This 12 months, the 177 critics and journalists who voted in IndieWire’s 2024 year-end survey to find out the very best films and performances of the 12 months determined to unfold the wealth a bit — whereas nonetheless coalescing round an apparent shared favourite. Unlike final 12 months, when the identical title, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” topped our lists for Best Film and Best Director, now we have a break up choice there this time. Sean Baker’s “Anora” positioned first on our Best Film checklist, whereas Best Director went to Brady Corbet for “The Brutalist.” The voters nonetheless needed extra “Anora,” although, and likewise gave it prime honors for Best Screenplay and third place for Best Director. (No movie in latest reminiscence has come fairly near 2022’s “TÁR” sweep of Best Film, Best Director, Best Performance for Cate Blanchett, and Best Screenplay.)
“Anora” emphatically gained Best Film, nonetheless, showing on 89 of the 177 critics’ ballots acquired this 12 months (50% of all entries), together with 18 first-place votes. By comparability, “The Brutalist,” which positioned second, appeared on 73 ballots, whereas additionally managing 18 first-place votes. In the Best Director class, the place voters forged a wider web, Brady Corbet was in a position to place first by showing on 51 of the 177 ballots.
As all the time, IndieWire employs a ranked-choice poll of 10 movies from every voter to find out the general checklist: First-place votes obtain 10 factors, second-place votes obtain 9, third-place votes eight, and so forth. Best Director was decided by a ranked-choice poll of three administrators from every voter, utilizing the identical factors scale system however awarding three factors to first-place votes, and so forth.
Participants included writers for IndieWire, The New Yorker, Variety, the LA Times, BBC Culture, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Der Spiegel, the Irish Times, the Associated Press, the Film Stage, Reverse Shot, and lots of extra, in addition to freelance and workers journalists for newspapers, magazines, and web sites from throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australia — along with everywhere in the U.S. and Canada. About 76% of all of the voters hailed from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (with a full two-thirds from the U.S. itself), however among the many different international locations represented are Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, and Turkey. All individuals have been required to vote just for movies that acquired theatrical, streaming, or VOD releases within the U.S. over the previous calendar 12 months. You can see a full checklist of the critics who voted on the second web page of this text.
For what it’s value, “Anora” positioned at quantity 5 and “The Brutalist” at quantity 25 on IndieWire’s personal in-house checklist of the 25 greatest films of 2024. (And learn IndieWire’s particular person staffers’ ballots right here.)
IndieWire’s personal in-house decide for the very best movie of the 12 months, “Nickel Boys,” positioned at a number of spots on the critics survey: At quantity three for Best Film, second for Best Director RaMell Ross, ninth for Best Screenplay, and first for Best Cinematography, due to the modern work of DP Jomo Fray.
As on IndieWire’s personal checklist of the very best films of 2024, “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,” Romanian director Radu Jude’s newest comedy, was properly represented on the ballot, cracking the Top 10 checklist of movies and inserting second on the Best International Feature checklist. The prime prize there went to Payal Kapadia’s delicate, unforgettable “All We Imagine as Light,” which additionally positioned fourth on the general Best Film checklist, fourth for Best Director, fourth for Best Cinematography, and seventh for Best Screenplay.
The movie that positioned second on IndieWire’s personal checklist of the very best movies of the 12 months, “No Other Land,” topped the Best Documentary class on our survey. Marianne Jean-Baptiste gained prime honors within the Best Performance class for “Hard Truths,” a class which Emma Stone gained for “Poor Things” final 12 months. Jean-Baptiste’s function as Pansy, a girl who goes by means of life with a scowl and perpetual irritation, lashing out at everybody and every little thing round her, will get to one of many deeper questions of life: How will we go about being completely satisfied? In these aggravated instances, is such a factor even doable?
Finding achievement, and the way elusive that objective may be, is a theme that carries into so most of the movies represented right here. You may argue it’s the thread that binds the opposite movies that made the Top 10 on the very best movie checklist itself: What are “Challengers,” “I Saw the TV Glow,” and “The Substance” if not movies about folks making an attempt to fill voids that may’t be crammed?
As a cinephile, it’d be exhausting to be unfulfilled by what 2024 needed to provide on the films. May this ballot function a information so that you can make amends for the very best of the 12 months. Cinematic journeys await.
Best Film
1. “Anora”
2. “The Brutalist”
3. “Nickel Boys”
4. “All We Imagine as Light”
5. “Challengers”
6. “I Saw the TV Glow”
7. “The Substance”
8. “Dune: Part Two”
9. “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
10. “Hard Truths”
Best Director
1. Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
2. RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
3. Sean Baker, “Anora”
4. Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light”
5. Luca Guadagnino, “Challengers”
6. Jane Schoenbrun, “I Saw the TV Glow”
7. Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
8. Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”
9. Bertrand Bonello, “The Beast”
10. Edward Berger, “Conclave”
Best Performance
1. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
2. Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
3. Mikey Madison, “Anora”
4. Demi Moore, “The Substance”
5. Ilinca Manolache, “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
6. Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
7. Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
8. Daniel Craig, “Queer”
9. Lea Seydoux, “The Beast”
10. TIE: Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”/Josh Hartnett, “Trap”
Best Documentary
1. “No Other Land”
2. “Dahomey”
3. “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
4. “Pictures of Ghosts”
5. “Will & Harper”
6. “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
7. “Black Box Diaries”
8. “Sugarcane”
9. “Look Into My Eyes”
10. “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
Best Cinematography
1. “Nickel Boys”
2. “The Brutalist”
3. “Nosferatu”
4. “All We Imagine as Light”
5. “Challengers”
6. “Dune: Part Two”
7. “I Saw the TV Glow”
8. “The Girl with the Needle”
9. “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
10. “Conclave”
Best Screenplay
1. “Anora”
2. “A Real Pain”
3. “The Brutalist”
4. “Challengers”
5. “Conclave”
6. “The Substance”
7. “All We Imagine as Light”
8. “Janet Planet”
9. “Nickel Boys”
10. “I Saw the TV Glow”
Best International Film
1. “All We Imagine as Light”
2. “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World”
3. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
4. “Evil Does Not Exist”
5. “The Beast”
6. “Close Your Eyes”
7. “Flow”
8. “No Other Land”
9. “Emilia Perez”
10. TIE: “Kneecap”/”Red Rooms”
Best First Feature
1. “Janet Planet”
2. “Good One”
3. “The People’s Joker”
4. TIE: “Didi”/”Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
5. “Blink Twice”
Best Films Opening in 2025
1. “Caught by the Tides”
2. “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
3. TIE: “Presence”/“April”/“Misericordia”
4. “The Shrouds”
5. “Eephus”
Click to the following web page to see a listing of critics who voted.
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