visuals
Winner: TENET
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Birds of Prey
Nomadland
My Octopus Teacher
Best Music
Winner: Soul
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Da 5 Bloods
Birds of Prey
The Devil All The Time
Most Surprisingly Good Movie
Winner: Eurovision Song Contest
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Love and Monsters
The Invisible Man
Palm Springs
Best Director
Winner: Florian Zeller – “The Father”
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Emerald Fennell – “Promising Young Woman”
Thomas Vinterberg – “Another Round”
Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland”
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Olivia Coleman – “The Father”
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Yuh-Jung Youn – “Minari”
Maria Bakalova – “Borat Subsequent Movie Film”
Glenn Close – “Hillbilly Elegy”
Mary Elizabeth Winstead – “Birds of Prey”
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Daniel Kaluuya – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Chadwick Boseman – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Lakeith Stanfield – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Leslie Odom – “Hamilton”
Sacha Baron Cohen – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Best Documentary
Winner: The Social Dilemma
Other Top Voted Nominees:
You Can’t Kill David Arquette
My Octopus Teacher
#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Best Picture – Horror
Winner: The Invisible Man
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Possessor
Sputnik
Freaky
Vampires vs The Bronx
Best Picture – Animation
Winner: Wolfwalkers
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Soul
Onward
Over the Moon
Best Picture – Thriller
Winner: Promising Young Woman
Other Top Voted Nominees:
The Devil All The Time
The Invisible Man
Night of the Kings
Best Picture – Sci-Fi
Winner: TENET
Other Top Voted Nominees:
The Invisible Man
The Vast of Night
The Midnight Sky
Best Picture – Action
Winner: Birds Of Prey
Other Top Voted Nominees:
TENET
Love and Monsters
Wonder Woman 1984
The Old Guard
Best Actress
Winner: Carey Mulligan – “Promising Young Woman”
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Margot Robbie – “Birds of Prey”
Frances McDormand – “Nomadland”
Viola Davis – “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Elizabeth Moss – “The Invisible Man”
Best Actor
Winner: Anthony Hopkins – “The Father”
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Riz Ahmed – “The Sound of Metal”
Mads Mikkelsen – “Another Round”
Delroy Lindo – “Da 5 Bloods”
Best Picture – Comedy
Winner: Palm Springs
Other Top Voted Nominees:
Another Round
Eurovision Song Contest
Borat Subsequent Movie Film
Happiest Season
Best Picture – Drama / Musical
Winner: The Trial of the Chicago 7
Other Top Voted Nominees:
The Father
Promising Young Woman
Another Round
Judas and the Black Messiah
First Cow
Closing Notes
Initially there were a few things we intended to do with this awards presentation that we didn’t end up doing. One of those things was a category for the “Most Disappointing Movie of 2020”, but we heard from enough of our voters that they weren’t interested in voicing an opinion in the category that we decided to just scrap it all together. While I still believe in the concept’s importance on the whole, I’m not sure I conveyed it correctly to get sufficient weigh-in. Perhaps it will return next year.
Another thing for next year is getting some write-ups / supporting opinions on the winners from the voters. I’d love to be able to present a bit more about the winners with the reasons why voters chose them. We didn’t get enough responses with those sorts of write-ups from voters this year, but perhaps next year.
Special thanks to all the voters who weighed in! I really appreciate everyone who was willing to lend their opinions to this voting. I tried to make it as easy for everyone as possible, and hopefully I can make some improvements on it for next year.
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