AWARDS: Our 2020 Winners

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Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved

The ballots have been counted for the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s third annual end-of-year Film Awards. We’ve chosen the below films as our collective favorites after engaging in a weighted scale voting process for Best Picture and fifteen other major categories. Potential titles/artists were restricted to those films released theatrically in the United States during the 2020 calendar year (with a few exceptions due to pandemic considerations).

Leading the way are NOMADLAND (6 wins), SOUND OF METAL (4 wins), and MINARI (2 wins).

The 2020 GWNYFCA Film Awards WINNERS:

Best Picture:

Mads Mikkelsen in ANOTHER ROUND; courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Best Foreign Language Film:

Best Animated Film:

Best Documentary:

Best Director:

  • Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
  • Darius Marder, Sound of Metal
  • Steve McQueen, Small Axe: Lovers Rock
  • Kelly Reichardt, First Cow
  • Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – **WINNER**
Dick Johnson in DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD; courtesy of Netflix / 2020.

Lead Actor:

  • Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal – **WINNER**
  • Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Anthony Hopkins, The Father
  • Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
  • Steven Yeun, Minari

Lead Actress:

  • Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
  • Frances McDormand, Nomadland – **WINNER**
  • Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Supporting Actor:

Supporting Actress:

  • Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman
  • Olivia Colman, The Father
  • Amanda Seyfried, Mank
  • Youn Yuh-jung, Minari – **WINNER**
Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in MANK; courtesy of NETFLIX.

Original Screenplay:

  • Driveways (Hannah Bos & Paul Thureen)
  • Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
  • Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) – **WINNER**
  • Sound of Metal (Darius Marder & Abraham Marder / story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance)

Adapted Screenplay:

  • Emma. (Eleanor Catton)
  • The Father (Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller)
  • First Cow (Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt)
  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
  • Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) – **WINNER**

Best Cinematography:

  • First Cow (Christopher Blauvelt)
  • Mank (Erik Messerschmidt)
  • The Midnight Sky (Martin Ruhe)
  • Nomadland (Joshua James Richards) – **WINNER**
  • Small Axe: Lovers Rock (Shabier Kirchner)

Best Editing:

  • The Invisible Man (Andy Canny)
  • Mank (Kirk Baxter)
  • Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) – **WINNER**
  • Sound of Metal (Mikkel E.G. Nielsen)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Alan Baumgarten)

Best Score:

  • Da 5 Bloods (Terence Blanchard)
  • Mank (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
  • The Midnight Sky (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Minari (Emile Mosseri)
  • Soul (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste) – **WINNER**
Riz Ahmed in SOUND OF METAL; courtesy of Amazon Studios.

Breakthrough Performance:

  • Kiera Allen, Run
  • Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Paul Raci, Sound of Metal – **WINNER**
  • Talia Ryder, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Isabel Sandoval, Lingua Franca

Breakthrough Director:

Press:

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