Year-End Lists

David Rooney: The Best Films of 2020, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

1. David Byrne's American Utopia
   Spike Lee
2. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
4. Ammonite
   Francis Lee
5. Beanpole
   Kantemir Balagov
6. Minari
   Lee Isaac Chung
7. Promising Young Woman
   Emerald Fennell
8. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
9. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
10. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

Honorable mentions

• The Assistant
  Kitty Green
• Da 5 Bloods
  Spike Lee
• The 40-Year-Old Version
  Radha Blank
• The Invisible Man
  Leigh Whannell
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  George C. Wolfe
• News of the World
  Paul Greengrass
• The Old Guard
  Gina Prince-Bythewood
• One Night in Miami
  Regina King
• The Surrogate
  Jeremy Hersh
• Wolfwalkers
  Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart