(The Forty Year Old Version - Radha Blank
Straight Up - James Sweeney
Shirley - Josephine Decker
Rocks - Sarah Gavron)
For having a big chunk of films moved from 2020 to 2021, we really ended up with a great slate of films. There were a bunch of great films that went mostly under the radar, meanwhile I find the films circulating around the Oscars to be a mostly good but lukewarm group. I'm not sure why I'm saddened by this fact since it happens every single year, but it is what it is. Those four films I listed above were just outside of the top ten, but I loved them all and wanted to highlight them. For the last ten years or so I've done my own personal awards for directing, acting, writing, etc. I'm just sort of burned out of the whole awards season thing, so I won't be doing a full ballot, but here is my top 10 of the year.
My Top 10 Films of 2020:
1. Nomadland (Director - Chloé Zhao)
2. The Kid Detective (Director - Evan Morgan)
3. First Cow (Director - Kelly Reichardt)
4. And Then We Danced (Director - Levan Akin)
5. Promising Young Woman (Director - Emerald Fennell)
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Director - Eliza Hittman)
7. Spontaneous (Director - Brian Duffield)
8. Get Duked! (Director - Ninian Doff)
9. Sound of Metal (Director - Darius Marder)
10. Dating Amber (Director - David Freyne)
