Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Ben Pearson (Slash Film):

Top-10:
1. Sylvie’s Love
2. The Vast of Night
3. Sound of Metal
4. Mangrove
5. Da 5 Bloods
6. Promising Young Woman
7. The Painter and the Thief
8. Palm Springs
9. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
10. Unpregnant

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Chris Evangelista (Slash Film):

Top-10:
1. Possessor
2. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
3. Nomadland
4. The Invisible Man
5. Shirley
6. First Cow
7. Minari
8. Da 5 Bloods
9. Mank
10. Freaky

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Jordan Ruimy (World of Reel):

Top-15:
1. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ (Eliza Hittman)
2. ‘Lovers Rock’ (Steve McQueen)
3. ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross)
4. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ (Spike Lee)
5. ‘First Cow’ (Kelly Reichardt)
6. ‘The Invisible Man’ (Leigh Whannell)
7. ‘Bad Education’ (Corey Finley)
8. ‘Young Ahmed’ (Jean-Luc and Pierre Dardenne)
9. ‘Sound of Metal’ (Darius Marder)
10. ‘The Assistant’ (Kitty Green)
11. ‘Promising Young Woman’ (Emerald Fennell)
12. ‘Bacurau‘ (Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Juliano Dornelles)
13. ‘Pieces of a Woman’ (Kornél Mundruczó)
14. David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
15. ‘Palm Springs‘ (Max Barbakow)
Runners-Up: Sean Durkin’s ‘The Nest,’ Eugene Kotlyarenko’s ‘Spree,’ David Cronenberg’s ‘Possessor,’ Florian Zeller’s ‘The Father,’ Rob Savages’s ‘Host’, Yaron Zilberman’s ‘Incitement’, Steve McQueen’s ‘Mangrove,’ Antonio Campos’ ‘The Devil All the Time,’ Hao Wu and Weixi Chen’s ’76 Days’

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания Screen Anarchy:

Top-10:
1. Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg, Canada/UK, 2020)
2. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2019)
3. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, USA/Germany, 2020)
4. Mank (David Fincher, USA, 2020)
5. Relic (Natalie Erika James, Australia/USA, 2020)
6. (tie) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, USA/UK, 2020)
6. (tie) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, USA, 2020)
8. Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/Sweden/The Netherlands, 2020)
9. Palm Springs (Max Barbakow, USA/Hong Kong, 2020)
10. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, UK, 2020)

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Mike Scott (New Orleans Times-Picayune):

Top-10:
1. First Cow
2. The Trial of the Chicago 7
3. Time
4. Nomadland
5. Promising Young Woman
6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
7. Soul
8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
9. News of the World
10. Mank

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Kiko Martinez (San Antonio Current):

Top-10:
1. Minari
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Sound of Metal
5. La Llorona
6. The Assistant
7. The Painted Bird
8. Dick Johnson is Dead
9. Feels Good Man
10. My Octopus Teacher
Honorable Mentions: Collective, Emma, The Nest, Nomadland, The Painter and the Thief, Shithouse, Small Axe: Mangrove, Soul, Totally Under Control, Wolfwalkers

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии Kevin Rakestraw (Film Pulse):

Top-15:
#01 – TALKING ABOUT TREES (Suhaib Gasmelbari)
#02 – THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack)
#03 – TIME (Garrett Bradley)
#04 – JALLIKATTU (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
#05 – GIRLS ALWAYS HAPPY (Yang Mingming)
#06 – FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
#07 – NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Eliza Hittman)
#08 – BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
#09 – RESIDUE (Merawi Gerima)
#10 – THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Matthew Rankin)
#11 – THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL) (Ja’Tovia Gary)
#12 – FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
#13 – GUAXUMA (Nara Normande)
#14 – DEERSKIN (Quentin Dupieux)
#15 – CEMETERY (Carlos Casas)