Oscars Watch: 2020 Black Film Critics Circle Awards

Last year, “Dolemite Is My Name” won four awards from the Black Film Critics Circle, including Best Picture. This year, that honor goes to “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which took Best Film, Best Leading Actor and Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. “Minari” took a pair of awards while Regina King and Chloé Zhao tied for Best Director.

TOP TEN FILMS OF 2020

1. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
2. “Minari”
3. “Nomadland”
4. “One Night in Miami”
5. “Soul”
6. “Judas and the Black Messiah”
7. “Da 5 Bloods”
8. “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
9. “Sound of Metal”
10. “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (TIE)
11. “Sylvie’s Love” (TIE)

QUICK LIST

Best Film: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Best Director (TIE): Regina King — “One Night In Miami” & Chloé Zhao — “Nomadland”
Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman — “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Best Actress: Viola Davis — “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Best Supporting Actor: Leslie Odom Jr. — “One Night In Miami”
Best Supporting Actress: Yuh-Jung Youn — “Minari”
Best Original Screenplay: “Minari” — Lee Isaac Chung
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Best Cinematography: “Tenet” — Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Documentary: “Time”
Best Animated Film: “Soul”
Best Foreign Film: “Night of the Kings”

Black Film Critics Circle

Founded in 2010, the Black Film Critics Circle is a membership organization comprised of film critics of color from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and qualifying on-line publications. The organization is dedicated to honoring excellence of professionals in the theatrical motion picture industry in U.S. and World Cinema. Its mission is to celebrate contributions and achievements in film by people of the black Diaspora who work in front of and behind the camera, maintain the integrity of a true Critics organization and advance a collective vision of journalists of the black Diaspora.