National Board of Review Awards 2020

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

Da 5 Bloods

• First Cow
• The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• The Midnight Sky
• Minari
• News of the World
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• Soul
• Sound of Metal

Best Film:

• Da 5 Bloods

Best Director:

• Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods

Best Actor:

• Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Best Actress:

• Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Best Supporting Actor:

• Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress:

• Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Original Screenplay:

• Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies – News of the World

Best Animated Feature:

• Soul

Best Foreign Language Film:

• La Llorona

Best Documentary:

• Time

Best Ensemble:

• Da 5 Bloods

Breakthrough Performance:

• Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Directorial Debut:

• Channing Godfrey Peoples – Miss Juneteenth

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography:

• Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• One Night in Miami...

NBR Icon Award:

• Chadwick Boseman (posthumous)

La Llorona^[4]

• Apples
• Collective
• Dear Comrades!
• The Mole Agent
• Night of the Kings

Time^[5]

• All In: The Fight for Democracy
• Boys State
• Dick Johnson Is Dead
• Miss Americana
• The Truffle Hunters

• The Climb
• Driveways
• Farewell Amor
• Miss Juneteenth
• The Nest
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• The Outpost
• Relic
• Saint Frances
• Wolfwalkers