Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The Best Films of 2020, a poll of over 100 contributors, published by Sight & Sound Magazine

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1. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
2. Time
   Garrett Bradley
3. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
4. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
   Charlie Kaufman
5. Saint Maud
   Rose Glass
6. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
8. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
9. Rocks
   Sarah Gavron
10. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. Da 5 Bloods
    Spike Lee
13. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
14. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
15. Shirley
    Josephine Decker
16. David Byrne's American Utopia
    Spike Lee
17. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
18. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
19. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
20. Kajillionaire
    Miranda July
21. The Year of the Discovery
    Luis López Carrasco
22. Possessor
    Brandon Cronenberg
23. The Inheritance
    Ephraim Asili
24. Undine
    Christian Petzold
25. Babyteeth
    Shannon Murphy
26. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
27. His House
    Remi Weekes
28. Les Misérables
    Ladj Ly
29. Little Women
    Greta Gerwig
30. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
31. Ema
    Pablo Larraín
32. Host
    Rob Savage
33. Limbo
    Ben Sharrock
34. Mank
    David Fincher
35. Mogul Mowgli
    Bassam Tariq
36. Relic
    Natalie Erika James
37. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz
38. Tenet
    Christopher Nolan
39. The 40-Year-Old Version
    Radha Blank
40. The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Armando Iannucci
41. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
42. Another Round
    Thomas Vinterberg
43. Birds of Prey
    Cathy Yan
44. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
    Jason Woliner
45. Clemency
    Chinonye Chukwu
46. Collective
    Alexander Nanau
47. Richard Jewell
    Clint Eastwood
48. The Invisible Man
    Leigh Whannell
49. The Truth
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
50. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2020
• Sight & Sound Poll: Christina Newland: The Best Films of 2020
• Sight & Sound Poll: Ela Bittencourt: The Best Films of 2020
• Sight & Sound Poll: Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2020
• Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2020
• Sight & Sound Poll: Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2020