Skandies

2020 ballot for Jeremy Heilman

Best Picture

Lovers Rock 17
Vitalina Varela 13
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 11
David Byrne's American Utopia 11
Mangrove 11
Tenet 11
Bird Island 7
First Cow 7
Liberté 6
Zombi Child 6

Best Director

Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 10
Spike Lee, David Byrne's American Utopia 10
Kelly Reichardt, First Cow 10
Albert Serra, Liberté 10
Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock 10
Steve McQueen, Mangrove 10
Sofia Coppola, On the Rocks 10
Christopher Nolan, Tenet 10
Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela 10
Bertrand Bonello, Zombi Child 10

Best Actress

Aubrey Plaza, Black Bear 20
Vitalina Varela, Vitalina Varela 20
Elisabeth Moss, The Invisible Man 11
Rashida Jones, On the Rocks 10
Tessa Thompson, Sylvie's Love 10
Frances McDormand, Nomadland 7
Natalia Berezhnaya, DAU. Natasha 6
Riley Keough, The Lodge 6
Virginie Efira, Sibyl 5
Kate Winslet, Blackbird 5

Best Actor

Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods 30
Shaun Parkes, Mangrove 20
Ethan Hawke, Tesla 10
John Magaro, First Cow 10
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal 5
Michael Angelo Covino, The Climb 5
Sergio Chamy, The Mole Agent 5
Sope Dirisu, His House 5
Joe Keery, Spree 5
Cooper Raiff, Shithouse 5

Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Abbott, Possessor 10
Christopher Abbott, Black Bear 10
Aldis Hodge, One Night in Miami... 10
Orion Lee, First Cow 10
Peter Macdissi, Uncle Frank 10
Michael Martin, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 10
Bill Murray, On the Rocks 10
Robert Pattinson, The Devil All the Time 10
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal 10
Michael Stuhlbarg, Shirley 10

Best Supporting Actress

Olivia Colman, The Father 10
Sarah Gadon, Black Bear 10
Eve Hewson, Tesla 10
Debbie Honeywood, Sorry We Missed You 10
Sandra Hüller, Sibyl 10
Elisabeth Moss, Shirley 10
Andrea Riseborough, Possessor 10
Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire 10
Talia Ryder, Never Rarely Sometimes Always 10
Letitia Wright, Mangrove 10

Best Screenplay

Lawrence Michael Levine, Black Bear 10
Werner Herzog, Family Romance, LLC 10
Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt, First Cow 10
Steve McQueen & Courttia Newland, Lovers Rock 10
Steve McQueen & Alastair Siddons, Mangrove 10
Sofia Coppola, On the Rocks 10
Cooper Raiff, Shithouse 10
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, Sibyl 10
Christopher Nolan, Tenet 10
Pedro Costa & Vitalina Varela, Vitalina Varela 10

Best Scene

"Silly Games", Lovers Rock 30
"Hell You Talmbout", David Byrne's American Utopia 15
Dinner with Sis, The Invisible Man 10
Fight in the kitchen, The Invisible Man 10
Funereal procession (opening), Vitalina Varela 7
Swooshing through town, The Vast of Night 7
Traffic stop, On the Rocks 6
Home birth, Pieces of a Woman 5
Meeting with HR, The Assistant 5
Oslo airport heist (first time), Tenet 5

Top Ten List

1. Lovers Rock (McQueen)
2. Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait (Mouret)
3. City So Real (James)
4. Tenet (Nolan)
5. David Byrne's American Utopia (Lee)
6. Mangrove (McQueen)
7. Siberia (Ferrara)
8. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Ross, Ross)
9. Malmkrog (Puiu)
10. On the Rocks (Coppola)

Ratings

12 Hour Shift 3.0
40 Years a Prisoner 3.5
76 Days 2.5
Alex Wheatle 3.5
#Alive 2.5
All In: The Fight for Democracy 2.5
Alone 3.5
An American Pickle 1.5
Amulet 2.5
Another Round 2.0
The Assistant 3.0
Ava 2.5
Babyteeth 2.0
Bacurau 3.5
Bad Education 2.0
Beanpole 3.0
Bird Island 4.0
Black Bear 3.5
Blackbird 3.0
Blood Quantum 2.0
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 4.0
Body Cam 1.0
Books of Blood 1.5
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2.0
Boys State 2.0
Build the Wall 3.0
City Hall 4.0
Class Action Park 2.5
Climate of the Hunter 3.0
The Climb 3.0
Coastal Elites 2.0
Coded Bias 3.0
Collective 3.0
The Cordillera of Dreams 3.0
Corpus Christi 1.5
Crip Camp 2.0
Da 5 Bloods 3.5
The Dark and the Wicked 3.0
DAU. Natasha 3.5
David Byrne's American Utopia 4.0
Dear Comrades 2.5
The Devil All the Time 4.0
Downhill 3.0
An Easy Girl 1.0
Ema 2.5
Extra Ordinary 3.0
Family Romance, LLC 4.0
A Family Tour 2.0
The Father 3.0
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds 2.5
Fire Will Come 3.0
First Cow 4.0
The Forty-Year-Old Version 1.5
Freaky 1.0
French Exit 2.0
Ghost Stories 2.5
Ghost Town Anthology 2.5
Ghost Tropic 2.5
The Grand Bizarre 2.0
Gretel & Hansel 2.5
The Grudge 1.0
Gunda 1.5
The Half of It 3.0
Happiest Season 2.5
Herself 3.0
Hillbilly Elegy 0.0
His House 2.5
The Invisible Man 3.5
Isadora's Children 3.0
Kajillionaire 3.0
Koko-di Koko-da 2.5
Liberté 4.0
The Lodge 4.0
Lovers Rock 4.0
Mangrove 4.0
Mank 1.5
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2.5
Martin Eden 3.0
Matthias & Maxime 2.0
The Midnight Sky 0.0
Minari 2.5
Miss Americana 3.0
Miss Juneteenth 2.0
The Mole Agent 3.5
My Psychedelic Love Story 2.5
The Nest 2.0
Never Rarely Sometimes Always 3.5
Night of the Kings 2.5
Nomadland 3.5
One Night in Miami... 3.0
On the Record 3.5
On the Rocks 4.0
Our Mothers 2.5
The Painted Bird 2.0
Peninsula 1.0
The Personal History of David Copperfield 1.5
Pieces of a Woman 2.0
The Platform 2.5
Possessor 3.5
Promising Young Woman 2.0
The Prom 0.0
Proxima 2.5
A Rainy Day in New York 3.0
Red, White and Blue 3.0
Run 3.0
She Dies Tomorrow 2.5
Shirley 2.5
Shithouse 3.5
Sibyl 3.5
Sorry We Missed You 3.0
Spree 3.0
Stardust 0.0
Sylvie's Love 3.5
Synchronic 1.5
Technoboss 2.0
Tenet 4.0
Tesla 3.5
Time 2.5
The Truffle Hunters 2.0
The Turning 1.0
Uncle Frank 1.0
The Vast of Night 3.5
VFW 3.5
Vitalina Varela 4.0
Vivarium 1.5
Wasp Network 2.5
Welcome to Chechnya 2.5
The Whistlers 2.0
A White, White Day 2.0
Why Don't You Just Die! 2.0
The Wild Goose Lake 2.5
The Wolf House 3.5
The Wolf of Snow Hollow 3.5
WolfWalkers 1.0
The Wretched 2.5
Young Ahmed 1.0
Zombi Child 4.0