New York Film Critics Online

Top 10 Films

1. Lost in Translation 2. American Splendor 3. In America 4. 21 Grams 5. A Mighty Wind 5. Cold Mountain 5. Girl with a Pearl Earring 5. Lawless Heart 5. Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) 10. The Station Agent

Various Awards

Best Actor: Bill Murray – Lost in Translation

Best Actress: Charlize Theron – Monster

Best Animation: Finding Nemo

Best Cinematography: Girl with a Pearl Earring – Eduardo Serra

Best Director: Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation

Best Documentary: Winged Migration

Best Picture: Lost in Translation

Best Screenplay: In America – Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan

Best Support Actor: Alec Baldwin – The Cooler

Best Support Actress: Scarlett Johansson – Lost in Translation

Top 10 Films

1. Sideways
2. The Aviator
3. Before Sunset
4. Ying xiong (Hero)
5. Kinsey
6. La mala educación (Bad Education)
7. The Incredibles
8. Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)
9. Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers)
10. Cat Woman

Various Awards

Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray

Best Actress: Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake

Best Animated Film: The Incredibles

Best Cinematography: Ying xiong (Hero) – Christopher Doyle

Best Debut Director: Joshua Marston – Maria Full of Grace

Best Director: Martin Scorsese – The Aviator

Best Documentary (tie): Broadway: The Golden Age

Best Documentary (tie): Super Size Me

Best Foreign Language Film: Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries), United States/Germany/UK/Argentina/Chile/Peru/France

Best Picture: Sideways

Best Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman

Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church – Sideways

Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen – Sideways

Best Ever: Beyoncé

Top 9 Films

(Alphabetical order)

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Capote
3. The Constant Gardener
4. Crash
5. Good Night, and Good Luck.
6. La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth)
7. Munich
8. The Squid and the Whale
9. Syriana

Various Awards

Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote

Best Actress: Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice

Best Animated: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Cinematography: March of the Penguins

Best Debut Director: Paul Haggis – Crash

Best Director: Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener

Best Documentary: Grizzly Man

Best Foreign Language Film: Der Untergang (Downfall), Austria/Germany/Italy

Best Picture: The Squid and the Whale

Best Screenplay: Crash – Paul Haggis

Best Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt – Casanova

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams – Junebug

Breakthrough Performer: Terrence Howard – Crash, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Hustle & Flow

Top 10 Films

(Alphabetical order)

Babel

The Fountain

Inland Empire

Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

Little Children

Little Miss Sunshine

The Queen

Thank You for Smoking

Volver

Water

Various Awards

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin

Best Actress: Helen Mirren – The Queen as Elizabeth II

Best Animated Film: Happy Feet

Best Cast: Little Miss Sunshine

Best Cinematography: The Illusionist – Dick Pope

Best Debut Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine

Best Director: Stephen Frears – The Queen

Best Documentary Film: An Inconvenient Truth

Best Film: The Queen

Best Film Score: The Illusionist – Philip Glass

Best Foreign Language Film: Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) • Mexico

Best Screenplay: The Queen – Peter Morgan

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen – The Queen as Tony Blair

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls as Effie White (tied with) Catherine O'Hara – For Your Consideration as Marilyn Hack

Top 11 Films

(Alphabetical order)

Atonement

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The Darjeeling Limited

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

I'm Not There

Juno

Michael Clayton

No Country for Old Men

Persepolis

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

There Will Be Blood

Various Awards

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

Best Actress: Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson

Best Animated Film: Persepolis

Best Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page – Juno

Best Cast: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Cinematography: There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit

Best Debut Director: Sarah Polley – Away from Her

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood

Best Documentary Film: Sicko

Best Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (tied with)There Will Be Blood

Best Film Score: There Will Be Blood – Johnny Greenwood

Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) Germany Persepolis France

Best Screenplay: The Darjeeling Limited – Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There as Jude Quinn / Bob Dylan

Top 10 Films

(Alphabetical order)

Che

A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

Happy-Go-Lucky

Milk

Rachel Getting Married

Slumdog Millionaire

WALL-E

The Wrestler

Various Awards

Best Actor: Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

Best Actress: Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline “Poppy” Cross

Best Animated Film: WALL-E

Best Cast: Milk

Best Director: Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) • Romania

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker (posthumously)

Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena

Top 11 Films

(Alphabetical order)

Adventureland

Avatar

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The Messenger

Precious

A Serious Man

Two Lovers

Up

Up in the Air

Various Awards

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis “Bad” Blake

Best Actress: Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Best Animated Film: Up

Best Cast: In the Loop

Best Cinematography: Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson

Best Debut Director: Marc Webb – (500) Days of Summer

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Best Documentary Film: The Cove

Best Film: Avatar

Best Film Music or Score: Crazy Heart – Steve Bruton, T Bone Burnett, and Jeffrey Pollack

Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon • Germany

Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Jones

Breakthrough Performer: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Various Awards

Best Actor: James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston

Best Actress: Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers

Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3

Best Cast: The Kids Are All Right

Best Cinematography: Black Swan – Matthew Libatique

Best Debut Director: John Wells – The Company Men

Best Director: David Fincher – The Social Network

Best Documentary Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Best Film: The Social Network

Best Film Music or Score: Black Swan – Clint Mansell

Best Foreign Language Film: I Am Love • Italy

Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network

Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dicky Eklund

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo – The Fighter as Alice Eklund

Breakthrough Performer: Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Various Awards

Best Actor: Michael Shannon – Take Shelter

Best Actress: Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady

Best Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Best Cast: Bridesmaids

Best Cinematography: The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Debut Director: Joe Cornish – Attack the Block

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

Best Documentary Film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Best Film: The Artist

Best Film Music or Score: The Artist – Ludovic Bource

Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation Iran

Best Screenplay: The Descendants – Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Alexander Payne

Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks – Drive

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids

Breakthrough Performer: Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, and Coriolanus

Various Awards

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln

Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva – Amour

Best Animated Film: Chico and Rita

Best Cast: Argo

Best Cinematography: Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda

Best Debut Director: Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty

Best Documentary Film: The Central Park Five

Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty

Best Film Music or Score: Django Unchained – Various Artists

Best Foreign Language Film: Amour • France

Best Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables

Breakthrough Performer: Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

Top 11 Films

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Before Midnight
3. Blue Is the Warmest Colour
4. Dallas Buyers Club
5. Gravity
6. Her
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Nebraska
9. Philomena
10. Prisoners
11. The Wolf of Wall Street

Various Awards

Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises

Best Cast: American Hustle

Best Cinematography: Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Debut Director: Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station

Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

Best Documentary Film: The Act of Killing

Best Film: 12 Years a Slave

Best Film Music or Score: Inside Llewyn Davis – T Bone Burnett

Best Foreign Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Colour • France

Best Screenplay: Her – Spike Jonze

Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave

Breakthrough Performer: Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Top 10 Films

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Boyhood
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. The Imitation Game
5. A Most Violent Year
6. Mr. Turner
7. Selma
8. The Theory of Everything
9. Under the Skin
10. Whiplash

Various Awards

Best Film: Boyhood

Best Director: Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

Best Actress: Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night

Best Supporting Actor: J. K. Simmons – Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood

Best Screenplay: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo

Best Animated Film: The Lego Movie

Best Documentary Film: Life Itself

Best Ensemble Cast: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Cinematography: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Debut Director: Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler

Best Film Music or Score: Get On Up – Thomas Newman

Best Foreign Language Film: Two Days, One Night • Belgium

Breakthrough Performer: Jack O'Connell – Unbroken and Starred Up

Top 10 Films

1. 45 Years
2. The Big Short
3. Bridge of Spies
4. Brooklyn
5. Carol
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Sicario
8. Spotlight
9. Steve Jobs
10. Trumbo

Various Awards

Best Film: Spotlight

Best Director: Tom McCarthy – Spotlight

Best Actor: Paul Dano – Love & Mercy

Best Actress: Brie Larson – Room

Best Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies

Best Supporting Actress: Rooney Mara – Carol

Best Screenplay: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer

Best Animated Film: Inside Out

Best Documentary Film: Amy

Best Ensemble Cast: Spotlight

Best Cinematography: Mad Max: Fury Road – John Seale

Best Debut Director: Alex Garland – Ex Machina

Best Film Music or Score: Love & Mercy – Brian Wilson and Atticus Ross

Best Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul • Hungary

Breakthrough Performer: Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl and Ex Machina