2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards

The 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 9, 2021, honored the best in film for 2020.^[1]

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:^[2]

1. Nomadland (52)
2. First Cow (50)
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41)

1. Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58)
2. Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41)
3. Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30)

1. Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (52)
2. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (47)
3. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (32)

1. Frances McDormand – Nomadland (46)
2. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (33)
3. Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (29)

1. Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (53)
2. Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (36)
3. Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (35)

1. Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47)
2. Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40)
3. Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33)

1. Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (38)
2. Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (35)
3. Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things (29)

1. Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47)
2. Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41)
3. Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Varela (34)

1. Collective – Alexander Nanau (38)
2. Beanpole – Kantemir Balagov / Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (36)

1. Time – Garrett Bradley (46)
2. City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (28)
3. Collective – Alexander Nanau (22)

• Film Comment, founded in 1962 and currently on hiatus, has long been the most substantial and wide-ranging American film magazine.
• Women Make Movies, which, since the 1970s, has been releasing daring and distinctive female-directed movies that more conventional distributors wouldn't touch.
• The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among America's premier repertory houses, showing arthouse movies steadily since 1953, and holding strong in continuing the time-honored tradition of daily double features.

The meeting to decide the winners was dedicated to former Drama Desk president, and film and theater critic William Wolf, who died on March 28, 2020, due to COVID-19. Wolf was a longtime NSFC member, whose career spanned Cue and New York magazines as well as his online Wolf Entertainment Guide.^[3]

• Official website