The Year in Film: 2016

Best Picture

#1: Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
#2: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
#3: Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
#4: Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
#5: Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
#6: Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
#7: The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
#8: Silence (Martin Scorsese)
#9: Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
#10: 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)

Honorable mentions: Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky), Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier), Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho), Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick), Tower (Keith Maitland), Rams (Grímur Hákonarson), Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford), The Witch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers), La La Land (Damien Chazelle), Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier), Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar), The Nice Guys (Shane Black), The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce), American Honey (Andrea Arnold), Christine (Antonio Campos), De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow), Café Society (Woody Allen), Homo sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter), Demon (Marcin Wrona), Paterson (Jim Jarmusch), Sing Street (John Carney), Pete’s Dragon (David Lowery), The Birth of Saké (Erik Shirai), Closet Monster (Stephen Dunn), The Other Side (Roberto Minervini), Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman), Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic), Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang-ke), Neruda (Pablo Larraín), Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson), The Thoughts That Once We Had (Thom Andersen), The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit), Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra), Sunset Song (Terence Davies), and Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul).

Best Director

#1: Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann)
#2: Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
#3: Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden)
#4: Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
#5: Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Best Actor

#1: Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
#2: Adam Driver (Paterson)
#3: Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
#4: Itay Tiran (Demon)
#5: Trevante Rhodes (Moonlight)

Best Actress

#1: Sônia Braga (Aquarius)
#2: Amy Adams (Arrival)
#3: Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
#4: Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)
#5: Rebecca Hall (Christine)

Best Supporting Actor

#1: André Holland (Moonlight)
#2: Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)
#3: Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
#4: Tracy Letts (Indignation)
#5: Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)

Best Supporting Actress

#1: Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
#2: Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
#3: Viola Davis (Fences)
#4: Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women)
#5: Naomie Harris (Moonlight)

Best Original Screenplay

#1: Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
#2: Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
#3: Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
#4: 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
#5: Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Best Adapted Screenplay

#1: Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
#2: Arrival (Eric Neisseria)
#3: Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
#4: The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung)
#5: Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)

Best Cinematography

#1: Moonlight (James Laxton)
#2: The Handmaiden (Chung Chung-hoon)
#3: Silence (Rodrigo Prieto)
#4: The Neon Demon (Natasha Braier)
#5: La La Land (Linus Sandgren)

Best Film Editing

#1: The Neon Demon
#2: La La Land
#3: The Handmaiden
#4: Moonlight
#5: Green Room

Best Score

#1: Nocturnal Animals (Abel Korzeniowski)
#2: The Neon Demon (Cliff Martinez)
#3: The Handmaiden (Cho Young-wuk)
#4: La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)
#5: Lion (Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka)

Best Song

#1: “Drive It Like You Stole It” (Sing Street)
#2: “Waving Goodbye” (The Neon Demon)
#3: “Another Day of Sun” (La La Land)
#4: “Someone in the Crowd” (La La Land)
#5: “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” (La La Land)

Best Production Design

#1: The Handmaiden
#2: La La Land
#3: The Neon Demon
#4: Christine
#5: Doctor Strange

Best Costume Design

#1: The Handmaiden
#2: Love & Friendship
#3: Tale of Tales
#4: The Neon Demon
#5: Nocturnal Animals

Best Makeup

#1: The Neon Demon
#2: Tale of Tales
#3: Train to Busan
#4: The Handmaiden
#5: Star Trek Beyond

Best Sound

#1: La La Land
#2: Moonlight
#3: Green Room
#4: The Neon Demon
#5: Voyage of Time

Best Visual Effects

#1: Doctor Strange
#2: Rogue One
#3: Hardcore Henry
#4: A Monster Calls
#5: Voyage of Time

Worst Film of the Year

Cabin Fever (Travis Z)

Dishonorable Mentions: Life on the Line (David Hackl), The Brothers Grimsby (Louis Leterrier), The Greasy Strangler (Jim Hosking), Yoga Hosers (Kevin Smith), Bad Santa 2 (Mark Waters), Gods of Egypt (Alex Proyas), Suicide Squad (David Ayer), 31 (Rob Zombie), and The Sea of Trees (Gus Van Sant).