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2020 Movies

Deadline: Todd McCarthy: Top 10 Films of 2020

31 December 2020

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

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

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  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

  1. Minari
    Lee Isaac Chung
  2. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  3. The Dissident
    Bryan Fogel
  4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  5. Martin Eden
    Pietro Marcello
  6. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
    Charlie Kaufman
  7. The Painted Bird
    Václav Marhoul
  8. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  9. On the Rocks
    Sofia Coppola
  10. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe

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