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 Screenplay

Rank Name Movie Points/Votes
1 Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt First Cow 239 / 18
2 Dan Sallitt Fourteen 221 / 14
3 Charlie Kaufman I'm Thinking of Ending Things 173 / 12
4 Sean Durkin The Nest 110 / 11
5 Mike Makowsky Bad Education 76 / 9
6 Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov Beanpole 64 / 7
7 Christopher Nolan Tenet 63 / 7
8 Patrick deWitt French Exit 63 / 6
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Young Ahmed 63 / 6
10 Steve McQueen & Courttia Newland Red, White and Blue 60 / 7
11 Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles Bacurau 59 / 8
12 Kitty Green The Assistant 57 / 6
13 Ruben Santiago-Hudson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 56 / 5
14 Spike Lee et al. Da 5 Bloods 55 / 6
15 Scott B. Smith The Burnt Orange Heresy 55 / 5
16 Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always 53 / 7
17 Miranda July Kajillionaire 52 / 5
18 Andy Siara Palm Springs 51 / 5
19 Steve McQueen & Alastair Siddons Mangrove 50 / 6
20 Hlynur Pálmason A White, White Day 42 / 4
21 Joe Swanberg et al. Build the Wall 41 / 3
22 Steve McQueen & Courttia Newland Lovers Rock 40 / 3
23 Thomas Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm Another Round 39 / 6
24 Michael Almereyda Tesla 39 / 5
  Corneliu Porumboiu The Whistlers 39 / 5
26 Angela Schanelec I Was at Home, but… 39 / 3
27 James Montague & Craig W. Sanger The Vast of Night 35 / 5
28 Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old Version 35 / 4
29 Brandon Cronenberg Possessor 35 / 3
30 Pietro Marcello & Maurizio Braucci Martin Eden 33 / 4
31 Pete Docter & Mike Jones and Kemp Powers Soul 32 / 3
32 Lee Isaac Chung Minari 30 / 4
33 Thomas Heise Heimat Is a Space in Time 30 / 3
  Jack Fincher Mank 30 / 3
  Sofia Coppola On the Rocks 30 / 3
36 Justine Triet & Arthur Harari Sibyl 25 / 3
37 Paul Laverty Sorry We Missed You 23 / 3
38 Bertrand Bonello Zombi Child 22 / 3
39 Evan Morgan The Kid Detective 20 / 2
  Aaron Sorkin The Trial of the Chicago 7 20 / 2
41 Michael Angelo Covino & Kyle Marvin The Climb 19 / 2
  Deborah Eisenberg Let Them All Talk or The Fall of 2019 19 / 2
43 Chung Mong-hong and Chang Yaosheng A Sun 19 / 1
44 Cooper Raiff Shithouse 18 / 2
45 Eleanor Catton Emma. 17 / 1
46 Sacha Baron Cohen et al. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 16 / 2
47 Sarah Gubbins Shirley 16 / 1
48 Kirsten Johnson & Nels Bangerter Dick Johnson Is Dead 15 / 2
  Leigh Whannell The Invisible Man 15 / 2
  Eugene Kotlyarenko and Gene McHugh Spree 15 / 2
  Pedro Costa & Vitalina Varela Vitalina Varela 15 / 2
52 Julia Hart & Jordan Horowitz I'm Your Woman 15 / 1
53 Antonio Campos & Paulo Campos The Devil All the Time 14 / 1
  Matthew Rankin The Twentieth Century 14 / 1
55 Bruno Dumont Joan of Arc 12 / 1
56 Mateusz Pacewicz Corpus Christi 11 / 2
  Quentin Dupieux Deerskin 11 / 2
58 Kata Wéber Pieces of a Woman 11 / 1
  João Nicolau & Mariana Ricardo Technoboss 11 / 1
60 Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson Save Yourselves! 10 / 2
61 Patrick Vollrath 7500 10 / 1
  Romina Paula Again Once Again 10 / 1
  Rita Kalnejais Babyteeth 10 / 1
  Chris Matheson & Ed Solomon Bill & Ted Face the Music 10 / 1
  Lawrence Michael Levine Black Bear 10 / 1
  [no screenwriter credited] Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 10 / 1
  Werner Herzog Family Romance, LLC 10 / 1
  Isabel Sandoval Lingua Franca 10 / 1
  Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies News of the World 10 / 1
  Christoph Honoré On a Magical Night 10 / 1
  Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli So Pretty 10 / 1
  Brian Duffield Spontaneous 10 / 1
  James Sweeney Straight Up 10 / 1
  Jeremy Hersh The Surrogate 10 / 1
75 Marco Bellocchio et al. The Traitor 9 / 1
76 Alexander Nanau and Antoaneta Opris Collective 8 / 1
  Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton The Father 8 / 1
  David Desola and Pedro Rivero The Platform 8 / 1
79 Bruno Dumont Coincoin and the Extra-Humans 5 / 1
  Andrei Konchalovsky and Elena Kiseleva Dear Comrades 5 / 1
  Guy Ritchie The Gentlemen 5 / 1
  Kemp Powers One Night in Miami... 5 / 1
  Jack Thorne Radioactive 5 / 1
  Amy Seimetz She Dies Tomorrow 5 / 1
  Jim Cummings The Wolf of Snow Hollow 5 / 1