The 19th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on February 8, 2021.
Best Film
- Nomadland
- First Cow
- Minari
- One Night in Miami…
- Promising Young Woman
Best Director
- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
- Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
- Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
- Regina King – One Night in Miami…
- Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
Best Actor
- Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as Levee Green (posthumous)
- Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
- Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
- Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul
- Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi
Best Actress
- Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
- Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
- Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
- Elisabeth Moss – The Invisible Man as Cecilia Kass
- Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas
Best Supporting Actor
- Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami… as Sam Cooke
- Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
- Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
- Bill Murray – On the Rocks as Felix Keane
- Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe
Best Supporting Actress
- Youn Yuh-jung – Minari as Soon-ja
- Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
- Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne
- Dominique Fishback – Judas and the Black Messiah as Deborah Johnson
- Amanda Seyfried – Mank as Marion Davies
Best Original Screenplay
- Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
- Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
- Darius Marder and Abraham Marder (story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance) – Sound of Metal
- Andy Siara – Palm Springs
- Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
- Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
- Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami…
- Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt – First Cow
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Animated Feature
- Soul
- The Croods: A New Age
- Onward
- Over the Moon
- Wolfwalkers
Best Documentary Film
- Boys State
- Collective
- Crip Camp
- Dick Johnson Is Dead
- Time
Best International/Foreign Language Film
- Another Round
- Bacurau
- La Llorona
- The Mole Agent
- Night of the Kings
Best Cinematography
- Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
- Erik Messerschmidt – Mank
- Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods
- Hoyte van Hoytema – Tenet
- Dariusz Wolski – News of the World
Best Editing
- Jennifer Lame – Tenet
- Alan Baumgarten – The Trial of the Chicago 7
- Kirk Baxter – Mank
- Mikkel E. G. Nielsen – Sound of Metal
- Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
Best Original Score
- Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross – Soul
- Ludwig Göransson – Tenet
- James Newton Howard – News of the World
- Emile Mosseri – Minari
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Mank
Best Production Design
- Donald Graham Burt (production design) and Jan Pascale (set decoration) – Mank
- David Crank (production design) and Elizabeth Keenan (set decoration) – News of the World
- Nathan Crowley (production design) and Kathy Lucas (set decoration) – Tenet
- Kave Quinn (production design) and Stella Fox (set decoration) – Emma
- Mark Ricker (production design) and Karen O’Hara (set decoration) – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Acting Ensemble
- One Night in Miami…
- Da 5 Bloods
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Minari
- The Trial of the Chicago 7
Best Youth Performance
- Alan Kim – Minari as David Yi
- Millie Bobby Brown – Enola Holmes as Enola Holmes
- Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Autumn Callaghan
- Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always as Skylar
- Helena Zengel – News of the World as Johanna Leonberger
Best Voice Performance
- Jamie Foxx – Soul as Joe Gardner
- Tina Fey – Soul as 22
- Tom Holland – Onward as Ian Lightfoot
- Honor Kneafsey – Wolfwalkers as Robyn Goodfellowe
- Octavia Spencer – Onward as Corey
The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
- Wonder Woman 1984
- Crip Camp
- The Fight
- Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
- John Lewis: Good Trouble