Year-End Lists

Revolver Magazine: 25 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Ohms
   Deftones
2. Underneath
   Code Orange
3. Child Soldier: Creator of God
   Greg Puciato
4. Carnivore
   Body Count
5. I Let It in and It Took Everything
   Loathe
6. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
7. Post Human: Survival Horror
   Bring Me the Horizon
8. Enlightened In Eternity
   Spirit Adrift
9. Reluctant Hero
   Killer Be Killed
10. ANTI-ICON
    Ghostemane
11. 27 Miles Underwater
    Higher Power
12. I Disagree
    Poppy
13. We Are Chaos
    Marilyn Manson
14. Lamb of God
    Lamb of God
15. Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
    Gulch
16. The Great Dismal
    Nothing
17. The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
    Mr. Bungle
18. Mrs. Piss
    Mrs. Piss
19. Existential Reckoning
    Puscifer
20. Mortal
    Necrot
21. Hunter Gatherer
    Avatar
22. Ordinary Man
    Ozzy Osbourne
23. Slow Decay
    The Acacia Strain
24. Lament
    Touché Amoré
25. Alphaville
    Imperial Triumphant

Judy Berman: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018]

1. I May Destroy You
2. Better Call Saul
3. Immigration Nation
4. Mrs. America
5. The Queen's Gambit
6. City So Real
7. Betty
8. P-Valley
9. BoJack Horseman
10. Desus & Mero

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2020, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll on October 26, 2020, in alphabetical order

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Last Year in Dachau
   Mark Rappaport
2. Bottled Songs: My Crush Was a Superstar
   Chloé Galibert-Laîné
3. Cenote
   Oda Kaori
4. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
5. France Against the Robots
   Jean-Marie Straub
6. Her Socialist Smile
   John Gianvito
7. MLK/FBI
   Sam Pollard
8. Schoolgirls
   Pilar Palomero
9. Vitalina Varela
   Pedro Costa
10. Women According to Men
    Saeed Nouri

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: The Best Films of 2020

Ben Travers: The Best TV Series of 2020, as published by IndieWire

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

1. Better Things
2. I May Destroy You
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Normal People
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Better Call Saul
7. Mrs. America
8. We Are Who We Are
9. P-Valley
10. The Baby-Sitters Club

Honorable Mentions

• PEN15
• Ted Lasso
• Ramy
• Never Have I Ever
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Devs
• The New Pope
• The Good Lord Bird

New York Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  V.E. Schwab
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Midnight Library
  Matt Haig
• The Sacrifice of Darkness
  Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
  Grady Hendrix
• Temporary
  Hilary Leichter

New York Public Library: Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

[see also 2021 • 2019]

• Finna
  Nate Marshall
• The Galleons
  Rick Barot
• Grimoire
  Cherene Sherrard
• Gut Botany
  Petra Kuppers
• Homie
  Danez Smith
• Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
  John Murillo
• My Baby First Birthday
  Jenny Zhang
• A Nail the Evening Hangs On
  Monica Sok
• The Nancy Reagan Collection
  Maxe Crandall
• Postcolonial Love Poem
  Natalie Diaz

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas): Best Music of 2020, as published by Artforum

1. Your Hero Is Not Dead
   Westerman
2. Healing Is a Miracle
   Julianna Barwick
3. "My Way"
   Nina Simone
4. Dream On
   Alice Boman
5. Ungodly Hour
   Chloe x Halle
6. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
7. Cantus, Descant
   Sarah Davachi
8. "Corridors Of Time"
   Annie
9. B7
   Brandy
10. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple

Cassie da Costa: 10 Best Films of 2020, as published by Artforum

[see also 21 Most Underrated Movies of 2021 • Best Films of 2021]

1. Shakedown
   Leilah Weinraub
2. Beau Travail [rerelease]
   Claire Denis
3. Fourteen
   Dan Sallitt
4. The Assistant
   Kitty Green
5. Advocate
   Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche
6. Empty Metal
   Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer
7. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Harriet
   Kasi Lemmons
9. The Hottest August
   Brett Story
10. Atlantics
    Mati Diop

Erika Balsom: 10 Best Films of 2020, as published by Artforum

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s [exhibition]
1. Out Of The Shadows: The Pioneering Work Of Atteyat Al-Abnoudy, Assia Djebar, Jocelyne Saab, Heiny Srour [exhibition]
2. The Year of the Discovery
   Luis López Carrasco
3. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
4. Route One/USA
   Robert Kramer
5. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
6. Apiyemiyekî?
   Ana Vaz
7. Forum 50 Anniversary Program, Berlinale
8. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
   Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
9. małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
   Sky Hopinka
10. La Loupe [Facebook group]

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2020, as published by Artforum, "culled exclusively from the superbly curated 2020 New York Film Festival."

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. The Woman Who Ran
   Hong Sang-soo
2. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
3. The Year of the Discovery
   Luis López Carrasco
4. The Pickpocket
   Jia Zhang-ke
5. A Night at the Opera
   Sergei Loznitsa
6. The Monopoly of Violence
   David Dufresne
7. Malmkrog
   Cristi Puiu
8. Notturno
   Gianfranco Rosi
9. While Cursed by Specters
   Burak Çevik
10. Gunda
    Viktor Kosakovskiy