Year-End Lists

Jake Coyle: Best Films of 2020, as published by Associated Press

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Small Axe
   Steve McQueen
3. Mank
   David Fincher
4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
5. Minari
   Lee Isaac Chung
6. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
8. Soul
   Pete Docter
9. Collective
   Alexander Nanau
10. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder

Honorable mentions

• The Nest
  Sean Durkin
• Nomadland
  Chloé Zhao
• The 40-Year-Old Version
  Radha Blank
• Promising Young Woman
  Emerald Fennell
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  George C. Wolfe
• Let Them All Talk
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Dissident
  Bryan Fogel
• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  Nicole Newnham and James LeBrecht
• Palm Springs
  Max Barbakow
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  Jason Woliner