# Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2020

The 26th Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2020, were announced on February 10, 2021. These awards "recognizing extraordinary accomplishment in film" are presented annually by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA), based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex region of Texas. The association, founded in and presenting awards since 1990, includes 30 film critics for print, radio, television, and internet publications based in North Texas. It is also committed to ensuring that their membership represents a broad range of voices, ideas and perspectives from across cultural, gender and ideological spectra.
Nomadland was the DFWFCA's most awarded film of 2020, taking three honors: Best Picture, Best Director (Chloé Zhao), and Best Cinematography.

## Winners and nominees
### Category awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Picture) to as few as 2 (Best Animated Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Musical Score).
| Best Picture | Best Director |
| Nomadland Promising Young Woman The Trial of the Chicago 7 Minari One Night in Miami... Mank Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Sound of Metal Da 5 Bloods First Cow | Chloé Zhao – Nomadland Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Regina King – One Night in Miami... David Fincher – Mank Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone Gary Oldman – Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony | Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Marta Weiss Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday as Billie Holiday |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe | Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja Helena Zengel – News of the World as Johanna Leonberger / Cicada Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne |
| Best Documentary Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
| Time Dick Johnson Is Dead Boys State The Dissident Crip Camp | Minari Another Round The Life Ahead La Llorona Martin Eden |
| Best Animated Film | Best Screenplay |
| Soul Wolfwalkers | Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Best Cinematography | Best Musical Score |
| Joshua James Richards – Nomadland Erik Messerschmidt – Mank | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank James Newton Howard – News of the World |

### Special award
#### Russell Smith Award

* Minari, for "best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film"