IndieWire Critics Poll#Categories
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| name = Indiewire Critics Poll
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| presenter = Indiewire
| country = United States
| year = 2006
| website = http://www.indiewire.com
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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:
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=Current=
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Performance
- Best Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best International Film
- Best Documentary
- Best First Feature
- Best Film Opening Next Year
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=Discontinued=
- Best Lead Performance (Best Actor and Best Actress)
- Best Supporting Performance (Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress)
- Best Undistributed Film
- Best Original Score/Soundtrack
- Best Editing
- Best Overlooked Film
- Most Anticipated Film
- Best Editing
- Best Animated Film
- Best Ensemble
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Editions
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- 2006
- 2007{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/critics-poll-07-there-will-be-blood-hailed-as-best-of-2007-in-iw-poll-of-100-critics-no-end-73289/|title=CRITICS’ POLL ’07: “There Will Be Blood” Hailed as Best of 2007 in iW Poll of 100+ Critics; “No End”|website=IndieWire|first=Eugene|last=Hernández|date=December 31, 2007|accessdate=January 11, 2025}}
- 2008{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/iw-critics-poll-08-the-complete-results-71052/|title=iW CRITICS POLL ’08: The Complete Results|website=IndieWire|date=December 24, 2008|accessdate=January 11, 2025}}
- 2009{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/summer-hours-wins-indiewire-09-critics-poll-mulholland-dr-is-best-of-decade-246094/|title="Summer Hours" Wins indieWIRE ’09 Critics Poll; "Mulholland Dr." is Best of Decade|website=IndieWire|first=Eugene|last=Hernández|date=December 22, 2009|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.awardsdaily.com/2009/12/22/indiewire-critics-poll/|title=IndieWire Critics’ Poll|website=Awards Daily|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2010{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/the-social-network-tops-indiewires-2010-critics-poll-244113/|title=“The Social Network” Tops indieWIRE’s 2010 Critics Poll|website=IndieWire|first=Peter|last=Knegt|date=December 20, 2010|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.awardsdaily.com/2010/12/20/the-social-network-tops-indiewire-critics-poll/|title=The Social Network tops IndieWire critics poll|website=Awards Daily|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2011{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/the-tree-of-life-tops-indiewires-poll-for-the-best-of-2011-film-fassbender-ties-with-shannon-for-performance-50461/|title=‘The Tree of Life’ Tops Indiewire’s Poll For the Best of 2011 Film; Fassbender Ties With Shannon For Performance|website=IndieWire|first=Eric|last=Kohn|date=December 19, 2011|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111220006211/en/Indiewire-Announces-2011-Best-of-Year-Lists|title=Indiewire Announces 2011 Best of Year Lists|website=Business Wire|date=December 20, 2011|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2012{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/holy-motors-tops-indiewires-poll-for-the-best-of-2012-film-other-winners-include-jafar-panahi-and-amy-seimetz-42410/|title=‘Holy Motors’ Tops Indiewire’s Poll For the Best of 2012 Film; Other Winners Include Jafar Panahi and Amy Seimetz|website=IndieWire|first=Eric|last=Kohn|date=December 18, 2012|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
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- 2013{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/12-years-a-slave-tops-indiewires-year-end-critics-poll-llewyn-davis-gravity-and-stray-dogs-also-among-best-in-2013-32073/|title=’12 Years a Slave’ Tops Indiewire’s Year-End Critics Poll, ‘Llewyn Davis,’ ‘Gravity’ and ‘Stray Dogs’ Also Among Best in 2013|website=IndieWire|first1=Eric|last1=Kohn|first2=Steve|last2=Greene|date=December 17, 2013|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2014{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/indiewires-massive-2014-year-end-critics-poll-read-the-full-results-66949/|title=Indiewire's Massive 2014 Year-End Critics Poll: Read the Full Results|website=IndieWire|first=Eric|last=Kohn|date=December 15, 2024|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/mad-max-fury-road-cruises-to-victory-in-indiewires-2015-critics-poll-127004/|title=‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Cruises to Victory in Indiewire’s 2015 Critics Poll|website=IndieWire|first=Sam|last=Adams|date=December 14, 2015|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2015-12-16-max-and-carol-top-indiewire-critics-poll-news-story-by-jennie-kermode|title=Max and Carol top Indiewire critics' poll|website=Eye for Film|first=Jennie|last=Kermode|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2016{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/best-movies-2016-critics-films-performances-moonlight-manchester-by-the-sea-1201760430/ |title=2016 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances of the Year According to Over 200 Critics |last=Kohn |first=Eric |date=December 19, 2016 |publisher=IndieWire |accessdate=July 7, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/12/best-movies-2016-critic-poll-results-1201757008/ |title=2016 IndieWire Critics Poll: Full List of Results |last=Greene |first=Steve |date=December 19, 2016 |publisher=IndieWire |accessdate=July 7, 2017}}
- 2017{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/best-movies-2017-critics-films-performances-get-out-phantom-thread-lady-bird-1201909032/ |title=2017 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances According to Over 200 Critics |last=Kohn |first=Eric |publisher=IndieWire |date=December 19, 2017 |accessdate=December 20, 2017 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222230645/http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/best-movies-2017-critics-films-performances-get-out-phantom-thread-lady-bird-1201909032/2/ |archivedate=February 22, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}
- 2018{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/best-movies-2018-critics-films-performances-roma-first-reformed-the-favourite-1202027901/2/ |title=2018 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances According to Over 200 Critics From Around the World |last=Kohn |first=Eric |publisher=IndieWire |date=December 17, 2018 |accessdate=February 21, 2019 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218091006/https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/best-movies-2018-critics-films-performances-roma-first-reformed-the-favourite-1202027901/2/ |archive-date=2018-12-18 }}
- 2019{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/best-movies-2019-critics-survey-poll-performances-parasite-adam-driver-lupita-nyongo-1202197615/ |title=2019 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances According to Over 300 Critics From Around the World |last=Kohn |first=Eric |date=December 16, 2019 |publisher=IndieWire |accessdate=December 17, 2019}}
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- 2020{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/best-movies-2020-critics-survey-poll-performances-nomadland-riz-ahmed-1234604554/|title=2020 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances According to Over 200 Critics from Around the World|website=IndieWire|first1=Eric|last1=Kohn|first2=Christian|last2=Blauvelt|date=December 14, 2020|accessdate=January 19, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://screencrush.com/film-critics-poll-best-of-2020/|title=Critics Poll Names ‘Nomadland’ the Best Film of 2020|website=Screen Crush|accessdate=January 19, 2025}}
- 2021{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/best-movies-2021-critics-survey-poll-performances-1234684568/|title=2021 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances, According to 187 Critics from Around the World|website=IndieWire|first=Christian|last=Blauvelt|date=December 13, 2021|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2022{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/best-movies-2022-critics-survey-polls-performances-1234790612/|title=2022 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances, According to 165 Critics from Around the World|website=IndieWire|first=Christian|last=Blauvelt|date=December 12, 2022|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2023{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/best-of/best-movies-2023-critics-survey-poll-performances-1234933605/|title=2023 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances, According to 158 Critics from Around the World|website=IndieWire|first=Christian|last=Blauvelt|date=December 11, 2023|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
- 2024{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/best-of/best-movies-2024-critics-poll-survey-performances-1235076150/|title=2024 Critics Poll: The Best Movies and Performances of the Year, According to 177 Critics|website=IndieWire|first=Christian|last=Blauvelt|date=December 16, 2024|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/12/16/indiewire-2024-critics-poll-topped-by-anora|title=IndieWire 2024 Critics Poll Topped by ‘Anora'|website=World of Reel|date=December 16, 2024|accessdate=January 12, 2025}}
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Winners and nominees
= Best Film =
= Best Director =
= Best Performance =
= Best Screenplay =
= Best Cinematography =
= Best International Film =
= Best Documentary =
= Best First Feature =
= Films Opening Next Year =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="18%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 5th Place | |||||
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| align="center"| 2018 | High Life | Transit | Birds of Passage | colspan="2"| Her Smell Everybody Knows In Fabric | |
| colspan="11" align="center"| Not presented (2019) | |||||
| align="center"| 2020 | New Order | Pieces of a Woman | Beginning | Nine Days | The Killing of Two Lovers |
| align="center"| 2021 | Benediction | Hit the Road | Happening | We're All Going to the World's Fair | On the Count of Three In Front of Your Face |
| align="center"| 2022 | Showing Up | Godland | Close | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Pacifiction |
| align="center"| 2023 | Hit Man | The Bikeriders | The Beast | Evil Does Not Exist | Green Border |
| align="center"| 2024 | Caught by the Tides | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Presence April Misericordia | The Shrouds | Eephus |
Discontinued categories and special awards
= Best Supporting Performance =
= Best Undistributed Film =
= Best Original Score or Soundtrack =
= Best Editing =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="9%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 5th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 6th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 7th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 8th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 9th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 10th Place | ||||||||||
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| align="center"| 2014 | Boyhood {{small|(Sandra Adair)}} | Whiplash {{small|(Tom Cross)}} | Birdman {{small|(Stephen Mirrione, Douglas Crise)}} | The Grand Budapest Hotel {{small|(Barney Pilling)}} | Gone Girl {{small|(Kirk Baxter)}} | Under the Skin {{small|(Paul Watts)}} | Goodbye to Language {{small|(Jean-Luc Godard)}} | Edge of Tomorrow {{small|(James Herbert, Laura Jennings)}} | Snowpiercer {{small|(Steve M. Choe, Kim Chang-ju)}} | Inherent Vice {{small|(Leslie Jones)}} |
| align="center"| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road {{small|(Margaret Sixel)}} | Carol {{small|(Affonso Gonçalves)}} | Spotlight {{small|(Tom McArdle)}} | Sicario {{small|(Joe Walker)}} | The Big Short {{small|(Hank Corwin)}} | Steve Jobs {{small|(Elliot Graham)}} | The Forbidden Room {{small|(John Gurdebeke)}} | Creed {{small|(Claudia Castello, Michael Shawver)}} | The Assassin {{small|(Paulie Chih-Chia Huang)}} | The Mend {{small|(Joseph Krings)}} |
| align="center"| 2016 | Moonlight {{small|(Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon)}} | O.J.: Made in America {{small|(Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, Ben Sozanski)}} | La La Land {{small|(Tom Cross)}} | Cameraperson {{small|(Nels Bangerter)}} | Jackie {{small|(Sebastián Sepúlveda)}} | Manchester by the Sea {{small|(Jennifer Lame)}} | Arrival {{small|(Joe Walker)}} | The Handmaiden {{small|(Jae-Bum Kim, Sang-beom Kim)}} | I Am Not Your Negro {{small|(Alexandra Strauss)}} | Nocturnal Animals {{small|(Joan Sobel)}} |
= Best Animated Film =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="18%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="18%"| 5th Place | |||||
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| align="center"| 2017 | Coco | The Breadwinner | Loving Vincent | The Lego Batman Movie | My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea |
= Most Anticipated Film =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="9%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 5th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 6th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 7th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 8th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 9th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 10th Place | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align="center"| 2015 | The Witch | The Lobster | Green Room | No Home Movie | Cemetery of Splendour | My Golden Days | Knight of Cups | The Treasure | Embrace of the Serpent | Krisha |
| align="center"| 2016 | Blade Runner 2049 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Dunkirk | Phantom Thread | Baby Driver | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Alien: Covenant | The Beguiled | Wonder Woman | The Lost City of Z |
= Best Film of the Decade =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="9%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 5th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 6th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 7th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 8th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 9th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 10th Place | ||||||||||
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| align="center"| 2009 | Mulholland Drive {{small|(2001)}} | In the Mood for Love {{small|(2000)}} | Yi Yi {{small|(2000)}} | There Will Be Blood {{small|(2007)}} | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind {{small|(2004)}} | The New World {{small|(2005)}} | Before Sunset {{small|(2004)}} | Zodiac {{small|(2007)}} | Platform {{small|(2000)}} | A.I. Artificial Intelligence {{small|(2001)}} |
= Best Ensemble =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="9%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 5th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 6th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 7th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 8th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 9th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 10th Place | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align="center"| 2011 | Margaret | Bridesmaids | A Separation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Margin Call | The Descendants House of Tolerance Melancholia Midnight in Paris | colspan="5" {{n/a}} | ||||
| align="center"| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Lincoln | colspan="2"| The Master Silver Linings Playbook | Argo Django Unchained | colspan="5" {{n/a}} | |||||
| align="center"| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | American Hustle | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nebraska | The World's End | Computer Chess | Short Term 12 | Before Midnight | August: Osage County | Blue Jasmine |
= Best Overlooked Film =
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| scope="col" width="3%"| Year
! scope="col" width="9%"| 1st Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 2nd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 3rd Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 4th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 5th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 6th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 7th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 8th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 9th Place ! scope="col" width="9%"| 10th Place | ||||||||||
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| align="center"| 2016 | The Fits | Always Shine | Happy Hour | Krisha | Evolution | Embrace of the Serpent | Chevalier | Little Men | Sand Storm | Sunset Song |
Notes
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