Skandies 2020

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RULES: Participants divvied up 100 points among ten "nominees" in each category, with a maximum of 30 points for any given selection and a minimum of 5 points. Results are expressed as points/votes.

Best Director

Rank Name Movie Points/Votes
1 Steve McQueen Lovers Rock 195 / 15
2 Kelly Reichardt First Cow 180 / 15
3 Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 137 / 12
4 Andrew Patterson The Vast of Night 135 / 9
5 Dan Sallitt Fourteen 128 / 11
6 Sean Durkin The Nest 108 / 13
7 Kirsten Johnson Dick Johnson Is Dead 91 / 8
8 Angela Schanelec I Was at Home, but… 85 / 7
9 Hlynur Pálmason A White, White Day 77 / 5
10 Kantemir Balagov Beanpole 76 / 8
11 Jodie Mack The Grand Bizarre 76 / 7
12 Spike Lee Da 5 Bloods 74 / 8
13 Christopher Nolan Tenet 65 / 6
14 Pietro Marcello Martin Eden 55 / 4
15 Leigh Whannell The Invisible Man 54 / 6
16 Brandon Cronenberg Possessor 54 / 4
17 Pedro Costa Vitalina Varela 49 / 6
18 Charlie Kaufman I'm Thinking of Ending Things 47 / 5
19 Michael Almereyda Tesla 46 / 6
20 Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Young Ahmed 45 / 4
21 Kitty Green The Assistant 44 / 5
22 Chloé Zhao Nomadland 38 / 4
23 Corneliu Porumboiu The Whistlers 33 / 3
24 Ilya Khrzhanovskiy & Ilya Permyakov DAU. Degeneration 33 / 2
25 Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always 30 / 5
26 Miranda July Kajillionaire 30 / 3
27 Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles Bacurau 29 / 4
28 Alexander Nanau Collective 27 / 3
  Albert Serra Liberté 27 / 3
  Steve McQueen Mangrove 27 / 3
31 David Fincher Mank 26 / 3
32 Bruno Dumont Joan of Arc 25 / 3
33 Garrett Bradley Time 24 / 3
  Joaquín Cociña & Cristóbal León The Wolf House 24 / 3
35 Cory Finley Bad Education 23 / 3
36 Steven Soderbergh Let Them All Talk or The Fall of 2019 22 / 3
37 Darius Marder Sound of Metal 20 / 3
38 Thomas Heise Heimat Is a Space in Time 20 / 2
  Bertrand Bonello Zombi Child 20 / 2
40 David France Welcome to Chechnya 20 / 1
41 Thomas Vinterberg Another Round 19 / 2
  Lewis Klahr Circumstantial Pleasures 19 / 2
43 Joe Swanberg Build the Wall 18 / 2
  Philippe Lacôte Night of the Kings 18 / 2
45 Marco Bellocchio The Traitor 17 / 2
46 Justine Triet Sibyl 16 / 2
  João Nicolau Technoboss 16 / 2
48 Frederick Wiseman City Hall 15 / 2
49 Pete Docter Soul 14 / 2
50 George C. Wolfe Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 13 / 2
51 Osgood Perkins Gretel & Hansel 13 / 1
  Chung Mong-hong A Sun 13 / 1
53 Kiyoshi Kurosawa To the Ends of the Earth 12 / 2
54 Antonio Campos The Devil All the Time 12 / 1
  Autumn de Wilde Emma. 12 / 1
56 Kornél Mundruczó Pieces of a Woman 11 / 1
57 John Hyams Alone 10 / 1
  Spike Lee David Byrne's American Utopia 10 / 1
  Quentin Dupieux Deerskin 10 / 1
  Bas Devos Ghost Tropic 10 / 1
  Xavier Dolan Matthias & Maxime 10 / 1
  Paul Greengrass News of the World 10 / 1
  Gina Prince-Bythewood The Old Guard 10 / 1
  Sofia Coppola On the Rocks 10 / 1
  Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli So Pretty 10 / 1
  Abel Ferrara Tommaso 10 / 1
  Mathew Rankin The Twentieth Century 10 / 1
  Olivier Assayas Wasp Network 10 / 1
69 Romina Paula Again Once Again 9 / 1
70 Patrick Vollrath 7500 8 / 1
  Maya Da-rin The Fever 8 / 1
72 Jan Komasa Corpus Christi 7 / 1
  Florian Zeller The Father 7 / 1
  Li Cheng José 7 / 1
75 Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw The Truffle Hunters 6 / 1
  Lorcan Finnegan Vivarium 6 / 1
77 Shannon Murphy Babyteeth 5 / 1
  Cathy Yan Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn 5 / 1
  Richard Stanley Color out of Space 5 / 1
  Andrei Konchalovsky Dear Comrades 5 / 1
  Werner Herzog Family Romance, LLC 5 / 1
  Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version 5 / 1
  Tyler Taormina Ham on Rye 5 / 1
  Rob Savage Host 5 / 1
  Julia Hart I'm Your Woman 5 / 1
  Lee Isaac Chung Minari 5 / 1
  Steve McQueen Red, White and Blue 5 / 1
  Amy Seimetz She Dies Tomorrow 5 / 1
  Josephine Decker Shirley 5 / 1