2020 North Carolina Film Critics Association awards: Da 5 Bloods leads

The North Carolina Film Critics Association has announced its award nominations for 2020, with Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods leading the pack with seven nods. Lee Isaac Chung's Minari and Chloe Zhao's Nomadland are right behind it with six apiece. This year, the NCFCA expanded its repertoire to look backward through cinema's rich archives, as so many of us have during the pandemic. Their newest category, Best Restoration, is a welcome inclusion to their lineup. Winners will be announced a week today, on the 4th of January.

BEST NARRATIVE FILM
 Da 5 Bloods
 Minari
 Nomadland
 Promising Young Woman
 The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
 All In: The Fight for Democracy
 Boys State
 David Byrne’s American Utopia
 Dick Johnson Is Dead
 Time

BEST ANIMATED FILM
 The Croods: A New Age
 Onward
 Over the Moon
 Soul
 Wolfwalkers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
 Another Round
 Bacurau
 Beanpole
 La Llorona
 Night of Kings

BEST DIRECTOR
 Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
 David Fincher (Mank)
 Regina King (One Night in Miami)
 Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods)
 Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
 Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
 Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
 Newton Thomas Sigel (Da 5 Bloods)
 Hoyte van Hoytema (Tenet)

Dariusz Wolski (News of the World)

BEST ACTOR
 Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
 Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
 Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
 Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods)
 Steven Yeun (Minari)

BEST ACTRESS
 Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
 Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
 Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
 Elisabeth Moss (The Invisible Man)
 Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
 Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods)
 Bill Murray (On the Rocks)
 Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
 David Strathairn (Nomadland)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
 Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
 Toni Colette (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)
 Olivia Colman (The Father)
 Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
 Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
 Danny Bilson, Paul de Meo, Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott (Da 5 Bloods)
 Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
 Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

Jack Fincher (Mank)
 Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
 Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things)

Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami)

Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt (First Cow)
 Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
 Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
 The Invisible Man
 The Midnight Sky
 Mulan
 Tenet
 Wonder Woman 1984

BEST MUSIC
 Da 5 Bloods
 Mank
 Minari
 Soul
 Tenet

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
 The Dancin’ Bulldogs – The Gardner-Webb University basketball team’s 2018-2019 season
 Will Patton (Minari) – Attended North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem
 Gary Wheeler (Blue Ridge / The Warrant) – North Carolina based film producer / Appalachian State University Alum.

BEST RESTORATION (A special award to acknowledge a previously released film that was restored and/or rereleased theatrically or on DVD)
 Beau Travail (The Criterion Collection)
 Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Warner Bros.)
 Mädchen in Uniform (Kino Lorber)
 Native Son (Kino Lorber)
 Roman Holiday (Paramount Home Entertainment)