The 2020 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations

By Matt Neglia 

The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) (formerly known as the San Francisco Film Critics Circle) have announced their nominations for the best in film for 2020. The winners will be revealed January 18th 2020.

Click below to see the nominees.

Best Picture
“First Cow”
“Minari”
“Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
“Nomadland”
“Promising Young Woman”

Best Director
Chloé Zhao - “Nomadland”
Eliza Hittman - “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Emerald Fennell - “Promising Young Woman”
Kelly Reichardt - “First Cow”
Lee Isaac Chung - “Minari”

Best Original Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin - “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Eliza Hittman - “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Emerald Fennell - “Promising Young Woman”
Jack Fincher - “Mank”
Lee Isaac Chung - “Minari”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman - “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
Chloé Zhao - “Nomadland”
Kelly Reichardt & Jon Raymond - “First Cow”
Kemp Powers - “One Night in Miami”
Ruben Santiago-Hudson - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins -“The Father”
Chadwick Boseman - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Delroy Lindo - “Da 5 Bloods”
Riz Ahmed - “Sound of Metal”
Steven Yeun -“Minari”

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan - “Promising Young Woman”
Elisabeth Moss - “The Invisible Man”
Frances McDormand - “Nomadland”
Sidney Flanigan - “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Viola Davis - “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Best Supporting Actor
Chadwick Boseman - “Da 5 Bloods”
David Strathairn - “Nomadland”
Leslie Odom Jr. - “One Night in Miami”
Paul Raci - “Sound of Metal”
Sacha Baron Cohen - “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Supporting Actress
Amanda Seyfried - “Mank”
Maria Bakalova - “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Olivia Colman - “The Father”
Toni Collette - “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
Youn Yuh-jung - “Minari”

Best Animated Feature
“Marona’s Fantastic Tale”
“Onward”
“Over the Moon”
“Soul”
“Wolfwalkers”

Best Foreign Language Film
“Another Round”
“Bacurau”
“Collective”
“La Llorona”
“Two of Us”

Best Documentary
“Collective”
“Crip Camp”
“Boys State”
“The Truffle Hunters”
“Time”

Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt - “First Cow”
Erik Messerschmidt - “Mank”
Hoyte Van Hoytema - “Tenet”
Joshua James Richards - “Nomadland”
Newton Thomas Sigel - “Da 5 Bloods”

Best Production Design
“First Cow”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Mank”
“One Night in Miami”
“Tenet”

Best Film Editing
Alan Baumgarten - “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Chloé Zhao - “Nomadland”
Jennifer Lame - “Tenet”
Kirk Baxter - “Mank”
Yorgos Lamprinos - “The Father”

Best Original Score
Emile Mosseri - “Minari”
Terence Blanchard - “Da 5 Bloods”
Terence Blanchard - “One Night in Miami”
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - “Mank”
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - “Soul”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema
“La Llorona”
“The Last Tree”
“Sh*thouse”

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