Screen Slate: Top 20 Films of 2020, a poll of the site's contributors. Also, visit Screen Slate to see their contributors' lists of notable first viewings and discoveries, "broadly defined." The responses make for some fun browsing.
- First Cow — Kelly Reichardt
- Time — Garrett Bradley
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock — Steve McQueen
- Days — Tsai Ming-liang
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always — Eliza Hittman
- Martin Eden — Pietro Marcello
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets — Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
- Vitalina Varela — Pedro Costa
- Bacurau — Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
- City Hall — Frederick Wiseman
- Dick Johnson Is Dead — Kirsten Johnson
- Collective — Alexander Nanau
- The Inheritance — Ephraim Asili
- She Dies Tomorrow — Amy Seimetz
- I Was at Home, But — Angela Schanelec
- The Woman Who Ran — Hong Sang-soo
- Undine — Christian Petzold
- Tommaso — Abel Ferrara
- Shirley — Josephine Decker
- Beanpole — Kantemir Balagov