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

Best Feature-Length Film

1. La Flor
2. Asako I & II
3. Transit
4. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
5. I Heard You Paint Houses
6. Ash Is Purest White
7. Grass
8. Parasite
9. High Life
10. Uncut Gems

Best Lead Performance

1. Laura Paredes, La Flor
2. Franz Rogowski, Transit
3. Robert Pattinson, High Life
4. Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory
5. Zhao Tao, Ash Is Purest White
6. Pilar Gamboa, La Flor
7. Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
8. Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
9. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
10. Robert De Niro, I Heard You Paint Houses

Best Supporting Performance

1. Joe Pesci, I Heard You Paint Houses
2. Agyness Deyn, Her Smell
3. Margaret Qualley, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
4. Julia Fox, Uncut Gems
5. Wang Yuwen, An Elephant Sitting Still
6. Florence Pugh, Little Women
7. Asier Etxeandia, Pain and Glory
8. Lee Sun-kyun, Parasite
9. Anna Paquin, I Heard You Paint Houses
10. Mia Goth, High Life

Best Direction

1. Bi Gan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
2. Christian Petzold, Transit
3. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Asako I & II
4. Josh & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
5. Claire Denis, High Life

Best Cinematic Moment

1. Notebook scheming, La Flor
2. Monet paintings, La Flor
3. When a woman ascends and descends the stairs, Grass
4. Motorcycle crash, Asako I & II
5. Hotel room conversation, Ash Is Purest White
6. Glass in the train station, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
7. Theatrical monologue, Pain and Glory
8. Peach montage, Parasite
9. Final concert, Her Smell
10. “Being Alive,” Marriage Story

Best Documentary

1. The Image Book
2. What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?
3. Feast of the Epiphany

Best Screenplay

1. La Flor
2. Grass
3. Transit
4. I Heard You Paint Houses
5. Asako I & II

Best Ensemble Performance

1. La Flor
2. I Heard You Paint Houses
3. Parasite
4. Her Smell
5. Little Women

Best Cinematography

1. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
2. Transit
3. Ash Is Purest White
4. Her Smell
5. An Elephant Sitting Still

Best Editing

1. I Heard You Paint Houses
2. Asako I & II
3. Parasite
4. Uncut Gems
5. High Life

Best Music

1. Her Smell
2. Uncut Gems
3. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
4. An Elephant Sitting Still
5. Asako I & II

Best Cinematic Breakthrough

1. Bi Gan
2. Franz Rogowski
3. Hu Bo
4. Tom Mercier
5. Paul Walter Hauser

Best Body of Work

1. Franz Rogowski
2. Kim Min-hee
3. Juliette Binoche
4. Bobby Cannavale
5. Adam Driver

Best Youth Performance

1. Lucy Gallina, I Heard You Paint Houses
2. Julia Butters, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
3. Jung Hyun-joon, Parasite

Other remarks:
This is one of the best release years I’ve ever seen for film.

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 2009

1. Oxhide II
2. Orphan
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Sweetgrass

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1994

1. Chungking Express
2. Ashes of Time
3. A Confucian Confusion
4. Sátántangó
5. Vive L’Amour

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1969

1. My Night at Maud’s
2. L’Amour fou
3. Boy
4. The Sorrow and the Pity
5. Une femme douce

Best Films of the 2010s

1. La Flor
2. Stray Dogs
3. Yourself and Yours
4. Mysteries of Lisbon
5. Like Someone in Love
6. Asako I & II
7. Mountains May Depart
8. Carol
9. The Assassin
10. Transit
11. Cemetery of Splendour
12. Silence
13. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
14. Martin Eden
15. Blackhat

Best Performances of the 2010s

1. Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Laura Paredes, La Flor
3. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
4. Rooney Mara, Carol
5. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
6. Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
7. Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
8. Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann
9. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
10. Franz Rogowski, Transit

Director of the 2010s (Body of Work)

1. Hong Sang-soo
2. Jia Zhangke
3. Johnnie To
4. Jean-Luc Godard
5. Bi Gan

Best Feature-Length Film

1. First Reformed
2. The Other Side of the Wind
3. The Day After
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6. Bisbee ’17
7. Burning
8. Zama
9. Let the Sunshine In
10. If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Lead Performance

1. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
2. John Huston, The Other Side of the Wind
3. Kwon Hae-hyo, The Day After
4. Juliette Binoche, Let the Sunshine In
5. Kim Min-hee, The Day After
6. Tom Cruise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
7. Steve Carell, Welcome to Marwen
8. Clint Eastwood, The Mule
9. Meinhard Neumann, Western
10. Yoo Ah-in, Burning

Best Supporting Performance

1. Steven Yeun, Burning
2. Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Peter Bogdanovich, The Other Side of the Wind
4. Bill Heck, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
5. Isabelle Huppert, Claire’s Camera
6. Philip Ettinger, First Reformed
7. Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
8. Zoe Kazan, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
9. Jeon Jeong-soo, Burning
10. Colman Domingo, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Direction

1. Paul Schrader, First Reformed
2. Orson Welles, The Other Side of the Wind
3. Lucrecia Martel, Zama
4. Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
5. Lee Chang-dong, Burning

Best Cinematic Moment

1. Soaring over humanity, First Reformed
2. HALO jump, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Bathroom escapade, The Other Side of the Wind
4. Dance in the sunset, Burning
5. Daniel’s prison monologue, If Beale Street Could Talk
6. Credits conversation, Let the Sunshine In
7. Rooftop screams, Support the Girls
8. Morning routines, The Commuter
9. Subway bluffing, Unfriended: Dark Web
10. Explaining the rules, Infinite Football

Best Documentary

1. Bisbee ’17
2. Infinite Football
3. Caniba

Best Screenplay

1. Paul Schrader, First Reformed
2. Orson Welles & Oja Kodar, The Other Side of the Wind
3. Hong Sang-soo, The Day After
4. Joel & Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
5. Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Ensemble Performance

1. The Other Side of the Wind
2. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
3. The Day After
4. Isle of Dogs
5. If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Cinematography

1. Alexander Dynan, First Reformed
2. Gary Graver, The Other Side of the Wind
3. Hong Kyung-pyo, Burning
4. Kim Hyung-koo, The Day After
5. Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Best Editing

1. The Other Side of the Wind
2. Unfriended: Dark Web
3. The House That Jack Built
4. Notes on an Appearance
5. Before We Vanish

Best Music

1. Michel Legrand, The Other Side of the Wind
2. Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
3. Mowg, Burning
4. Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs
5. Thom Yorke, Suspiria

Best Cinematic Breakthrough

1. Orson Welles
2. Bradley Cooper
3. Steven Yeun
4. Ricky D’Ambrose
5. Ted Fendt

Best Body of Work

1. Steven Yeun
2. Kim Min-hee
3. Esther Garrel
4. Bradley Cooper
5. Alec Baldwin

Best Youth Performance

1. Koyu Rankin, Isle of Dogs
2. Abby Ryder Fortson, Ant-Man and the Wasp
3. Miguel Lobo, Good Manners

Other remarks:
Though this perhaps wasn’t an abnormally great year in film, this ballot was as hard as any I’ve ever made; too many honorable mentions for nearly every category to list.

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 2008

1. The Headless Woman
2. Historias extraordinarias
3. Two Lovers
4. Wendy and Lucy
5. 24 City

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1993

1. Carlito’s Way
2. Green Snake
3. D’Est
4. Schindler’s List
5. Dazed and Confused

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film of 1968

1. Je t’aime, je t’aime
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. The Immortal Story
4. Night of the Living Dead
5. Memories of Underdevelopment

Best Films of the 1980s

1. Sans soleil
2. The Terrorizers
3. Paris, Texas
4. Blade Runner
5. Taipei Story
6. Stop Making Sense
7. Blue Velvet
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Manhunter
10. That Day, on the Beach

Best Feature-Length Film

1. On the Beach at Night Alone
2. The Work
3. Faces Places
4. Princess Cyd
5. Good Time
6. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
7. The Post
8. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
9. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Lead Performance

1. Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone
2. Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
3. Rebecca Spence, Princess Cyd
4. Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
5. Cynthia Nixon, A Quiet Passion
6. Robert Pattinson, Good Time
7. Jessie Pinnick, Princess Cyd
8. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
9. Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
10. Tim Robbins, Marjorie Prime

Best Supporting Performance

1. Hong Chau, Downsizing
2. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
3. Elizabeth Marvel, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
4. Robert Pattinson, The Lost City of Z
5. Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
6. Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
7. Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
8. Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
9. Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
10. Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime

Best Direction

1. Josh & Benny Safdie, Good Time
2. Bertrand Bonello, Nocturama
3. Eduardo Williams, The Human Surge
4. Steven Spielberg, The Post
5. Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Best Screenplay

1. Hong Sang-soo, On the Beach at Night Alone
2. Stephen Cone, Princess Cyd
3. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
4. Noah Baumbach, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
5. Matías Piñeiro, Hermia & Helena

Best Cinematography

1. Sean Price Williams, Good Time
2. Darius Khondji, The Lost City of Z
3. Janusz Kaminski, The Post
4. [no credit], Phantom Thread
5. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me by Your Name

Best Editing

1. Nocturama
2. Wonderstruck
3. Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
4. Lady Bird
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Music

1. Oneohtrix Point Never, Good Time
2. Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
3. Carter Burwell, Wonderstruck
4. Jon Brion, Lady Bird
5. Bertrand Bonello, Nocturama

Best Documentary

1. The Work
2. Faces Places
3. Ex Libris – The New York Public Library

Best Cinematic Moment

1. Heartbeats, The Work
2. Digital magic, The Florida Project
3. Webcam transition, The Human Surge
4. Projector breakdown, By the Time It Gets Dark
5. Face dissolves, Félicité
6. Photographs, A Quiet Passion
7. Miranda’s monologue, Princess Cyd
8. Questions with father, Hermia & Helena
9. Dream memory, Call Me by Your Name
10. Swan boat, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion

Best Youth Performance

1. Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck
2. Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project
3. Oona Laurence, The Beguiled

Best Cinematic Breakthrough

1. Vicky Krieps
2. Tiffany Haddish
3. Rian Johnson
4. Timothée Chalamet
5. Greta Gerwig

Best Body of Work

1. Sean Price Williams
2. Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
3. Robert Pattinson
4. Buddy Duress
5. Damien Bonnard

Best Ensemble Performance

1. Lady Bird
2. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)
3. The Post
4. Marjorie Prime
5. Mudbound

Other remarks:
If it were eligible, Twin Peaks: The Return would take up most of the spots on this ballot.

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 2007

1. Death Proof
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3. Hot Fuzz
4. The Darjeeling Limited
5. Persepolis

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1992

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
2. Rebels of the Neon God
3. The Last of the Mohicans
4. Raising Cain
5. The Story of Qiu Ju

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1967

1. The Young Girls of Rochefort
2. Dragon Inn
3. Wavelength
4. La Chinoise
5. Playtime

Best Feature-Length Film
1. Silence
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Cameraperson
4. Toni Erdmann
5. My Golden Days
6. The Handmaiden
7. O.J.: Made in America
8. Mountains May Depart
9. Happy Hour
10. Right Now, Wrong Then

Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
2. Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann
3. Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro
4. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Creepy
5. Andrew Garfield, Silence

Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine
2. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
3. Isabelle Huppert, Elle
4. Sônia Braga, Aquarius
5. Sandra Hüller, Toni Erdmann

Best Supporting Performance, Male
1. Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
2. Tom Bennett, Love & Friendship
3. Teruyuki Kagawa, Creepy
4. Issey Ogata, Silence
5. Laurent Lafitte, Elle

Best Supporting Performance, Female
1. Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
2. Sylvia Chang, Mountains May Depart
3. Michelle Williams, Certain Women
4. Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
5. Laura Dern, Certain Women

Best Direction
1. Jia Zhangke, Mountains May Depart
2. Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden
3. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Creepy
4. Martin Scorsese, Silence
5. Kirsten Johnson, Cameraperson

Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
2. Hong Sang-soo, Right Now, Wrong Then
3. Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann
4. David Birke, Elle
5. Kelly Reichardt, Certain Women

Best Cinematography
1. The Handmaiden (Chung Chung-hoon)
2. Mountains May Depart (Nelson Lik-wai Yu)
3. Silence (Rodrigo Prieto)
4. Sunset Song (Michael McDonough)
5. Kaili Blues (Tianxing Wang)

Best Editing
1. Cameraperson (Nels Bangerter)
2. Manchester by the Sea (Jennifer Lame)
3. The Handmaiden (Kim Jae-Bum & Kim Sang-beom)
4. O.J.: Made in America (Bret Granato & Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski)
5. I Am Not Your Negro (Alexandra Strauss)

Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. The Handmaiden (Cho Young-wuk)
2. Mountains May Depart (Yoshihiro Hanno)
3. Manchester by the Sea (Lesley Barber)
4. Elle (Anne Dudley)
5. Julieta (Alberto Iglesias)

Best Documentary
1. Cameraperson
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Kate Plays Christine

Best Cinematic Moment
(best scene or sequence)
1. Cameraperson – Violence montage
2. Silence – The voice
3. Manchester by the Sea – The accident flashback
4. Kate Plays Christine – Christine in living color
5. The Handmaiden – Throw away your books, run away in the fields
6. SPL II: A Time for Consequences – Emoji texting
7. Creepy – The interrogation
8. Mountains May Depart – “Go West” reprise
9. Happy Hour – Nightclub conversation
10. Cemetery of Splendour – The movie theater

Best Cinematic Breakthrough
(vague explanation: a performer, filmmaker, or technician who made a notable debut in film, took his/her career to a higher level, or revealed unforeseen layers to his/her talent during the year 2016)
1. Lily Gladstone
2. Kim Min-hee
3. Kirsten Johnson
4. Andrew Garfield
5. Kelly Fremon Craig

Best Body of Work
(a performer, filmmaker, or technician who made superior contributions to multiple films released in calendar year 2016)
1. Isabelle Huppert
2. Kim Min-hee
3. Andrew Garfield
4. Michelle Williams
5. Kristen Stewart

Best Ensemble Performance
1. Happy Hour
2. The Handmaiden
3. 20th Century Women
4. Love & Friendship
5. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party

Other remarks:
It is a great honor and pleasure to contribute my first ballot to the Muriels.
There were a ridiculous amount of extraordinary performances and technical achievements that I didn’t have the space to acknowledge, so here are some very honorable mentions: Things to Come, Sully, Paterson, The Edge of Seventeen, The Shallows, Shin Godzilla, Everybody Wants Some!!, Moonlight, and The Other Side.

10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 2006
1. Inland Empire
2. Miami Vice
3. Old Joy
4. Syndromes and a Century
5. Woman on the Beach

25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1991
1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. The Double Life of Veronique
3. Barton Fink
4. Until the End of the World
5. Raise the Red Lantern

50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1966
1. Persona
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Black Girl
4. Au hasard Balthazar
5. Masculin féminin