2020: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. First Cow (dir: Kelly Reichardt; US Release Date)

2. Martin Eden (dir: Pietro Marcello; US Release Date)

3. Collective (dir: Alexander Nanau; US Release Date)

4. Lovers Rock (dir: Steve McQueen)

5. The Whistlers (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu; US Release Date)

6. Da 5 Bloods (dir: Spike Lee)

7. Sound of Metal (dir: Darius Marber; US Release Date)

8. Nomadland (dir: Chloé Zhao)

9. Shirley (dir: Josephine Decker)

10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (dir: Eliza Hittman)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Ammonite (dir: Francis Lee), And then We Danced (dir: Levan Akin; US release date), The Assistant (dir: Kitty Green; US release date), Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (dir: Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV), Borat Subsequint Moviefilm (dir: Jason Woliner), Dick Johnson Is Dead (dir: Kirsten Johnson), Emma. (dir: Autumn de Wilde), His House (dir: Remi Weekes), Mangrove (dir: Steve McQueen), The Nest (dir: Sean Durkin), One Night in Miami (dir: Regina King), Palm Springs (dir: Max Barbakow), Possessor (dir: Brandon Cronenberg), Shithouse (dir: Cooper Raiff), Swallow (dir: Carlo Mirabella-Davis; US release date), and You Deserve a Lover (dir: Hafsia Herzi; US Release Date)

Best Film of the Year: First Cow
Director: Kelly Reichardt Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani
US Distributor: A24

Best Director:
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
2. Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock
3. Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden
4. Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
5. Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actor:
Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
2. Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
3. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
4. Riz Ahmed, The Sound of Metal
5. Levan Gelbakhiani, And Then We Danced

Best Actress:
Haley Bennett, Swallow
2. Kate Winslet, Ammonite
3. Carrie Coon, The Nest
4. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Big Black Bottom
5. Elisabeth Moss, Shirley AND The Invisible Man

Best Supporting Actor:
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
2. Jonathan Majors, Da 5 Bloods
3. Michael Stuhlbarg, Shirley
4. Kingsley Ben-Adir, One Night in Miami
5. Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Sandra Hüller, Sybil
2. Letitia Wright, Mangrove
3. Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
4. Amanda Seyfried, Mank
5. Mia Goth, Emma.

Best Original Screenplay
The Whistlers — Corneliu Porumboiu
2. Palm Springs — Andy Siara
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
4. Shithouse — Cooper Raiff
5. Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci
2. First Cow — Kelly Reichardt and Jonathon Raymond
3. Shirley — Sarah Gubbins
4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things — Charlie Kaufman
5. Nomadland — Chloé Zhao

Best Cinematography
Ema — Sergio Armstrong
2. News of the World — Dariusz Wolski
3. Swallow — Katelin Arizmendi
4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things — Łukasz Żal
5. Beanpole — Kseniya Sereda

Best Original Score
Soul — Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste
2. Minari — Emile Mosseri
3. Wolfwalkers — Kíla, Bruno Coulais, and Aurora Asknes
4. Tenet — Ludwig Göransson
5. Possessor — Jim Williams

Best Film Editing
Possessor — Matthew Hannam
2. Da 5 Bloods — Adam Gough
3. Lovers Rock — Chris Dickens
4. Let Him Go — Jeffrey Ford and Meg Reticker
5. Tenet — Jennifer Lame

Best Production Design
Beanpole — Sergey Ivanov
2. The Personal History of David Copperfield — Cristina Casali and Charlotte Dirickx
3. Mank — Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale
4. First Cow — Anthony Gasparro and Vanessa Knoll
5. Tenet — Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas, and Emmanuel Delis

Best Costume Design
The Personal History of David Copperfield — Suzie Harman and Robert Worley
2. Emma. — Alexandra Byrne
3. First Cow — April Napier
4. Mulan — Bina Daigeler
5. Ammonite — Michael O’Connor

Best Visual Effects
Tenet
2. Underwater
3. The Invisible Man

Best Sound
Sound of Metal
2. Tenet
3. Soul

Best Makeup
Emma.
2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
3. Beanpole

Best Documentary Feature
Collective — Alexander Nanau
2. City Hall — Frederick Wiseman
3. Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
4. Feels Good Man — Arthur Jones
5. Time — Garrett Bradley

Best Animated Feature
The Wolf House — Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
2. Soul — Pete Docter and Kemp Powers
3. Wolfwalkers — Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart

Best Limited Series:
Small Axe — Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons, Courttia Newland, and Anita Overland
2. I May Destroy You — Michaela Coel, Sam Miller, Simon Maloney, and Simon Meyers
3. The Plot Against America — David Simon, Ed Burns, Thomas Schlamme, Minkie Spiro, and Claire Shanley

Best Documentary Series
The Last Dance — Jason Hehir
2. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark — Liz Garbus
3. McMillion$ — James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte

Best Ensemble Cast: 
The Assistant

Best First Feature:
Darius Marber, Sound of Metal

Best Ensemble Cast: The Assistant (dir: Kitty Green, in alphabetical order): Juliana Canfield, Alexander Chaplin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Julia Garner (pictured), Bregje Heinen (pictured), Makenzie Leigh, Matthew Macfadyen, Jonny Orsini, Noah Robbins, Jay O. Sanders and Clara Wong

Best First Feature: Riz Ahmed in Darius Marber’s Sound of Metal

RECAP

W I N S :

First Cow — 2, Sound of Metal — 2,
The Assistant — 1, Beanpole — 1, Collective — 1, Da 5 Bloods — 1, Ema — 1, Emma. — 1, The Last Dance — 1, Martin Eden — 1, One Night in Miami — 1, The Personal History of David Copperfield— 1, Possessor — 1, Sibyl — 1, Small Axe — 1, Soul — 1, Swallow — 1, Tenet — 1, The Whistlers — 1, The Wolf House — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Da 5 Bloods — 5, First Cow — 5, Sound of Metal — 5,
Shirley — 4, Tenet — 4, Emma. 3, Lovers Rock — 3, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — 3, Martin Eden — 3, Nomadland — 3, Soul — 3, Ammonite — 2, Beanpole — 2, Collective — 2, I’m Thinking of Ending Things — 2, Mank — 2, Never Rarely Sometimes Always — 2, One Night in Miami — 2, The Personal History of David Copperfield — 2, Possessor — 2, Swallow – 2, The Whistlers — 2, Wolfwalkers — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s