2020 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Explained

46th LAFCA Awards
Date:	December 20, 2020
Award1 Type:	Best Picture
Award1 Winner:	Small Axe
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The 46th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2020.^[1]

Winners

Best Film:
- Small Axe
  - Runner-up: Nomadland
Best Director:
- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
  - Runner-up: Steve McQueen – Small Axe
Best Actor:
- Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  - Runner-up: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Best Actress:
- Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
  - Runner-up: Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Best Supporting Actor:
- Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  - Runner up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
Best Supporting Actress:
- Youn Yuh-jung – Minari
  - Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Best Screenplay:
- Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
  - Runner-up: Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Cinematography:
- Shabier Kirchner – Small Axe
  - Runner-up: Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
Best Editing:
- Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father
  - Runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes – Time
Best Production Design:
- Donald Graham Burt – Mank
  - Runner-up: Sergey Ivanov – Beanpole
Best Music Score:
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul
  - Runner-up: Mica Levi – Lovers Rock
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Beanpole
  - Runner-up: Martin Eden
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- Time
  - Runner-up: Collective
Best Animation:
- Wolfwalkers
  - Runner-up: Soul
New Generation Award:
- Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
Career Achievement Award:
- Harry Belafonte and Hou Hsiao-hsien
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- John Gianvito – Her Socialist Smile
Legacy Award:
- Norman Lloyd

Notes and References

Web site: Los Angeles Film Critics Winners Full List: Entire 'Small Axe' Series Tops Despite Not Being Submitted for Oscars . Davis . Clayton . December 20, 2020 . . December 20, 2020.