title: 2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards
text: # 2020 National Society of Film Critics Awards
  
  55th NSFC Awards
  
  January 9, 2021
  
  Best Film: Nomadland
  
  The 55th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January 2021, honored the best in film for 2020.
  
  ## Winners
  
  Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
  
  ### Best Picture
  
  * Nomadland (52)
  * First Cow (50)
  * Never Rarely Sometimes Always (41)
  
  ### Best Director
  
  * Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (58)
  * Steve McQueen – Small Axe (41)
  * Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (30)
  
  ### Best Actor
  
  * Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods (52)
  * Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (47)
  * Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (32)
  
  ### Best Actress
  
  * Frances McDormand – Nomadland (46)
  * Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (33)
  * Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (29)
  
  ### Best Supporting Actor
  
  * Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (53)
  * Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (36)
  * Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (35)
  
  ### Best Supporting Actress
  
  * Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (47)
  * Amanda Seyfried – Mank (40)
  * Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (33)
  
  ### Best Screenplay
  
  * Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (38)
  * Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow (35)
  * Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things (29)
  
  ### Best Cinematography
  
  * Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (47)
  * Shabier Kirchner – Lovers Rock (41)
  * Leonardo Simões – Vitalina Varela (34)
  
  ### Best Foreign Language Film
  
  * Collective – Alexander Nanau (38)
  * Beanpole – Kantemir Balagov / Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (36)
  
  ### Best Non-Fiction Film
  
  * Time – Garrett Bradley (46)
  * City Hall – Frederick Wiseman (28)
  * Collective – Alexander Nanau (22)
  
  ### Film Heritage Award
  
  * 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.
  
  ## Dedication
  
  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.
  
  