Year-End Lists

Eric Kohn: The Best Movies of 2020, as published by IndieWire

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
   Steve McQueen
3. Collective
   Alexander Nanau
4. Nomadland
   Chloé Zhao
5. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
   Eliza Hittman
6. Time
   Garrett Bradley
7. The Climb
   Michael Angelo Covino
8. The Mole Agent
   Maite Alberdi
9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
   Jason Woliner
10. Bacurau
    Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
11. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
12. The Assistant
    Kitty Green
13. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
14. Soul
    Pete Docter
15. Mank
    David Fincher
16. Mayor
    David Osit
17. Small Axe: Mangrove
    Steve McQueen
18. The Vast of Night
    Andrew Patterson
19. Dick Johnson Is Dead
    Kirsten Johnson
20. She Dies Tomorrow
    Amy Seimetz

Runners-up

• Another Round
  Thomas Vinterberg
• Gunda
  Viktor Kosakovskiy
• I Carry You with Me
  Heidi Ewing
• Minari
  Lee Isaac Chung
• Relic
  Natalie Erika James
• The Truffle Hunters
  Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
• The Painter and the Thief
  Benjamin Ree