IndieWire Critics Poll

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The IndieWire Critics Poll is an annual poll by American film industry and film criticism website IndieWire that recognizes the best in American and international films in a ranking of ten or five films across different categories.

The winners are chosen by the votes of the critics from IndieWire and other invited critics from around the world. The poll began in 2006.

Categories

As of 2024, rankings for nine categories were presented:

Editions

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006The Death of Mr. LazarescuL'EnfantThe DepartedInland EmpireArmy of Shadows Three TimesOld JoyUnited 93Children of MenHalf Nelson
2007There Will Be BloodZodiacNo Country for Old MenSyndromes and a Century4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 DaysI'm Not ThereThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordColossal YouthKiller of Sheep Offside
2008Flight of the Red BalloonA Christmas TaleWALL-EWendy and LucyHappy-Go-LuckyParanoid ParkStill LifeSilent LightSynecdoche, New YorkWaltz with Bashir
2009Summer HoursThe Hurt Locker
A Serious Man		Inglourious BasterdsFantastic Mr. Fox35 Shots of RumThe Headless WomanTwo LoversUpPolice, AdjectiveIn the Loop
2010The Social NetworkCarlosWinter's BoneBlack SwanEveryone ElseDogtoothThe Ghost WriterMotherI Am LoveAnother Year
Wild Grass
2011The Tree of LifeMelancholiaA SeparationDriveUncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past LivesCertified CopyMysteries of LisbonHugoMargaretMeek's Cutoff
2012Holy MotorsZero Dark ThirtyThe MasterAmourThis Is Not a FilmMoonrise KingdomBeasts of the Southern WildOnce Upon a Time in AnatoliaThe Turin HorseLincoln
201312 Years a SlaveInside Llewyn DavisBefore MidnightHerGravityThe Act of KillingLeviathanBlue Is the Warmest ColourUpstream ColorFrances Ha
2014BoyhoodUnder the SkinThe Grand Budapest HotelBirdmanInherent ViceGoodbye to LanguageIdaWhiplashOnly Lovers Left AliveSelma
2015Mad Max: Fury RoadCarolSpotlightInside OutPhoenixBrooklynAnomalisaThe AssassinThe Look of SilenceSon of Saul
2016MoonlightManchester by the SeaLa La LandToni ErdmannO.J.: Made in AmericaPatersonThe HandmaidenArrivalHell or High WaterJackie
2017Get OutLady BirdDunkirkPhantom ThreadThe Florida ProjectThe Shape of WaterCall Me by Your NamePersonal ShopperThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriThe Post
2018RomaFirst ReformedBurningThe FavouriteCold WarShopliftersBlacKkKlansmanZamaYou Were Never Really HereIf Beale Street Could Talk
2019ParasiteThe IrishmanMarriage StoryOnce Upon a Time...in HollywoodPortrait of a Lady on FirePain and GloryUncut GemsThe SouvenirJokerLittle Women
2020NomadlandNever Rarely Sometimes AlwaysFirst CowLovers RockI'm Thinking of Ending ThingsBeanpoleTimeDa 5 BloodsMartin EdenBacurau
2021The Power of the DogDrive My CarLicorice PizzaThe Worst Person in the WorldMemoriaThe French DispatchFleePetite MamanPassingC'mon C'mon
2022TárAftersunThe Banshees of InisherinEverything Everywhere All At OnceThe FabelmansDecision to LeaveNopeRRRTop Gun: MaverickAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2023Killers of the Flower MoonOppenheimerPoor ThingsPast LivesMay DecemberThe Zone of InterestAnatomy of a FallBarbieThe HoldoversAsteroid City
2024AnoraThe BrutalistNickel BoysAll We Imagine as LightChallengersI Saw the TV GlowThe SubstanceDune: Part TwoDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the WorldHard Truths

Best Director

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Martin Scorsese
(The Departed)		David Lynch
(Inland Empire)		Cristi Puiu
(The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)		Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (L'Enfant)		N/a
2007Paul Thomas Anderson
(There Will Be Blood)		David Fincher
(Zodiac)		Joel and Ethan Coen
(No Country for Old Men)		Todd Haynes
(I'm Not There)		Cristian Mungiu
(4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)		N/a
2008Hou Hsiao-hsien
(Flight of the Red Balloon)		Mike Leigh
(Happy-Go-Lucky)		Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale)
José Luis Guerin (In the City of Sylvia)		Carlos Reygadas
(Silent Light)		N/a
2009Kathryn Bigelow
(The Hurt Locker)		Lucrecia Martel
(The Headless Woman)		Olivier Assayas
(Summer Hours)		Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum)
James Gray (Two Lovers)		Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Michael Haneke
(The White Ribbon)		N/a
2010David Fincher
(The Social Network)		Olivier Assayas
(Carlos)		Darren Aronofsky
(Black Swan)		Roman Polanski
(The Ghost Writer)		Gaspar Noé
(Enter the Void)		N/a
2011Terrence Malick
(The Tree of Life)		Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Lars von Trier
(Melancholia)		Nicolas Winding Refn
(Drive)		Raúl Ruiz
(Mysteries of Lisbon)		Kelly Reichardt
(Meek's Cutoff)		N/a
2012Kathryn Bigelow
(Zero Dark Thirty)		Paul Thomas Anderson
(The Master)		Leos Carax
(Holy Motors)		Michael Haneke
(Amour)		Miguel Gomes
(Tabu)		N/a
2013Steve McQueen
(12 Years a Slave)		Alfonso Cuarón
(Gravity)		Joel and Ethan Coen
(Inside Llewyn Davis)		Spike Jonze
(Her)		Shane Carruth
(Upstream Color)		David O. Russell
(American Hustle)		Paolo Sorrentino
(The Great Beauty)		Martin Scorsese
(The Wolf of Wall Street)		Richard Linklater
(Before Midnight)		Harmony Korine
(Spring Breakers)
2014Richard Linklater
(Boyhood)		Wes Anderson
(The Grand Budapest Hotel)		Alejandro G. Iñárritu
(Birdman)		Jonathan Glazer
(Under the Skin)		Jean-Luc Godard
(Goodbye to Language)		Ava DuVernay
(Selma)		Paul Thomas Anderson
(Inherent Vice)		David Fincher
(Gone Girl)		Damien Chazelle
(Whiplash)		Paweł Pawlikowski
(Ida)
2015George Miller
(Mad Max: Fury Road)		Todd Haynes
(Carol)		Hou Hsiao-hsien
(The Assassin)		László Nemes
(Son of Saul)		Tom McCarthy
(Spotlight)		Alejandro G. Iñárritu
(The Revenant)		Christian Petzold
(Phoenix)		Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
(Anomalisa)		John Crowley
(Brooklyn)		Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
(The Forbidden Room)
2016Barry Jenkins
(Moonlight)		Damien Chazelle
(La La Land)		Maren Ade
(Toni Erdmann)		Kenneth Lonergan
(Manchester by the Sea)		Park Chan-wook
(The Handmaiden)		Pablo Larraín
(Jackie)		Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women)
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)		Paul Verhoeven
(Elle)		Martin Scorsese
(Silence)
2017Paul Thomas Anderson
(Phantom Thread)		Luca Guadagnino
(Call Me by Your Name)		Greta Gerwig
(Lady Bird)		Sean Baker
(The Florida Project)		Jordan Peele
(Get Out)		N/a
2018Alfonso Cuarón
(Roma)		Lee Chang-Dong
(Burning)		Lynne Ramsay
(You Were Never Really Here)		Yorgos Lanthimos
(The Favourite)		Paul Schrader
(First Reformed)		N/a
2019Bong Joon-ho
(Parasite)		Martin Scorsese
(The Irishman)		Quentin Tarantino
(Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood)		Céline Sciamma
(Portrait of a Lady on Fire)		Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie
(Uncut Gems)		Noah Baumbach
(Marriage Story)		Pedro Almodóvar
(Pain and Glory)		Greta Gerwig
(Little Women)		Joanna Hogg
(The Souvenir)		Todd Phillips
(Joker)
2020Chloe Zhao
(Nomadland)		Steve McQueen
(Lovers Rock)		Eliza Hittman
(Never Rarely Sometimes Always)		Kelly Reichardt
(First Cow)		David Fincher
(Mank)		Spike Lee
(Da 5 Bloods)		Charlie Kaufman
(I'm Thinking of Ending Things)		Pietro Marcello
(Martin Eden)		Kantemir Balagov
(Beanpole)		Lee Isaac Chung
(Minari)
2021Jane Campion
(The Power of the Dog)		Ryusuke Hamaguchi
(Drive My Car)		Apichatpong Weerasethakul
(Memoria)		Denis Villeneuve
(Dune)		Paul Thomas Anderson
(Licorice Pizza)		Wes Anderson
(The French Dispatch)		David Lowery
(The Green Knight)		Steven Spielberg
(West Side Story)		Pablo Larraín
(Spencer)		Celine Sciamma
(Petite Maman)
2022Todd Field
(Tár)		Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
(Everything Everywhere All at Once)		S. S. Rajamouli
(RRR)		Steven Spielberg
(The Fabelmans)		Charlotte Wells
(Aftersun)		Park Chan-wook
(Decision to Leave)		Martin McDonagh
(The Banshees of Inisherin)		Jerzy Skolimowski
(EO)		Jordan Peele
(Nope)		Alice Diop
(Saint Omer)
2023Martin Scorsese
(Killers of the Flower Moon)		Christopher Nolan
(Oppenheimer)		Jonathan Glazer
(The Zone of Interest)		Yorgos Lanthimos
(Poor Things)		Todd Haynes
(May December)		Greta Gerwig
(Barbie)		Celine Song
(Past Lives)		Wes Anderson
(Asteroid City)		Justine Triet
(Anatomy of a Fall)		Albert Serra
(Pacifiction)
2024Brady Corbet
(The Brutalist)		RaMell Ross
(Nickel Boys)		Sean Baker
(Anora)		Payal Kapadia
(All We Imagine as Light)		Luca Guadagnino
(Challengers)		Jane Schoenbrun
(I Saw the TV Glow)		Coralie Fargeat
(The Substance)		Jacques Audiard
(Emilia Pérez)		Bertrand Bonello
(The Beast)		Edward Berger
(Conclave)

Best Performance

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
Best Lead Performance
2006Helen Mirren
(The Queen)		Ryan Gosling
(Half Nelson)		Laura Dern
(Inland Empire)		Sacha Baron Cohen
(Borat)		Forest Whitaker
(The Last King of Scotland)		Will Oldham
(Old Joy)		Meryl Streep
(The Devil Wears Prada)		Ioan Fiscuteanu
(The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)		Penélope Cruz
(Volver)		Sandra Hüller
(Requiem)
2007Daniel Day-Lewis
(There Will Be Blood)		Anamaria Marinca
(4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)		Julie Christie
(Away from Her)		Carice van Houten
(Black Book)		Viggo Mortensen
(Eastern Promises)		Marion Cotillard
(La Vie en Rose)		George Clooney
(Michael Clayton)		Mathieu Amalric
(The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)		Michael Shannon
(Bug)		Elliot Page
(Juno)
2008Mickey Rourke
(The Wrestler)		Sally Hawkins
(Happy-Go-Lucky)		Michelle Williams
(Wendy and Lucy)		Sean Penn
(Milk)		Juliette Binoche
(Flight of the Red Balloon)		Asia Argento
(Boarding Gate, The Mother of Tears, The Last Mistress)		Melissa Leo
(Frozen River)		Anne Hathaway
(Rachel Getting Married)		Guillaume Depardieu
(The Duchess of Langeais)		Philip Seymour Hoffman
(Synecdoche, New York)
2009Tilda Swinton
(Julia)		Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Antichrist)		Jeremy Renner
(The Hurt Locker)		María Onetto (The Headless Woman)
Joaquin Phoenix (Two Lovers)		Tom Hardy
(Bronson)		Matt Damon (The Informant!)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)		Michael Stuhlbarg
(A Serious Man)		Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)		Arta Dobroshi (Lorna's Silence)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)		Catalina Saavedra
(The Maid)
2010Edgar Ramírez
(Carlos)		Jesse Eisenberg
(The Social Network)		Natalie Portman
(Black Swan)		Jennifer Lawrence
(Winter's Bone)		Kim Hye-ja
(Mother)		Tilda Swinton
(I Am Love)		Jeon Do-yeon
(Secret Sunshine)		Isabelle Huppert
(White Material)		Lesley Manville
(Another Year)		Ryan Gosling
(Blue Valentine)
2011Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Michael Shannon
(Take Shelter)		Anna Paquin
(Margaret)		Juliette Binoche
(Certified Copy)		Yoon Jeong-hee
(Poetry)		Kirsten Dunst
(Melancholia)		Elizabeth Olsen
(Martha Marcy May Marlene)		Tilda Swinton
(We Need to Talk About Kevin)		Jean Dujardin
(The Artist)		Charlize Theron
(Young Adult)		George Clooney
(The Descendants)
2012Denis Lavant
(Holy Motors)		Joaquin Phoenix
(The Master)		Daniel Day-Lewis
(Lincoln)		Jessica Chastain
(Zero Dark Thirty)		Emmanuelle Riva
(Amour)		Jean-Louis Trintignant
(Amour)		Rachel Weisz
(The Deep Blue Sea)		Quvenzhané Wallis
(Beasts of the Southern Wild)		Nina Hoss
(Barbara)		Jennifer Lawrence
(Silver Linings Playbook)
2013Chiwetel Ejiofor
(12 Years a Slave)		Adèle Exarchopoulos
(Blue Is the Warmest Colour)		Cate Blanchett
(Blue Jasmine)		Oscar Isaac
(Inside Llewyn Davis)		Greta Gerwig
(Frances Ha)		Brie Larson
(Short Term 12)		Robert Redford
(All Is Lost)		Joaquin Phoenix
(Her)		Matthew McConaughey
(Dallas Buyers Club)		Sandra Bullock
(Gravity)
2014
Best Lead Actor
Ralph Fiennes
(The Grand Budapest Hotel)		Jake Gyllenhaal
(Nightcrawler)		Michael Keaton
(Birdman)		Timothy Spall
(Mr. Turner)		Joaquin Phoenix
(Inherent Vice)		David Oyelowo
(Selma)		Eddie Redmayne
(The Theory of Everything)		Tom Hardy
(Locke)		Jack O'Connell
(Starred Up)		Benedict Cumberbatch
(The Imitation Game)
Best Lead Actress
Marion Cotillard
(Two Days, One Night)		Scarlett Johansson
(Under the Skin)		Rosamund Pike
(Gone Girl)		Essie Davis
(The Babadook)		Marion Cotillard
(The Immigrant)		Julianne Moore
(Still Alice)		Reese Witherspoon
(Wild)		Tilda Swinton
(Only Lovers Left Alive)		Jenny Slate
(Obvious Child)		Anne Dorval
(Mommy)
2015
Best Lead Actor
Michael Fassbender
(Steve Jobs)		Géza Röhrig
(Son of Saul)		Michael B. Jordan
(Creed)		Christopher Abbott
(James White)		Tom Courtenay
(45 Years)		Leonardo DiCaprio
(The Revenant)		Ben Mendelsohn
(The Big Short)		Jason Segel
(The End of the Tour)		Paul Dano
(Love & Mercy)		Josh Lucas
(The Mend)
Best Lead Actress
Charlotte Rampling
(45 Years)		Saoirse Ronan
(Brooklyn)		Brie Larson
(Room)		Nina Hoss
(Phoenix)		Cate Blanchett
(Carol)		Rooney Mara
(Carol)		Charlize Theron
(Mad Max: Fury Road)		Bel Powley
(The Diary of a Teenage Girl)		Juliette Binoche
(Clouds of Sils Maria)		Elisabeth Moss
(Queen of Earth)
2016
Best Lead Actor
Casey Affleck
(Manchester by the Sea)		Adam Driver
(Paterson)		Colin Farrell
(The Lobster)		Peter Simonischek
(Toni Erdmann)		Denzel Washington
(Fences)		Joel Edgerton
(Loving)		Ryan Gosling
(La La Land)		Viggo Mortensen
(Captain Fantastic)		Vincent Lindon
(The Measure of a Man)		Ethan Hawke
(Born to Be Blue)
Best Lead Actress
Isabelle Huppert
(Elle)		Natalie Portman
(Jackie)		Sandra Hüller
(Toni Erdmann)		Sônia Braga
(Aquarius)		Emma Stone
(La La Land)		Amy Adams
(Arrival)		Rebecca Hall
(Christine)		Ruth Negga
(Loving)		Annette Bening
(20th Century Women)		Isabelle Huppert
(Things to Come)
2017
Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet
(Call Me by Your Name)		Daniel Day-Lewis
(Phantom Thread)		Robert Pattinson
(Good Time)		James Franco
(The Disaster Artist)		Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)		N/a
Best Actress
Saoirse Ronan
(Lady Bird)		Frances McDormand
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)		Cynthia Nixon
(A Quiet Passion)		Sally Hawkins
(The Shape of Water)		Kristen Stewart
(Personal Shopper)		N/a
2018
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke
(First Reformed)		Joaquin Phoenix
(You Were Never Really Here)		Willem Dafoe
(At Eternity's Gate)		Rami Malek
(Bohemian Rhapsody)		Viggo Mortensen
(Green Book)		N/a
Best Actress
Olivia Colman
(The Favourite)		Yalitza Aparicio
(Roma)		Toni Collette
(Hereditary)		Joanna Kulig
(Cold War)		Melissa McCarthy
(Can You Ever Forgive Me?)		N/a
2019
Best Actor
Adam Driver
(Marriage Story)		Antonio Banderas
(Pain and Glory)		Adam Sandler
(Uncut Gems)		Joaquin Phoenix
(Joker)		Robert De Niro
(The Irishman)		Leonardo DiCaprio
(Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood)		Eddie Murphy
(Dolemite Is My Name)		Taron Egerton
(Rocketman)		Song Kang-ho
(Parasite)		Brad Pitt
(Ad Astra)
Best Actress
Lupita Nyong'o
(Us)		Scarlett Johansson
(Marriage Story)		Elisabeth Moss
(Her Smell)		Renée Zellweger
(Judy)		Awkwafina
(The Farewell)		Florence Pugh
(Midsommar)		Mary Kay Place
(Diane)		Zhao Tao
(Ash Is Purest White)		Saoirse Ronan
(Little Women)		Adèle Haenel
(Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Best Performance
2020Riz Ahmed
(Sound of Metal)		Frances McDormand
(Nomadland)		Chadwick Boseman
(Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)		Delroy Lindo
(Da 5 Bloods)		Maria Bakalova
(Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)		Jessie Buckley
(I'm Thinking of Ending Things)		Luca Marinelli
(Martin Eden)		Gary Oldman
(Mank)		Carrie Coon
(The Nest)		Mads Mikkelsen
(Another Round)
2021Benedict Cumberbatch
(The Power of the Dog)		Kristen Stewart
(Spencer)		Renate Reinsve
(The Worst Person in the World)		Nicolas Cage
(Pig)		Alana Haim
(Licorice Pizza)		Olivia Colman
(The Lost Daughter)		Tessa Thompson
(Passing)		Peter Dinklage
(Cyrano)		Hidetoshi Nishijima
(Drive My Car)		Will Smith
(King Richard)
2022Cate Blanchett
(Tár)		Colin Farrell
(The Banshees of Inisherin)		Michelle Yeoh
(Everything Everywhere All at Once)		Danielle Deadwyler
(Till)		Park Ji-min
(Return to Seoul)		Brendan Fraser
(The Whale)		Tilda Swinton
(The Eternal Daughter)		Paul Mescal
(Aftersun)		Mia Goth
(Pearl)

Guslagie Malanda (Saint Omer)
Austin Butler (Elvis)
Léa Seydoux (One Fine Morning)

2023Emma Stone
(Poor Things)		Lily Gladstone
(Killers of the Flower Moon)		Sandra Hüller
(Anatomy of a Fall)		Cillian Murphy
(Oppenheimer)		Charles Melton
(May December)		Paul Giamatti
(The Holdovers)		Ryan Gosling
(Barbie)		Andrew Scott
(All of Us Strangers)		Greta Lee (Past Lives)
Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)		Glenn Howerton (Blackberry)
Benoît Magimel (Pacifiction)
Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days)
Franz Rogowski (Passages)
2024Marianne Jean-Baptiste
(Hard Truths)		Adrien Brody
(The Brutalist)		Mikey Madison
(Anora)		Demi Moore
(The Substance)		Ilinca Manolache
(Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World)		Nicole Kidman
(Babygirl)		Colman Domingo
(Sing Sing)		Daniel Craig
(Queer)		Lea Seydoux
(The Beast)		Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here)
Josh Hartnett (Trap)
2025Rose Byrne
(If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)		Ethan Hawke
(Blue Moon)		Wagner Moura
(The Secret Agent)		Jessie Buckley
(Hamnet )		Timothée Chalamet
(Marty Supreme)		Michael B. Jordan
(Sinners)		TIE:
Benicio Del Toro
(One Battle After Another)
Sean Penn
(One Battle After Another)		Amanda Seyfried
(The Testament of Ann Lee)		Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

Best Screenplay

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006The Queen
(Peter Morgan)		The Departed
(William Monahan)		A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
A Cock and Bull Story (Martin Hardy)		Brick
(Rian Johnson)		N/a
2007There Will Be Blood
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		Margot at the Wedding
(Noah Baumbach)		Michael Clayton
(Tony Gilroy)		Zodiac
(James Vanderbilt)		No Country for Old Men
(Joel and Ethan Coen)		N/a
2008Synecdoche, New York
(Charlie Kaufman)		A Christmas Tale
(Arnaud Desplechin, Emmanuel Bourdieu)		Rachel Getting Married (Jenny Lumet)
Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)		N/a
2009A Serious Man
(Joel and Ethan Coen)		In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)		Fantastic Mr. Fox
(Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach)		Up in the Air
(Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)		Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)		N/a
2010The Social Network
(Aaron Sorkin)		Everybody Else
(Maren Ade)		Carlos
(Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck)		Another Year (Mike Leigh)
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg)		Mother (Bong Joon-Ho, Eun-kyo Park)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)		N/a
2011A Separation
(Asghar Farhadi)		Margaret
(Kenneth Lonergan)		Moneyball
(Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin)		Young Adult
(Diablo Cody)		Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
A Dangerous Method (Christopher Hampton)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Carlos Saboga)		N/a
2012Lincoln
(Tony Kushner)		Zero Dark Thirty
(Mark Boal)		The Master
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		Moonrise Kingdom
(Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson)		Looper (Rian Johnson)
Amour (Michael Haneke)		N/a
2013Before Midnight
(Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)		Inside Llewyn Davis
(Joel and Ethan Coen)		Her
(Spike Jonze)		12 Years a Slave
(John Ridley)		Frances Ha
(Noah Baumbach)		American Hustle
(Eric Warren Singer)		The World's End
(Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg)		Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)Nebraska
(Bob Nelson)		Blue Jasmine
(Woody Allen)
2014The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness)		Boyhood
(Richard Linklater)		Inherent Vice
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		Listen Up Philip
(Alex Ross Perry)		Birdman
(Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo)		Gone Girl
(Gillian Flynn)		Whiplash
(Damien Chazelle)		Force Majure
(Ruben Östlund)		Nightcrawler
(Dan Gilroy)		Calvary
(John Michael McDonagh)
2015Spotlight
(Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy)		Carol
(Phyllis Nagy)		Anomalisa
(Charlie Kaufman)		Inside Out
(Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley)		Steve Jobs
(Aaron Sorkin)		Brooklyn
(Nick Hornby)		Ex Machina
(Alex Garland)		Mistress America
(Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig)		45 Years
(Andrew Haigh)		Clouds of Sils Maria
(Olivier Assayas)
2016Manchester by the Sea
(Kenneth Lonergan)		Moonlight
(Barry Jenkins)		Love & Friendship
(Whit Stillman)		Hell or High Water
(Taylor Sheridan)		The Lobster
(Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou)		Arrival
(Eric Heisserer)		Toni Erdmann
(Maren Ade)		Jackie
(Noah Oppenheim)		Paterson
(Jim Jarmusch)		La La Land
(Damien Chazelle)
2017Get Out
(Jordan Peele)		Lady Bird
(Greta Gerwig)		Phantom Thread
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		Call Me by Your Name
(James Ivory)		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
(Martin McDonagh)		N/a
2018The Favourite
(Tony McNamara)		First Reformed
(Paul Schrader)		Roma
(Alfonso Cuarón)		Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty)		Burning
(Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong)		N/a
2019Parasite
(Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won)		Marriage Story
(Noah Baumbach)		Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
(Quentin Tarantino)		The Irishman
(Steven Zaillian)		Knives Out
(Rian Johnson)		Little Woman
(Greta Gerwig)		Pain and Glory
(Pedro Almodóvar)		Uncut Gems
(Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein)		The Farewell
(Lulu Wang)		Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(Céline Sciamma)
2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things
(Charlie Kaufman)		First Cow
(Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt)		Never Rarely Sometimes Always
(Eliza Hittman)		Promising Young Woman
(Emerald Fennell)		Mank
(Jack Fincher)		Fourteen
(Dan Sallitt)		Minari
(Lee Isaac Chung)		The Trial of the Chicago 7
(Aaron Sorkin)		One Night in Miami...
(Kemp Powers)		Kajillionaire
(Miranda July)
2021Drive My Car
(Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe)		Licorice Pizza
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		The French Dispatch
(Wes Anderson)		The Power of the Dog
(Jane Campion)		A Hero
(Asghar Farhadi)		Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(Ryusuke Hamaguchi)		The Lost Daughter
(Maggie Gyllenhaal)		Pig
(Michael Sarnoski, Vanessa Block)		The Worst Person in the World
(Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)		Berman Island
(Mia Hansen-Løve)
2022Tár
(Todd Field)		The Banshees of Inisherin
(Martin McDonagh)		Everything Everywhere All at Once
(Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert)		Aftersun
(Charlotte Wells)		Women Talking
(Sarah Polley)		The Fabelmans
(Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner)		Crimes of the Future
(David Cronenberg)		Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
(Rian Johnson)		Saint Omer
(Alice Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye)		The Eternal Daughter – (Joanna Hogg)
After Yang – (Kogonada)
2023May December
(Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik)		Past Lives
(Celine Song)		Anatomy of a Fall
(Justine Triet, Arthur Harari)		The Holdovers
(David Hemingson)		American Fiction
(Cord Jefferson)		Killers of the Flower Moon
(Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese)		Poor Things
(Tony McNamara)		Oppenheimer
(Christopher Nolan)		Barbie (Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)		Asteroid City
(Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola)
2024Anora
(Sean Baker)		A Real Pain
(Jesse Eisenberg)		The Brutalist
(Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold)		Challengers
(Justin Kuritzkes)		Conclave
(Peter Straughan)		The Substance
(Coralie Fargeat)		All We Imagine as Light
(Payal Kapadia)		Janet Planet
(Annie Baker)		Nickel Boys
(RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes)		I Saw the TV Glow
(Jane Schoenbrun)

Best Cinematography

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Children of Men
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro)
Three Times (Mark Lee Ping-bing)		Miami Vice
(Dion Beebe)		Climates
(Gökhan Tiryaki)		N/a
2007There Will Be Blood
(Robert Elswit)		The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(Roger Deakins)		Zodiac
(Harris Savides)		No Country for Old Men
(Roger Deakins)		The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Janusz Kaminski)		N/a
Not presented (2008–2010)
2011The Tree of Life
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Hugo
(Robert Richardson)		Drive (Newton Thomas Sigel)
Melancholia (Manuel Alberto Claro)		Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Meek's Cutoff
(Christopher Blauvelt)		N/a
Not presented (2012)
2013Gravity
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Inside Llewyn Davis
(Bruno Delbonnel)		12 Years a Slave
(Sean Bobbitt)		To the Wonder
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Spring Breakers
(Benoît Debie)		Leviathan
(Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)		Her
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Nebraska
(Phedon Papamichael)		The Grandmaster
(Philippe Le Sourd)		The Great Beauty
(Luca Bigazzi)
2014Birdman
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Mr. Turner
(Dick Pope)		The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Robert Yeoman)		The Immigrant
(Darius Khondji)		Under the Skin
(Daniel Landin)		Ida
(Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski)		Goodbye to Language
(Fabrice Aragno)		Inherent Vice
(Robert Elswit)		Interstellar
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Selma
(Bradford Young)
2015Carol
(Edward Lachman)		Mad Max: Fury Road
(John Seale)		The Assassin
(Mark Lee Ping-bing)		The Revenant
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Sicario
(Roger Deakins)		Hard to Be a God
(Vladimir Ilin, Yuriy Klimenko)		Son of Saul
(Mátyás Erdély)		The Hateful Eight
(Robert Richardson)		Brooklyn
(Yves Bélanger)		The Duke of Burgundy
(Nick Knowland)
2016Moonlight
(James Laxton)		La La Land
(Linus Sandgren)		Arrival
(Bradford Young)		The Handmaiden
(Chung Chung-hoon)		Jackie
(Stéphane Fontaine)		American Honey
(Robbie Ryan)		The Neon Demon
(Natasha Braier)		Knight of Cups
(Emmanuel Lubezki)		Cameraperson
(Kirsten Johnson)		Nocturnal Animals
(Seamus McGarvey)
2017Blade Runner 2049
(Roger Deakins)		Dunkirk
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Phantom Thread
(Paul Thomas Anderson)		Call Me by Your Name (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
The Shape of Water (Dan Laustsen)		N/a
2018Roma
(Alfonso Cuarón)		Cold War
(Łukasz Żal)		If Beale Street Could Talk
(James Laxton)		First Man
(Linus Sandgren)		The Favourite
(Robbie Ryan)		N/a
20191917
(Roger Deakins)		Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
(Robert Richardson)		Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(Claire Mathon)		The Lighthouse
(Jarin Blaschke)		Parasite
(Hong Kyung-pyo)		The Irishman
(Rodrigo Prieto)		A Hidden Life
(Jörg Widmer)		N/aN/aUncut Gems
(Darius Khondji)
2020Nomadland
(Joshua James Richards)		Mank
(Erik Messerschmidt)		Vitalina Varela
(Leonardo Simões)		Lovers Rock
(Shabier Kirchner)		Never Rarely Sometimes Always
(Hélène Louvart)		I'm Thinking of Ending Things
(Łukasz Żal)		First Cow
(Christopher Blauvelt)		Tenet
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Beanpole
(Ksenia Sereda)		The Painted Bird – (Vladimír Smutný)
Gunda – (Egil Håskjold Larsen, Viktor Kossakovsky)
2021The Power of the Dog
(Ari Wegner)		Dune
(Greig Fraser)		Spencer
(Claire Mathon)		The Green Knight
(Andrew Droz Palermo)		West Side Story
(Janusz Kamiński)		The Tragedy of Macbeth
(Bruno Delbonnel)		Memoria
(Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)		Passing
(Eduard Grau)		The French Dispatch
(Robert Yeoman)		Belfast
(Haris Zambarloukos)
2022Decision to Leave
(Kim Ji-yong)		Top Gun: Maverick
(Claudio Miranda)		EO (Michał Dymek)
Nope (Hoyte van Hoytema)		The Fabelmans
(Janusz Kamiński)		The Banshees of Inisherin
(Ben Davis)		Athena
(Matias Boucard)		Avatar: The Way of Water
(Russell Carpenter)		Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
(Darius Khondji)		Ambulance
(Roberto de Angelis)
2023Oppenheimer
(Hoyte van Hoytema)		Poor Things
(Robbie Ryan)		Killers of the Flower Moon
(Rodrigo Prieto)		The Zone of Interest
(Łukasz Żal)		All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
(Jomo Fray)		Barbie
(Rodrigo Prieto)		Pacifiction
(Artur Tort)		El Conde
(Edward Lachman)		Godland
(Maria von Hausswolff)		John Wick: Chapter 4
(Dan Laustsen)
2024Nickel Boys
(Jomo Fray)		The Brutalist
(Lol Crawley)		Nosferatu
(Jarin Blaschke)		All We Imagine as Light
(Ranabir Das)		Challengers
(Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)		Dune: Part Two
(Greig Fraser)		I Saw the TV Glow
(Eric K. Yue)		The Girl with the Needle
(Michał Dymek)		Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
(Đinh Duy Hưng)		Conclave
(Josée Deshaies)

Best International Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2017BPM (Beats Per Minute)
(France)		Faces Places
(France)		The Square
(Sweden)		Raw
(France)		Thelma
(Norway)		N/a
2018Roma
(Mexico)		Burning
(South Korea)		Shoplifters
(Japan)		Cold War
(Poland)		Capernaum
(Lebanon)		N/a
2019Parasite
(South Korea)		Pain and Glory
(Spain)		Portrait of a Lady on Fire
(France)		Atlantics
(France, Senegal)		Transit
(Germany)		Monos
(Colombia)		Long Day's Journey into Night
(China)		An Elephant Sitting Still
(China)		Synonyms
(Israel, France)		Les Misérables
(France)
2020Bacurau
(Brazil)		Beanpole
(Russia)		Another Round
(Denmark)		Vitalina Varela
(Portugal)		Martin Eden
(Italy)		Collective
(Romania)		Wolfwalkers
(Ireland)		And Then We Danced
(Georgia, Sweden)		The Painted Bird
(Czech Republic)		His House
(United Kingdom)
2021Drive My Car
(Japan)		The Worst Person in the World
(Norway)		Memoria
(Colombia)		Flee
(Denmark)		Titane
(France)		Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(Japan)		Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
(Romania)		What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
(Georgia)		Petite Maman
(France)		A Hero
(Iran)
2022Decision to Leave
(South Korea)		RRR
(India)		EO
(Polish)		All Quiet on the Western Front
(Germany)		No Bears
(Iran)		The Banshees of Inisherin
(United Kingdom)		Saint Omer
(France)		Happening
(France)		Hit the Road
(Iran)		Benediction
(United Kingdom)
2023Anatomy of a Fall
(France)		The Zone of Interest
(United Kingdom)		The Boy and the Heron
(Japan)		Perfect Days
(Japan)		Fallen Leaves
(Finland)		The Taste of Things
(France)		Pacifiction
(France, Spain)		Godzilla Minus One
(Japan)		Afire
(Germany)		The Eight Mountains
(Italy)
2024All We Imagine as Light
(India)		Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
(Romania)		The Seed of the Sacred Fig
(Germany, Iran)		Evil Does Not Exist
(Japan)		The Beast
(France)		Close Your Eyes
(Spain)		Flow
(Latvia)		No Other Land
(Palestine)		Emilia Pérez
(France)		Kneecap (Ireland)
Red Rooms (Canada)

Best Documentary

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Iraq in FragmentsThe Devil and Daniel JohnstonOur Daily BreadDeliver Us from EvilThe Case of the Grinning CatN/a
2007No End in SightInto Great SilenceThe King of Kong
Lake of Fire		Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)N/a
2008Man on WireMy WinnipegStandard Operating ProcedureTrouble the WaterWaltz with BashirN/a
2009Anvil! The Story of AnvilThe Beaches of AgnèsThe CoveLa Danse
Of Time and the City		24 CityN/a
2010Exit Through the Gift ShopSweetgrassLast Train HomeInside Job
The Oath		MarwencolN/a
2011The InterruptersNostalgia for the LightThe ArborThe Autobiography of Nicolae CeaușescuProject NimN/a
2012This Is Not a FilmThe ImposterHow to Survive a PlagueRoom 237The Central Park Five
The Gatekeepers
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Searching for Sugar Man		N/a
2013The Act of KillingStories We TellLeviathanAt BerkeleyBlackfishLet the Fire BurnRoom 237Cutie and the BoxerAfter TillerLa Camioneta
2014CitizenfourLife ItselfThe OvernightersManakamanaActressNational GalleryJodorowsky's DuneThe Missing PictureFinding Vivian MaierTales of the Grim Sleeper
2015The Look of SilenceAmyIn Jackson HeightsListen to Me MarlonHeart of a DogGoing ClearKurt Cobain: Montage of HeckBest of EnemiesCartel LandIris
2016O.J.: Made in AmericaCamerapersonI Am Not Your Negro13thWeinerFire at SeaTowerKate Plays ChristineDe PalmaNo Home Movie
2017Faces PlacesDawson City: Frozen TimeEx Libris – The New York Public LibraryKediJane
Rat Film		N/a
2018Minding the GapWon’t You Be My Neighbor?Three Identical StrangersFree SoloHale County This Morning, This EveningN/a
2019Apollo 11American FactoryHoneylandFor SamaOne Child NationVarda by AgnèsAmazing GraceRolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan StoryHail Satan?Diego Maradona
2020Dick Johnson Is DeadTimeCollectiveCity HallThe Painter and the ThiefBloody Nose, Empty Pockets76 DaysThe Social DilemmaThe Mole AgentTotally Under Control
2021FleeSummer of SoulProcessionThe Velvet UndergroundThe RescueThe Beatles: Get BackHer Socialist SmileAll Light, EverywhereThe Sparks BrothersVal
Attica
2022All the Beauty and the BloodshedFire of LoveMoonage DaydreamAll That BreathesDescendantNavalnyThree Minutes: A LengtheningThe JanesMr. Bachmann and His Class"Sr."
We Need to Talk About Cosby
2023Kokomo CityMenus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros20 Days in MariupolDe Humani Corporis FabricaFour Daughters
The Eternal Memory		Our BodyBeyond UtopiaA Still Small VoiceThe MissionStill: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best First Feature

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Brick4Little Miss SunshineThe Puffy Chair
Man Push Cart		N/a
2007Away from HerGone Baby GoneControl
In Between Days		PersepolisN/a
2008BallastHungerFrozen RiverSynecdoche, New YorkRepriseN/a
2009HungerIn the LoopThe MessengerAfterschool
District 9
Munyurangabo		Medicine for Melancholy
A Single Man
Tulpan		N/a
2010Exit Through the Gift ShopAnimal KingdomTiny FurnitureNight Catches UsFour LionsN/a
2011Martha Marcy May MarleneMargin CallAttack the BlockBellflowerPariahN/a
2012Beasts of the Southern WildNeighboring SoundsHow to Survive a PlagueSafety Not GuaranteedOnly the Young
The Cabin in the Woods		N/a
2013Fruitvale StationWadjdaIn a World...Blue CapriceThe Act of KillingDon JonSun Don't ShineFill the VoidThis Is the EndGimme the Loot
2014The BabadookNightcrawlerA Girl Walks Home Alone at NightObvious ChildDear White PeopleDas merkwürdige KätzchenIt Felt Like LoveManakamanaJohn WickCoherence
2015Son of SaulThe Diary of a Teenage GirlEx MachinaThe MendJames White
(Josh Mond)		MustangThe TribeSlow WestApproaching the ElephantBone Tomahawk
2016The WitchKrishaThe Edge of SeventeenSwiss Army ManIndignation
Kali Blues		WeinerUnder the Shadow
The Eyes of My Mother		Cameraperson
2017Get OutColumbusRat FilmLady MacbethRaw
Wind River		N/a
2018Sorry to Bother YouEighth GradeHereditaryA Star Is BornMinding the GapN/a
2019AtlanticsBooksmartThe Last Black Man in San FranciscoAn Elephant Sitting StillLes MisérablesI Lost My BodyThe MustangThe ChambermaidBurning CaneEnd of the Century
2020Promising Young WomanThe Vast of NightThe 40-Year-Old VersionOne Night in Miami...RelicSound of MetalThe AssistantHam on RyeBabyteethThe Climb
2021The Lost DaughterPassingPigShiva BabySummer of SoulEl PlanetaTest PatternBeginningtick, tick... BOOM!Identifying Features
2022AftersunSaint OmerTurning RedNannyMurinaHit the RoadEmily the CriminalWe're All Going to the World's FairThe InspectionThree Minutes: A Lengthening
2023Past LivesAll Dirt Roads Taste of SaltA Thousand and OneAmerican FictionThe SettlersN/a
2024Janet PlanetGood OneThe People's JokerDìdi
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell		Blink TwiceN/a

Films Opening Next Year

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place
2018High LifeTransitBirds of PassageHer Smell
Everybody Knows
In Fabric
Not presented (2019)
2020New OrderPieces of a WomanBeginningNine DaysThe Killing of Two Lovers
2021BenedictionHit the RoadHappeningWe're All Going to the World's FairOn the Count of Three
In Front of Your Face
2022Showing UpGodlandCloseDe Humani Corporis FabricaPacifiction
2023Hit ManThe BikeridersThe BeastEvil Does Not ExistGreen Border
2024Caught by the TidesOn Becoming a Guinea FowlPresence
April
Misericordia		The ShroudsEephus

Discontinued categories and special awards

Best Supporting Performance

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Mark Wahlberg
(The Departed)		Shareeka Epps
(Half Nelson)		Robert Downey Jr.
(A Scanner Darkly)		Jackie Earle Haley
(Little Children)		Nick Nolte
(Clean)		Luminița Gheorghiu
(The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)		Sergi López
(Pan's Labyrinth)		Meryl Streep
(A Prairie Home Companion)		Michael Sheen
(The Queen)		Rinko Kikuchi
(Babel)
2007Cate Blanchett
(I'm Not There)		Javier Bardem
(No Country for Old Men)		Casey Affleck
(The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)		Paul Dano
(There Will Be Blood)		Amy Ryan
(Gone Baby Gone)		Hal Holbrook
(Into the Wild)		Tilda Swinton
(Michael Clayton)		Robert Downey Jr.
(Zodiac)		Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Margot at the Wedding)		Tommy Lee Jones
(No Country for Old Men)
2008Heath Ledger
(The Dark Knight)		Eddie Marsan
(Happy-Go-Lucky)		Samantha Morton
(Synecdoche, New York)		Josh Brolin
(Milk)		Michael Shannon
(Revolutionary Road)		Rosemarie DeWitt
(Rachel Getting Married)		Robert Downey Jr.
(Tropic Thunder)		Penélope Cruz
(Vicky Cristina Barcelona)		Marisa Tomei
(The Wrestler)		Viola Davis
(Doubt)
2009Christoph Waltz
(Inglourious Basterds)		Mo'Nique
(Precious)		Christian McKay
(Me and Orson Welles)		Woody Harrelson
(The Messenger)		Paul Schneider
(Bright Star)		Mélanie Laurent
(Inglourious Basterds)		Peter Capaldi
(In the Loop)		Anna Kendrick
(Up in the Air)		Vera Farmiga
(Up in the Air)		Stanley Tucci
(Julie & Julia)
2010John Hawkes
(Winter's Bone)		Christian Bale
(The Fighter)		Michael Fassbender
(Fish Tank)		Jacki Weaver
(Animal Kingdom)		Mark Ruffalo
(The Kids Are All Right)		Greta Gerwig
(Greenberg)		Andrew Garfield
(The Social Network)		Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech)
Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer)		Lesley Manville
(Another Year)		Melissa Leo
(The Fighter)
2011Christopher Plummer
(Beginners)		Albert Brooks
(Drive)		Jeannie Berlin
(Margaret)		Jessica Chastain
(Take Shelter)		Viggo Mortensen
(A Dangerous Method)		Carey Mulligan
(Shame)		Shailene Woodley
(The Descendants)		Melissa McCarthy
(Bridesmaids)		John Hawkes
(Martha Marcy May Marlene)		J. Smith-Cameron
(Margaret)
2012Philip Seymour Hoffman
(The Master)		Matthew McConaughey
(Magic Mike)		Tommy Lee Jones
(Lincoln)		Amy Adams
(The Master)		Anne Hathaway
(Les Misérables)		Christoph Waltz
(Django Unchained)		Ann Dowd
(Compliance)		Samuel L. Jackson
(Django Unchained)		Jason Clarke
(Zero Dark Thirty)		Robert De Niro
(Silver Linings Playbook)
2013Lupita Nyong'o
(12 Years a Slave)		James Franco
(Spring Breakers)		Michael Fassbender
(12 Years a Slave)		Jared Leto
(Dallas Buyers Club)		Léa Seydoux
(Blue Is the Warmest Colour)		Jennifer Lawrence
(American Hustle)		James Gandolfini
(Enough Said)		June Squibb
(Nebraska)		Barkhad Abdi
(Captain Phillips)		Scarlett Johansson
(Her)
2014
Best Supporting Actor
J. K. Simmons
(Whiplash)		Edward Norton
(Birdman)		Ethan Hawke
(Boyhood)		Josh Brolin
(Inherent Vice)		Mark Ruffalo
(Foxcatcher)		Jonathan Pryce
(Listen Up Philip)		Tyler Perry
(Tyler Perry)		Riz Ahmed
(Nightcrawler)		Patrick d'Assumçao
(Stranger by the Lake)		Steve Carell
(Foxcatcher)
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette
(Boyhood)		Tilda Swinton
(Snowpiercer)		Elisabeth Moss
(Listen Up Philip)		Emma Stone
(Birdman)		Agata Kulesza
(Ida)		Carrie Coon
(Gone Girl)		Jessica Chastain
(A Most Violent Year)		Katherine Waterston
(Inherent Vice)		Rene Russo
(Inherent Vice)		Laura Dern
(Wild)
2015
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance
(Bridge of Spies)		Sylvester Stallone
(Creed)		Oscar Isaac
(Ex Machina)		Benicio del Toro
(Sicario)		Michael Shannon
(99 Homes)		Mark Ruffalo
(Spotlight)		Paul Dano
(Love & Mercy)		Idris Elba
(Beasts of No Nation)		Emory Cohen
(Brooklyn)		Richard Jenkins
(Bone Tomahawk)
Best Supporting Actress
Kristen Stewart
(Clouds of Sils Maria)		Alicia Vikander
(Ex Machina)		Cynthia Nixon
(James White)		Jennifer Jason Leigh
(The Hateful Eight)		Kate Winslet
(Steve Jobs)		Rooney Mara
(Carol)		Mya Taylor
(Tangerine)		Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Anomalisa)		Elizabeth Banks
(Love & Mercy)		Tessa Thompson
(Creed)
2016
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali
(Moonlight)		Alden Ehrenreich
(Hail, Caesar!)		Lucas Hedges
(Manchester by the Sea)		Jeff Bridges
(Hell or High Water)		Trevante Rhodes
(Moonlight)		Ralph Fiennes
(A Bigger Splash)		Tom Bennett
(Love & Friendship)		André Holland
(Moonlight)		Michael Shannon
(Nocturnal Animals)		John Goodman
(10 Cloverfield Lane)
Best Supporting Actress
Lily Gladstone
(Certain Women)		Michelle Williams
(Manchester by the Sea)		Naomie Harris
(Moonlight)		Viola Davis
(Fences)		Tilda Swinton
(A Bigger Splash)		Greta Gerwig
(20th Century Women)		Kate McKinnon
(Ghostbusters)		Kristen Stewart
(Certain Women)		Janelle Monáe
(Hidden Figures)		Hayley Squires
(I, Daniel Blake)
2017
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe
(The Florida Project)		Sam Rockwell
(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)		Armie Hammer
(Call Me by Your Name)		Michael Stuhlbarg
(Call Me by Your Name)		Jason Mitchell
(Mudbound)		N/a
Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf
(Lady Bird)		Tiffany Haddish
(Girls Trip)		Allison Janney
(I, Tonya)		Lesley Manville
(Phantom Thread)		Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)
Michelle Pfeiffer (Mother!)		N/a
2018
Best Supporting Actor
Steven Yeun
(Burning)		Richard E. Grant
(Can You Ever Forgive Me?)		Hugh Grant
(Paddington 2)		Adam Driver
(BlacKkKlansman)		Sam Elliott
(A Star Is Born)		N/a
Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz
(The Favourite)		Regina King
(If Beale Street Could Talk)		Emma Stone
(The Favourite)		Elizabeth Debicki
(Widows)		Thomasin McKenzie
(Leave No Trace)		N/a
2019
Best Supporting Actor
Joe Pesci
(The Irishman)		Brad Pitt
(Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood)		Al Pacino
(The Irishman)		Willem Dafoe
(The Lighthouse)		Song Kang-ho
(Parasite)		Tom Hanks
(A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood)		Alan Alda
(Marriage Story)		Tom Burke
(The Souvenir)		Shia LaBeouf
(Honey Boy)		Wesley Snipes
(Dolemite Is My Name)
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern
(Marriage Story)		Jennifer Lopez
(Hustlers)		Florence Pugh
(Little Women)		Zhao Schuzhen
(The Farewell)		Margot Robbie
(Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood)		Da'Vine Joy Randolph
(Dolemite Is My Name)		Julia Fox
(Uncut Gems)		Annette Bening
(The Report)		Scarlett Johansson
(Jojo Rabbit)		Park So-dam
(Parasite)

Best Undistributed Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2006Woman on the BeachStill LifeColossal YouthIn Between DaysPrivate Fears in Public PlacesN/a
2007Secret SunshineUselessIn the City of Sylvia
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon		The Man from London
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind		La FranceN/a
2008The Headless WomanNight and DayTony ManeroBirdsong24 City
35 Shots of Rum
United Red Army		N/a
2009Trash HumpersTo Die like a ManEccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Change Nothing		Ghost Town
White Material		Life During Wartime
You Won't Miss Me		N/a
2010The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu
Film Socialisme		Mysteries of LisbonOki's MovieBlack Venus
Tabloid		On TourN/a
2011The Color WheelGreenOslo, August 31st
Sleeping Sickness		Policeman
Without		Two Years at SeaN/a
2012Sun Don't ShineOur ChildrenEverybody in Our FamilyMemories Look at Me Tiger Tail in BlueGebo and the ShadowThe Final MemberThursday Till SundayTwilight PortraitThree Sisters
2013Stray DogsClosed CurtainNobody's Daughter HaewonDas merkwürdige KätzchenWhat Now? Remind MeAbuse of WeaknessA Spell to Ward Off the DarknessTom at the FarmVic and Flo Saw a BearOur Sunhi
2014Hill of FreedomJourney to the WestThe WondersFrom What Is BeforeBlindApproaching the ElephantThe Kindergarten TeacherPasoliniThe Keeping RoomStray Dog
2015ChevalierRight Now, Wrong ThenIn TransitOne Floor BelowThe Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers88:88The MovementThe Brand New TestamentLost and BeautifulCosmos
2016SieranevadaNocturamaMy Entire High School Sinking Into the SeaHermia & HelenaYourself and YoursUnaThe LureAusterlitzPrevengeDark Night
2017BodiedSpoorWajibCanibaMrs. Fang
Mrs. Hyde		N/a
2018Black MotherDonbassThe Grand BizarreAmerican DharmaLa FlorN/a

Best Original Score or Soundtrack

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2012The Master
(Jonny Greenwood)		Beasts of the Southern Wild
(Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin)		Moonrise Kingdom
(Alexandre Desplat)		Django UnchainedThe Turin Horse (Mihály Víg)
Zero Dark Thirty (Alexandre Desplat)		N/a
2013Inside Llewyn Davis
(T Bone Burnett)		Spring Breakers
(Skrillex, Cliff Martinez)		Upstream Color
(Shane Carruth)		12 Years a Slave
(Hans Zimmer)		Her
(Arcade Fire, Owen Pallett)		Gravity
(Steven Price)		Bastards
(Stuart A. Staples)		American Hustle
(Danny Elfman)		Ain't Them Bodies Saints
(Daniel Hart)		Frozen
(Christophe Beck)
2014Under the Skin
(Mica Levi)		The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Alexandre Desplat)		Inherent Vice
(Jonny Greenwood)		Gone Girl
(Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)		Birdman
(Antonio Sánchez)		Interstellar
(Hans Zimmer)		Whiplash
(Justin Hurwitz)		Only Lovers Left Alive
(Jim Jarmusch, Carter Logan, Shane Stoneback, Jozef van Wissem)		BoyhoodGuardians of the Galaxy
(Tyler Bates)
2015Carol
(Carter Burwell)		The Hateful Eight
(Ennio Morricone)		Mad Max: Fury Road
(Tom Holkenborg)		It Follows
(Disasterpeace)		Sicario
(Jóhann Jóhannsson)		The Duke of Burgundy
(Faris Badwan, Rachel Zeffira)		The Revenant
(Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryce Dessner, Alva Noto)		Love & Mercy
(Atticus Ross)		Inside Out
(Michael Giacchino)		Creed
(Ludwig Göransson)
2016Jackie
(Mica Levi)		La La Land
(Justin Hurwitz)		Moonlight
(Nicholas Britell)		Arrival
(Jóhann Jóhannsson)		The Neon Demon
(Cliff Martinez)		Sing StreetThe Childhood of a Leader
(Scott Walker)		American Honey
The Handmaiden (Yeong-wook Jo)		The Fits
(Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans)

Best Editing

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2014Boyhood
(Sandra Adair)		Whiplash
(Tom Cross)		Birdman
(Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise)		The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Barney Pilling)		Gone Girl
(Kirk Baxter)		Under the Skin
(Paul Watts)		Goodbye to Language
(Jean-Luc Godard)		Edge of Tomorrow
(James Herbert, Laura Jennings)		Snowpiercer
(Steve M. Choe, Kim Chang-ju)		Inherent Vice
(Leslie Jones)
2015Mad Max: Fury Road
(Margaret Sixel)		Carol
(Affonso Gonçalves)		Spotlight
(Tom McArdle)		Sicario
(Joe Walker)		The Big Short
(Hank Corwin)		Steve Jobs
(Elliot Graham)		The Forbidden Room
(John Gurdebeke)		Creed
(Claudia Castello, Michael Shawver)		The Assassin
(Paulie Chih-Chia Huang)		The Mend
(Joseph Krings)
2016Moonlight
(Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon)		O.J.: Made in America
(Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski)		La La Land
(Tom Cross)		Cameraperson
(Nels Bangerter)		Jackie
(Sebastián Sepúlveda)		Manchester by the Sea
(Jennifer Lame)		Arrival
(Joe Walker)		The Handmaiden
(Jae-Bum Kim, Sang-beom Kim)		I Am Not Your Negro
(Alexandra Strauss)		Nocturnal Animals
(Joan Sobel)

Best Animated Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place
2017CocoThe BreadwinnerLoving VincentThe Lego Batman MovieMy Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

Most Anticipated Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2015The WitchThe LobsterGreen RoomNo Home MovieCemetery of SplendourMy Golden DaysKnight of CupsThe TreasureEmbrace of the SerpentKrisha
2016Blade Runner 2049Star Wars: The Last JediDunkirkPhantom ThreadBaby DriverJohn Wick: Chapter 2Alien: CovenantThe BeguiledWonder WomanThe Lost City of Z

Best Film of the Decade

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2009Mulholland Drive
(2001)		In the Mood for Love
(2000)		Yi Yi
(2000)		There Will Be Blood
(2007)		Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)		The New World
(2005)		Before Sunset
(2004)		Zodiac
(2007)		Platform
(2000)		A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(2001)

Best Ensemble

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2011MargaretBridesmaidsA Separation
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy		Margin CallThe Descendants
House of Tolerance
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris		N/a
2012Moonrise KingdomLincolnThe Master
Silver Linings Playbook		Argo
Django Unchained		N/a
201312 Years a SlaveAmerican HustleInside Llewyn DavisNebraskaThe World's EndComputer ChessShort Term 12Before MidnightAugust: Osage CountyBlue Jasmine

Best Overlooked Film

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place 5th Place 6th Place 7th Place 8th Place 9th Place 10th Place
2016The FitsAlways ShineHappy HourKrishaEvolutionEmbrace of the SerpentChevalierLittle MenSand StormSunset Song

Notes

  1. ↑ While the film was released in 1969 in France and in 1970 in Italy, it was not released in the United States until 2006.
  2. ↑ While the film premiered at Whitney Museum in 1978, it was not released in American theaters until 2007.

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