David Rooney: The Best Films of 2020, as published by The Hollywood Reporter
[see also 2019]
- David Byrne's American Utopia — Spike Lee
- First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
- Ammonite — Francis Lee
- Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov
- Minari — Lee Isaac Chung
- Promising Young Woman — Emerald Fennell
- Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
- Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
- The Assistant — Kitty Green
- Da 5 Bloods — Spike Lee
- The 40-Year-Old Version — Radha Blank
- The Invisible Man — Leigh Whannell
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom — George C. Wolfe
- News of the World — Paul Greengrass
- The Old Guard — Gina Prince-Bythewood
- One Night in Miami — Regina King
- The Surrogate — Jeremy Hersh
- Wolfwalkers — Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart