# 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

| Nominations | Film |
| 8 | Minari |
| 6 | Nomadland |
| 5 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| 5 | Mank |
| 5 | One Night in Miami... |
| 4 | News of the World |
| 4 | Promising Young Woman |
| 4 | Soul |
| 4 | Sound of Metal |
| 4 | Tenet |
| 4 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 3 | Da 5 Bloods |
| 3 | First Cow |
| 3 | Onward |
| 2 | Crip Camp |
| 2 | The Father |
| 2 | Judas and the Black Messiah |
| 2 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always |
| 2 | Wolfwalkers |
| Wins | Film |
| 5 | Nomadland |
| 3 | Soul |
| 2 | Minari |
| 2 | One Night in Miami... |