The Top 10 Films of 1920 and Awards

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine)
2. The Parson's Widow (Dreyer)
3. Erotikon (Stiller)
4. Why Change Your Wife? (DeMille)
5. The Penalty (Worsley)
6. The Golem: How He Came into the World (Boese + Wegener)
7. Within Our Gates (Micheaux)
8. Way Down East (Griffith)
9. Sumurun (Lubitsch)
10. Just Pals (Ford)

BEST DIRECTOR
Cecil B. DeMille, Why Change Your Wife?
Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Parson's Widow
Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates
Mauritz Stiller, Erotikon

Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

runner-up: Carl Boese + Paul Wegener, The Golem: How He Came Into the World 

BEST ACTOR 
Lon Chaney, The Penalty 

John Barrymore, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Douglas Fairbanks, The Mark of Zorro 
Buster Keaton, One Week and The Scarecrow 
Werner Krauss, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 

runner-up: Emil Jannings, Anna Boleyn

BEST ACTRESS

Lillian Gish, Way Down East

Gloria Swanson, Why Change Your Wife?

Evelyn Preer, Within Our Gates

Tora Teje, Erotikon

Olive Thomas, The Flapper

runner-up: Barbara Bedford, The Last of the Mohicans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Richard Barthelmess, Way Down East

Lon Chaney, Outside the Law

Joe Roberts, One Week and Convict 13

George Stone, Just Pals

Lewis Stone, Nomads of the North

runner-up: Henry Woodward, The Last of the Mohicans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Hildur Carlberg, The Parson's Widow

Bebe Daniels, Why Change Your Wife?

Katherine Johnston, The Flapper

Margarete Kupfer, Sumurun

Anna Q. Nilsson, The Toll Gate

runner-up: Helen Ferguson, Just Pals