Best Films Overall of 2020

Best Film of 2020

Winner

  • Promising Young Woman

Additional Nominees

  • Antebellum
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Minari
  • Nomadland

Best Director of a 2020 Film

Winner

  • Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Additional Nominees

  • Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
  • Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  • David Fincher – Mank
  • Patty Jenkins – Wonder Woman 1984
  • George C. Wolfe – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Script of a 2020 Film

Winner

  • Promising Young Woman

Additional Nominees

  • First Cow
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • One Night in Miami…
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography, Art Direction or Set Design for a 2020 Film

Winner

  • Tenet

Additional Nominees

  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Mank
  • News of the World
  • Nomadland
  • Promising Young Woman

Best Costume Design Or Make-Up for a 2020 Film

Winner

  • Birds of Prey

Additional Nominees

  • Antebellum
  • I’m Thinking of Ending Things
  • Mulan (2020)
  • The Witches (2020)
  • Wonder Woman 1984

Best Visual Effects for a 2020 Film

Winner

  • Tenet

Additional Nominees

  • Birds of Prey
  • Color Out of Space
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Midnight Sky
  • Wonder Woman 1984

Favorite Cinematic Guilty Pleasure of 2020

Winner

  • The King of Staten Island

Additional Nominees

  • Bill & Ted Face the Music
  • Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island
  • The Boys in the Band (2020)
  • The New Mutants
  • The Witches (2020)

Best Use of (Gratuitous?) Nudity in a 2020 Film

Winner

  • The Boys in the Band (2020)

Additional Nominees

  • Ammonite
  • Friendsgiving
  • Palm Springs
  • The Prince (2020)
  • True History of the Kelly Gang

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