The Year in Film: 2019

Best Picture

#1: Portait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
#2: Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
#3: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
#4: Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
#5: Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
#6: Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
#7: The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
#8: The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
#9: High Life (Claire Denis)
#10: Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke)

Honorable mentions: La Flor (Mariano Llinás), Transit (Christian Petzold), A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick), The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers), The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent), Peterloo (Mike Leigh), The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard), Climax (Gaspar Noé), Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen), Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar), Little Women (Greta Gerwig), Shadow (Zhang Yimou), The Farewell (Lulu Wang), Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach), 63 Up (Michael Apted), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), One Cut of the Dead (Shin’ichirô Ueda), Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley), One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang), Sunset (Nemes László), Les Misérables (Ladj Ly), Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (Martin Scorsese), Loro (Paolo Sorrentino), Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller), The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Light From Light (Paul Harrill), Pasolini (Abel Ferrara), Maiden (Alex Holmes), and Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)


Best Director

#1: Céline Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
#2: Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)
#3: Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
#4: Josh and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems)
#5: Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell)

Honorable mentions: Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Claire Denis (High Life), Rian Johnson (Knives Out), Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), and Terrence Malick (A Hidden Life)


Best Actor

#1: Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
#2: Javier Bardem (Everybody Knows)
#3: Leonard DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
#4: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
#5: Robert De Niro (The Irishman)

Honorable mentions: Willem Dafoe (Pasolini), Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems), Franz Rogowski (Transit), Andre Holland (High Flying Bird), and Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)


Best Actress

#1: Elisabeth Moss (Her Smell)
#2: Florence Pugh (Midsommar)
#3: Penélope Cruz (Everybody Knows)
#4: Lupita N’yongo (Us)
#5: Margot Robbie (Bombshell)

Honorable mentions: Adèle Haenel (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Charlize Theron (Bombshell), Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story), Noémie Merland (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose)


Best Supporting Actor

#1: Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse)
#2: Song Kang-ho (Parasite)
#3: Joe Pesci (The Irishman)
#4: Eric Bogosian (Uncut Gems)
#5: Michael Shannon (Knives Out)

Honorable mentions: John Lithgow (Bombshell), Michael Shannon (The Current War), Lee Sun-gyun (Parasite), Sterling K. Brown (Waves), and Alan Alda (Marriage Story)


Best Supporting Actress

#1: Penélope Cruz (Pain and Glory)
#2: Florence Pugh (Little Women)
#3: Margot Robbie (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)
#4: Park So-dam (Parasite)
#5: Taylor Russell (Waves)

Honorable mentions: Juliette Binoche (High Life), Toni Colette (Knives Out), Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Bárbara Lennie (Everybody Knows), and Tilda Swinton (The Souvenir)


Best Original Screenplay

#1: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
#2: Parasite (Bon Joon-ho and Han Jin-won)
#3: Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
#4: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
#5: Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, and Ronald Bronstein)

Honorable mentions: Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach), The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), High Flying Bird (Tarell Alvin McCraney), and Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)


Best Adapted Screenplay

#1: The Irishman (Steven Zaillian)
#2: Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
#3: Transit (Christian Petzold)
#4: The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten)
#5: The Laundromat (Scott Z. Burns)

Honorable mentions: Invisible Life (Murilo Hauser, Inés Bortagaray, and Karim Aïnouz), Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham), Gloria Bell (Sebastián Lelio), I Lost My Body (Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant), and Dark Waters (Matthew Carnahan and Mario Correa)


Best Cinematography

#1: The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke)
#2: Parasite (Hong Kyung-pyo)
#3: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Robert Richardson)
#4: Uncut Gems (Darius Khondji)
#5: 1917 (Roger Deakins)

Honorable mentions: A Hidden Life (Jörg Widmer), Shadow (Zhao Xiaoding), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Claire Mathon), High Life (Yorick Le Saux), and Climax (Benoît Debie)


Best Film Editing

#1: Uncut Gems
#2: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
#3: Climax
#4: Shadow
#5: Parasite

Honorable mentions: 1917, John Wick: Chapter 3 — Paradellum, Us, The Image Book, and Apollo 11


Best Score

#1: A Hidden Life (James Newton Howard)
#2: Uncut Gems (Daniel Lopatin)
#3: Parasite (Jeong Jae-il)
#4: Us (Michael Abels)
#5: Ad Astra (Max Richter)

Honorable mentions: The White Crow (Ilan Eshkeri), Vita & Virginia (Isobel Waller-Bridge), Monos (Mica Levi), Pain and Glory (Alberto Iglesias), and Midsommar (Bobby Krlic)


Best Song

#1: ” La Jeune Fille en Feu” (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
#2: “Daily Battles” (Motherless Brooklyn)
#3: “Stand Up” (Harriet)
#4: “Glasgow” (Wild Rose)
#5: “Salt” (Greta)

Honorable mentions: “Country Girl” (Wild Rose), “Swan Song” (Alita: Battle Angel), “A Human Touch” (5B), “Forward Motion” (Late Night), and “Super Cool” (The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part)


Best Production Design

#1: Parasite
#2: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
#3: Shadow
#4: Knives Out
#5: Joker

Honorable mentions: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Irishman, 1917, The Lighthouse, and Ad Astra


Best Costume Design

#1: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
#2: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
#3: Little Women
#4: Rocketman
#5: Shadow

Honorable mentions: The Lighthouse, Joker, Climax, Knives Out, and Bombshell


Best Makeup & Hairstyling

#1: Us
#2: Bombshell
#3: The Lighthouse
#4: Shadow
#5: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Honorable mentions: The Irishman, John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, Her Smell, Midsommar, and Joker


Best Sound

#1: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
#2: Uncut Gems
#3: Us
#4: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
#5: Shadow

Honorable mentions: Climax,Rocketman, High Life, Ford v Ferrari, and Piercing


Best Visual Effects

#1: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
#2: Alita: Battle Angel
#3: 1917
#4: Shadow
#5: The Irishman

Honorable mentions: Ad Astra, Captain Marvel, Terminator: Dark Fate, Avengers: Endgame, and Doctor Sleep


Worst Film of the Year

The Fanatic (Fred Durst)

Dishonorable Mentions: Countdown (Justin Dec), The Haunting of Sharon Tate (Daniel Ferrands), Jacob’s Ladder (David M. Rosenthal), Uri: The Surgical Strike (Aditya Dhar), The Prodigy (Nicholas McCarthy), After (Jenny Gage), A Million Little Pieces (Sam Taylor-Johnson), Wrinkles the Clown (Michael Beach Nichols), The Curse of La Llorona (Michael Chaves), and Last Blood (Adrian Grunberg)