Best of 2016

Best Locations

• Silence

Minimalist in atmosphere and intimate in drama, Martin Scorsese's "Silence" houses all its expanse in a profound and lavish exploration of 17th century-style Japan, a gorgeous place of more splendor and versatility than any other cinematic destination of 2016, and of grace and daunt most befitting an epic driven as much by spiritual burden as it is by adventure.

Highlights:

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• Autumn Lights
• The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
• Birkebeinerne / The Last King
• Brothers of the Wind
• Captain Fantastic
• Carnage Park
• Desierto
• Diablo
• Edge of Winter
• The First, the Last
• Gold
• The Great Wall
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hell or High Water
• A Hologram for the King
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Jane Got a Gun
• Kaili Blues
• Knight of Cups
• Last Days in the Desert
• The Legend of Ben Hall
• The Legend of Tarzan
• The Light Between Oceans
• The Magnificent Seven
• Manchester by the Sea
• Our Kind of Traitor
• Papa: Hemingway in Cuba
• Queen of Katwe
• Salt and Fire
• The Sea of Trees
• The Shallows
• Shelley
• The Siege of Jadotville
• Sundown
• Swiss Army Man
• Tanna
• Two Lovers and a Bear
• The Vessel
• Viking
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
• The Witch

Honorable Mention:

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 31
• 400 Days
• The Abandoned
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
• Adult Life Skills
• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
• American Honey
• American Pastoral
• Andron
• Anthropoid
• Army of One
• The Automatic Hate
• Bad Seeds
• Bastille Day | The Take
• Being 17
• Ben-Hur
• The Benefactor
• The Blackcoat's Daughter
• Blair Witch
• Blood Father
• Blood in the Water
• The Boy
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle
• Brother Nature
• Burn Country
• Cabin Fever
• Cardboard Boxer
• Careful What You Wish For
• Certain Women
• Cezanne and I
• The Choice
• The Chosen Ones
• Collide
• Colonia
• The Correspondence
• Daguerrotype
• Dear Zindagi
• Deepwater Horizon
• Departure
• Dirty Grandpa
• The Disappointments Room
• Down Under
• Downriver
• Flight Crew
• The Forest
• Forsaken
• Frank & Lola
• Free State of Jones
• The Frontier
• Goldstone
• Green Room
• Hardcore Henry
• The Hollow Point
• The Huntsman: Winter's War
• I Am Not a Serial Killer
• I Am Not Madame Bovary
• Inferno
• The Infiltrator
• The Innocents
• The Intervention
• Into the Forest
• The Invitation
• Jack Goes Home
• Jason Bourne
• Joker
• Joshy
• Kammattipaadam
• Kicks
• Kill Command
• The Land
• Like Crazy
• London Has Fallen
• Loving
• Mahana
• Maheshinte Prathikaaram
• Mechanic: Resurrection
• Mine
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Morris from America
• Neerja
• Neruda
• Now You See Me 2
• Les Ogres
• Operation Mekong
• Oppam
• The Other Side of the Door
• Parched
• Passengers
• Paterson
• Pelé: Birth of a Legend
• People Hold On
• Personal Shopper
• Pete's Dragon
• Phobia
• Priceless
• Railroad Tigers
• Sand Storm
• Search Party
• Shut In
• Skiptrace
• Sky
• Slack Bay
• Smoke & Mirrors
• Southbound
• Southside with You
• Standoff
• Staying Vertical
• The Survivalist
• Tell Me How I Die
• They Call Me Jeeg Robot
• They're Watching
• Too Late
• Train to Busan
• Transpecos
• Traded
• Tumbledown
• Yosemite
• The Wailing
• Wild Oats
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• Zoolander 2

Best Art Direction

• Hail, Caesar! - Cara Brower and Dawn Swiderski

Finding the Coens' mastery of period detail at its finest, "Hail, Caesar!" lovingly stereotypes and transports you to '50s Hollywood with a baffling melting pot of lush scenery and classically epic movie sets that production designer Jess Gonchor, costume designer
Mary Zophres and art directors Cara Brower and Dawn Swiderski compose with improbable skill.

Highlights:

• Alice Through the Looking Glass - Alex Cameron, Todd Cherniawsky, Nick Gottschalk, Niall Moroney, Hannah Moseley and Richard Selway
• Allied - Anthony Caron-Delion, Jason Knox-Johnston, Richard Selway and Tom Still
• Anthropoid - Radek Hanák
• The BFG - Chris Beach, Todd Cherniawski, Rebecca Milton, Margot Ready and Grand van der Slagt
• Ben-Hur - Roberto Caruso, Marco Furbatto, Félix Larivière-Charron, Massimo Pauletto, Gianpaolo Rifino, Alessandro Santucci and Carlo Serafin
• Cezanne and I - Stephanie Angrand
• The Dancer - Laura Obiols
• The Duelist - ?
• Eternity - Arthur Deprez and Trần Nữ Yên Khê
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - David Allday, Guy Bradley, Toby Britton, Peter Dorme, Gavin Fitch, Martin Foley, Kate Grimble, Hayley Easton Street and Leslie Tomkins
• Florence Foster Jenkins - Gareth Cousins, Patrick Rolfe and Christopher Wyatt
• Free State of Jones - Andrew Max Cahn, Chris Craine and Dan Webster
• Genius - Alex Baily, Gareth Cousins and Patrick Rolfe
• Girl Asleep - Erica Bien
• The Great Wall - Joe Celli, Sherrie Dai, Paul Gelinas, Colin Gibson, Helen Jarvis and Adam Wheatley
• Hacksaw Ridge - Jacinta Leong and Mark Robins
• High-Rise - Nigel Pollock and Frank Walsh
• Jackie - Halina Gebarowicz
• The Jungle Book - John Lord Booth III, Andrew L. Jones and Mike Stassi
• The King's Choice - Åsa Nilsson
• La La Land - Austin Gorg
• The Legend of Ben Hall - ?
• The Legend of Tarzan - David Allday, Ravi Bansal, Guy Bradley, Toby Britton, Gavin Fitch, Kate Grimble, James Hambidge, Christian Huband and Su Whitaker
• The Light Between Oceans - Sophie Nash
• Live by Night - Steve Christensen, Christa Munro, Bradley Rubin, Dawn Swiderski and Jeremy Woodward
• Mahenjo Daro - Sanjay Karole
• Passengers - John Collins and Luke Freeborn
• Race - Jean-Pierre Paquet
• Risen - Agostino Bonello, Gabriel Liste and Eugenio Ulissi
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Alex Baily, Alastair Bullock, Robert Cowper, Jordana Finkel, Lydia Fry, Ashley Lamont, Steven Lawrence, Oliver Roberts, Stuart Rose, Stephen Swain, Gary Tomkins and Helen Xenopoulos
• Rules Don't Apply - ?
• Silence - Huang Wen-Ying, Wang Zhi-Cheng, Kuei-Bang Won and Michael Tsung-Ying Yang
• Star Trek Beyond - Salim Alrazouk, Steve Christensen, Denny Dugally, Natasha Gerasimova, Dan Hermansen, Andrew Li, Don Macaulay, Harry E. Otto, Lauren E. Polizzi and Jeremy Stanbridge
• A United Kingdom - Justin Warburton-Brown, Shane Bunce, Andrew Munro and Karl Probert
• Viking - ?

Honorable Mentions:

• 31 - Kevin Houlihan
• 400 Days - Robert Wise
• The Age of Shadows - Hwa-sung Cho
• Airlift - ?
• Alone in Berlin - Utta Hagen, Andreas Olshausen and Anja Müller
• American Pastoral - Gregory A. Weimerskirch
• Andron - Chric Bonello
• Approaching the Unknown - Paul Rice and Danielle Webb
• Assassin's Creed - Andy Nicholson
• Birkebeinerne / The Last King - Bjørn Grønnerud
• The Birth of a Nation - ?
• Café Society - Michael E. Goldman and Douglas Huszti
• Captain America: Civil War - Greg Berry, Stephan O. Gessler, Gregory S. Hooper and David Scott
• The Childhood of a Leader - Nóra Takács
• Chocolat - ?
• The Conjuring 2 - Fiona Gavin, A. Todd Holland and Andrew Rothchild
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny - Nick Connor, Jill Cormack and Sherrie Dai
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty - Chris Scheid
• Dad's Army - Justin Warburton-Brown and Andrew Munro
• The Death of Louis XIV - Sebastián Vogler
• Despite the Falling Snow - Bill Crutcher
• The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Scott Dougan, Alan Hook and Alex McCarroll
• Doctor Strange - Jim Barr, Thomas Brown, Ray Chan, Jason T. Clark, Jordan Crockett, Michael Manson, Mike Stallion and Mark Swain
• The Duel - Douglas Cumming
• Equals - Ian Bailie, Jason Hougaard and Kikuo Ohta
• Everybody Wants Some!! - Rodney Becker
• Fences - Karen Gropman and Gregory A. Weimerskirch
• The Finest Hours - William Ladd Skinner
• The First, the Last - Paul Rouschop
• The Founder - ?
• Forsaken - Kathy McCoy
• Frantz - Susanne Abel
• From the Land of the Moon - Sandrine Jarron
• The Girl with All the Gifts - Philip Barber
• Gods of Egypt - Sophie Nash and Michael Turner
• The Handmaiden - Seong-hie Ryu
• Hidden Figures - Jeremy Woolsey
• The Huntsman: Winter's War - Andrew Ackland-Snow, John Frankish, Steven Lawrence, Luigi Marchione, Frank Wash and Tom Whitehead
• I Saw the Light - Rob Simons
• In a Valley of Violence - RA Arancio-Parrain
• Indignation - Derek Wang
• The Innocents - Anna Pabisiak
• Ithaca - Richard Blankenship
• Jane Got a Gun - ?
• Julieta - Carlos Bodelón and Frederico G. Cambero
• A Kind Murder - ?
• The Last Princess - ?
• London Has Fallen - Caroline Barclay, Bill Crutcher, Nick Dent, Rebecca Milton, Robyn Paiba, Ivan Ranghelov and Aradhana Seth
• Love & Friendship - Anna Rackard
• The Love Witch - Anna Biller
• The Magnificent Seven - Leslie McDonald
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - Justin Warburton-Brown and Andrew Munro
• The Mermaid - Raymond Chan and Bruce Yu Ka-On
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Mark Scruton
• Mohenjo Daro - Sanjay Karole
• Moonwalkers - ?
• Morgan - Fiona Gavin and John Merry
• The Neon Demon - Austin Gorg
• Neruda - ?
• The Nice Guys - David Utley
• Operation Avalanche - Zosia Mackenzie
• Planetarium - ?
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Steve Carter, William Coubrough, David Doran and Ashley Winter
• The Purge: Election Year - David Blankenship
• Railroad Tigers - ?
• Riphagen - Jaap Hoek
• Slack Bay - Riton Dupire-Clément
• Sultan - ?
• Synchronicity - Jenn Moye and Stephen Rubac
• Tunnel - Lee Hwo-Kyoung
• The Vessel - Gerardo José Vega
• Warcraft - Dan Hermansen, Helen Jarvis, Iain McCaig, Margot Ready and Grant van der Slagt
• The Witch - Craig Lathrop
• A Woman's Life - ?
• The Young Messiah - Domenico Sica

Best Visual Effects A

• Independence Day: Resurgence

"Independence Day: Resurgence" is every bit as asinine and overwrought as one might expect the ill-conceived sequel to be, but if it transcends its substantial follies as genuinely entertaining, it's strictly because the effects take imaginative designs, staggeringly immense scope, impeccable rendering and dazzling spectacle in blockbuster posturing to a new level.

Honorable Mention/Highlights:
SEE BELOW

Best Visual Effects B

• Star Trek Beyond

Whether or not any ground is broken with "Star Trek Beyond" on both technical and narrative terms, the ultimately upstanding popcorn epic is no less elevated by as stellar a blend of unique designs, amazing action, deftly creative practical effects, and ceaselessly jaw-dropping digital spectacle as any "Star Trek" film of the past few years.

Highlights:

• Alice Through the Looking Glass
• Arrival
• The BFG
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Captain America: Civil War
• Deadpool
• Deepwater Horizon
• The Divergent Series: Allegiant
• Doctor Strange
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• Flight Crew
• The Great Wall
• The Jungle Book
• A Monster Calls
• Pete's Dragon
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
• X-Men: Apocalypse

Honorable Mention:

• 31
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• The 5th Wave
• Airlift
• Andron
• Approaching the Unknown
• Assassin's Creed
• Before I Wake
• Ben-Hur
• Brothers of the Wind
• The Conjuring 2
• Creative Control
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty
• The Finest Hours
• The Girl with All the Gifts
• Gods of Egypt
• Ghostbusters
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hardcore Henry
• Holidays
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• The Huntsman: Winter's War
• Inferno
• Kabali
• Kill Command
• The Legend of Tarzan
• London Has Fallen
• Max Steel
• The Mermaid
• Midnight Special
• Mine
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• Now You See Me 2
• Officer Downe
• The Other Side of the Door
• Pandemic
• Passengers
• Patriots Day
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
• Railroad Tigers
• Sadako vs. Kayako
• The Shallows
• Shin Godzilla
• Suicide Squad
• They Call Me Jeeg Robot
• Train to Busan
• Tunnel
• Viking
• Viral
• The Wailing
• Warcraft
• Zoolander 2

Best Cinematography A

• The Birth of a Nation - Elliot Davis

Dour, heavy-handed and dramatically robust, Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation" transcends its missteps with an artistic credibility that is none too light on the enchantingly nuanced lighting, exquisitely rugged coloration, crisp definition and intoxicatingly lyrical imagery that render Elliot Davis' photography an aesthetic triumph.

Honorable Mention/Highlights:
SEE BELOW

Best Cinematography B

• The Vessel - Santiago Benet Mari

Julio Quintana's "The Vessel" may flourish through its dialing back the experimentalism of its Terrence Malick style, but as Santiago Benet Mari puts astonishing spins on said style's mastery of dreamily fluid camerawork, enchanting lighting, nuanced color and a lyrical hold on imagery, the final product remains more an artistic triumph than a hidden dramatic gem.

Highlights:

• Anthropoid - Sean Ellis
• Arrival - Bradford Young
• Autumn Lights - Árni Filippusson
• The BFG - Janusz Kamiński
• Batman v Superman - Larry Fong
• The Blackcoat's Daughter - Julie Kirkwood
• Christine - Joe Anderson
• Closet Monster - Bobby Shore
• The Great Wall - Stuart Dryburgh and Xiaoding Zhao
• Knight of Cups - Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Childhood of a Leader - Lol Crawley
• The Dancer - Benoît Debie
• The Daughter - Andrew Commis
• Dog Eat Dog - Alexander Dynan
• Don't Breathe - Pedro Luque
• The Duelist - Maksim Osadchiy
• Equals - John Guleserian
• The Family Fang - Ken Seng
• First Girl I Loved - Ricardo Diaz
• The First, the Last - Jean-Paul De Zaeytijd
• Genius - Ben Davis
• Green Room - Sean Porter
• Hardcore Henry - Andrey Dementiev, Pasha Kapinos, Vsevolod Kaptur, Fedor Lyass, Ilya Naishuller, Sergey Valyaev
• It's Only the End of the World - André Turpin
• Kaili Blues - Wang Tianxing
• The Light Between Oceans - Adam Arkapaw
• The Legend of Ben Hall - Peter Szilveszter
• The Love Witch - M. David Mullen
• Memoria - Pedro Gómez Millán
• Moonlight - James Laxton
• The Neon Demon - Natasha Braier
• Operation Avalanche - Andy Appelle and Jared Raab
• Shangri-La Suite - Delaney Teichler
• Silence - Rodrigo Prieto
• Sweet Dreams - Daniele Ciprì
• Synchronicity - Eric Maddison
• Trash Fire - Shane Daly
• Viking - Igor Grinyakin
• The Witch - Jarin Blaschke
• Zoom [Pedro Morelli] - Adrian Teijido

Honorable Mention:

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - Dion Beebe
• 20th Century Women - Sean Porter
• 24 Weeks - Friede Clausz
• 31 - David Daniel
• 4th Man Out - Damian Horan
• 64: Part I - Kōichi Saitō
• 64: Part II - Kōichi Saitō
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax - Maxime Alexandre
• Aandavan Kattalai - N. Shanmuga Sundaram
• The Abandoned - Zack Galler
• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie - Chris Goodger
• The Adderall Diaries - Bruce Thierry Cheung
• Adult Life Skills - Bet Rourich
• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil - Anil Mehta
• The Age of Shadows - Kim Ji-yong
• Airlift - Priya Seth
• Alice Through the Looking Glass - Stuart Dryburgh
• Allied - Don Burgess
• Aligarh - Satya Rai Nagpaul
• Alone in Berlin - Christophe Beaucarne
• American Honey - Robbie Ryan
• American Pastoral - Martin Ruhe
• Antibirth - Rudolf Blahacek
• Approaching the Unknown - Adam Newport-Berra
• Aquarius - Pedro Sotero and Fabricio Tadeu
• Army of One - Anthony Hardwick
• Assassin's Creed - Adam Arkapaw
• Asuria: The City of Madness - Lee Mo-gae
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe - Roman Osin
• Backtrack - Stefan Duscio
• Band of Robbers - Noah Rosenthal
• Bastille Day | The Take - Tim Maurice-Jones
• Before I Wake - Michael Fimognari
• Being 17 - Julien Hirsch
• Ben-Hur - Oliver Wood
• The Benefactor - Joe Anderson
• The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez - Benoît Debie
• Birkebeinerne / The Last King - Peter Mokrosinski
• Bleed for This - Larkin Seiple
• Blood Father - Robert Gantz
• Blue Jay - Alex Lehmann
• Born to Be Blue - Steve Cosens
• The Boy - Daniel Pearl
• Boys in the Tree - Marden Dean
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle - Chigi Kanbe
• Broke - Chris Bland
• The Bronze - Scott Henriksen
• Brothers of the Wind - Óscar Durán and Otmar Penker
• Burn Country - Adam Newport-Berra
• Burning Bodhi - David J. Myrick
• Café Society - Vittorio Storaro
• Cardboard Boxer - Peter Holland
• Carnage Park - Mac Fisken
• Captain America: Civil War - Trent Opaloch
• Captain Fantastic - Stéphane Fontaine
• Certain Women - Christopher Blauvelt
• Cezanne and I - Jean-Marie Dreujou
• Chocolat - Thomas Letellier
• The Chosen Ones - Carolina Costa
• Collateral Beauty - Maryse Alberti
• Collide - Ed Wild
• Colonia - Kolja Brandt
• Come and Find Me - Sean Stiegemeier
• The Comedian - Oliver Stapleton
• The Commune - Jesper Tøffner
• Compadres - Federico Barbabosa
• Complete Unknown - Malcolm Jamieson
• The Conjuring 2 - Don Burgess
• Creative Control - Adam Newport-Berra
• Creepy - Akiko Ashizawa
• Criminal - Dana Gonzales
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny - Newton Thomas Sigel
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty - Christopher C. Pearson
• Dad's Army - Christopher Ross
• Daguerrotype - Alexis Kavyrchine
• Dangal - Satyajit "Setu" Pande
• Deadpool - Ken Seng
• Dear Zindagi - Laxman Utekar
• Death by Death - Olivier Vanaschen
• The Death of Louis XIV - Jonathan Ricquebourg
• Deepwater Horizon - Enrique Chediak
• Demolition - Yves Bélanger
• Denial - Haris Zambarloukos
• Departure - Brian Fawcett
• Desierto - Damian Garcia
• Despite the Falling Snow - David Johnson
• The Disappointments Room - Rogier Stoffers
• The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Florian Ballhaus
• Divines - Julien Poupard
• Doctor Strange - Ben Davis
• Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet - Choi Yong-jin
• Down Under - Lachlan Milne
• Downriver - László Baranyai
• Dreamland - Benjamin Kasulke
• The Duel - Jules O'Loughlin
• Eddie the Eagle - George Richmond
• Edge of Winter - Norm Li
• Elle - Stéphane Fontaine
• Elvis & Nixon - Terry Stacey
• Eternity - Mark Lee Ping Bin
• Exposed - Trevor Forrest
• The Eyes of My Mother - Zach Kuperstein
• The Faith of Anna Waters | The Offering - Wade Muller
• Fan - Manu Anand
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Philippe Rousselot
• Fences - Charlotte Bruus Christensen
• The Finest Hours - Javier Aguirresarobe
• The Fits - Paul Yee
• Five Nights in Maine - Sofian El Fani
• Flight Crew - Irek Khartovich
• Florence Foster Jenkins - Danny Cohen
• Foreboding - Akiko Ashizawa
• The Forest - Mattias Troelstrup
• Forsaken - Rene Ohashi
• The Founder - John Schwartzman
• Frank & Lola - Eric Koretz
• Frantz - Pascal Marti
• Free State of Jones - Benoît Delhomme
• The Free World - Bérénice Eveno
• From Afar - Sergio Armstrong
• From the Land of the Moon - Christophe Beaucarne
• The Frontier - Jay Keitel
• The Fury of a Patient Man - Arnau Valls Colomer
• Gold - Robert Elswit
• Ghost Team - Timothy Naylor
• Ghostbusters - Robert Yeoman
• Girl Asleep - Andrew Commis
• The Girl on the Train - Charlotte Bruus Christensen
• The Girl with All the Gifts - Simon Dennis
• Goldstone - Ivan Sen
• The Good Neighbor - Alexander Alexandrov
• The Greasy Strangler - Mårten Tedin
• Grimsby - Oliver Wood
• Hacksaw Ridge - Simon Duggan
• Hail, Caesar! - Roger Deakins
• The Handmaiden - Chung Chung-hoon
• Hands of Stone - Miguel Ioann Littin
• Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki - Jani-Petteri Passi
• Heal the Living - Tom Harari
• Hell or High Water - Giles Nuttgens
• Hidden Figures - Mandy Walker
• High-Rise - Laurie Rose
• The History of Love - Laurent Dailland
• Holidays - VARIOUS
• The Hollow Point - José David Montero
• A Hologram for the King - Frank Griebe
• The Huntsman: Winter's War - Phedon Papamichael
• I Am Not a Serial Killer - Robbie Ryan
• I Am Not Madame Bovary - Luo Pan
• I, Olga Hepnarová - Adam Sikora
• I Saw the Light - Dante Spinotti
• I.T. - Ekkehart Pollack
• I'm Not Ashamed - John Matysiak
• Imperium - Bobby Bukowski
• Independence Day: Resurgence - Markus Förderer
• Indignation - Christopher Blauvelt
• Inferno - Salvatore Totino
• The Infiltrator - Joshua Reis
• The Innocents - Caroline Champetier
• Into the Forest - Daniel Grant
• The Invitation - Bobby Shore
• Iraivi - Sivakumar Vijayan
• Irudhi Suttru / Saala Khadoos - Sivakumar Vijayan
• Ithaca - Andrew Dunn
• Jack Goes Home - Austin F. Schmidt
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - Oliver Wood
• Jackie - Stéphane Fontaine
• Jane Got a Gun - Mandy Walker
• Jason Bourne - Barry Ackroyd
• Joshy - Patrice Lucien Cochet
• Julieta - Jean-Claude Larrieu
• The Jungle Book - Bill Pope
• Kabali - Santhosh Narayanan
• Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh - Tapan Basu
• Kammattipaadam - Madhu Neelakantan
• Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) - Jeffrey F. Bierman
• Keanu - Jas Shelton
• Kicks - Michael Ragen
• Kill Command - Simon Dennis
• A Kind of Murder - Chris Seager
• King Cobra - Benjamin Loeb
• King Jack - Brandon Roots
• The King's Choice - John Christian Rosenlund
• Krisha - Drew Daniels
• La La Land - Linus Sandgren
• Lamb - Nathan M. Miller
• The Land - Steven Holleran
• Last Days in the Desert - Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Last Princess - Lee Tae-yoon
• The Legend of Tarzan - Henry Braham
• The Lennon Report - Lisa Rinzler
• Like Crazy - Vladan Radovic
• Lila & Eve - Wyatt Garfield
• Lion - Greig Fraser
• Little Sister - Daryl Pittman
• Live by Night - Robert Richardson
• London Has Fallen - Ed Wild
• London Town - Bryan Senti
• Love & Friendship - Richard Van Oosterhout
• Love Is All You Need? - Sandra Valde-Hansen
• Loving - Adam Stone
• M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story - Santosh Thundiyil
• The Magnificent Seven - Mauro Fiore
• Mahana - Ginny Loane
• Maheshinte Prathikaaram - Shyju Khalid
• Man Down - Shelly Johnson
• The Man Who Knew Infinity - Coby Brown
• Manchester by the Sea - Jody Lee Lipes
• Max Steel - Brett Pawlak
• The Mermaid - Sung Fai Choi
• Midnight Special - Adam Stone
• Mine - Sergi Vilanova
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Bruno Delbonnel
• Miss Sloane - Sebastian Blenkov
• Miss Stevens - Sebastian Wintero
• The Model - Petrus Sjövik
• Mohenjo Daro - C. K. Muraleedharan
• Mojave - Don Davis
• Money Monster - Mathew Libatique
• The Monster - Julie Kirkwood
• A Monster Calls - Óscar Faura
• Moonwalkers - Glynn Speeckaert
• Morgan - Mark Patton
• Mr. Church - Sharone Meir
• Mr. Right - Daniel Aranyó
• My Hindu Friend - Mauro Pinheiro Jr.
• Neerja - Mitesh Mirchandani
• Neruda - Sergio Armstrong
• Nerve - Michael Simmonds
• The Nice Guys - Philippe Rousselot
• Nil Battey Sannata - Gavemic U. Ary
• Nocturama - Leo Hinstin
• Nocturnal Animals - Seamus McGarvey
• Now You See Me 2 - Peter Deming
• Officer Downe - Gerardo Madrazo
• Les Ogres - Julien Poupard
• The Ones Below - Ed Rutherford
• Operation Mekong - Fung Yuen Man
• Oppam - N. K. Ekambaram
• Other People - Brian Burgoyne
• Our Kind of Traitor - Anthony Dod Mantle
• Parched - Russell Carpenter
• Passengers - Guy Hendrix Dyas and Rodrigo Prieto
• Patriots Day - Tobias Schliessler
• Personal Shopper - Yorick Le Saux
• Pet - Timothy A. Burton
• Pete's Dragon - Bojan Bazelli
• Phobia - Jaya Krishna Gummadi
• Pink - Abhik Mukhopadhyay
• Planetarium - George Lechaptois
• Precious Cargo - Brandon Cox
• The Preppie Connection - Brett Jutkiewicz
• Priceless - Daniel Stilling
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Remi Adefarasin
• Puerto Ricans in Paris - Damian Acevedo
• The Purge: Election Day - Jacques Jouffret
• Race - Peter Levy
• Railroad Tigers - Yu Ding
• Raman Raghav 2.0 - Jay Oza
• Remainder - Lukas Strebel
• Riphagen - Bert Pot
• Risen - Lorenzo Senatore
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Greig Fraser
• Rules Don't Apply - Caleb Deschanel
• Sadako vs. Kayako - Hidetoshi Shinomiya
• Sairat - Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti
• Salt and Fire - Peter Zeitlinger
• Sand Castles - Chris Faulisi
• Scare Campaign - John Brawley
• The Sea of Trees - Kasper Tuxen
• Septembers of Shriaz - Warwick Thornton
• The Shallows - Flavio Labiano
• Shelley - Nadim Carlsen and Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
• Shin Godzilla - Kosuke Yamada
• Shut In - Yves Bélanger
• The Siege of Jadotville - Nikolaus Summerer
• Sing Street - Yaron Orbach
• Sky - Nathalie Durand
• Slack Bay - Guillaume Deffontaines
• Smoke & Mirrors - Alex Catalán
• Snowden - Anthony Dod Mantle
• Southbound - Tarin Anderson, Tyler Gillett, Alexandre Naufel and Andrew Shulkind
• Spaceman - Matthew Boyd
• Standoff - Zoran Popovic
• Star Trek Beyond - Stephen F. Windon
• A Street Cat Named Bob - Peter Wunstorf
• The Student - Vladislav Opelyants
• Suicide Squad - Roman Vasyanov
• Sully - Tom Stern
• Sultan - Artur Zurawski
• Sundown - Gerardo Madrazo and Pietro Zuercher
• The Survivalist - Damien Elliott
• Staying Vertical - Claire Mathon
• Swiss Army Man - Larkin Seiple
• Tanna - Bentley Dean
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - Lula Carvalho
• They Call Me Jeeg Robot - Michele D'Attanasio
• Three - Cheng Siu-Keung
• Too Late - Bill Fernandez
• Touched with Fire - Kristina Nikolova and Alexander Stanishev
• Train to Busan - Lee Hyung-deok
• Transpecos - Jeffrey Waldron
• Triple 9 - Nicolas Karakatsanis
• The Truth Beneath - Ju Sung-lim
• Tunnel - Kim Tae-sung
• Two Lovers and a Bear - Nicolas Bolduc
• Udta Punjab - Rajeev Ravi
• Under the Shadow - Kit Fraser
• Undrafted - Adrian Correia
• Unfriend | Friend Request - Jo Heim
• A United Kingdom - Sam McCurdy
• United States of Love - Oleg Mutu
• Viral - Magdalena Gorka
• Visaranai - S. Ramalingam
• The Wailing - Hong Kyung-pyo
• War Dogs - Lawrence Sher
• Warcraft - Simon Duggan
• War on Everyone - Bobby Bukowski
• White Girl - Michael Simmonds
• The Whole Truth - Jules O'Loughlin
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Xavier Grobet
• Wiener Dog - Edward Lachman
• A Woman's Life - Antoine Héberlé
• X-Men: Apocalypse - Newton Thomas Siegel
• Yosemite - Chananun Chotrungroj and Bruce Thierry Cheung
• Zoolander 2 - Dan Mindel

Best Song Soundtrack/Unoriginal Score

• La La Land - Jazz / Original Musical / Original Song

I for one feel that Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" was deeply undercut by an under-textured and unambitious script; but to say that it thrived in whichever field it approached with conviction is mainly to say that it owns up to its promises of revitalizing jazz and the Hollywood musical through a mass array of musically sophisticated, lyrically sharp, narratively robust and unshakably catchy original numbers that arguably surpass more than a few of their roots' soundtracks, and inarguably surpass all other soundtracks of 2016.

Highlights:

• 20th Century Women - Song
• Adult Life Skills - Song
• Aquarius - Song
• Born to Be Blue - Jazz / Song / Unoriginal Score
• Creative Control - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• The Dancer - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• David Brent: Life on the Road - Original Song
• Dog Eat Dog - Song
• Eternity - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• Everybody Wants Some!! - Song
• The Family Fang - Classical / Song
• Gold - Song
• Hell or High Water - Song
• Knight of Cups - Classical / Unoriginal Score / (Song)
• Hardcore Henry - Song
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Song
• London Town - Song
• Miles Ahead - Jazz / Unoriginal Score
• Miss Stevens - Song
• Moana - Original Musical
• Mr. Right - Song
• One More Time - (Cover/Original) Song
• Rules Don't Apply - Jazz / Song / Unoriginal Score
• Sairat - Original Song
• Shangri-La Suite - Song
• Sing Street - Original/Unoriginal Song
• Suicide Squad - Song
• War Dogs - Song

Honorable Mention:

• 31 - Song
• Aandavan Kattalai - Original Song
• Amateur Night - Song
• Antibirth - Song
• Bad Seeds - Classical / Song / Unoriginal Score
• Being 17 - Song
• The Birth of a Nation - Song
• Bleed for This - Song
• Boys in the Trees - Song
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle - Classical
• Café Society - Jazz / Unoriginal Score
• Captain Fantastic - Song
• Carnage Park - Song
• Christine - Song
• Colonia - Song
• Coming Through the Rye - Song
• The Commune - Song
• Dangal - Original Song
• Deadpool - Song
• Demolition - Song / Unoriginal Score
• Dreamland - Song
• Eddie the Eagle - Song
• Elvis & Nixon - Song
• The First, the Last - Song
• First Girl I Loved - Song
• Genius - Jazz / Unoriginal Score
• Girl Asleep - Song
• Grimsby - Song
• The Hollars - Song
• It's Only the End of the World - Song
• I Saw the Light - (Cover) Song
• The Infiltrator - Song
• Joker - Original Song
• Little Sister - Song
• Love & Friendship - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• Maheshinte Prathikaaram - Original Song
• Manchester by the Sea - Classical / Song / Unoriginal Score
• Masterminds - Song
• Moonwalkers - Song
• Mr. Church - Jazz / Song
• Nina - Jazz / Unoriginal Score / Song
• Now You See Me - Song
• Operation Avalanche - Song
• Oppam - Original Song
• Ordinary World - Song
• Pelli Choopulu - Song
• Pete's Dragon - Song
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping - Original Song
• The Preppie Connection - Song
• Remainder - Unoriginal Score
• Sand Castles - Original Song
• Sing - Jukebox Musical / (Cover) Song
• Spaceman - Song
• Sweet Dreams - Song
• Tumbledown - Song
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Song

Best Original Song

• "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" by Emma Stone (Mia Dolan), for "La La Land"

Amid Justin Hurwitz's theatrically emotive crescendo, Emma Stone's Mia Dolan character very literally owns the spotlight in a devastatingly impassioned preaching of Pasek and Paul's nuanced ode to the overambitious, so as to fasten the heart-wrenching "Audition (The Fools Who Dreams)" as the most moving ballad in the grandest big-screen musical experience of 2016.

Highlights:

• "16 Silent Mouths" by Glenn Richards, for "The Legend of Ben Hall"
• "Bifröst" by Helene Bøksle, for "Birkebeinerne"/"The Last King"
• "Candle on the Water" by Okkervil River / "Nobody Knows" by The Lumineers, for "Pete's Dragon"
• "Chinnamma Adi" by M. G. Sreekumar, for "Oppam"
• "Chinuku Taake" by Shreshta, for "Pelli Choopulu"
• "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" by Wiley College Choir, for "The Birth of a Nation"
• "A Country Called Home" by Ray Bingham, for "A Country Called Home"
• "Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams cover) by Tom Hiddleston, for "I Saw the Light"
• "Cotton Eye Joe" (Traditional) by Andy Hull, Robert McDowell and Daniel Radcliffe, for "Swiss Army Man"
• "Down With Mary" by John Hawkes, for "Too Late"
• "Drift and Fall Again" by Madsonik, ft. Lola Marsh, for "Criminal"
• "Ennanga Sir Unga Sattam" by Arandhai Bava and K. Perumal, for "Joker"
• "Feeling Good" (Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley adaptation / Nina Simone cover) / "Sinnerman" (Traditional / Nina Simone cover) by Zoe Saldana, for "Nina"
• "For the Kill" by Biting Elbows, for "Hardcore Henry"
• "Go Now" by Adam Levine, for "Sing Street"
• "Gold" by Iggy Pop, for "Gold"
• "I Can't Escape from You" (Leo Robin and Richard A. Whiting cover) by Haley Bennett, for "A Kind of Murder"
• "I Shall Be Released" (Bob Dylan cover) by Kirk Ross, for "Captain Fantastic"
• "I Wan'na Be Like You" (Louis Prima cover) by Christopher Walken (King Louie), for "The Jungle Book"
• "Idukki" by Bijibal, for "Maheshinte Prathikaaram"
• "If I Never Met You" by Brian De Cubellis, ft. Catey Shaw, for "Manhattan Night"
• "Jeeg Robot L'Uomo D'Acciaio" by Claudio Santamaria, for "They Call Me Jeeg Robot"
• "Jeete Hain Chal" by Mandar Apte, Archana Gore, Arun Ingle, R.N. Iyer, Pragati Mukund Joshi, Vishal Khurana, Mayuri Patwardhan and Kavita Seth, for "Neerja"
• "Mai Ri Mai" by Harshdeep Kaur and Neeti Mohan
• "Manidhi" by Brinda, Ananthu and Santhosh Narayanan, for "Iraivi"
• "Maya Nadhi" by Ananthu, Pradeep Kumar and Shweta Mohan, for "Kabali"
• "My Way" (Paul Anka adaptation) by Seth MacFarlane (Mike), for "Sing"
• "No Dames!" by Channing Tatum, for "Hail, Caesar!"
• "Para Para" by John P. Varkey, for "Kammattipaadam"
• "Saathi Rey" by Arko Pravo Mukherjee, for "Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921)"
• "See You Around" by Leon Redbone, for "Ithaca"
• "The Sound of You Coming" by Gain, ft. Minseo, for "The Handmaiden"
• "Take Me Down" by Gary Clark, Jr., for "Deepwater Horizon"
• "Taken" by Jenavive, for "Diablo"
• "Vspominay obo mne, kogda poydet dozhd' [Вспоминай обо мне, когда пойдёт дождь]" by Sveta Aya, for "Viking"
• "When I Have Sung My Songs to You" (Ernest Charles adaptation) by Meryl Streep, for "Florence Foster Jenkins"
• "When I Live My Life Over Again" by Christopher Walken, for "One More Time"
• "Yad Lagla" by Ajay Gogavale, for "Sairat"
• "You're Welcome" by Dwayne Johnson (Maui), for "Moana"

Honorable Mention:

• "Baby Aagodhu"/"Baby Odadhe" by Shankar Mahadevan, for "Oopiri"/"Thozha"
• "Better Love" by Hozier, for "The Legend of Tarzan"
• "Catch the Wind" by Oliver Daldry, for "Departure"
• "Charlene" by Davis & McKay, for "Sand Castles"
• "Daylight" by Natalia Safran and Mick Jarosyk, for "The Choice"
• "Body Bag" / "Devil's Kind" by Billie Joe Armstrong, for "Ordinary World"
• "Dream Weaver" (Gary Wright cover) by Trent Harmon, for "Ice Age: Collision Course"
• "English Rose" (Paul Weller cover) by Charlie Creed-Miles, for "100 Streets"
• "Eternal Breath" by Jam Hsiao, Lang Lang and CoCo Lee, for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny"
• "Extreme Ways (Jason Bourne)" by Moby, for "Jason Bourne"
• "Flying Home" by The Tierney Sutton Band, for "Sully"
• "Haul Away Joe" by Kodaline, for "The Finest Hours"
• "Homeward Bound" by Rebecca Anderson, for "Bad Hurt"
• "Horizons" by Damien Jurado, for "Tumbledown"
• "Ikk Kudi" by Asees Kaur, for "Udta Punjab"
• "I'm Crying" by Lucinda Williams, for "Free State of Jones"
• "Imsai Rani" by Karthik, for "Aandavan Kattalai"
• "Jeenay De Mujhe" by Faiza Mujahid, for "Pink"
• "Kung Fu Fighting (Celebration Time)" (Carl Douglas cover) by Metro Voices and Shanghai Roxi Musical Studio Choirs, for "Kung Fu Panda 3"
• "Land of All" by Yoann "Woodkid" Lemoine, for "Desierto"
• "Lonely Soul" by M.Eye and the International P, for "Exposed"
• "Loving" by Ben Nichols, for "Loving"
• "Midnight Special (Take Me With You)" (Studio version) by Lucero, for "Midnight Special"
• "Mituni Lochane" by Vijay Prakash, for "Natsamrat"
• "Mohenjo Mohenjo" by Sanah Moidutty, A.R. Rahman, Bela Shende and Arijit Singh
• "Moon River" (Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer adaptation) by Priscilla Ahn and Raney Shockne, for "American Pastoral"
• "Moonshine" by Foy Vance, ft. Kacey Musgraves, for "Live by Night"
• "Murabba" by Neuman Pinto, for "Nil Battey Sannata"
• "Naina" by Neha Kakkar, for "Dangal"
• "O My Child" by Craig Wedren and Benjamin Newgard, for "The Invitation"
• "People Hold On" by Noah Reid and Paula Brancati, for "People Hold On"
• "Priceless" (Ballad version) by for KING & COUNTRY ft. Bianca Santos, for "Priceless"
• "Perdition" by JD & The Straight Shot, for "Jane Got a Gun"
• "Rules Don't Apply" by Lily Collins, for "Rules Don't Apply"
• "Second Time Around" by Luke Treadaway and Charlie Fink, for "A Street Cat Named Bob"
• "Start" by John Legend, for "Southside with You"
• "Taarefon Se" by Arijit Singh, for "Dear Zindagi"
• "'Till the Sun Comes Back Around" by Chris Cornell, for "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi"
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (The Beatles cover) by Regina Spektor, for "Kubo and the Two Strings"

Best Score

• La La Land - Justin Hurwitz

Flawlessly reviving first-rate jazz, classic musical quirk and Old Hollywood grandeur, whilst making their union organic through memorably distinct themes and the atmospheric complexity of modern scoring sensibilities, Justin Hurwitz simultaneously transports you through time and shatters ground with the most purely cinematic, entrancingly whimsical film score of 2016.

Highlights:

• 20th Century Women - Roger Neill
• 64: Part I - Takatsugu Muramatsu
• 64: Part II - Takatsugu Muramatsu
• Aandavan Kattalai - K
• Allied - Alan Silvestri
• Anesthesia - Jeff Danna
• Anthropoid - Guy Farley and Robin Foster
• Arrival - Jóhann Jóhannsson
• Autumn Lights - Hugi Gudmundsson and Hjörtur Ingvi Jóhannsson
• Band of Robbers - Joel P. West
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Junkie XL and Hans Zimmer
• The Birth of a Nation - Henry Jackman
• The Blackcoat's Daughter - Elvis Perkins
• Blue Jay - Julian Wass
• Brothers of the Wind - Sarah Class
• Burn Country - Jim McHugh
• Captain Fantastic - Alex Somers
• The Childhood of a Leader - Scott Walker
• Christine - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Collateral Beauty - Theodore Shapiro
• The Comedian - Terence Blanchard
• The Correspondence - Ennio Moriconne
• The Daughter - Mark Bradshaw
• Deepwater Horizon - Steve Jablonsky
• Desierto - Yoann "Woodkid" Lemoine
• The Duelist - Igor Vdovin
• The Family Fang - Carter Burwell
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - James Newton Howard
• Florence Foster Jenkins - Alexandre Desplat
• The Founder - Carter Burwell
• Frantz - Philippe Rombi
• The Free World - Tim Hecker
• Genius - Adam Cork
• Girl Asleep - Harry Covill and Luke Smiles
• Gold - Daniel Pemberton
• The Great Wall - Ramin Djawadi
• Green Room - Brooke Blair and Will Blair
• The Handmaiden - Cho Young-wuk
• Heal the Living - Alexandre Desplat
• High-Rise - Clint Mansell
• The History of Love - Armand Amar
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott and Conrad Wedde
• I Am Not a Serial Killer - Adrian Johnson
• I Am Not Madame Bovary - Du Wei
• Imperium - Will Bates
• Indignation - Jay Wadley
• Into the Forest - Max Richter
• Jackie - Mica Levi
• The Jungle Book - John Debney
• Kicks - Brian Reitzell
• King Cobra - Tim Kvasnosky
• The King's Choice - Johan Söderqvist
• Knight of Cups - Hanan Townshend
• Kung Fu Panda 3 - Hans Zimmer
• Kubo and the Two String - Dario Marianelli
• The Light Between Oceans - Alexandre Desplat
• Like Crazy - Carlo Virzì
• Lion - Hauschka and Dustin O'Halloran
• Little Sister - Fritz Myers
• The Love Witch - Anna Biller
• Manchester by the Sea - Lesley Barber
• Memoria - Ian Hultquist
• Midnight Special - David Wingo
• Miles Ahead - Robert Glasper
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Mike Higham and Matthew Margeson
• A Monster Calls - Fernando Velázquez
• Moonlight - Nicholas Britell
• Morgan - Max Richter
• The Neon Demon - Cliff Martinez
• Nil Battey Sannata - Rohan & Vinayak
• Paterson - Carter Logan
• Patriots Day - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Pete's Dragon - Daniel Hart
• Planetarium - Robin Coudert
• The Preppie Connection - Sam Bisbee
• Raman Raghav 2.0 - Ram Sampath
• The Red Turtle - Laurent Perez del Mar
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Michael Giacchino
• Salt and Fire - Ernst Reijseger
• Sairat - Ajay−Atul
• The Sea of Trees - Mason Bates
• Star Trek Beyond - Michael Giacchino
• The Student - Ilya Demutsky
• Sweet Dreams - Carlo Crivelli
• Swiss Army Man - Andy Hull and Robert McDowell
• Synchronicity - Ben Lovett
• Tanna - Antony Partos
• Touched with Fire - Paul Dalio
• Transpecos - Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner
• The Vessel - Hanan Townshend
• The Witch - Mark Korven
• X-Men: Apocalypse - John Ottman
• Yosemite - Ryder McNair

Honorable Mention:

• 24 Weeks - Jasmin Reuter
• 31 - John 5
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax - Patrick Watson
• 10 Cloverfield Lane - Bear McCreary
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - Lorne Balfe
• 100 Streets - Philipp Blaubach
• 400 Days - Wojciech Golczewski and Sean McMahon
• The 5th Wave - Henry Jackman
• The Abandoned - Max Aruj
• About Scout - John Dragonetti
• The Accountant - Mark Isham
• The Adderall Diaries - Michael Andrews
• Adult Life Skills - Micah P. Hinson
• Ae Dil Hai Mushkil - Pritam
• After the Storm - Hanaregumi
• The Age of Shadows - Mowg
• Airlift - Arijit Dutta
• Alice Through the Looking Glass - Danny Elfman
• Aligarh - Satya Rai Nagpaul
• Alone in Berlin - Alexandre Desplat
• Always Shine - Michael Montes
• Amateur Night - The Newton Brothers
• American Pastoral - Alexandre Desplat
• The American Side - David Shire
• Andron - Gherardo Gossi
• The Angry Birds Movie - Heitor Pereira
• Antibirth - Eric Copeland and Jonathan J.K. Kanakis
• Approaching the Unknown - Paul Damian Hogan
• The Aquatic Effect - Martin Wheeler
• Army of One - David Newman
• Assassin's Creed - Jed Kurzel
• Asura: The City of Madness - Lee Jae-jin
• The Automatic Hate - Hunter Brown
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Ballerina - Klaus Badelt
• Being 17 - Alexis Rault
• The BFG - John Williams
• Backtrack - Dale Cornelius
• Bad Hurt - Tina DiGeroge
• Bad Seeds - Guy Bélanger
• Bastille Day | The Take - Alex Heffes
• Before I Wake - Danny Elfman and The Newton Brothers
• Ben-Hur - Marco Beltrami
• Being Charlie - Chris Bacon
• The Benefactor - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Birkebeinerne / The Last King - Gaute Storaas
• Bleed for This - Julia Holter
• Blood Father - Sven Faulconer
• Born to Be Blue - David Braid, Todor Kobakov and Steve London
• The Boy - Bear McCreary
• Boys in the Trees - Shinjuku Thief
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle - Mako Kuwabara
• Broke - Samuel Lockwood and Heather Shannon
• The Bronze - Andrew Feltenstein and John Nau
• Brotherhood - Tom Linden
• Burning Bodhi - Ian Hultquist
• Cabin Fever - Kevin Riepl
• Captain America: Civil War - Henry Jackman
• Cardboard Boxer - Jess Stroup
• Careful What You Wish For - Josh Debney and The Newton Brothers
• Carnage Park - Giona Ostinelli
• Cezanne and I - Éric Neveux
• Chocolat - Gabriel Yared
• The Chosen Ones - Carlo Ayhllón
• Closet Monster - Todor Kobakov and Maya Postepski
• Collide - Ilan Eshkeri
• Colonia - André Dziezuk and Fernando Velázquez
• Come and Find Me - Nate Walcott
• The Commune - Fons Merkies
• Complete Unknown - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians
• The Confirmation - Jeff Cardoni
• The Conjuring 2 - Joseph Bishara
• A Country Called Home - Nate Barnes, Ryan Bingham and Daniel Sproul
• Creative Control - Dražen Bošnjak
• Creepy - Yuri Habuka
• Criminal - Keith Power and Brian Tyler
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny - Shigeru Umebayashi
• The Curse of Sleeping Beauty - Scott Glasgow
• Dad's Army - Charlie Mole
• Daguerrotype - Gregoire Hetzel
• Dangal - Pritam
• The Darkness - Johnny Klimek
• Deadpool - Tom Holkenborg
• Dear Zindagi - Amit Trivedi
• Denial - Howard Shore
• Departure - Jools Scott
• Despite the Falling Snow - Rachel Portman
• Diablo - Kirkpatrick Thomas
• The Divergent Series: Allegiant - Joseph Trapanese
• Divines - Demusmaker
• Doctor Strange - Michael Giacchino
• Dog Eat Dog - Deantoni Parks
• Don't Breathe - Roque Baños
• Don't Think Twice - Roger Neill
• Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet - Choi Yong-jin
• Downriver - Lawrence English
• Dreamland - Robert Schwartzman
• The Duel - Craig Eastman
• Eddie the Eagle - Matthew Margeson
• Edge of Winter - Brooke Blair and Will Blair
• Elle - Anne Dudley
• Elvis & Nixon - Ed Shearmur
• Equals - Dustin O'Halloran and Sacha Ring
• Equity - Amy Fox
• Exposed - Carlos José Alvarez
• Eye in the Sky - Paul Hepker and Mark Kilian
• The Eyes of My Mother - Ariel Loh
• The Faith of Anna Waters | The Offering - Joe Ng and Si Hao Ting
• Fan - Andrea Guerra
• Fences - Marcelo Zarvos
• Finding Dory - Thomas Newman
• The Finest Hours - Carter Burwell
• First Girl I Loved - John Swihart
• The First, the Last - Pascal Humbert
• The Fits - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Five Days in Maine - David Boulter
• Flight Crew - Artem Vassiliev
• Foreboding - Yusuke Hayashi
• The Forest - Bear McCreary
• Forsaken - Jonathan Goldsmith
• Frank & Lola - Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Free State of Jones - Nicholas Britell
• From the Land of the Moon - Daniel Pemberton
• The Frontier - Ali Helnwein
• The Fury of a Patient Man - Lucio Godoy
• Ghost Team - Joe Hastings
• Ghostbusters - Theodore Shaprio
• The Girl in the Photographs - Nima Fakhrara
• The Girl on the Train - Danny Elfman
• The Girl with All the Gifts - Cristobal Tapia de Veer
• Goat - Arjan Miranda
• Goldstone - Ivan Sen
• Good Kids - Lucian Piane
• The Good Neighbor - Andrew Hewitt
• The Greasy Strangler - Andrew Hung
• Grimsby - Erran Baron Cohen and David Buckley
• Hacksaw Ridge - Rupert Gregson-Williams
• Hail, Caesar! - Carter Burwell
• Hands of Stone - Angelo Milli
• Hardcore Henrey - Dasha Charusha
• Hell or High Water - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
• Hello, My Name Is Doris - Brian H. Kim
• Hidden Figures - Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer
• My Hindu Friend - Zbigniew Preisner
• Holidays - VARIOUS
• The Hollow Point - Juan Navazo
• A Hologram for the King - Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer
• How to Be Single - Fil Eisler
• The Huntsman: Winter's War - James Newton Howard
• I.T. - Timothy Williams
• In a Valley of Violence - Jeff Grace
• Independence Day: Resurgence - Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander
• Inferno - Hans Zimmer
• The Infiltrator - Chris Hajian
• The Invitation - Theodore Shaprio
• Iraivi - Santhosh Narayanan
• Irudhi Suttru / Saala Khadoos - Atul Raninga and Sanjay Wandrekar
• It's Only the End of the World - Gabriel Yared
• Ithaca - John Mellencamp
• Jack Goes Home - Ceiri Torjussen
• Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - Henry Jackman
• Jane Got a Gun - Lisa Gerrard and Marcello De Francisci
• Jason Bourne - David Buckley and John Powell
• Joker - Sean Roldan
• Joshy - Devendra Banhart
• Julieta - Alberto Iglesias
• Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh - Clinton Cerejo
• Kaili Blues - Lim Giong
• Kammattipaadam - John P. Varkey
• Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) - Sameer Uddin
• Keanu - Steve Jablonsky and Nathan Whitehead
• Kill Command - Stephen Hilton
• A Kind of Murder - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians
• King Jack - Bryan Senti
• Krisha - Brian McOmber
• Lamb - Daniel Belardinelli
• The Land - Jongnic Bontemps
• Last Days in the Desert - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• The Last Princess - Choi Yong-rak and Jo Sung-woo
• The Late Bloomer - Walter Murphy
• The Legend of Ben Hall - Ronnie Minder
• The Legend of Tarzan - Harry Gregson-Williams
• The Lennon Report - Loren Toolajian
• Lights Out - Benjamin Wallfisch
• Lila & Eve - Samuel Jones and Alexis Marsh
• Little Men - Dickon Hitnchliffe
• Live by Night - Harry Gregson-Williams
• London Has Fallen - Trevor Morris
• Long Way North - Jonathan Morali
• Love & Friendship - Mark Suozzo
• Loving - David Wingo
• Maggie's Plan - Michael Rohatyn
• The Magnificent Seven - James Horner and Simon Franglen
• Mahana - Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper and Tama Waipara
• Maheshinte Prathikaaram - Bijibal
• Man Down - Clint Mansell
• Manhattan Night - Joel Douek
• Marauders - Ryan Dodson
• Masterminds - Geoff Zanelli
• Max Steel - Nathan Lanier
• The Mermaid - Raymond Wong
• Mine - Andrea and Luca Balboni
• Miracles from Heaven - Carlo Siliotto
• Miss Sloane - Max Richter
• Miss Stevens - Rob Simonsen
• Moana - Mark Mancina
• The Model - Sune Martin
• Mohenjo Daro - A. R. Rahman
• Mojave - Andrew Hewitt
• Money Monster - Dominic Lewis
• The Monster - Tomandandy
• Mothers and Daughters - David Hlebo
• My Blind Brother - Ian Hultquist
• My Life as a Courgette / My Life as a Zucchini - Sophie Hunger
• Mr. Church - Mark Isham
• Mr. Right - Aaron Zigman
• Natsamrat - Ajit Parab
• Neerja - Vishal Khurana
• Neruda - Federico Jusid
• Nerve - Rob Simonsen
• The Nice Guys - David Buckley and John Ottman
• Nocturama - Bertrand Bonello
• Nocturnal Animals - Abel Korzeniowski
• No Letting Go - Alain Mayrand
• No Stranger Than Love - Geoff Zanelli
• Norm of the North - Stephen McKeon
• Now You See Me 2 - Brian Tyler
• Officer Downe - Gizmachi and Kyle Sherrod
• Les Ogres - Philippe Cataix
• The Ones Below - Adem Ilhan
• Oopiri / Thozha - Gopi Sunder
• Operation Mekong - Julian Chan, Henry Lai and Kwan Fai Lam
• Operator - Sage Lewis
• Oppam - Ron Ethan Yohaan
• Ordinary People - Billie Joe Armstrong and Dickon Hinchliffe
• The Other Side of the Door - Joseph Bishara
• Our Kind of Traitor - Marcelo Zarvos
• Papa: Hemingway in Cuba - Mark Isham
• Parched - Hitesh Sonik
• Passengers - Thomas Newman
• Pelé: Birth of a Legend - A. R. Rahman
• Pelli Choopulu - Vivek Sagar
• Pet - Zacarías M. de la Riva
• Phobia - Karan Gaur
• Pink - Shantanu Moitra, Faiza Mujahid and Anupam Roy
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Fernando Velázquez
• Puerto Ricans in Paris - Jonathan Sadoff
• The Purge: Election Year - Nathan Whitehead
• Queen of Katwe - Alex Heffes
• Race - Rachel Portman
• Railroad Tigers - Lao Zai
• Rainbow Time - Heather McIntosh
• Remainder - Schneider Tim
• Riphagen - Paleis van Boem
• Risen - Roque Baños
• Rock Dog - Rolfe Kent
• Robinson Crusoe / The Wild Life - Ramin Djawadi
• Sadako vs. Kayako - Kôji Endô
• Sand Castles - Todd Maki
• Sand Storm - Rand Bagno
• Sausage Party - Christopher Lennertz and Alan Menken
• Scare Campaign - Glenn Richards
• The Secret Life of Pets - Alexandre Desplat
• Septembers of Shiraz - Mark Isham
• The Shallows - Marco Beltrami
• Shangri-La Suite - Mondo Boys
• Shelley - Martin Dirkov
• Shin Godzilla - Shirō Sagisu
• Shut In - Nathaniel Méchaly
• Seoul Station - Jang Young-gyu
• The Siege of Jadotville - Joseph Trapanese
• Sing - Joby Talbot
• Siren - Kristopher Carter
• Sky - Francois-Eudes Chanfrault and David Drake
• Smoke & Mirrors - Julio de la Rosa
• Snowden - Craig Armstrong
• Solace - BT
• Southbound - The Gifted
• Southside with You - Stephen James Taylor
• Spaceman - Billy Mallery
• Standoff - Austin Wintory
• Storks - Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna
• A Street Cat Named Bob - Charlie Fink and David Hirschfelder
• Sully - Christian Jacob and The Tierney Sutton Band
• Suicide Squad - Steven Price
• Sundown - Edward Rogers
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - Steve Jablonsky
• Tell Me How I Die - José Villalobos
• They Call Me Jeeg Robot - Michele Braga and Gabriele Mainetti
• They're Watching - Jonathan Wandag
• Too Late - Robert Allaire
• Train to Busan - Jang Young-gyu
• Trash Fire - Michl Britsch
• Triple 9 - Bobby Krlic, Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne
• Trolls - Christophe Beck
• The Trust - Reza Safinia
• The Truth Beneath - Jang Young-gyu
• Tumbledown - Daniel Hart
• Two Lovers and a Bear - Jesse Zubot
• Udta Punjab - Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor
• Undrafted - Stephen Barton
• Unfriend | Friend Request - Gary Go
• A United Kingdom - Patrick Doyle
• Viking - Dean Valentine
• Visaranai - G. V. Prakash Kumar
• The Wailing - Jang Young-gyu
• War Dogs - Cliff Martinez
• War on Everyone - Lorne Balfe
• Warcraft - Ramin Djawadi
• What a Wonderful Family! - Joe Hisaishi
• The Whole Truth - Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Nick Urata
• Wiener-Dog - Nathan Larson and James Lavino
• Wild Oats - George Fenton
• Yoga Hosers - Christopher Drake
• The Young Messiah - John Debney
• Zoolander 2 - Theodore Shapiro
• Zootopia - Michael Giacchino

Best Animation A

• Kubo and the Two Strings

"Kubo and the Two Strings" may not have the slick refinement of computer-generated animation, but as Laika more than makes up for that with the sheer ambition, originality and technical virtuosity of the stop-motion style, eye-popping environments, unforgettably refreshing character designs, thrilling set pieces and entrancing artistic splendor secure the most visually creative animated production of 2016.

Highlights/Honorable Mentions:
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Best Animation B

• Zootopia

"Zootopia" may not strive for the artistic lyricism of "Kubo and the Two Strings" (and fellow Disney production "Moana"), but with stunningly crisp definition, imaginative and convincingly emotive designs, and bafflingly slick rendering that flows more organically than real-life, it transcends the once-tired standards of CG animation as it shows up all of the many other animated flicks of 2016.

Highlights:

• The Angry Birds Movie
• Finding Dory
• Kung Fu Panda 3
• Long Way North
• Moana
• The Red Turtle
• The Secret Life of Pets
• Sing
• Trolls

Honorable Mention:

• Ballerina
• Ice Age: Collision Course
• A Monster Calls
• My Life as a Courgette / My Life as a Zucchini
• Norm of the North
• Ratchet & Clank
• Robinson Crusoe / The Wild Life
• Rock Dog
• Sausage Party
• Seoul Station
• Storks
• Zoom [Pedro Morelli]

Best Animated Film A

• Moana (3.5/5 - Good)

Its integrity limited by an exhausted and shortsighted family film formula, "Moana" nonetheless marks yet another triumph in Disney's return to its classic adventure dramedy format, made universally satisfying by catchy musical numbers, remarkable cinematic spectacle, sympathetic and well-portrayed protagonists, and artfully impassioned craftsmanship.

Highlights/Honorable Mentions:
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Best Animated Film B

• Zootopia (3.5/5 - Good)

Refreshingly mature to a fault, "Zootopia" may be stunted by overhanded allegories and a fickle appeal to audiences of varying ages; yet it thrives through high-grade technical and entertainment values, bolstered by memorable characters and world-building, and anchored by levels of smart writing, extensive storytelling and valuable thematic texture untouched by any other animated film of 2016.

Highlights:

• Finding Dory (3.5/5 - Good)
• Kubo and the Two Strings (3.5/5 - Good)
• Kung Fu Panda 3 (3.5/5 - Good)
• Long Way North (3.5/5 - Good)
• The Red Turtle (3.5/5 - Good)

Honorable Mentions:

• The Angry Birds Movie (3/5 - Decent)
• My Life as a Courgette / My Life as a Zucchini (3.25/5 - Good)
• Rock Dog (3/5 - Decent)
• Seoul Station (3/5 - Decent)
• Sing (3.25/5 - Solid)
• Trolls (3/5 - Decent)

Best Screenplay

• Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester by the Sea" constantly evades cold spells with dry humor and deftly punchy dialogue, but largely justifies its slow burn with a scrupulous attention to storytelling, characterization and confrontation so grounded, robust and uncompromising as to round out the most inspired piece of writing adapted to film in 2016.

Highlights:

• Anthropoid - Sean Ellis and Anthony Frewin
• Blood Father - Andrea Berloff and Peter Craig
• Christine - Craig Shilowich
• Hell or High Water - Taylor Sheridan
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi

Honorable Mention:

• The Age of Shadows - Kim Jee-woon
• Allied - Steven Knight
• Aquarius - Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Blue Jay - Mark Duplass
• A Bride for Rip Van Winkle - Shunji Iwai
• Captain Fantastic - Matt Ross
• Chocolat - Cyril Gely, Olivier Gorce, Gérard Noiriel and Roschdy Zem
• The Commune - Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
• Dear Zindagi - Gauri Shinde
• Deepwater Horizon - Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand
• Everybody Wants Some!! - Richard Linklater
• Fences - August Wilson
• The Family Fang - David Lindsay-Abaire
• Genius - John Logan
• It's Only the End of the World - Xavier Dolan
• Joker - Raju Murugan
• Kammattipaadam - P. Balachandran
• Kapoor & Sons - Shakun Batra and Ayesha Devitre Dhillon
• The Nice Guys - Anthony Bargozzi and Shane Black
• Les Ogres - Léa Fehner, Catherine Paillé and Brigitte Sy
• Patriots Day - Peter Berg, Matt Cook and Joshua Zetumer
• Perfect Strangers - Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese, Paola Mammini and Rolando Ravello
• Raman Raghav 2.0 - Vasan Bala and Anurag Kashyap
• The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi
• Silence - Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese
• Transpecos - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
• The Trust - Ben Brewer and Adam Hirsch
• Udta Punjab - Abhishek Chaubey and Sudip Sharma
• Undrafted - Joseph Mazzello

Best Supporting Actress

• Molly Shannon as Joanne Mayer, in "Other People"

The sole core of edge in the bold dramedy "Other People", comedic veteran Molly Shannon owns virtually all of her scenes with a charming composure, harrowing vulnerability, emotional intensity and transformative commitment to the deterioration of a dying woman so transcendently heartbreaking as to set a standard for comedians' triumphant shift to drama.

Highlights:

• Violas Davis as Rose Lee Maxson, in "Fences"
• Kate Dickie as Katherine, in "The Witch"
• Felicity Jones as Elizabeth "Lizzie" Clayton, in "A Monster Calls"
• Michelle Williams as Randi, in "Manchester by the Sea"
• Odessa Young as Hedvig Finch, in "The Daughter"

Honorable Mention:

• Nathalie Baye as Martine, in "It's Only the End of the World"
• Haley Bennett as Megan Hipwell, in "The Girl on the Train"
• Alia Bhatt as "Bauria", in "Udta Punjab"
• Lola Dueñas as Lola, in "Les Ogres"
• Jacqueline Duprey as Fidelia, in "The Vessel"
• Dakota Fanning as Meredith "Merry" Levov, in "American Pastoral"
• Iris Gilad as DeeDee Kendall, in "Bad Hurt"
• Naomie Harris as Paula, in "Moonlight"
• Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley, in "Lion"
• Avin Manshadi as Dorsa, in "Under the Shadow"
• Nam Ji-hyun as Mi-na, in "Tunnel"
• Lin Shaye as Teresa Thurlow, in "Jack Goes Home"
• Hayley Squires as Katie Morgan, in "I, Daniel Blake"
• Anya Taylor-Joy as Morgan, in "Morgan"
• Sigourney Weaver as Mrs. Clayton, in "A Monster Calls"
• Dianne Wiest as Lucinda, in "Five Nights in Maine"

Best Supporting Actor

• Daniel Radcliffe as Manny, in "Swiss Army Man"

To say that the increasingly great Daniel Radcliffe's performance in "Swiss Army Man" transcends description is partly to say that his bizarre role is hardly like any ever played, but largely to say that the level of painstaking transformation, stupendous charm, whimsical wonderment and penetrating emotional range that Radcliffe infused into a talking corpse were unlike any brought to any animate supporting character in 2016.

Highlights:

• Jeff Bridges as Marcus Hamilton, in "Hell or High Water"
• Sharlto Copley as Jimmy, in "Hardcore Henry"
• Willem Dafoe as Mad Dog, in "Dog Eat Dog"
• Lucas Hedges as Patrick "Patty" Chandler, in "Manchester by the Sea"
• Yōsuke Kubozuka as Kichijiro, in "Silence"
• Jack O'Connell as Kyle Budwell, in "Money Monster"

Honorable Mention:

• Mahershala Ali as Juan, in "Moonlight"
• Mateo Arias as Clifton "Cliff" Martinez, in "First Girl I Loved"
• Richard Brake as Doom-Head, in "31"
• Nicolò Cabras as Massimo Gramellini (Age 9), in "Sweet Dreams"
• Vincent Cassel as Antoine, in "It's Only the End of the World"
• Timothee Chalamet as William "Billy" Mitman, in "Miss Stevens"
• Franz Drameh as Kingsley, in "100 Streets"
• Laurence Fishburne as Sade, in "Standoff"
• Ben Foster as Tanner Howard, in "Hell or High Water"
• K. Todd Freeman as Joseph "Joe" Freeman, in "Anesthesia"
• James Frecheville as Ed Porter, in "I.T."
• Olivier Gourmet as Stéphane, in "Daguerrotype"
• Pat Healy as Wyatt Moss, in "Carnage Park"
• Masahiro Higashide as Shirō Makabe, in "Foreboding"
• Boyd Holbrook as Pinky, in "Cardboard Boxer"
• Hwang Jung-min as Park Sung-bae, in "Asura: The City of Madness"
• Oscar Isaac as Jack, in "Mojave"
• Teruyuki Kagawa as Masayuki Nishino, in "Creepy"
• Shah Rukh Khan as Dr. Jehangir "Jug" Khan, in "Dear Zindagi"
• Ben Kingsley as Geran, in "Collide"
• Danila Kozlovsky as Akan, in "Hardcore Henry"
• Shia LaBeouf as Jake, in "American Honey"
• Stephen Lang as Norman Nordstrom, in "Don't Breathe"
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Sam, in "Desierto"
• Liam Neeson as Monster, in "A Monster Calls"
• Michael Parks as Preacher, in "Blood Father"
• Vikrant Singta as Fahad, in "Neerja"
• Christian Slater as Stephen, in "King Cobra"
• Patrick Stewart as Darcy Banker, in "Green Room"
• Aaron-Taylor Johnson as Ray Marcus, in "Nocturnal Animals"
• Christopher Walken as Caleb Fang, in "The Family Fang"
• Johnny Whitworth as Kent Kendall, in "Bad Hurt"
• Abrar Zahoor as Zayd Safirini, in "Neerja"

Best Actress

• Krisha Fairchild as Krisha, in "Krisha"

Uncomfortably avant-garde, punishingly dull and torturously nihilistic, "Krisha" finds an unqualified saving grace in its namesake, a totally unknown actress who emerges from obscurity with the winning charm of a humble family woman desperate for redemption; the compromising complexity of a deeply flawed screw-up; the overwhelming emotional plight of a self-loathing soul; and altogether more impact than any veteran starlet in 2016.

Highlights:

• Amy Adams as Dr. Louise Banks, in "Arrival"
• Radhika Apte as Mehak Deo, in "Phobia"
• Emily Blunt as Rachel Watson, in "The Girl on the Train"
• Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck, in "Christine"
• Nicole Kidman as Annie Fang, in "The Family Fang"
• Katie Holmes as Carla, in "Touched with Fire"
• Isabelle Huppert as Michèle Leblanc, in "Elle"
• Julia Jentsch as Astrid Lorenz, in "24 Weeks"
• Natalie Portman as Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy, in "Jackie"
• Narges Rashidi as Shideh, in "Under the Shadow"
• Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone, in "Nina"
• Hailee Steinfeld as Nadine Franklin, in "The Edge of Seventeen"

Honorable Mention:

• Karen Allen as Elaine Kendall, in "Bad Hurt"
• Oulaya Amamra as Dounia, in "Divines"
• Ashley Bell as Vivian Fontaine, in "Carnage Park"
• Galatéa Bellugi as Mélanie, in "Keeper"
• Annette Bening as Dorothea Fields, in "20th Century Women"
• Alia Bhatt as Kaira "Koko", in "Dear Zindagi"
• Ruba Blal as Jalila, in "Sand Storm"
• Sônia Braga as Dona Clara, in "Aquarius"
• Jessica Chastain as Madeline Elizabeth Sloane, in "Miss Sloane"
• Marion Cotillard as Gabrielle, in "From the Land of the Moon"
• Marion Cotillard as Marianne Beausejour, in "Allied"
• Mackenzie Davis as Anna, in "Always Shine"
• Dylan Gelula as Anne, in "First Girl I Loved"
• Lou de Laâge as Mathilde Beaulieu, in "The Innocents"
• Trine Dyrholm as Anna Müller, in "The Commune"
• Viola Davis as Lila Walker, in "Lila & Eve"
• Tina Fey as Kim Baker, in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot"
• Sally Field as Doris Miller, in "Hello, My Name Is Doris"
• Caitlin FitzGerald as Beth, in "Always Shine"
• Adèle Haenel as Dr. Jenny Davin, in "The Unknown Girl"
• Katie Holmes as Rita Carmichael, in "All We Had"
• Kaho as Etsuko Yamagiwa, in "Foreboding"
• Sonam Kapoor as Neerja Bhanot, in "Neerja"
• Diane Kruger as Romy Kellinger, in "Sky"
• Haru Kuroki as Nanami Minakawa, in "A Bride for Rip Van Winkle"
• Olga Kurylenko as Amy Ryan, in "The Correspondence"
• Sasha Lane as Star, in "American Honey"
• Blake Lively as Nancy Adams, in "The Shallows"
• Kika Magalhães as Francisca, in "The Eyes of My Mother"
• Erin Moriarty as Lydia Link, in "Blood Father"
• Elisabeth Moss as Doris Lamb, in "The Free World"
• Michalina Olszańska as Olga Hepnarová, in "I, Olga Hepnarová"
• Ellen Page as Nell, in "Into the Forest"
• Maria Palm as Emma, in "The Model"
• Sarah Paulson as Amanda, in "Blue Jay"
• Lily Rabe as Rachel Stevens, in "Miss Stevens"
• Rinku Rajguru as Archana "Archi" Patil, in "Sairat"
• Micaela Ramazzotti as Donatella Morelli, in "Like Crazy"
• Susan Sarandon as Marnie Minvervini, in "The Meddler"
• Morgan Saylor as Leah, in "White Girl"
• Anushka Sharma as Alizeh Khan, in "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil"
• Soko as Mary Louise "Loïe" Fuller, in "The Dancer"
• Son Ye-jin as Princess Deokhye, in "The Last Princess"
• Kristen Stewart as Nia, in "Equals"
• Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins, in "Florence Foster Jenkins"
• Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin, in "The Witch"
• Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Beatrice Morandini Valdirana, in "Like Crazy"
• Alicia Vikander as Isabel Graysmark Sherbourne, in "The Light Between Oceans"
• Mae Whitman as Emily Klein, in "Operator"
• Jodie Whittaker as Anna, in "Adult Life Skills"
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Michelle, in "10 Cloverfield Lane"
• Evan Rachel Wood as Eva, in "Into the Forest"
• Zhao Wei as Dr. Tong Qian, in "Three"

Best Actor

• Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Ramanna, in "Raman Raghav 2.0"

More of a jaw-droppingly authentic interpretation of a murderous maniac than the film itself, Nawazuddin Siddiqui's either brutally intense or quietly terrifying performance turns a singularly evil character into a complex enigma who drives one of the richest thrillers of the year, and captivates as fully as any actor this year.

Highlights:

• Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, in "Manchester by the Sea"
• Thomas Haden Church as Willie Leeds, in "Cardboard Boxer"
• Don Cheadle as Miles Davis, in "Miles Ahead"
• Rory Culkin as Jack Thurlow, in "Jack Goes Home"
• Willem Dafoe as Diego Fairman, in "My Hindu Friend"
• Paul Dano as Hank Thompson, in "Swiss Army Man"
• Andrew Garfield as Sebastião Rodrigues, in "Silence"
• Mel Gibson as John Link, in "Blood Father"
• John Goodman as Howard Stambler, in "10 Cloverfield Lane"
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield, in "Nocturnal Animals"
• Luke Kirby as Marco, in "Touched with Fire"
• Viggo Mortensen as Ben Cash, in "Captain Fantastic"
• Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool, in "Deadpool"
• Omar Sy as Rafael "Chocolat" Padilla, in "Chocolat"
• Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson, in "Fences"

Honorable Mention:

• Manoj Bajpayee as Shriniwas Ramchandra Siras, for "Aligarh"
• Marc Barbé as Monsieur Déloyal, for "Les Ogres"
• Jason Bateman as Baxter Fang, in "The Family Fang"
• Adrien Brody as Isaac Amin, in "Septembers in Shiraz"
• Adrien Brody as Peter "Pete" Bower, in "Backtrack"
• George Clooney as Lee Gates, in "Money Monster"
• Robert De Niro as Jackie Burke, in "The Comedian"
• Mark Duplass as James "Jim" Henderson, in "Blue Jay"
• Idris Elba as Maximus "Max" Moore, in "100 Streets"
• Michael Fassbender as Tom Sherlbourne, in "The Light Between Oceans"
• Pyotr Fyodorov as Yakovlev/Kolyshev, in "The Duelist"
• Andrew Garfield as Desmond T. Doss, in "Hacksaw Ridge"
• Richard Gere as Francis "Franny" Watts, in "The Benefactor"
• Jake Gyllenhaal as David Mitchell, in "Demolition"
• Ha Jung-woo as Lee Jung-soo, in "Tunnel"
• Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, in "Sully"
• Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker, in "Born to Be Blue"
• Boyd Holbrook as Mohamed Lundy, in "The Free World"
• Shahab Hosseini as Emad, in "The Salesman"
• Ralph Ineson as William, in "The Witch"
• Connor Jessup as Oscar Madly, in "Closet Monster"
• Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, in "I, Daniel Blake"
• Kang Ha-neul as Yun Dong-go, in "Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet"
• Ranbir Kapoor as Ayan Sanger, in "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil"
• Shah Rukh Khan as Gaurav Chandna / Aryan Khanna, in "Fan"
• Salman Khan as Sultan Ali Khan, in "Sultan"
• Joel Kinnaman as Elliot Baker, in "Edge of Winter"
• Kacey Mottet Klein as Maxime, in "Keeper"
• Shia LaBeouf as Gabriel Drummer, in "Man Down"
• Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe, in "Genius"
• Gabriel Luna as Lance Flores, in "Transpecos"
• Lewis MacDougall as Conor O'Malley, in "A Monster Calls"
• Steve Le Marquand as Ben Kelly, in "Broke"
• Valerio Mastandrea as Massimo Gramellini, in "Sweet Dreams"
• Matthew McConaughey as Newton Knight, in "Free State of Jones"
• Ewan McGregor as Seymour "Swede" Levov, in "American Pastoral"
• Dev Patel as (Adult) Saroo Bierley, in "Lion"
• Sunny Pawar as (Young) Saroo Bierley, in "Lion"
• Chris Pine as Toby Howard, in "Hell or High Water"
• Jesse Plemons as David Mayer, in "Other People"
• Charlie Plummer as Jack, in "King Jack"
• Brad Pitt as Max Vatan, in "Allied"
• Daniel Radcliffe as Nate Foster/Nate Thomas, in "Imperium"
• Tahar Rahim as Jean, in "Daguerrotype"
• Nick Robinson as Charlie Mills, in "Being Charlie"
• Ben Schnetzer as Brad Land, in "Goat"
• Johnny Simmons as Benjamin Davis, in "Transpecos"
• Guru Somasundaram as Mannar Mannan, in "Joker"
• Song Kang-ho as Lee Jeong-chool, in "The Age of Shadows"
• Martin Starr as Joseph "Joe" Larsen, in "Operator"
• Pyotr Skvortsov as Veniamin Yuzhin, in "The Student"
• Miles Teller as Vinny Pazienza/Vinny Paz, in "Bleed for This"
• Akash Thosar as Prashant "Parshya" Kale, in "Sairat"
• Luke Treadaway as James Bowen, in "A Street Cat Named Bob"
• Gaspard Ulliel as Louis, in "It's Only the End of the World"
• Toby Wallace as Corey, in "The Boys in the Trees"

Best Director

• Sean Ellis, for "Anthropoid"

Sean Ellis' contemplative atmosphere may not do the limp spells of "Anthropoid" any favors; but as he mostly draws upon the rawest of tension and emotion in substance and aesthetic, before catching you offguard with piercing tones, sleek style and painfully intense action that baffle in their effectiveness and originality, the final product is secured as 2016's most enthralling thriller.

Highlights:

• Jason Bateman, for "The Family Fang"
• Antonio Campos, for "Christine"
• Damien Chazelle, for "La La Land"
• Anurag Kashyap, for "Raman Raghav 2.0"
• Kim Jee-woon, for "The Age of Shadows"
• Jean-François Richet, for "Blood Father"
• Matt Ross, for "Captain Fantastic"
• Denis Villeneuve, for "Arrival"

Honorable Mention:

• J. A. Bayona, for "A Monster Calls"
• Peter Berg, for "Patriots Day"
• Michaël Dudok de Wit, for "The Red Turtle"
• Roger Eggers, for "The Witch"
• Jodie Foster, for "Money Monster"
• Pavan Kirpalani, for "Phobia"
• Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, for "Swiss Army Man"
• Kenneth Lonergan, for "Manchester by the Sea"
• David Lowery, for "Pete's Dragon"
• Tim Miller, for "Deadpool"
• Ilya Naishuller, for "Hardcore Henry"
• Andrew Neel, for "Goat"
• Jeff Nichols, for "Midnight Special"
• Priyadarshan, for "Oppam"
• Rajeev Ravi, for "Kammattipaadam"
• Zach Snyder, for "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice"
• Taika Waititi, for "Hunt for the Wilderpeople"
• Robert Zemeckis, for "Allied"

Best Film A

• Anthropoid (4.25/5 - Excellent)

As far as I can see, 2016 is a rare year of no outright great films, with "Anthropoid" being undone by fickle momentum and grounding behind mostly visceral ambitions, yet so realized with its core spark through slick style and captivating intelligence, as well as so firmly driven by a taut character factor and constant sense of exhilarating danger, as to keep one engrossed from its humble beginnings to the climaxes wrapped in greatness that should have been consistent.

Highlights/Honorable Mentions:
SEE BELOW

Best Film B

• Manchester by the Sea (4.25/5 - Excellent)

While "Manchester by the Sea" is itself undercut by a deliberate lack of momentum and an often banal disposition, it is ultimately elevated to the brink of stellar by an immersing, unapologetic extensiveness to craftsmanship that tightly bonds you with the nature and circumstances of quietly complex subject matter and characters, until the most relatively engrossing cinematic drama of the year is realized.

Highlights:

• The Age of Shadows (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Blood Father (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Captain Fantastic (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Christine (4/5 - Outstanding)
• The Family Fang (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Raman Raghav 2.0 (4/5 - Outstanding)

Honorable Mention (3.75/5 - Strong):

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Allied
• Arrival
• Chocolat
• Dear Zindagi
• Goat
• Hell or High Water
• Joker
• Kammattipaadam
• Kapoor & Sons
• La La Land
• The Last Princess
• A Monster Calls
• The Nice Guys
• Les Ogres
• Patriots Day
• Pete's Dragon
• Silence
• Udta Punjab