For your consideration: my Critics' Circle votes 2020

 

Director of the Year

1. Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock

2. Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor

3. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, To the Ends of the Earth

(Honourable mentions: Andrei Konchalovsky, Dear Comrades; Vikramaditya Motwane, AK vs AK; Pablo Larrain, Ema; Marie Kreutzer, The Ground Beneath My Feet; Kitty Green, The Assistant; Hlynur Palmason, A White, White Day; Celine Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Justin Kurzel, True History of the Kelly Gang.)

Screenwriter of the Year

1. Shaun Grant, True History of the Kelly Gang

2. Steve McQueen, Alastair Siddons and Courttia Newland, Small Axe

3. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton

(Honourable mentions: Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency; Harry Macqueen, Supernova; Amy Seimetz, She Dies Tomorrow; Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth; Mart Crowley and Ned Martel, The Boys in the Band; Rita Kalnejais, Babyteeth; Kelly O'Sullivan, Saint Frances; Kitty Green, The Assistant.)

Actress of the Year

1. Alfre Woodard, Clemency

2. Yuliya Vysotskaya, Dear Comrades

3. Nicole Beharie, Miss Juneteenth

(Honourable mentions: Trine Dyrholm, Queen of Hearts; Viola Davis, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Valerie Pachner, The Ground Beneath My Feet; Elizabeth Moss, The Invisible Man and Shirley; Vidya Balan, Shakuntala Devi; Eva Green, Proxima; Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, The County; Julia Garner, The Assistant.)

Actor of the Year

1. Lance Henriksen, Falling

2. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

3. Anil Kapoor, AK vs AK

(Honourable mentions: Menashe Noy, The Day After I'm Gone; Fahadh Faasil, Trance; Ingvar Sigurdsson, A White, White Day; Kevin Janssens, Patrick; Jake Ryan, Savage.)

Supporting Actress of the Year

1. Essie Davis, True History of the Kelly Gang and Babyteeth

2. Danielle Brooks, Clemency

3. Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire

(Honourable mentions: Sanya Malhotra, Shakuntala Devi; Jennifer Lee Moon, Lynn + Lucy.)

Supporting Actor of the Year

1. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2. Michael Stuhlbarg, Shirley

3. Russell Crowe, True History of the Kelly Gang

(Honourable mentions: Anurag Kashyap, AK vs AK; Malachi Kirby, Mangrove; Richard Schiff, Clemency; Ben Mendelsohn, Babyteeth; Pankaj Tripathi, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl; Aldis Hodge, Clemency.)

British/Irish Actress of the Year

1. Sally Hawkins, Eternal Beauty

2. Nichola Burley, Lynn + Lucy

3. Roxanne Scrimshaw, Lynn + Lucy

(Honourable mentions: Sian Brooke, Body of Water; Monica Dolan, Days of the Bagnold Summer; Ashley Madekwe, County Lines; Andrea Riseborough, Possessor.)

British/Irish Actor of the Year

1. Colin Firth, Supernova

2. Riz Ahmed, Mogul Mowgli

3. John Boyega, Red, White and Blue

(Honourable mentions: Shaun Parkes, Mangrove; David Thewlis, Guest of Honour; Henry Golding, Monsoon; George Mackay, True History of the Kelly Gang.)

Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker of the Year

1. Henry Blake, writer-director, County Lines

2. Lanre Malaolu, writer-director, The Uncertain Kingdom

3. Fyzal Boulifa, writer-director, Lynn + Lucy

(Honourable mentions: Vicki Lesley, writer-director-producer, The Atom: A Love Story; Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, director, The Uncertain Kingdom.)

Young Actor of the Year:

1. Bukky Bakray, Rocks

2. Frankie Box, Perfect 10

3. D'angelou Osei Kissiedu, Rocks

(Honourable mentions: Alfie Deegan, Perfect 10; Kosar Ali, Rocks; Earl Cave, True History of the Kelly Gang and Days of the Bagnold Summer; Lola Petticrew, Dating Amber; Fionn O'Shea, Dating Amber.)