Detroit Film Critics Society Names Nomadland Best Picture
The Detroit Film Critics Society (DFCS) is pleased to announce the BEST OF 2020 nominees and winners in thirteen categories. This year, due to the pandemic, the period for which a film could be released was extended through February 28, 2021. Also included this year, and not in the past, are films that streamed because they could not be theatrically released. The DFCS was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of eighteen film critics from Michigan who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Toledo, Ohio.
Each critic submitted their top 5 picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music/Sound. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top 5 in each category was placed on the final ballot.
Nomadland was the big winner this year receiving 4 nominations and 4 wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Minari MINARI had 7 nominations (the most) and 3 wins for Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Best Original Screenplay. The Trial of the Chicago 7 tied with Sound of Metal with 5 nominations each. Sound of Metal had one win for Best Use of Sound/Music. One Night in Miami received 4 nominations with no wins. The coveted Best Actor award went to Delroy Lindo in Da 5 Bloods. The full list of results can be found below.
Additionally, the DFCS would like to dedicate the awards this year to our longtime member and colleague that passed away in 2020 – Corey Hall.
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The Best of 2020
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)
BEST PICTURE
- Winner: Nomadland
- First Cow
- Minari
- Sound of Metal
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST DIRECTOR
- Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
- Regina King, One Night in Miami
- Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
- Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST ACTOR
- Winner: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
- Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
- Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Anthony Hopkins, The Father
- Steven Yeun, Minari
BEST ACTRESS
- Winner: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
- Jessie Buckley, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
- Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Winner: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
- Christopher Abbott, Possessor
- Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
- Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Winner: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
- Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
- Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman
- Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
- Olivia Colman, The Father
BEST ENSEMBLE
- Winner: Minari
- Da 5 Bloods
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- One Night in Miami
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
BREAKTHROUGH
- Winner: Maria Bakalova, Actress (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
- Jasmine Batchelor, Actress (The Surrogate)
- Radha Blank, Actress/Writer/Director/Producer (The Forty Year-Old Version)
- Orion Lee, Actor (First Cow)
- Wunmi Mosaku, Actress (His House)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- Kemp Powers, One Night in Miami
- Kelly Reichardt, Jonathan Raymond, First Cow
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Winner: Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
- Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
- Shaka King, Will Berson, Judas and the Black Messiah
- Darius Marder, Abraham Marder, Sound of Metal
- Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Winner: Dick Johnson Is Dead
- All In: Fight for Democracy
- Boys State
- The Dissident
- Time
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Winner: Soul
- The Croods: A New Age
- Onward
- Over the Moon
- Wolfwalkers
BEST USE OF MUSIC/SOUND
- Winner: Sound of Metal
- News of the World
- Possessor
- Soul
- Tenet
The Detroit Film Critics Society members for the 2020-2021 season in alphabetical order are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local, Paul Arlon – The Downtown Monitor; Kirk Baird – The Toledo Blade; Jonathan Barkan – jonathanbarkan.com, George Elkind – Metro Times; Christopher Giroux – Moviereelist.com; Corey Hall – Metro Times, WDET; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Warren Pierce – WJR Radio; Greg Russell – WDIV-TV Detroit & Movie Show Plus; Tom Santilli – CriticLee Speaking and Movie Show Plus; Debbie Schlussel – Sirius XM Larry the Cable Guy Show; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance show; John Serba – johnserbaatlarge.com; MontiLee Stormer – Moviereelist.com; Lee Thomas – Critic Lee Speaking, Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – CinemaNerdz.com and VideoHound’s Golden MovieRetriever; Carl Wheeler – thereelgodfather.com; and Chris Williams – michigansportsandentertainment.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ruth Daniels at (248) 910-8796 OR ruthfdaniels@gmail.com
More information is available on the website at detroitfilmcritics.com
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