2020 Circle of Film Awards

Best Picture

• **World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime**
  • Minari
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Opera
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Director

• **Spike Lee** – Da 5 Bloods
  • Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
  • Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Robert Machoian – The Killing of Two Lovers
  • Steve McQueen – Lovers Rock

Best Lead Performance

• **Sidney Flanigan** – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Jasna Duricic – Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • Celine Held – Topside
  • Anthony Hopkins – The Father
  • Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods
  • Frances McDormand – Nomadland
  • Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man
  • Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
  • Aubrey Plaza – Black Bear

Best Supporting Performance

• **Shaun Parks** – Mangrove
  • Olivia Colman – The Father
  • Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • Riku Kurokouchi – Red Post on Escher Street
  • Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami
  • Aubrey Plaza – Happiest Season
  • Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Mark Rylance – The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Sharlene Whyte – Education
  • Youn Yuh-jung – Minari

Best Screenplay

• **Eliza Hittman** – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  • Miranda July – Kajillionaire
  • Robert Machoian – The Killing of Two Lovers
  • Ben Sharrock – Limbo

Best Original Song

• **Where You From** – The Long Goodbye
  • Io Si – The Life Ahead
  • Love Myself – The High Note
  • Rocket to the Moon – Over the Moon
  • Speak Now – One Night in Miami…

Best Original Score

• **Ludovico Einaudi** – Nomadland
  • Jon Batiste/Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross – Soul
  • Bruno Coulais – Wolfwalkers
  • Julia Holter – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Benjamin Wallfisch – The Invisible Man

Best Tactile Effects

• **Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)**
  • Da 5 Bloods
  • Emma.
  • Hunter Hunter
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Special Effects

• **Soul**
  • The Invisible Man
  • Nomadland
  • Wolfwalkers
  • World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime

Best Scene

• **Titular Scene** – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Monologue – Da 5 Bloods
  • Subway Long Take – Topside
  • Truck Date – The Killing of Two Lovers
  • We’re Done – Happiest Season