8,388 films on the site were released in 2020, and 842 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. Wolfwalkers tops the list, ahead of A Secret Love and David Byrne’s American Utopia. The biggest hit was The Eight Hundred with $461.4M worldwide, and Nomadland won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars.
Wolfwalkers is the best-rated film of 2020, with an Echo Score of 92; A Secret Love is second with the same Echo Score 92. Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
#1 of 842 Best-rated film of 2020
2020 Adventure Fantasy Animation 1h 43m English
92 Echo Score $1.3M worldwide
Directed by Ross Stewart
Wolfwalkers earned $1.3M worldwide; the year's biggest hit, The Eight Hundred, earned $461.4M.
About WolfwalkersA Secret Love and David Byrne’s American Utopia follow Wolfwalkers. Documentary is the most common genre in the top 25 (10 films). Taichi Ishidate has 2 films on the list. Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
2020 · Documentary, Music · 1h 45m
Dir. Spike Lee
2020 · Documentary · 2h 4m
Dir. Julien Temple
2020 · Animation, Romance · 2h 20m
Dir. Taichi Ishidate
2020 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 35m
Dir. Tomohisa Taguchi
2020 · Comedy · 2h 9m
2020 · Drama, Thriller · 1h 53m
2020 · Music, Documentary · 1h 51m
Dir. Frank Marshall
2020 · Music, Documentary · 1h 20m
Dir. Rubika Shah
2020 · Drama, History · 2h 9m
Dir. Aaron Sorkin
2020 · Biography, Sport · 1h 19m
Dir. Jacob Hamilton
2020 · Animation, Romance · 2h 20m
Dir. Taichi Ishidate
2020 · Comedy, Action · 2h 57m
Dir. Sachy
2020 · Romance, Drama · 2h 3m
Dir. Takahiro Miki
2020 · Documentary · 1h 51m
Dir. Ric Burns
2020 · Music · 1h 25m
2020 · Drama, Documentary · 1h 29m
2020 · Documentary
Dir. Thom Zimny
2020 · Drama, History · 2h 7m
2020 · Adventure, Sci-Fi · 1h 26m
Dir. Bob Bowen
The Eight Hundred earned $461.4M worldwide, ahead of Bad Boys for Life ($426.5M). The top 10 took $2.9B together; 1,295 films released in 2020 have a box office record here. Grosses that look like data errors are left out.
#1 $461.4M worldwide The Eight Hundred $372.8K domestic · Action 
#2 $426.5M worldwide Bad Boys for Life $206.3M domestic · Action 
#3 $365.3M worldwide Tenet $58.5M domestic · Action 
#4 $319.7M worldwide Sonic the Hedgehog $149M domestic · Action 
#5 $251.4M worldwide Dolittle $77M domestic · Action 
#6 $240.6M worldwide Jiang Ziya $214.7K domestic · Fantasy 
#7 $216M worldwide A Little Red Flower Drama, Family 
#8 $215.9M worldwide The Croods: A New Age $58.6M domestic · Adventure .jpg)
#9 $205.5M worldwide Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) $84.2M domestic · Action 
#10 $198.9M worldwide Shock Wave 2 Crime, Thriller Nomadland leads with 19 wins from 31 nominations, then Ma Rainey's Black Bottom with 10 wins. Nomadland won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars. In all, 150 films released in 2020 have award nominations on the site, with 139 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 2020 film of 12 genres, from Adventure (Wolfwalkers) to Action (Ayyappanum Koshiyum). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
Wolfwalkers 92 Echo Score A Secret Love 92 Echo Score David Byrne’s American Utopia 92 Echo Score Violet Evergarden: The Movie 90 Echo Score Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna 90 Echo Score The Forty-Year-Old Version 90 Echo Score Minari 89 Echo Score Promising Young Woman 89 Echo Score The Trial of the Chicago 7 89 Echo Score Jump Shot: The Kenny Sailors Story 89 Echo Score Violet Evergarden: The Movie 88 Echo Score Ayyappanum Koshiyum 88 Echo Score October was the busiest month of 2020 with 1,207 releases; its best-rated film is David Byrne’s American Utopia.
52% of 2020's films with a known language are in English (4,325). Spanish comes next with 552 films, out of 93 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 2020's best-rated films, biggest hits and awards, from the lists above.
Wolfwalkers is the best-rated film of 2020 on What's After the Movie, with an Echo Score of 92. A Secret Love is second and David Byrne’s American Utopia third. Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating.
About WolfwalkersThe Eight Hundred earned $461.4M worldwide, the most of any 2020 release on the site. Bad Boys for Life follows with $426.5M.
2020 box officeNomadland (2020) won Best Picture at the 2021 Academy Awards.
NomadlandNomadland has the best award record of the 2020 releases on the site: 19 wins from 31 nominations.
2021 awards seasonThe site lists 8,388 films released in 2020. 842 of them are ranked, and October had the most releases with a known day (1,207).
Ranked by Echo Score, our 0–100 rating. Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.
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