The 46th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2020.^[1]

• Best Film:
  • Small Axe
    • Runner-up: Nomadland
• Best Director:
  • Chloé Zhao – Nomadland
    • Runner-up: Steve McQueen – Small Axe
• Best Actor:
  • Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    • Runner-up: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
• Best Actress:
  • Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
    • Runner-up: Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Glynn Turman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    • Runner up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Youn Yuh-jung – Minari
    • Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried – Mank
• Best Screenplay:
  • Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
    • Runner-up: Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Best Cinematography:
  • Shabier Kirchner – Small Axe
    • Runner-up: Joshua James Richards – Nomadland
• Best Editing:
  • Yorgos Lamprinos – The Father
    • Runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes – Time
• Best Production Design:
  • Donald Graham Burt – Mank
    • Runner-up: Sergey Ivanov – Beanpole
• Best Music Score:
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul
    • Runner-up: Mica Levi – Lovers Rock
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Beanpole
    • Runner-up: Martin Eden
• Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  • Time
    • Runner-up: Collective
• Best Animation:
  • Wolfwalkers
    • Runner-up: Soul
• New Generation Award:
  • Radha Blank – The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Harry Belafonte and Hou Hsiao-hsien
• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • John Gianvito – Her Socialist Smile
• Legacy Award:
  • Norman Lloyd