2020 Muriel Awards

Best Feature-Length Film

  1. Yourself and Yours
  2. Martin Eden
  3. To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Fourteen
  5. The Grand Bizarre
  6. I Was at Home, But…
  7. The Traitor
  8. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  9. First Cow
  10. Vitalina Varela

Best Lead Performance

  1. Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
  2. Lee Yoo-young, Yourself and Yours
  3. Atsuko Maeda, To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Pierfrancesco Favino, The Traitor
  5. Tallie Medel, Fourteen
  6. John Boyega, Red, White and Blue
  7. Vitalina Varela, Vitalina Varela
  8. Ethan Hawke, Tesla
  9. Norma Kuhling, Fourteen
  10. Vlad Ivanov, The Whistlers

Best Supporting Performance

  1. Sandra Hüller, Sibyl
  2. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
  3. Udo Kier, Bacurau
  4. Shaun Parkes, Mangrove
  5. C. Mason Wells, Fourteen
  6. Kyle MacLachlan, Tesla
  7. Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
  8. Silvero Pereira, Bacurau
  9. Mikako Ichikawa, A Girl Missing
  10. Franz Rogowski, I Was at Home, But…

Best Direction

  1. Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela
  2. Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden
  3. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, To the Ends of the Earth
  4. Angela Schanelec, I Was at Home, But…
  5. Steve McQueen, Lovers Rock

Best Cinematic Moment

  1. Yoko sings (first time), To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Filmmaking ethics, I Was at Home, But…
  3. “Silly Games,” Lovers Rock
  4. Yoko sings (second time), To the Ends of the Earth
  5. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tesla
  6. Skype remix, The Grand Bizarre
  7. “Kunta Kinte Dub,” Lovers Rock
  8. Factory chase, Red, White and Blue
  9. Martin’s speech, Martin Eden
  10. On the roof, Vitalina Varela

Best Documentary

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  3. City Hall
  4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
  5. Time

Best Screenplay

  1. Yourself and Yours
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Fourteen
  4. Heimat Is a Space in Time
  5. The Whistlers

Best Ensemble Performance

  1. To the Ends of the Earth
  2. Mangrove
  3. Bacurau
  4. Sibyl
  5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Best Cinematography

  1. Vitalina Varela
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Ghost Tropic
  4. Liberté
  5. First Cow

Best Editing

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Bacurau
  4. City Hall
  5. The Wild Goose Lake

Best Music

  1. The Grand Bizarre
  2. Martin Eden
  3. Lovers Rock
  4. Tesla
  5. Bacurau

Best Cinematic Breakthrough

  1. Pietro Marcello
  2. Thomas Heise
  3. Bas Devos
  4. Justine Triet
  5. Tyler Taormina

Best Body of Work

  1. Steve McQueen
  2. Luca Marinelli
  3. Chadwick Boseman
  4. Shabier Kirchner
  5. Sean Price Williams

Best Youth Performance

  1. Jakob Lassalle, I Was at Home, But…
  2. Clara Möller, I Was at Home, But…
  3. Kenyah Sandy, Education

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 2010

  1. Mysteries of Lisbon
  2. Certified Copy
  3. Meek’s Cutoff
  4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  5. Hahaha

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1995

  1. Heat
  2. Fallen Angels
  3. The Bridges of Madison County
  4. Before Sunrise
  5. Safe

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1970

  1. Zorns Lemma
  2. Claire’s Knee
  3. Othon
  4. Le Boucher
  5. Le Rupture

February 2021 Capsules

PTU
The apartment raid, with the slow staggered ascent of Yam and his team with manually flickering flashlights, is at once one of the great summits of To’s ethos and its antithesis, with all that elegiac cool in service of a pointless raid that terrorizes a few women. Such is the greatness of PTU, a film that totally embodies everything masterful and terrifying about To’s filmmaking, where the wanton police brutality combined with the assuredness of the filmmaking could be repugnant if it weren’t for the interfering elements: a child riding a bike, an unexpected stabbing, an invitation to mahjong. Truth is subjective, bound to be written by the forces in charge, and it doesn’t matter who gets caught in the crossfire.