San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2020

19th SFBAFCC Awards

January 18, 2021

Best Picture:
Nomadland

Best Animated Feature:
Soul

Best Documentary:
Collective

Best Foreign Language Film:
Another Round

The 19th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2020, were given on January 18, 2021.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on January 15, 2021, with Nomadland leading the nominations with seven.

Winners and nominees[]

Chloé Zhao, Best Director and Best Film Editing winner

Chadwick Boseman, Best Actor winner

Frances McDormand, Best Actress winner

Youn Yuh-jung, Best Supporting Actress winner

Trent Reznor (left) and Atticus Ross (right), Best Original Score co-winners

These are the nominees for the 19th SFFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:

Best Picture	Best Director
Nomadland First Cow (Honorable Mention) Minari Never Rarely Sometimes Always Promising Young Woman	Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Best Actor	Best Actress
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (posthumous) Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal Anthony Hopkins – The Father Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods Steven Yeun – Minari	Frances McDormand – Nomadland Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Honorable Mention)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods (posthumous) Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... David Strathairn – Nomadland	Youn Yuh-jung – Minari Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Olivia Colman – The Father Toni Collette – I'm Thinking of Ending Things Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Best Adapted Screenplay	Best Original Screenplay
Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow Charlie Kaufman – I'm Thinking of Ending Things Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami... Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Chloé Zhao – Nomadland	Lee Isaac Chung – Minari Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Jack Fincher – Mank (posthumous) Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary
Soul Marona's Fantastic Tale Onward Over the Moon Wolfwalkers	Collective Boys State (Honorable Mention) Crip Camp Time The Truffle Hunters
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Cinematography
Another Round Bacurau Collective La Llorona Two of Us	Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow Erik Messerschmidt – Mank Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (Honorable Mention) Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
Best Film Editing	Best Original Score
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7 Kirk Baxter – Mank Jennifer Lame – Tenet Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father	Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – Soul Terence Blanchard – Da 5 Bloods Terence Blanchard – One Night in Miami... Emile Mosseri – Minari Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank
Best Production Design
Anthony Gasparro (production designer) and Vanessa Knoll (set decorator) – First Cow Donald Graham Burt (production designer) and Jan Pascale (set decorator) – Mank Nathan Crowley (production designer) and Kathy Lucas (set decorator) – Tenet Karen O'Hara (set decorator) and Mark Ricker (production designer) – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Mark Zuelzke (art director), Barry Robison (production designer), and Janessa Hitsman (set decorator) – One Night in Miami...

Special awards[]

Special Citation for Independent Cinema[]

La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante (TIE)
S#!%house, directed by Cooper Raiff (TIE)
- The Last Tree, directed by Shola Amoo

Marlon Riggs Award[]

Dawn Porter

References[]

^ "SFBAFCC 2020 Awards". San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. January 18, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ Anderson, Erik (January 18, 2021). "San Francisco Critics winners: 'Nomadland,' 'First Cow,' 'Minari' and more". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
^ Neglia, Matt (January 18, 2021). "The 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". NextBestPicture. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

External links[]

San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

[1] "SFBAFCC 2020 Awards". San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. January 18, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[2] Anderson, Erik (January 18, 2021). "San Francisco Critics winners: 'Nomadland,' 'First Cow,' 'Minari' and more". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

[3] Neglia, Matt (January 18, 2021). "The 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". NextBestPicture. Retrieved January 18, 2021.

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