Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2020

The 19th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on February 8, 2021. The nominations were announced on February 6, 2021.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Nomadland
• First Cow
• Minari
• One Night in Miami...
• Promising Young Woman

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
• Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
• Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
• Regina King – One Night in Miami...
• Kelly Reichardt – First Cow

Best Actor

• Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green <small>(posthumous)</small>
• Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
• Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
• Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul
• Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi

Best Actress

• Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
• Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
• Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
• Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man as Cecilia Kass
• Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas

Best Supporting Actor

• Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
• Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
• Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
• Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane
• Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe

Best Supporting Actress

• Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
• Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
• Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne
• Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah as Deborah Johnson
• Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies

Best Original Screenplay

• Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
• Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
• Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance) – Sound of Metal
• Andy Siara – Palm Springs
• Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
• Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami...
• Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Animated Feature

• Soul
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• Onward
• Over the Moon
• Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary Film

• Boys State
• Collective
• Crip Camp
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
• Time

Best International/Foreign Language Film

• Another Round
• Bacurau
• La Llorona
• The Mole Agent
• Night of the Kings

Best Cinematography

• Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
• Erik Messerschmidt – Mank
• Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods
• Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
• Dariusz Wolski – News of the World

Best Editing

• Jennifer Lame – Tenet
• Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Kirk Baxter – Mank
• Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal
• Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Original Score

• Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – Soul
• Ludwig Göransson – Tenet
• James Newton Howard – News of the World
• Emile Mosseri – Minari
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank

Best Production Design

• Donald Graham Burt (production design) and Jan Pascale (set decoration) – Mank
• David Crank (production design) and Elizabeth Keenan (set decoration) – News of the World
• Nathan Crowley (production design) and Kathy Lucas (set decoration) – Tenet
• Kave Quinn (production design) and Stella Fox (set decoration) – Emma
• Mark Ricker (production design) and Karen O'Hara (set decoration) – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Acting Ensemble

• One Night in Miami...
• Da 5 Bloods
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Minari
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Youth Performance

• Alan Kim – Minari as David Yi
• Millie Bobby Brown – Enola Holmes as Enola Holmes
• Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Autumn Callaghan
• Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Skylar
• Helena Zengel – News of the World as Johanna Leonberger

Best Voice Performance

• Jamie Foxx – Soul as Joe Gardner
• Tina Fey – Soul as 22
• Tom Holland – Onward as Ian Lightfoot
• Honor Kneafsey – Wolfwalkers as Robyn Goodfellowe
• Octavia Spencer – Onward as Corey

The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.

• Wonder Woman 1984
• Crip Camp
• The Fight
• Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
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Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations:

The following films received multiple awards:

References

External links

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association