"Small Axe" Runner up: "Nomadland"

Chloé Zhao
"Nomadland" Runner up: Steve Mcqueen
"Small Axe"

Chadwick Boseman
"Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom"Runner up: Riz Ahmed
"Sound Of Metal"

Carey Mulligan
"Promising Young Woman" Runner up: Viola Davis
"Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom"

Glynn Turman
"Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom" Runner up: Paul Raci
"Sound Of Metal"

Youn Yuh-Jung
"Minari" Runner up: Amanda Seyfried
"Mank"

Emerald Fennell
"Promising Young Woman"Runner up: Eliza Hittman
"Never Rarely Sometimes Always"

Shabier Kirchner
"Small Axe" Runner up: Joshua James Richards
"Nomadland"

Donald Graham Burt
"Mank" Runner up: Sergey Ivanov
"Beanpole"

Yorgos Lamprinos
"The Father" Runner up: Gabriel Rhodes
"Time"

Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
"Soul" Runner up: Mica Levi
"Lovers Rock"

"Beanpole" Runner up: "Martin Eden"

"Time" Runner up: "Collective"

"Wolfwalkers" Runner up: "Soul"

Radha Blank
"The Forty-Year-Old Version"

Harry Belafonte
&
Hou Hsiao-Hsien

John Gianvito's Her Socialist Smile

Norman Lloyd