The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) announced their top honorees for 2020 with Nomadland taking five wins including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Frances McDormand, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
Best Documentary honors went to “Boys State,” Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s fascinating look at the teenage attendees of summer leadership and citizenship program American Legion Boys State, while Best International/Foreign Language Film was awarded to Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish midlife-crisis comedy-drama “Another Round.”
Best Acting Ensemble accolades were awarded to “One Night in Miami…,” a drama about a fictionalized February 1964 meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom, Jr.
The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association comprises over 60 DC-VA-MD-based film critics from television, radio, print and the Internet.
2020 Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award Winners
Best Film:
Nomadland
Best Director:
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Best Actor:
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Best Actress:
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Best Supporting Actor:
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami…)
Best Supporting Actress:
Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
Best Acting Ensemble:
One Night in Miami…
Best Youth Performance:
Alan Kim (Minari)
Best Voice Performance:
Jamie Foxx (Soul)
Best Original Screenplay:
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Chloé Zhao [Based on the Book by Jessica Bruder] (Nomadland)
Best Animated Feature:
Soul
Best Documentary:
Boys State
Best International/Foreign Language Film:
Another Round
Best Production Design:
Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decorator: Jan Pascale (Mank)
Best Cinematography:
Joshua James Richards, Director of Photography (Nomadland)
Best Editing:
Jennifer Lame, ACE (Tenet)
Best Original Score:
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste (Soul)
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC:
Wonder Woman 1984