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.

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 (posthumous)
 * 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
 * The Croods: A New Age
 * ''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
 * John Lewis: Good Trouble

Multiple nominations and wins
The following films received multiple nominations:

The following films received multiple awards: