Year-End Lists

Todd McCarthy: Top 10 Films of 2020, as published by Deadline Hollywood

1. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
2. The Father
   Florian Zeller
3. Promising Young Woman
   Emerald Fennell
4. Dick Johnson Is Dead
   Kirsten Johnson
5. Small Axe: Mangrove
   Steve McQueen
6. Into the Deep
   Emma Sullivan
7. Soul
   Pete Docter
8. The King of Staten Island
   Judd Apatow
9. The Outpost
   Rod Lurie
10. Devil Between the Legs
    Arturo Ripstein

Runners-up

11. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
12. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
13. The Dissident
    Bryan Fogel
14. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
15. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
16. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
17. The Painted Bird
    Václav Marhoul
18. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
19. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
20. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe