Director Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow earned Best Feature distinction at the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards today (12/18). The Best Director honor went to Chloe Zhao for Nomadland.

Da 5 Bloods and Never Rarely Sometimes Always were the only two films to win more than one award. Each garnered two honors with Never Rarely Sometimes Always scoring Best Screenplay for Eliza Hittman and Best Actress for Sidney Flanigan. Da 5 Bloods saw Delroy Lindo win for Best Actor and the late Chadwick Boseman for Best Supporting Actor. Additionally, Spike Lee, director of Da 5 Bloods, won a special award for his short film New York, New York Love Letter, a salute to the Big Apple during the pandemic.

Maria Bakalova was named Best Supporting Actress on the strength of her performance in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Time won for Best Documentary while Wolfwalkers took the Best Animated Film mantle. Radha Blank came up a winner for Best First Film on the basis of The 40-Year-Old Version. Bacurau earned recognition as Best Foreign Language Film. And Shabier Kirchner was named Best Cinematographer for his lensing of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology

Lee wasn’t the only Special Award winner. Also taking a special honor was Kino Lorber for its Kino Marquee Virtual Cinema.

The NYFCC selection for Best Feature frequently goes on to perform well on the Oscars front. Recent NYFCC Best Features included The Irishman, Roma, Lady Bird and La La Land which all wound up with Academy Award nominations for Best Picture.

Here’s a full rundown of NYFCC 2020 winners:

Best Picture
First Cow

Best Director
Chloe Zhao
NOMADLAND

Best Screenplay
Eliza Hittman
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

Best Actress
Sidney Flanigan
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS

Best Actor
Delroy Lindo
DA 5 BLOODS

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova
BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM

Best Supporting Actor
Chadwick Boseman
DA 5 BLOODS

Best Cinematographer
Shabier Kirchner
SMALL AXE

Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers

Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
Time

Best Foreign Language Film
Bacurau

Best First Film
Radha Blank
THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION

Special Award
Kino Lorber
KINO MARQUEE VIRTUAL CINEMA

Special Award
Spike Lee
”NEW YORK NEW YORK” LOVE LETTER