IndieWire составил топ-лист на основе мнений критиков за 2020 год:

Best Film
1. “Nomadland”
2. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
3. “First Cow”
4. “Lovers Rock”
5. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
6. “Beanpole”
7. “Time”
8. “Da 5 Bloods”
9. “Martin Eden”
10. “Bacurau”

Best Director
1. Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
2. Steve McQueen, “Lovers Rock”
3. Eliza Hittman, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
4. Kelly Reichardt, “First Cow”
5. David Fincher, “Mank”
6. Spike Lee, “Da 5 Bloods”
7. Charlie Kaufman, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
8. Pietro Marcello, “Martin Eden”
9. Kantemir Balegov, “Beanpole”
10. Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”

Best Performance
1. Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
2. Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
3. Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
4. Delroy Lindo, “Da 5 Bloods”
5. Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
6. Jessie Buckley, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
7. Luca Marinelli, “Martin Eden”
8. Gary Oldman, “Mank”
9. Carrie Coon, “The Nest”
10. Mads Mikkelsen, “Another Round”

Best Documentary
1. “Dick Johnson Is Dead”
2. “Time”
3. “Collective”
4. “City Hall”
5. “The Painter and the Thief”
6. “Bloody Nose Empty Pockets”
7. “76 Days”
8. “The Social Dilemma”
9. “The Mole Agent”
10. “Totally Under Control”

Best Cinematography
1. “Nomadland”
2. “Mank”
3. “Vitalina Varela”
4. “Lovers Rock”
5. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
6. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
7. “First Cow”
8. “Tenet”
9. “Beanpole”
10. “The Painted Bird”/”Gunda” (TIE)

Best Screenplay
1. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
2. “First Cow”
3. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
4. “Promising Young Woman”
5. “Mank”
6. “Fourteen”
7. “Minari”
8. “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
9. “One Night in Miami”
10. “Kajillionaire”

Best International Film
1. “Bacurau”
2. “Beanpole”
3. “Another Round”
4. “Vitalina Varela”
5. “Martin Eden”
6. “Collective”
7. “Wolfwalkers”
8. “And Then We Danced”
9. “The Painted Bird”
10. “His House”

Best First Feature
1. “Promising Young Woman”
2. “The Vast of Night”
3. “The 40-Year-Old Version”
4. “One Night in Miami”
5. “Relic”
6. “The Sound of Metal”
7. “The Assistant”
8. “Ham on Rye”
9. “Babyteeth”
10. “The Climb”

Лучшие ленты 2020 по версии издания RogerEbert:

Top-10:
1. “Small Axe: Lovers Rock”
2. “Nomadland”
3. “David Byrne’s American Utopia”
4. “First Cow”
5. “Da 5 Bloods”
6. “Minari”
7. “Beanpole”
8. “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
9. “The Nest”
10. “The Assistant”

Best Film: Nomadland
– Runner up: First Cow

Best Director: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
– Runner up: Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)

Best Non-English Language Film: La Llorona (directed by Jayro Bustamante)

Best Ensemble Cast: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
– Runner up: Minari

Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
– Runner Up: Riz Amed (Sound of Metal)

Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan Never Rarely Sometimes Always
– Runner Up: Julia Garner (The Assistant)

Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
– Runner Up: Brian Dennehy (Driveways)

Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)
– Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried (Mank)

Best Screenplay: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
– Runner-up: First Cow (Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond)

Best Animated Feature: The Wolf House
– runner-up: Wolfwalkers

Best Cinematography: Nomadland (Joshua James Richards)
– runner-up: Lover’s Rock (Shabier Kirchner)

Best Editing: I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Robert Frazen)
– runner-up: Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

Best Score: Minari (Emile Mosseri)
– runner-up: NA

Best Documentary: Collective (Alexander Nanau)
– runner-up: The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree).

Best First Film: The Father (Florian Zeller)
– runner-up: Emma (Autumn de Wilde)

Список из 36 самых недооцененных хорроров в истории по версии MovieWeb:

Top-36:
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Messiah of Evil (1974)
The Funhouse (1981)
The House By The Cemetery (1981)
In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)
Tourist Trap (1979)
The Burning (1981)
The Sentinel (1977)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)

Black Christmas (1974)
City Of The Living Dead (1980)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Magic (1978)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
Coherence (2013)
Pieces (1983)
Psycho II (1983)
Martin (1977)

Deranged (1974)
Rituals (1977)
Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Lake Mungo (2009)
Dead and Buried (1981)
Hell House LLC (2015)
Just Before Dawn (1981)
I Drink Your Blood (1970)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Death Dream (1974)
The Strangers (2008)
The Exorcist III (1990)
Scream of Fear (1961)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Cemetery Man (1994)

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Среди выбранных в 2020 году:
1. Suspense (1913)
2. Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
3. Bread (1918)
4. The Battle of the Century (1927)
5. With Cara and Camera Around the World (1929)
6. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
7. Outrage (1950)
8. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
9. Lilies of the Field (1963)
10. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
11. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
12. Wattstax (1973)
13. Grease (1978)
14. The Blues Brothers (1980)
15. Losing Ground (1982)
16. Illusions (1982)
17. The Joy Luck Club (1993)
18. The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
19. Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
20. The Ground (1993-2001)
21. Shrek (2001)
22. Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
23. The Hurt Locker (2008)
24. The Dark Knight (2008)
25. Freedom Riders (2010)