11th Goresy Awards

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Welcome to the eleventh annual Goresy Awards, or Goresies, a personal selection of the best in 2020 cinema. Eligibility depends on a commercial U.S. release date, digital or theatrical, between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020. Not eligible are films receiving early 2021 releases (e.g., Judas and the Black Messiah, Malcolm & Marie) on account of the modified calendar for the 93rd Oscars in April (an absolutely asinine scheduling decision by AMPAS, but I digress). However, films that received exclusive one-week, year-end digital releases (e.g., Minari, Nomadland) are eligible.

FILM

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First Cow

HONORABLE MENTIONS: click here to read more on 2020’s best films

DIRECTOR

Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock (Small Axe films)

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Hlynur Pálmason, A White, White Day | Kelly Reichardt, First Cow | Andrew Patterson, The Vast of Night | Garrett Bradley, Time | Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man | Diao Yinan, The Wild Goose Lake

ACTRESS

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Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Carrie Coon, The Nest | Frances McDormand, Nomadland | Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Evan Rachel Wood, Kajillionaire | Vasilisa Perelygina, Beanpole | Isabel Sandoval, Lingua Franca | Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman | Meryl Streep, Let Them All Talk | Jessie Buckley, I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

ACTOR

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Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Ingvar Sigurðsson, A White, White Day | Jude Law, The Nest | Adam Brody, The Kid Detective | Steven Yeun, Minari | Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal | Willem Dafoe, Tommaso | Christopher Abbott, Possessor | Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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Sandra Hüller, Sibyl

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari | Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire | Candice Bergen, Let Them All Talk | Andrea Riseborough, Possessor

SUPPORTING ACTOR

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Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Bill Murray, On the Rocks | Richard Jenkins, Kajillionaire | Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami | Russell Crowe, True History of the Kelly Gang | | Brian Dennehy, Driveways

ENSEMBLE

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Minari

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Kajillionaire | Mangrove | Let Them All Talk | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | First Cow | Driveways

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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Miranda July, Kajillionaire

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor | Isabel Sandoval, Lingua Franca | Lee Isaac Chung, Minari | Evan Morgan, The Kid Detective | Deborah Eisenberg, Let Them All Talk | Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

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Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt, First Cow | Leigh Whannell, The Invisible Man | Chloé Zhao, Nomadland | Will Collins, Wolfwalkers

EDITING

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Julius Krebs Damsbo, A White, White Day

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Steven Soderbergh, Let Them All Talk | Jodie Mack, The Grand Bizarre | Gabriel Rhodes, Time | Chris Dickens & Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock | Adam Gough, David Byrne’s American Utopia

CINEMATOGRAPHY

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Mátyás Erdély, The Nest

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dong Jingsong, The Wild Goose Lake | Maria von Hausswolff, A White, White Day | Shabier Kirchner, Lovers Rock | Christopher Blauvelt, First Cow | Hoyte Van Hoytema, Tenet | Leonardo Simões, Vitalina Varela | Steven Soderbergh, Let Them All Talk | Stefan Duscio, The Invisible Man | M.I. Littin-Menz, The Vast of Night

PRODUCTION DESIGN

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Adam Dietrich, The Vast of Night

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dany Boivin, The Twentieth Century | Donald Graham Burt, Mank | Rupert Lazarus, Possessor | Liu Qiang, The Wild Goose Lake

EFFECTS & STUNTS

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Tenet

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Monster Hunter | Possessor | The Invisible Man | Greyhound

COSTUMES & HAIR/MAKEUP

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The Twentieth Century

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Mank | Lovers Rock | Birds of Prey | The Vast of Night | First Cow

SOUND DESIGN

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The Wolf House

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sound of Metal | World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime | I’m Thinking of Ending Things | The Vast of Night

ORIGINAL SCORE

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Nicolas Jaar, Ema

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Richard Reed Parry, The Nest | Emile Mosseri, Minari | Ludwig Göransson, Tenet | Thomas Newman, Let Them All Talk | Emile Mosseri, Kajillionaire | Erick Alexander & Jared Bulmer, The Vast of Night

ORIGINAL SONG

“Identical” - Phoenix, On the Rocks

HONORABLE MENTION: “Face the Music” - Wyld Stallyns (feat. Animals As Leaders, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah), Bill & Ted Face the Music

DOCUMENTARY

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Time

HONORABLE MENTIONS: David Byrne’s American Utopia | Dick Johnson Is Dead | City Hall | Boys State

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

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The Wild Goose Lake

HONORABLE MENTIONS: A White, White Day | Minari | The Wolf House | Bacurau | The Whistlers

ANIMATED FILM

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Wolfwalkers

HONORABLE MENTIONS: The Wolf House | Word of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime | Soul | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!

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