The winners of the 2018 IndieWire Critics Poll were announced on December 17, 2018.
Winners and nominees Best Picture Best Director 1st: Roma 2nd: First Reformed 3rd: Burning 4th: The Favourite 5th: Cold War 6th: Shoplifters 7th: BlacKkKlansman 8th: Zama 9th: You Were Never Really Here 10th: If Beale Street Could Talk 1st: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma 2nd: Lee Chang-Dong – Burning 3rd: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here 4th: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite 5th: Paul Schrader – First Reformed Best Actor Best Actress 1st: Ethan Hawke – First Reformed 2nd: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here 3rd: Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate 4th: Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody 5th: Viggo Mortensen – Green Book 1st: Olivia Colman – The Favourite 2nd: Yalitza Aparicio – Roma 3rd: Toni Collette – Hereditary 4th: Joanna Kulig – Cold War 5th: Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress 1st: Steven Yeun – Burning 2nd: Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? 3rd: Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 4th: Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman 5th: Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born 1st: Rachel Weisz – The Favourite 2nd: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk 3rd: Emma Stone – The Favourite 4th: Elizabeth Debicki – Widows 5th: Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace Best Screenplay Best Cinematography 1st: The Favourite 2nd: First Reformed 3rd: Roma 4th: Can You Ever Forgive Me? 5th: Burning 1st: Roma 2nd: Cold War 3rd: If Beale Street Could Talk 4th: First Man 5th: The Favourite Best Documentary Best Debut Feature 1st: Minding the Gap 2nd: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 3rd: Three Identical Strangers 4th: Free Solo 5th: Hale County This Morning, This Evening 1st: Sorry to Bother You 2nd: Eighth Grade 3rd: Hereditary 4th: A Star Is Born 5th: Minding the Gap Best Foreign Language Film 1st: Roma 2nd: Burning 3rd: Shoplifters 4th: Cold War 5th: Capernaum Best Undistributed Film Best Films Opening in 2019 1st: Black Mother 2nd: Donbass 3rd: The Grand Bizarre 4th: American Dharma 5th: La Flor 1st: High Life 2nd: Transit 3rd: Birds of Passage 4th: Her Smell (TIE) 4th: Everybody Knows (TIE) 4th: In Fabric (TIE)
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