Thursday, August 7, 2025

2020 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • Mank (Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth & Douglas Urbanski)
  • Minari (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Christina Oh)
  • Nomadland (Frances McDormand, Peter Spears & Chloé Zhao)
  • Soul (Dana Murray)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Stuart M. Besser, Marc Platt & Tyler Thompson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Da 5 Bloods, The Father, News of the World, Promising Young Woman, Tenet)

Best Director

  • Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
  • David Fincher - Mank
  • Spike Lee - Da 5 Bloods
  • Aaron Sorkin - The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Chloé Zhao - Nomadland
    (Honourable Mentions: Pete Docter - Soul, Regina King - One Night in Miami, Kelly Reichart - First Cow, Thomas Vinterburg - Another Round, Florian Zeller - The Father)

Best Lead Actor

  • Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal
  • Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Anthony Hopkins - The Father
  • Gary Oldman - Mank
  • Steven Yeun - Minari
    (Honourable Mentions: Ben Affleck - The Way Back, Kingsley Ben-Adir - One Night in Miami, Delroy Lindo - Da 5 Bloods, Dev Patel - The Personal History of David Copperfield, John David Washington - Tenet)

Best Lead Actress

  • Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
  • Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman
  • Frances McDormand - Nomadland
  • Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman
  • Kate Winslet - Ammonite
    (Honourable Mentions: Andra Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Sophia Loren - The Life Ahead, Elisabeth Moss - The Invisible Woman, Michelle Pfeiffer - French Exit, Anya Taylor-Joy - Emma)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Sacha Baron Cohen - The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • Daniel Kaluuya - Judas and the Black Messiah
  • Bill Murray - On the Rocks
  • Leslie Odom, Jr. - One Night in Miami
  • David Straitharn - Nomadland
    (Honourable Mentions: Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods, Jim Carrey - Sonic the Hedgehog, Brian Dennehy - Driveways, Alan Kim - Minari, Paul Raci - Sound of Metal)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Maria Bakalova - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
  • Ellen Burstyn - Pieces of a Woman
  • Olivia Colman - The Father
  • Amanda Seyfried - Mank
  • Youn Yuh-jung - Minari
    (Honourable Mentions: Candice Bergen - Let Them All Talk, Glenn Close - Hillbilly Elegy, Dominique Fishback - Judas and the Black Messiah, Saoirse Ronan - Ammonite, Helena Zengel - News of the World)

Best Original Screenplay

  • Mank (Jack Fincher)
  • Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
  • Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
  • Soul (Pete Docter, Mike Jones & Kemp Powers)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
    (Honourable Mentions: Da 5 Bloods, The Forty-Year-Old Version, Palm Springs, Sound of Metal, Tenet)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Father (Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller; based on the play by Florian Zeller)
  • First Cow (Kelly Reichart & Jonathan Raymond; based on the novel "The Half-Life" by Jonathan Raymond)
  • Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda; based on the biography "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow)
  • News of the World (Luke Davies & Paul Greengrass; based on the novel by Paulette Jiles)
  • Nomadland (Chloé Zhao; based on the book by Jessica Bruder)
    (Honourable Mentions: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Emma, One Night in Miami, The Personal History of David Copperfield, The White Tiger)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • Hamilton [Bethany Knox & Bernard Telsey] (Daveed Diggs, Renee Elise Goldenberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos & Philippa Soo, et. al.)
  • Minari [Julia Kim] (Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Will Patton, Scott Haze, Darryl Cox & Youn Yuh-jung, et. al.)
  • One Night in Miami [Kimberly Hardin] (Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lance Reddick, Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, Jeremy Pope, Michael Imperioli & Beau Bridges, et. al.)
  • The Prom [Alexa L. Fogel] (Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, Andrew Rannells, Tracey Ullman, Kevin Chamberlin, Mary Kay Place, Jo Ellen Pellman & Ariana DeBose, et. al.)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 [Francine Maisler] (Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Jeremy Strong & Mark Rylance, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Da 5 Bloods, First Cow, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Soul)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Millie Bobby Brown - Enola Holmes
  • Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Alan Kim - Minari
  • Honor Kneafsey - Wolfwalkers
  • Helena Zengel - News of the World
    (Honourable Mentions: Ryder Allen - Palmer, Ella Jay Basco - Birds of Prey, Talia Ryder - Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Caoilinn Springall - The Midnight Sky, Eva Whittaker - Wolfwalkers)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Another Round [Denmark] (Thomas Vinterburg)
  • Beanpole [Russia] (Kantemir Balagov)
  • The Mole Agent [Chile] (Maite Alberdi)
  • Quo Vadis, Aida? [Bosnia and Herzegovina] (Jasmila Žbanić)
  • A Sun [Taiwan] (Chung Mong-hong)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bacurau, Collective, La Llorana, The Life Ahead, Two of Us)

Best Documentary Feature

  • Collective (Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana & Bernard Michaux)
  • Dick Johnson is Dead (Kirsten Johnson & Marilyn Ness)
  • The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski & Larissa Rhodes)
  • Time (Garrett Bradley, Kellen Quinn & Lauren Domino)
  • The Way I See It (Dawn Porter, Laura Dern & Evan Hayes)
    (Honourable Mentions: All In: The Fight for Democracy, Boys State, Crip Camp, The Mole Agent, My Octopus Teacher, )

Best Original Score [TIE]

  • Mank (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
  • The Midnight Sky (Alexandre Desplat)
  • News of the World (James Newton Howard)
  • Soul (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross)
  • Tenet (Ludwig Göransson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard, The Invisible Man - Benjamin Wallfisch, The Life Ahead - Gabriel Yared, Minari - Emile Mosseri, The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Daniel Pemberton)

Best Original Song

  • "Hear My Voice" - The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Celeste Waite & Daniel Pemberton)
  • "Húsavik (My Hometown)" - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Fat Max Gsus, Rickard Göransson & Savan Kotecha)
  • "The Plan" - Tenet (Travis Scott, Ludwig Göransson & Ebony Oshunrinde)
  • "RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)" - Bad Boys for Life (Will.i.am, apl.de.ap, J Balvin & Keith Harris)
  • "Rocket to the Moon" - Over the Moon (Christopher Curtis, Marjorie Duffield & Helen Park)
  • "Tigress & Tweed" - The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Andra Day & Raphael Saadiq)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Carried Me with You" - Onward, "Io sì (Seen)" - The Life Ahead, "Speak Now" - One Night in Miami, "Wuhan Flu" - Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Best Sound Design

  • The Midnight Sky (Randy Thom, Dan Hiland, Todd Beckett & Danny Hambrook)
  • Soul (Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker & Vince Caro)
  • Sound of Metal (Philip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc & Carlos Cortes)
  • Tenet (Richard King, Willie D. Burton, Gary A. Rizzo & Kevin O'Connell)
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (Richard King, Jimmy Boyle, Gary A. Rizzo & Gilbert Lake)
    (Honourable Mentions: Greyhound, The Invisible Man, Mank, News of the World, Nomadland)

Best Animated Feature

  • Onward (Dan Scanlon & Kori Rae)
  • Over the Moon (Glen Keane, Gennie Rim & Peilin Chou)
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Will Becher, Richard Phelan & Paul Kewley)
  • Soul (Pete Docter)
  • Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Nora Twomey & Paul Young)
    (Honourable Mentions: Calamity Jane, The Croods: A New Age, Ride Your Wave, Trolls Wold Tour, The Willoughbys)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Tina Fey - Soul for voicing 22
  • Jamie Foxx - Soul for voicing Joe Gardner
  • Honor Kneafsey - Wolfwalkers for voicing Robyn Goodfellowe
  • Chris Pratt - Onward for voicing Barley Lightfoot
  • Ben Schwartz - Sonic the Hedgehog for voicing Sonic the Hedgehog
    (Honourable Mentions: Sean Bean - Wolfwalkers, Robert G. Chiu - Over the Moon, Tom Holland - Onward, Oliver Platt - I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Eva Whittaker - Wolfwalkers)

Best Cinematography

  • Da 5 Bloods (Newton Thomas Sigel)
  • Mank (Erik Messerschmidt)
  • News of the World (Dariusz Wolski)
  • Nomadland (Joshua James Richards)
  • Tenet (Hoyte van Hoytema)
    (Honourable Mentions: First Cow - Christopher Blauvelt, Judas and the Black Messiah - Sean Bobbitt, The Midnight Sky - Martin Ruhe, Minari - Lachlan Milne, The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Phedon Papamichael)

Best Film Editing

  • Mank (Kirk Baxter)
  • Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
  • Tenet (Jennifer Lame)
  • Time (Gabriel Rhodes)
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Alan Baumgarten)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Father - Yorgos Lamprinos, The Invisible Man - Andy Canny, Minari - Harry Yoon, Promising Young Woman - Frédéric Thoraval, Sound of Metal - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen)

Best Production Design

  • Hamilton (David Korins)
  • Mank (Donald Graham Burt & Jan Pascale)
  • News of the World (David Crank & Elizabeth Keenan)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield (Cristina Casali & Charlotte Dirickx)
  • Soul (Steve Pilcher)
    (Honourable Mentions: Emma, The Father, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Prom, Tenet)

Best Costume Design

  • Emma (Alexandra Byrne)
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Ann Roth)
  • Mank (Trish Summerville)
  • Mulan (Bina Daigeler)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield (Suzie Harman & Robert Worley)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ammonite, Birds of Prey, One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Best Makeup and Hair

  • Birds of Prey (Deborah Lamia Denaver, Sabrina Wilson & Adruitha Lee)
  • Hillbilly Elegy (Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney & Matthew W. Mungle)
  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Matiki Anoff, Larry M. Cherry & Mia Neal)
  • Promising Young Woman (Angela Wells & Daniel Curet)
  • The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Adrien Morot, Laini Thompson & Joanetta Stowers)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bill & Ted Face the Music, Emma, Mulan, One Night in Miami, Pinocchio)

Best Visual Effects

  • Greyhound (Nathan McGuinness, Peter Bebb, Sebastian van Overheidt & Yves De Bono)
  • The Midnight Sky (Matt Kasmir, Chris Lawrence, Dave Watkins & Max Solomon)
  • Soul (Michael Fong & Bill Watral)
  • Tenet (Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Scott Fisher & Dave Chambers)
  • Wonder Woman 1984 (John Moffatt, Alexis Wajsbrot, Huw J Evans & Mark Holt)
    (Honourable Mentions: Birds of Prey, The Invisible Man, Love and Monsters, Mulan, Sonic the Hedgehog)

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