Best of 2019

Best Locations

• 1917

Spanned by exhaustive tracking shots that leave no corner hidden across a massive exploration, rural England and Scotland transport you to a war-torn French countryside, overwhelmed with labyrinthine landscapes, dramatically glossy atmosphere and unimaginable natural beauty that realize "1917" as 2019's most immersive cinematic adventure.

Highlights:

• 438 Days
• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged
• Amundsen
• And the Birds Rained Down
• Arctic
• Asuran
• Bacurau
• Bait
• The Battle: Roar to Victory
• The Beach Bum
• Before the Frost
• Bulbul Can Sing
• Buoyancy
• Burning Cane
• Captive State
• Celeste
• Changeland
• Charlie's Angels
• Chola
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
• The Dead and the Others
• Don't Come Back from the Moon
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold
• Earthquake Bird
• An Easy Girl
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
• Fire Will Come
• The First King: Birth of an Empire
• Frankie
• Ghost Town Anthology
• The Grizzlies
• Gully Boy
• Gwen
• Hellaro
• A Hidden Life
• Hotel by the River
• Hotel Mumbai
• It Must Be Heaven
• Jallikattu
• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
• Jumanji: The Next Level
• The Kill Team
• The King
• Kumbalangi Nights
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Light of My Life
• The Lighthouse
• The Lion King
• Little Women
• Low Tide
• Masquerade Hotel
• Men in Black: International
• Midsommar
• Moonlit Winter
• Monos
• My Little Sister
• The Nightingale
• Odessa
• Out in the Open
• Out Stealing Horses
• The Painted Bird
• Patrick
• The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Photograph
• The Projectionist
• Queen & Slim
• Retablo
• Roads
• Rust Creek
• Samurai Marathon 1855
• Seventeen
• Sonchiriya
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Storm Boy
• Super Deluxe
• The Third Wife
• Too Late to Die Young
• Top End Wedding
• The Traitor
• Triple Frontier
• Truth and Justice
• The Two Popes
• Under the Silver Lake
• The Vanishing
• The Watchman
• The White Crow
• The Wind

Honorable Mentions:

• 12 Suicidal Teens
• 7500
• Abigail
• After the Wedding
• Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya
• All These Small Moments
• Alone at My Wedding
• Article 15
• Atlantics
• Balance, Not Symmetry
• Body at Brighton Rock
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
• Cold Pursuit
• Corporate Animals
• Crawl
• Cutterhead
• Daniel
• Dark Waters
• The Dead Don't Die
• Dead Pigs
• The Death of Dick Long
• Deerskin
• Diane
• Doctor Sleep
• A Dog's Journey
• A Dog's Way Home
• Dolce Fine Giornata
• The Domain
• Donnybrook
• An Elephant Sitting Still
• Elisa & Marcela
• Fast Color
• Fisherman's Friends
• Forbidden Dream
• Ford v Ferrari
• A Frenchman
• Furie
• Gemini Man
• Give Me Liberty
• Harriet
• Head Full of Honey
• Hello, Love, Goodbye
• Heroic Losers
• The Highwaymen
• The Hole in the Ground
• Homeward
• The Hustle
• The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
• I Was, I Am, I Will Be
• The Immortal
• Inhuman Kiss
• Ishq
• Jhalki
• Joan of Arc
• Joker
• Judy and Punch
• Just a Stranger
• Kesari
• The Kid
• Kingdom
• Knives Out
• The Last Tree
• Liberté
• Light from Light
• Line of Duty
• Little Monsters
• Lola
• Lola Igna
• Loudspeaker
• Mapplethorpe
• Martin Eden
• Mickey and the Bear
• Miss Bala
• Mrs Lowry & Son
• The Mustang
• Oh Mercy!
• On a Magical Night
• Pain and Glory
• Panipat
• Papi Chulo
• Peranbu
• Das perfekte Geheimnis
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Public
• Queen of Hearts
• Ready or Not
• Resin
• Revenge of the Pontiak
• Robert the Bruce
• Saand Ki Aankh
• Serenity
• Serf
• Sgt. Will Gardner
• The Shiny Shrimps
• Los Silencios
• So Long, My Son
• Socrates
• The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
• Stuck
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Synonyms
• A Tale of Three Sisters
• Tell It to the Bees
• Terminator: Dark Fate
• Them That Follow
• This Earth of Mankind
• To the Ends of the Earth
• To Let
• Twin Flower
• Uncle
• Unda
• Uri: The Surgical Strike
• A Violent Separation
• Vitalina Varela
• War
• Waves
• The Wedding Guest
• A White, White Day
• The Wild Goose Lake
• Wild Nights with Emily
• Wine Country
• Zombieland: Double Tap
• Zombi Child

Best Art Direction A

• 1917 - Simon Elsley, Elaine Kusmishko, Rod McLean, Niall Moroney, Stephen Swain and Robert Voysey

Though the aforementioned stellar setting works in their favor, the art direction team for "1917" soars beyond the bounds of the average World War epic with such finite detail to the societal outposts, complex weaponry, gritty desolation and jaw-droppingly gruesome carnage adorning no man's land that the viewing experience is as technically stunning as it is immersively harrowing.

Highlights/Honorable Mentions: SEE BELOW

Best Art Direction B

• Panipat - Ankita Jadhav

As monumental as an Ashutosh Gowariker epic can get, "Panipat" isn't exactly striving for immersive period authenticity or aesthetic subtlety, but with impossibly detailed sets, awe-inspiringly gorgeous costumes and an altogether endlessly adventurous scope, it's nearly three straight hours of splendor that must be seen to be believed.

Highlights:

• Abigail - ?
• Ad Astra - Kevin Constant, Christa Munro, Alison Sadler, David Scott and Gary Warshaw
• The Aeronauts - Alice Sutton
• The Aftermath - Matthias Klemme, Jiri Matura, Lucienne Suren and Seth Turner
• Aladdin - Ravi Bansal, Oliver Carroll, Rod McLean, Renate Nicolaisen, Peter Russell, Steve Summersgill and Loic Zimmermann
• Alita: Battle Angel - Jeff B. Adams Jr., Paul Alix, A. Todd Holland, Leslie McDonald and William Ladd Skinner
• All Is True - ?
• Amundsen - Eggert Ketilsson and Martin Kurel
• The Aspern Papers - Federico Calò Carducci
• Avengers: Endgame - Julian Ashby, Jim Barr, Thomas Brown, Ray Chan, Jordan Crockett, Jann K. Engel, Beat Frutiger, Matthew Gatlin, Kevin Gilbert, Kevin Houlihan, Chris 'Flimsy' Howes, Sean Ryan Jennings, John Plas, Mike Stallion, Brian Stultz and Mark Swain
• The Balkan Line - Bojana Nikolic
• Before the Frost - ?
• Bharat - Ambika Acharya
• Casanova, Last Love - ?
• Cats - Matt Sharp, Ketan Waikar, Tom Weaving and Loic Zimmermann
• The Chaperone - Eric Lewis Beauzay
• The Current War - Stephen Bream, David Doran, R. Tyler Evans, Nic Pallace, Mark Scruton and Remo Tozzi
• The Domain - Isabel Branco
• Downton Abbey - Caroline Barton, Mark Kebby and Simon Walker
• Dumbo - Andrew Bennett, Dean Clegg, Gregory Fangeaux, Mark Harris, Chris Lowe, Oli van der Vijver and Loic Zimmermann
• The First King: Birth of an Empire - ?
• Fly Me to Saitama - ?
• Harriet - Kevin Hardison and Christina Eunji Kim
• A Hidden Life - Steve Summersgill and Bryce Tibbey
• The Highwaymen - Alice Alward and Kelly Curley
• The Irishman - Laura Ballinger and J. Mark Harrington
• Jojo Rabbit - Radek Hanák and Ondrej Lipensky
• Judy and Punch - Adele Flere
• Kalank - Kshamata Sachin Gurav, Amrita Mahal, Kunal Pawar and Zainab Vimanwala
• Kesari - Dhananjay Gaikwad
• The King - Matthew Hywel-Davies, Megan Jones, Géza Kerti and Kiera Tudway
• Kingdom - Koji Seshimo
• Laal Kaptaan - Narayan K. Padharia
• Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper - ?
• The Lighthouse - Matt Likely
• Little Women - Sean Falkner, Chris Farmer and Bryan Felty
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - Guy Bradley, Toby Britton, Will Coubrough, Gregory Fangeaux, Helen Jarvis, Samuel Leake, Daniel Nussbaumer, Andrew Palmer, Elicia Scales, Paul Wescott, Luke Whitelock, Helen Xenopoulos and Loic Zimmermann
• Marnikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi - Koushal Choudhary
• Midway - Page Buckner, Carolyne de Bellefeuille, Isabelle Guay, Jean-Pierre Paquet and Christian Snell
• Mr Jones - Fiona Gavin
• The Nightingale - Sophie Nash
• An Officer and a Spy - Dominique Moisan
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - John Dexter, Jahn K. Engel, Richard L. Johnson and Eric Sundahl
• Ophelia - Martin Vackár
• Out in the Open - Curru Garabal
• Paradise Hills - Laia Colet
• Pinocchio - Francesco Sereni
• The Professor and the Madman - Nenazoma McNamee
• Queen Marie of Romania - Nora Dumitrescu and Russu Laura
• Rocketman - Tim Blake, Sophie Bridgman, Steve Carter, Emily Norris, Astrid Sieben and Alice Walker
• Sin - Maurizio Sabatini
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Jim Barr, Claire Fleming, Lydia Fry, Liam Georgensen, Patrick Harris, Helena Holmes, Paul Inglis, Samy Keilani, Ashley Lamont, Daniel Nussbaumer, Oliver Roberts, Mike Stallion, Oli van der Vijver, Chris Voy, Robert Voysey and Matt Wynne
• Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy - Satyanarayana D.Y., S. Jayachandran, S. Ram Prasad and Narahari Varma
• Tell It to the Bees - Caroline Grebbell, Jean Kerr and Stephen Mason
• This Earth of Mankind - Allan Triyana Sebastian
• Tolkien - Paul Cowell
• Truth and Justice - ?
• Union of Salvation - ?
• Vita & Virginia - Tess Newall, Natalie O'Connor and Neill Treacy
• Viy 2: Journey to China - Pavel Tsvirko
• The Wandering Earth - Ang Gao
• While at War - Juan Pedro De Gaspar

Honorable Mention:

• About Endlessness - ?
• Aniara - ?
• Anna's War - ?
• The Battle: Roar to Victory - ?
• Beanpole - ?
• La Belle Époque - Joey Blanc, Pauline Grethen and Nathalie Serrière
• Bolden - Brian Baker, Gary Diamond, Gershon Ginsburg, Gary Kosko, Jason Baldwin Stewart and Thomas Valentine
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - João Bueno
• Captain Marvel - Elena Albanese, Andrew Max Cahn, Jason T. Clark, Kasra Farahani, Jordan Ferrer and Lauren E. Polizzi
• Captive State - Chris Cleek and Dawn Swiderski
• The Climbers - ?
• Cutterhead - ?
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan - ?
• Detention - Wang Chih-Cheng
• Divine Love - Thales Junqueira
• Dolemite Is My Name - Beat Frutiger and Angela Stauffer
• Driven - Fernando Carrion
• Elisa & Marcela - Sylvia Steinbrecht
• The Endless Trench - Gigia Pellegrini and Mikel Serrano
• Escape Room - Malwande Sigabi, Cecelia van Straaten and Mark Walker
• Forbidden Dream - ?
• Ford v Ferrari - Gustaf Aspegren, Jordan Ferrer, Matthew Gatlin, Robert Andrew Johnson, Maya Shimoguchi and Gary Warshaw
• A Frenchman - ?
• Gwen - Tom Coates
• Haunt - Jason Perrine
• Hellaro - ?
• Hellboy - Alexei Karaghiaur, Ivan Ranghelov and Alessandro Troso
• Hotel Mumbai - Dilip More and Marita Mussett
• The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão - Benedikt Schiefer
• Joan of Arc - ?
• Joker - Laura Ballinger
• Judy - James Price and Tilly Scandrett
• Jumanji: The Next Level - Andrew Max Cahn, Michael Gowen, Drew Monahan, Brian Stultz and Stella Vaccaro
• Kardec - ?
• The Keeper - Nigel Pollock
• The Kid - RA Arancio-Parrain
• Last Christmas - Theodore Shapiro
• Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission - ?
• The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot - Chantal Birdsong
• Mao Zedong 1949 - Huo Tingxiao
• Mapplethorpe - Gonzalo Cordoba
• Martin Eden - Tiziana Poli
• Motherless Brooklyn - Michael Ahern
• Mothers' Instinct - ?
• My Little Sister - ?
• My People, My Country - MISC.
• Never Grow Old - Marc Ridremont
• Odessa - ?
• Once Upon a Time in London - Joshua Noon
• Out Stealing Horses - Vladas Dautartas and Vilius Vanagas
• The Painted Bird - ?
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire - ?
• The Platform - Azegiñe Urigoitia
• Red Joan - Sion Clarke
• A Resistance - ?
• Robert the Bruce - ?
• Rojo - ?
• Samurai Marathon 1855 - ?
• Saving Leningrad - ?
• Seberg - Justin Allen
• Serf - ?
• The Song of Names - Katie Gormley and Magdolna Varga
• Sympathy for the Devil - Dragan Denda
• T-34 - ?
• Thackeray - Koushal Choudhary and Sharad Lad
• The Third Wife - ?
• The Traitor - Domenico Dicillo and Dani Vilela
• Triple Frontier - Peter Borck, Matthew Gatlin, María Fernanda Muñoz and David Scott
• The Two Popes - Saverio Sammali
• Under the Silver Lake - Mike Gioulakis
• The Warrior Queen of Jhansi - Aziz Rafiq, Caroline Story and Sameer Vidhate
• Wild Nights with Emily - Phi Tran
• The Wind - ?
• Zeroville - Eric Morrell
• Zombieland: Double Tap - Lauren Abiouness, Matthew Gatlin and Paul D. Kelly

Best Visual Effects

• Avengers: Endgame

Coppola and Scorsese be cursed, "Avengers: Endgame" wastes no expense of its otherworldly budget on the expansive storytelling and extensive dramatic intelligence befitting the final word of an 11-year epic, though it's a given that the bulk of the payoff is a level of genre-bending, universe-warping character and set designs, dazzling superpowers and inconceivable action in seamless digital effects that few films in Hollywood history can challenge.

Highlights:

• Ad Astra
• Aladdin
• Alita: Battle Angel
• Ashfall
• Brightburn
• Captain Marvel
• Captive State
• Cats
• Dark Phoenix
• Detective Pikachu
• Dumbo
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters
• Hellboy
• It Chapter Two
• The Lion King
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
• Men in Black: International
• Midway
• Pinocchio
• Shazam!
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Terminator: Dark Fate
• The Wandering Earth

Honorable Mentions:

• 1917
• Abigail
• The Aeronauts
• Amundsen
• Angel Has Fallen
• Annabelle Comes Home
• The Balkan Line
• The Captain
• Child's Play
• The Climbers
• Code 8
• Countdown
• Crawl
• The Curse of La Llarona
• Daniel Isn't Real
• Detention
• The Divine Fury
• Doctor Sleep
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold
• Escape Room
• Exit
• Extra Ordinary
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
• Fast Color
• Gemini Man
• Glass
• Inhuman Kiss
• Jumanji: The Next Level
• The Kid Who Would Be King
• Kingdom
• Lucy in the Sky
• Mission Mangal
• Panipat
• Paradise Hills
• Perfect
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
• T-34
• Tolkien
• Viy 2: Journey to China
• War
• The Wolf's Call
• Zombieland: Double Tap

Best Cinematography

• The Lighthouse - Jarin Blaschke

With a square aspect ratio and deeply black-and-white palette, "The Lighthouse" isn't a cinematographic masterpiece for modern technology at its fullest, but for Jarin Blaschke's fusion of that pristine definition, lighting and scope with avant-garde minimalism and Gothic grace in a masterclass in high-art photography, where virtually every shot exudes psychedelic imagination, unreal beauty and grueling suspense that must be endured to be believed.

Highlights:

• 1917 - Roger Deakins
• Ad Astra - Hoyte van Hoytema
• The Aeronauts - George Steel
• All Is True - Zac Nicholson
• Amundsen - Pål Ulvik Rokseth
• Arctic - Tómas Örn Tómasson
• Article 15 - Ewan Mulligan
• Avengers: Endgame - Trent Opaloch
• Beanpole - Ksenia Sereda
• La Belle Époque - Nicolas Bedos
• Before the Frost - Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
• Bulbul Can Sing - Rima Das
• Burning Cane - Phillip Youmans
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Marshall Adams
• Cats - Christopher Ross
• Charlie Says - Crille Forsberg
• Chola - Ajith Aacharya
• Corupus Christi - Piotr Sobociński Jr.
• The Current War - Chung-hoon Chung
• The Curse of La Llarona - Michael Burgess
• Dark Waters - Edward Lachman
• Doctor Sleep - Michael Fimognari
• Donnybrook - David Ungaro
• Dumbo - Ben Davis
• An Elephant Sitting Still - Fan Chao
• Elisa & Marcela - Jennifer Cox
• Ema - Sergio Armstrong
• Fire Will Come - Mauro Herce
• Ford v Ferrari - Phedon Papamichael
• A Good Woman Is Hard to Find - Richard C Bell
• Gwen - Adam Etherington
• A Hidden Life - Jörg Widmer
• I Trapped the Devil - Bryce Holden
• In Fabric - Ari Wegner
• The First King: Birth of an Empire - Daniele Ciprì
• Honey Boy - Natasha Braier
• The Irishman - Rodrigo Prieto
• Joker - Lawrence Sher
• The King - Adam Arkapaw
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Adam Newport-Berra
• The Lion King - Caleb Deschanel
• Little Women - Yorick Le Saux
• Lucy in the Sky - Polly Morgan
• Martin Eden - Alessandro Abate and Francesco Di Giacomo
• Masquerade Hotel - Shoji Ehara
• Midsommar - Pawel Pogorzelski
• A Million Little Pieces - Jeff Cronenweth
• Monos - Jasper Wolf
• The Mountain - Lorenzo Hagerman
• Mr Jones - Tomasz Naumiuk
• Pinocchio - Nicolaj Brüel
• Out Stealing Horses - Thomas Hardmeier and Rasmus Videbæk
• The Painted Bird - Vladimír Smutný
• The Peanut Butter Falcon - Nigel Bluck
• Sons of Denmark - Eddie Klint
• The Standoff at Sparrow Creek - Jackson Hunt
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Dan Mindel
• Sympathy for the Devil - Pierre Aim
• Teen Spirit - Autumn Durald
• The Third Wife - Chananun Chotrungroj
• Under the Silver Lake - Mike Gioulakis
• Vita & Virginia - Carlos De Carvalho
• Vitalina Varela - Leonardo Simões
• The Watchman - Vladimir Ushakov
• Waves - Drew Daniels
• The White Crow - Mike Eley

Honorable Mentions:

• 12 Suicidal Teens - Shigetomo Madarame
• 21 Bridges - Paul Cameron
• 3 from Hell - David Daniels
• 438 Days - Sophia Olsson
• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged - Mark Silk
• Aamis - Riju Das
• Abigail - Yuriy Korobeynikov, Eduard Moshkovich and Yuriy Nikogosov
• About Endlessness - Gergely Pálos
• Adithya Varma - Ravi K. Chandran
• An Acceptable Loss - Petra Korner
• Adopt a Highway - Pepe Avila del Pino
• Aladdin - Alan Stewart
• Alita: Battle Angel - Bill Pope
• Alone at My Wedding - Jonathan Ricquebourg
• Alone/Together - Neil Daza
• And the Birds Rained Down - Mathieu Laverdière
• And Then We Danced - Lisabi Fridell
• Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 - Sanu Varghese
• Angel Has Fallen - Jules O'Loughlin
• Anna - Thierry Arbogast
• Anna's War - Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev
• Aniara - Sophie Winqvist
• Animals - Bryan Mason
• Another Child - Hwang Ki-seok
• Antigone - Sophie Deraspe
• After the Wedding - Julio Macat
• The Aftermath - Franz Lustig
• Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya - Sunny Kurapati
• All Creatures Here Below - Bongani Mlambo
• American Dreamer - Bryan Senti
• American Woman - John Mathieson
• Annabelle Comes Home - Michael Burgess
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Ross Emery
• Ashfall - Kim Ji-yong
• The Aspern Papers - Philippe Guilbert
• Asuran - R. Velraj
• Atlantics - Claire Mathon
• Aurora - Arsen Sarkisiants
• Badla - Avik Mukhopadhyay
• Bacurau - Pedro Sotero
• Bait - Mark Jenkin
• Bala - Anuj Rakesh Dhawan
• Balance, Not Symmetry - Ryan Eddleston
• The Balkan Line - Vyacheslav Lisnevskiy
• Batla House - Saumik Mukherjee
• The Battle: Roar to Victory - Kim Young-Ho
• The Beach Bum - Benoît Debie
• Beats - Stephen Hindman and Penelope Tripes
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Jody Lee Lipes
• Before You Know It - Jon Keng
• The Best of Enemies - David Lanzenberg
• Better Days - Yu Jing-Pin
• Beware of Children - Øystein Mamen
• Bharat - Marcin Laskawiec
• Black and Blue - Dante Spinotti
• Black Christmas - Mark Schwartzbard
• Blame Game - Christian Stangassinger
• Bloodline - Isaac Bauman
• Blinded by the Light - Ben Smithard
• The Blonde One - Nahuel Berger
• Bolden - Neal Norton
• Booksmart - Jason McCormick
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Dick Pope
• Breakthrough - Zoran Popovic
• Brightburn - Michael Dallatorre
• A Brother's Love - Josée Deshaies
• Buoyancy - Michael Latham
• By the Grace of God - Manuel Dacosse
• Byk - Gleb Filatov
• The Captain - Yuen Man Fung
• Captain Marvel - Ben Davis
• Casanova, Last Love - Christophe Beaucarne
• Chained for Life - Adam J. Minnick
• Changeland - Patrick Ruth
• The Chaperone - Nick Remy Matthews
• Charlie's Angels - Bill Pope
• El Chicano - Juan Miguel Azpiroz
• Captive State - Alex Disenhof
• Celeste - Katie Milwright
• Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch - Jason Kwan and Jimmy Kwok
• Chhichhore - Amalendu Chowdhury
• Child's Play - Brendan Uegama
• Clemency - Eric Branco
• The Climbers - Zhang Dongliang
• Code 8 - Alex Disenhof
• Cold Pursuit - Philip Øgaard
• The Collini Case - Jakub Bejnarowicz
• Countdown - Maxime Alexandre
• Crawl - Maxime Alexandre
• Cutterhead - Martin Munch
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan - Ben Nott
• Daniel - Eric Kress
• Daniel Isn't Real - Lyle Vincent
• Dark Phoenix - Mauro Fiore
• The Day Shall Come - Marcel Zyskind
• The Days to Come - Alex Garcia
• The Dead and the Others - Renée Nader Messora
• The Dead Center - Andy Duensing
• The Dead Don't Die - Frederick Elmes
• Dead Pigs - Federico Cesca
• Dear Comrade - Sujith Sarang
• The Death & Life of John F. Donovan - André Turpin
• The Death of Dick Long - Ashley Connor
• Deerskin - Quentin Dupieux
• Detective Pikachu - John Mathieson
• Detention - Chou Yi-hsien
• Dirty God - Ruben Impens
• The Divine Fury - Cho Sang-yun
• Divine Love - Diego García
• A Dog's Journey - Rogier Stoffers
• Dogs Don't Wear Pants - Pietari Peltola
• Dolce Fine Giornata - Michal Dymek
• Dolemite Is My Name - Eric Steelberg
• The Domain - João Lança Morais
• Don't Come Back from the Moon - Chananun Chotrungroj
• Don't Let Go - Sharone Meir
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold - Javier Aguirresarobe
• Downton Abbey - Ben Smithard
• Dragged Across Concrete - Benji Bakshi
• Driven - Geronimo Mercado
• Earthquake Bird - Chung Chung-hoon
• An Easy Girl - George Lechaptois
• The Endless Trench - Javi Agirre Erauso
• Escape Room - Marc Spicer
• Extra Ordinary - James Mather
• Extreme Job - Noh Seung-bo
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile - Michael Werwie
• Fagara - Yip Shiu Kei
• The Fanatic - Conrad W. Hall
• The Farewell - Alex Weston
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Jonathan Sela
• Fast Color - Michael Fimognari
• Finding Steve McQueen - José David Montero
• Fisherman's Friends - Simon Tindall
• The Flood - Jon Muschamp
• Fly Me to Saitama - Sohei Tanikawa
• Frankie - Rui Poças
• A Frenchman - Yuriy Shaygardanov
• Funny Story - Greg Cotton
• Furie - Christopher Morgan Schmidt
• The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil - Park Se-seung
• Gemini Man - Dion Beebe
• Genesis - Nicolas Canniccioni
• Germany. A Winter's Tale - Benjamin Loeb
• Get In - Laurent Tangy
• Ghost Town Anthology - François Messier-Rheault
• Give Me Liberty - Wyatt Garfield
• Glass - Mike Gioulakis
• Gloria Bell - Natasha Braier
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Lawrence Sher
• The Golden Glove - Rainer Klausmann
• The Goldfinch - Roger Deakins
• The Good Liar - Tobias A. Schliessler
• Good Posture - Ryan Eddleston
• Greta - Seamus McGarvey
• Gully Boy - Jay Oza
• Harriet - John Toll
• Haunt - Ryan Samul
• The Haunting of Sharon Tate - Carlo Rinaldi
• Head Full of Honey - René Richter
• Helen - Anend C. Chandran
• Hellaro - Tribhuvan Babu Sadineni
• Hellboy - Lorenzo Senatore
• Her Smell - Sean Price Williams
• Heroic Losers - Rodrigo Pulpeiro
• The Highwaymen - John Schwartzman
• The Hole in the Ground - Tom Comerfield
• Homeward - Anton Fursa
• Hope - Manuel Alberto Claro
• Hotel by the River - Kim Hyung-koo
• Hotel Mumbai - Nick Remy Matthews
• House of Hummingbird - Kang Gook-hyun
• The Hummingbird Project - Nicolas Bolduc
• Hustlers - Todd Banhazl
• I Was at Home, But - Ivan Markovic
• I Was, I Am, I Will Be - Florian Mag
• Idol - Son Won-ho
• The Immortal - Guido Michelotti
• Incitement - Amit Yasur
• Inhuman Kiss - Pithai Smithsuth
• Innocent Witness - Kim Il-Yeon
• Into the Ashes - John W. Rutland
• The Intruder - Daniel Pearl
• The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão - Hélène Louvart
• Ishq - Ansarsha
• Isn't It Romantic - Simon Duggan
• It Chapter Two - Checco Varese
• It Must Be Heaven - Sofian El Fani
• Itsy Bitsy - Marcos Durian and James Zsigmond
• Jacob's Ladder - Pedro Luque
• Jallikattu - Girish Gangadharan
• Jersey - Sanu Varghese
• Jeune Juliette - Olivier Gossot
• Jexi - Ben Kutchins
• Jhalki - Rupesh Kumar
• Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage - Kim Sung-an
• Joan of Arc - David Chambille
• Jojo Rabbit - Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
• John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum - Dan Laustsen
• The Journalist - Keisuke Imamura
• Judy - Ole Bratt Birkeland
• Judy and Punch - Stefan Duscio
• Jumanji: The Next Level - Gyula Pados
• Just 6.5 - Hooman Behmanesh
• Just Mercy - Brett Pawlak
• Just a Stranger - Takeyuki Onishi

Best Song Soundtrack/Unoriginal Score

• Rocketman - Jukebox Musical / Cover Song

Dexter Fletcher and company could have gone the "Bohemian Rhapsody" route of simply falling back on the inherent spectacle of a pop icon's fabulous catalogue of classics, but with elaborate, passionately performed theatrical renditions that respect Elton John's and Bernie Taupin's deft songwriting, while taking it to sweeping extremes, "Rocketman" is 2019's must-have movie musical experience if nothing else.

Highlights:

• The Beach Bum - Song
• The Best of Enemies - Song
• Blinded by the Light - Song
• Bolden - Jazz
• Cats - Adapted Musical
• Finding Steve McQueen - Song
• Gloria Bell - Song
• The Irishman - Song
• Judy - Cover Song / Jukebox Musical
• Kalank - Original Musical
• The Lion King - Adapted Musical / Original Song
• Listen to the Universe - Classical
• Lucy in the Sky - Song
• Mapplethorpe - Song
• A Million Little Pieces - Song
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Song
• The Peanut Butter Falcon - Song
• Piercing - Song / Unoriginal Score
• The Souvenir - Classical / Song
• This Is Not Berlin - Song
• Variações - Song

Honorable Mentions:

• 3 from Hell - Song
• Aladdin - Adapted Musical
• Animals - Zoë Barry and Jed Palmer
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Song
• Avengers: Endgame - Song
• Balance, Not Symmetry - Original Song
• La Belle Époque - Song
• A Brother's Love - Classical / Jazz / Song
• Byk - Classical / Song / Unoriginal Score
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Song
• Changeland - Song
• Charlie Says - Song
• Dear Comrade - Original Song
• Dolemite Is My Name - Song
• An Easy Girl - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• Fire Will Come - Classical / Song
• Fisherman's Friends - Jukebox Musical / Traditional Song
• Ford v Ferrari - Song
• The Golden Glove - Song
• Hellaro - Original Musical
• Hellboy - Song
• Her Blue Sky - Original Musical / Original Song
• Her Smell - Original Song
• The Hummingbird Project - Song
• Joker - Song
• The Kitchen - Song
• Kumbalangi Nights - Original Song
• Lola - Classical / Song
• The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot - Song
• Martin Eden - Song
• Matthias & Maxime - Song
• On a Magical Night - Classical / Song
• Once Upon a Time in London - Song
• Panipat - Original Musical
• Sibyl - Classical / Song
• Sonchiriya - Original Song
• The Song of Names - Classical
• The Sound of Silence - Classical / Jazz
• Stockholm - Song
• Stuck - Adapted Musical
• Tell It to the Bees - Song
• This Earth of Mankind - Classical / Unoriginal Score
• Too Late to Die Young - Song
• Triple Frontier - Song
• Tune in for Love - Song
• The Two Popes - Song / Classical
• Under the Silver Lake - Song
• The Upside - Classical / Song
• Wild Nights with Emily - Song
• Wild Rose - Song
• Yesterday - Jukebox Musical / Cover Song
• Zeroville - Song
• Zombieland - Song

Best Song

• "To Lose Himself in Vengeance" by Steven Price ft. Lisa Hannigan, for "Ophelia"

To be sure, Steven Price's piece "To Lose Himself to Vengeance" barely qualifies as a song by Lisa Hannigan's near-indiscernibly overlaid repetition of the love letter to this film's title character from its source's title character, but the one-woman choir's serene, mournful passion guides the dynamic drama of Price's booming orchestra that in turn guides the stirring finale of "Ophelia", and cinema's most cinematic ballad of 2019.

Highlights:

• "Aasmaa" by Asha Bhosle, for "Saand Ki Aankh"
• "Bastar Garaj - A Beautiful Bastar" by Kirendra Yadav, for "Unda"
• "Breathe" by Something She, for "Her Smell"
• "Cheranthukal" by Sithara Krishnakumar and Sushin Syam, for "Kumbalangi Nights"
• "Circle of Life" (Elton John and Tim Rice adaptation) by Brown Lindiwe Mkhize and Lebo M., for "The Lion King"
• "The Climbers" by Tan Weiwei, for "The Climbers"
• "Daily Battles" by Flea and Thom Yorke, for "Motherless Brooklyn"
• "The Dead Don't Die" by Sturgill Simpson, for "The Dead Don't Die"
• "Dragon Song" by Aleksandra Maghakyan, for "Viy 2: Journey to China"
• "Fear No More" (William Shakespeare adaptation) by Abigail Doyle and Patrick Doyle, for "All Is True"
• "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" by Jessie Buckley, for "Wild Rose"
• "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (Elton John cover) by Jamie Bell and Taron Egerton, for "Rocketman"
• "Haiyaa" by Aditya Gadhavi and Shruti Pathak, for "Hellaro"
• "Héxū Wèn (Tèbié Bǎn)"by Yin Lin, for "White Snake"
• "Hey Jude" / "Let It Be" (The Beatles covers) by Himesh Patel, for "Yesterday"
• "I Love the Motherland's Blue Skies" (Yan Su and Tang Ming adaptation) by Mao Amin, for "The Captain"
• "I Only Care About You (Wo zhi zai hu ni)" by Ya Han Chang, for "Dead Pigs"
• "Ibu Pertiwi" by Iwan Fals, ft. Once Mekel and Fiersala Besari, for "This Earth of Mankind"
• "Jaago Narasimha" by Haricharan, Anurag Kulkarni and Shankar Mahadevan
• "Memory" (Trevor Nunn and Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation) by Jennifer Hudson, for "Cats"
• "Passo, Passo" by Petra Magoni, for "Pinocchio"
• "My People, My Country" (Qin Yoncheng and Zhang Li adaptation) by Faye Wong, for "My People, My Country"
• "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" (Scott McKenzie cover) by Daniel Herskedal, for "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
• "Sapna Hai Sach Hai" by Abhay Jodhpurkar and Shreya Ghoshal, for "Panipat"
• "Sonchiraiya Repreise" by Rekha Bhardwaj, for "Sonchiriya"
• "Song of Names" by Ray Chen, Daniel Mutlu and Howard Shore, for "Song of Names"
• "Tabaah Ho Gaye" by Shreya Goshal, "Kalank"
• "Take the Earth to Wander" by Huan Liu, for "The Wandering Earth"
• "Tbiliso Tbil Gziso by Zviad Mgerby and Ben Wheeler, for "And Then We Danced"
• "Viyjayi Bhava" by Shankar Mahadevan, for "Marnikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi"

Honorable Mentions:

• "Adored" by Biffy Clyro, for "Balance, Not Symmetry"
• "All About You" by Edwyn Collins and Sean Read, for "Sometimes Always Never"
• "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence) by Annie Trousseau, for "Midway"
• "And the Sky Turned Blue" by Will Driving West, for "And the Birds Rained Down"
• "Arrorró Mi Niño" (Traditional) by Maria Lopez, for "The Curse of La Llorona"
• "Ashes" by Gemie and Hiroyuki Sawano, for "Promare"
• "Baby Mine" (Frank Churchill and Ned Washington adaptation) by Arcade Fire, for "Dumbo"
• "Bekhayali" by Sachet Tandon, for "Kabir Singh"
• "Bullet Holes" by Bush, for "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum"
• "Celebration" by Toko Miura, for "Weathering with You"
• "The Chain" (Fleetwood Mac cover) by The Highwoman, for "The Kitchen"
• "La complainte du soleil," by Laura Cahen, for "I Lost My Body"
• "The Day After Rain" by Summer Lei, for "Detention"
• "Dev Shiva" by Sukhwinder Singh, for "Kesari"
• "Dhooramaai" by Vijay Yesudas, for "Peranbu"
• "Distant Journey" by Lin Sheng-xiang, for "A Sun"
• "Dreamtime" by Kamakshi Rai, for "Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota"
• "Ellu Vaya Pookalaye" by Saindhavi, for "Asuran"
• "Half-Light" by Madrugada, for "Amundsen"
• "Holy War" by Ziyoou-vachi, for "Sadako"
• "I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away" by Randy Newman, for "Toy Story 4"
• lllamai Thirumbudhe" by Anirudh Ravichander, for "Petta"
• "Isn't It So" by David Holmes, Brian Irvine and Keefus Ciancia, for "Ordinary Love""
• "Jeense Mein Aaye Maza" by Ankur Tewari, for "Gully Boy"
• "Kadalalle" by Aishwarya Ravichandran and Sid Sriram, for "Dear Comrade"
• "Khairiyat" by Arijit Singh, for "Chhichhore"
• "Khajan Chidiya" by Sunidhi Chauhan, Sandesh Shandilya and Brahmanand Siingh, for "Jhalki"
• "Lahu Ka Rang Kara" by Samira Koppikar, for "Laal Kaptaan"
• "Letter" by Yun Senae, for "Birthday"
• "Ek Malaal" by Shail Hada, for "Malaal"
• "Manzar Hai Yeh Naya" by Shashwat Sachdev and Shantanu Sudame, for "Uri: The Surgical Strike"
• "Naina Yeh" by Yasser Desai and Aakanksha Sharma, for "Article 15"
• "Nedjma" by Yasmine Meddour, for "Papicha"
• "Nina Wu" by Sandee Chan, for "Nina Wu"
• "Niyam Ho" by Ajay-Atul, Rahul Chitnis, Vijay Dhuri, Ann Fernandes, etc., for "Super 30"
• "Nobody's Watching" by Jason Isbell, for "Adopt a Highway"- "Senza Di Te (Without You)" (Badfinger cover) by Fredo Viola, in "The Farewell"
• "La odisea de los gils" by Babasónicos, for "Heroic Losers"
• "Oh Mon Dieu 2" by Christophe, for "Joan of Arc"
• "Prince Ali" (Howard Ashman and Alan Menken cover) by Will Smith, for "Aladdin"
• "Rekkeya" by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Sreya Jayadeep, for "Kavacha"
• "Say It Properly" by Sammi Cheng, for "Fagara"
• "Shine On" by Satomi Matsuzaki, Atticus Ross and Claudia Sarne, for "Earthquake Bird"
• "Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo" by Aimyon, for "Her Blue Sky"
• "Shotgun Safari" by The O'Jays, ft. Eddie Levert and Walter Williams Sr., for "Dragged Across Concrete"
• "Stand Up" by Cynthia Erivo, in "Harriet"
• "Thaarapadhmaake" by Prarthana Indrajith, for "Helen"
• "Varika Varika" by Murali Gopy, for "Lucifer"
• "We Are Well" by JJ Lin, for "Better Days"
• "When I Am Older" by Josh Gad, for "Frozen"
• "Where Have You Gone" by OAU, for "The Journalist"

Best Score

• The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Emile Mosseri

Where unevenly toned and focused writing limits the cultural grandeur and subtle passion of hidden gem "The Last Black Man in San Francisco", Emile Mosseri blasts them with a soaring neo-impressionist sympthony of a compositional, experimental and emotive complexity that poetically weaves its own saga with the film's.

Highlights:

• 1917 - Thomas Newman
• Ad Astra - Lorne Balfe and Max Richter
• The Aeronauts - Steven Price
• Arctic - Joseph Trapanese
• Avengers: Endgame - Alan Silvestri
• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily - René Aubry
• La Belle Époque - Nicolas Bedos and Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen
• Before the Frost - Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen
• Better Days - Varqa Buehrer
• Bloodline - Trevor Gureckis
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Antônio Pinto
• Buoyancy - Lawrence English
• By the Grace of God - Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine
• Cats - Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Chola - Basil C. J.
• The Current War - Hauschka and Dustin O'Halloran
• The Curse of La Llarona - Joseph Bishara
• Doctor Sleep - The Newton Brothers
• Dolemite Is My Name - Scott Bomar
• Don't Come Back from the Moon - Johnny Jewel
• An Elephant Sitting Still - Hua Lun
• Ema - Nicolás Jaar
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Tyler Bates
• The Goldfinch - Trevor Gureckis
• A Good Woman Is Hard to Find - Matthew Pusti
• A Hidden Life - James Newton Howard
• Honey Boy - Alex Somers
• I Lost My Body - Dan Levy
• I Trapped the Devil - Ben Lovett
• The Immortal - Mokadelic
• In Fabric - Cavern of Anti-Matter
• Joker - Hildur Guðnadóttir
• Judy and Punch - François Tétaz
• Kalank - Ankit Balhara and Sanchit Balhara
• Knives Out - Nathan Johnson
• Kumbalangi Nights - Sushin Shyam
• The Last Tree - Segun Akinola
• Light of My Life - Daniel Hart
• The Lighthouse - Mark Korven
• The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
• Little Women - Alexandre Desplat
• Lucy in the Sky - Jeff Russo
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil - Geoff Zanelli
• Masquerade Hotel - Naoki Satô
• Men in Black: International - Chris Bacon and Danny Elfman
• Midsommar - Bobby Krlic
• Monos - Mica Levi
• Motherless Brooklyn - Daniel Pemberton
• Mothers' Instinct - Frédéric Vercheval
• The Mountain - Robert Donne and Daniel Lopatin
• My Little Sister - Ilya Dukhovnyy
• Ordinary Love - David Holmes and Brian Irvine
• Out Stealing Horses - Kaspar Kaae
• Ophelia - Steven Price
• Pain and Glory - Alberto Iglesias
• Panipat - Ajay−Atul
• The Peanut Butter Falcon - Zachary Dawes, Noam Pikelny, Jonathan Sadoff and Gabe Witcher
• Peranbu - Yuvan Shankar Raja
• Queen of Hearts - Jon Ekstrand
• Photograph - Peter Raeburn
• Pinocchio - Dario Marianelli
• The Projectionist - Luc Suarez
• Resin - Anne Gry Friis Kristensen and Andreas Pallisgaard
• A Resistance - Jang Young-gyu
• Roads - The Notwist
• Rojo - Vincent van Warmerdam
• Sonchiriya - Vishal Bhardwaj
• The Song of Names - Howard Shore
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - John Williams
• Super Deluxe - Yuvan Shankar Raja
• Toy Story 4 - Randy Newman
• Truth and Justice - Mihkel Zilmer
• Uncut Gems - Daniel Lopatin
• Under the Silver Lake - Disasterpeace
• Virus - Sushin Shyam
• Vita & Virginia - Isobel Waller-Bridge
• The Wandering Earth - Roc Chen and Liu Tao
• The Watchman - Yuri Bykov and Ivan Isyanov
• Waves - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Weathering with You - Radwimps

Honorable Mentions:

• 12 Suicidal Teens - Utena Kobayashi
• 21 Bridges - Alex Belcher and Henry Jackman
• 3 from Hell - Zeuss
• 438 Days - Jon Ekstrand
• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged - Tomandandy
• Aamis - Quan Bay
• Abigail - Ryan Otter
• Abomindable - Rupert Gregson-Williams
• The Addams Family - Mychael Danna and Jeff Danna
• Adithya Varma - Harshavardhan Rameshwar
• An Acceptable Loss - Valgeir Sigurðsson
• Adopt a Highway - Jason Isbell
• After the Wedding - Mychael Danna
• The Aftermath - Martin Phipps
• Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya - Mark K Robin
• Aladdin - Alan Menken
• Alita: Battle Angel - Tom Holkenborg
• All Creatures Here Below - Ceiri Torjussen
• All Is True - Patrick Doyle
• All These Small Moments - Dan Lipton
• Alone at My Wedding - Vlaicu Golcea
• Alone/Together - Len Calvo
• American Dreamer - Eric Hurt
• American Woman - Adam Wiltzie
• Amundsen - Johan Söderqvist
• And the Birds Rained Down - Andréa Bélanger and David Ratté
• Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 - Bijibal
• Angel Has Fallen - David Buckley
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 - Heitor Pereira
• Aniara - Alexander Berg
• Anna - Eric Serra
• Anna's War - Vladimir Komarov and Atsuo Matsumoto
• Annabelle Comes Home - Joseph Bishara
• Angel of Mine - Andrew Commis
• Another Child - Lee Bo-ram
• Antigone - Jad Orphée Chami and Jean Massicotte
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Dustin O'Halloran and Volker Bertelmann
• The Art of Self-Defense - Heather McIntosh
• Article 15 - Mangesh Dhakde
• Ashfall - Bang Jun-Seok
• The Aspern Papers - Vincent Carlo
• Asuran - G. V. Prakash Kumar
• Atlantics - Fatima Al Qadiri
• Bacurau - Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza
• Badla - Clinton Cerejo
• Bait - Mark Jenkin
• Bala - Sachin–Jigar
• Balance, Not Symmetry - Biffy Clyro and Walter Mair
• The Balkan Line - Mikhail Afanasyev
• Batla House - John Stewart Eduri
• The Battle: Roar to Victory - Lee Byung-hoon
• The Beach Bum - John Debney
• Beats - Benjamin Kračun
• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Nate Heller
• Before You Know It - Ryan Tullock
• The Best of Enemies - Marcelo Zarvos
• Beware of Children - Arnaud Fleurent-Didier and Peder Kjellsby
• Bharat - Julius Packiam
• Birthday - Lee Jae-jin
• Black and Blue - Geoff Zanelli
• Black Christmas - Brooke Blair and Will Blair
• Blame Game - Sebastian Fillenberg
• Blinded by the Light - A. R. Rahman
• Body at Brighton Rock - The Gifted
• Bolden - Mark Isham, Wynton Marsalis and Scott Steiner
• Bombshell - Theodore Shapiro
• Breakthrough - Marcelo Zarvos
• Brightburn - Timothy Williams
• A Brother's Love - Olivier Alary
• Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles - Arturo Cardelús
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Dave Porter
• The Captain - Chen Yu-peng
• Captain Marvel - Pinar Toprak
• Captive State - Rob Simonsen
• Casanova, Last Love - Bruno Coulais
• Celeste - Jackson Milas and Antony Partos
• Changeland - Patrick Stump
• Children of the Sea - Joe Hisaishi
• The Chaperone - Marcelo Zervos
• Charlie Says - Andy Paley
• Charlie's Angels - Brian Tyler
• Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch - Day Tai
• El Chicano - Mitch Lee
• Child's Play - Bear McCreary
• The Climbers - Henry Lai
• Code 8 - Ryan Taubert
• Cold Pursuit - George Fenton
• The Collini Case - Ben Lukas Boysen
• Countdown - Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
• Crawl - Max Aruj and Steffen Thum
• Cutterhead - Søs Gunver Ryberg
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan - Caitlin Yeo
• Daniel - Johan Söderqvist
• Daniel Isn't Real - Chris Clark
• Dark Phoenix - Hans Zimmer
• Dark Waters - Marcelo Zarvos
• The Day Shall Come - Chris Morris, Sebastian Rochford and Jonathan Whitehead
• The Dead Center - Jordan Lehning
• The Dead Don't Die - SQÜRL
• Dead Pigs - Andrew Orkin
• Dear Comrade - Justin Prabhakaran
• The Death of Dick Long - Andy Hull and Robert McDowell
• Deerskin - Janko Nilović
• Detective Pikachu - Henry Jackman
• Detention - Lu Luming
• Dirty God - Rutger Reinders
• The Divine Fury - Koo Ja-wan
• Divine Love - Juan Campodónico, DJ Dolores, Santiago Marrero, Cláudio N. and Otavio Santos
• The Death & Life of John F. Donovan - Gabriel Yared
• A Dog's Journey - Mark Isham
• A Dog's Way Home - Mychael Danna
• Dogs Don't Wear Pants - Michal Nejtek
• Dolce Fine Giornata - Daniel Bloom
• Donnybrook - Jens Bjørnkjær and Phil Mossman
• Don't Let Go - Ethan Gold
• Dora and the Lost City of Gold - John Debney and Germaine Franco
• Downton Abbey - John Lunn
• Driven - Geronimo Mercado
• Dumbo - Danny Elfman
• Earthquake Bird - Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne
• Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga - Rochak Kohli
• Elisa & Marcela - Sofía Oriana Infante
• The Endless Trench - Pascal Gaigne
• Escape Room - John Carey and Brian Tyler
• Evaru - Sricharan Pakala
• Exit - Mowg
• Extra Ordinary - George Brennan
• Extreme Job - Kim Tae-seong
• Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile - Marco Beltrami and Dennis Smith
• Fagara - Yusuke Hatano
• The Fanatic - Gary Hickeson and John Swihart
• The Farewell - Anna Franquesa Solano
• Farming - Ilan Eshkeri
• Fast Color - Rob Simonsen
• The First King: Birth of an Empire - Andrea Farri
• Fisherman's Friends - Rupert Christie
• Ford v Ferrari - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• Frankie - Dickon Hinchliffe
• Frozen II - Christophe Beck
• Funan - Thibault Kientz Agyeman
• Funny Story - Brandon Campbell
• Furie - Nguyen Hoang Anh
• The Flood - Billy Judd
• Fly Me to Saitama - Face 2 fAKE
• The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil - Jo Yeong-wook
• Gemini Man - Lorne Balfe
• Get In - Clément Téry
• Giant Little Ones - Michael Brook
• Glass - West Dylan Thordson
• Gloria Bell - Matthew Herbert
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Bear McCreary
• The Good Liar - Carter Burwell
• Greta - Javier Navarrete
• The Grizzlies - Garth Stevenson
• Gully Boy - Karsh Kale and The Salvage Audio Collective
• Gwen - James Edward Barker
• Happy Death Day 2U - Bear McCreary
• Harriet - Terence Blanchard
• Haunt - tomandandy
• The Haunting of Sharon Tate - Fantom
• Helen - Shaan Rahman
• Hellaro - Mehul Surti
• Hellboy - Benjamin Wallfisch
• Her Blue Sky - Masaru Yokoyama
• Her Smell - Keegan DeWitt
• Heroic Losers - Federico Jusid
• The Highwaymen - Thomas Newman
• The Hole in the Ground - Stephen McKeon
• Hotel Mumbai - Volker Bertelmann
• House of Hummingbird - Matija Strniša
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - John Powell
• The Hummingbird Project - Yves Gourmeur

Best Animation

• The Lion King

Though the spirit of Disney's underrated CG "The Lion King" is perhaps challenged by authenticity to the nonhuman faces of such a human epic, it's a level of anatomical and environmental photorealism that nearly disqualifies the picture as animated, with just enough distinctly whimsical character designs and stunningly artful world-building to seal it as the new standard for a whole industry's aesthetic.

Highlights:

• Abominable
• The Angry Birds Movie 2
• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
• Children of the Sea
• Frozen II
• Her Blue Sky
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
• Ne Zha
• Promare
• Spies in Disguise
• Toy Story 4
• Weathering with You
• White Snake

Honorable Mentions:

• The Addams Family
• Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
• Funan
• I Lost My Body
• Klaus
• Missing Link
• Playmobil: The Movie
• The Secret Life of Pets 2
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
• The Swallows of Kabul
• UglyDolls
• Wonder Park

Best Animated Film

• Toy Story 4 (3.5/5 - Good)

A fluffier hitch in the 25-year series' escalating quality, but by no means in its improbable track record, "Toy Story 4" steps up as an unwanted sequel that continues to wrap beautiful imagery, spirited voice acting, hysterical shenanigans and heart-wrenching sentiment around a vibrant world and rich characters that both continue to grow as top-form family entertainment.

Highlights:

• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily (3.5/5 - Good)
• Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (3.5/5 - Good)
• Her Blue Sky (3.5/5 - Good)
• I Lost My Body (3.5/5 - Good)
• The Lion King (3.5/5 - Good)
• A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (3.5/5 - Good)
• The Swallows of Kabul (3.5/5 - Good)
• Weathering with You (3.5/5 - Good)

Honorable Mentions:

• Abominable (3/5 - Decent)
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 (3/5 - Decent)
• Children of the Sea (3.25/5 - Solid)
• Frozen II (3.25/5 - Solid)
• Funan (3.25/5 - Solid)
• How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (3/5 - Decent)
• Klaus (3/5 - Decent)
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (3/5 - Decent)
• Missing Link (3.25/5 - Solid)
• Ne Zha (3/5 - Decent)
• Promare (3/5 - Decent)

Best Screenplay

• The Irishman - Steven Zaillian

Though Steven Zaillian once again bites off more than he can chew with narrative cohesion in "The Irishman", the sheer ambition of his sprawling and accessible political dynamics, profoundly drawn characters and visceral, emotional and existential intensity across a crime opera darkly humored and cleverly punched enough for Martin Scorsese, yet sophisticated beyond genre bounds, arranges more of a transporing experience than Zaillian's densest epic yet.

Highlights:

• Avengers: Endgame - Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
• The King - Joel Edgerton and David Michôd
• Marriage Story - Noah Baumbach
• Parasite - Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won
• Super Deluxe - Thiagarajan Kumararaja, Nalan Kumarasamy, Mysskin and Neelan K. Sekar
• The Traitor - Marco Bellocchio, Francesco La Licata, Francesco Piccolo, Ludovica Rampoldi and Valia Santella

Honorable Mentions:

• 1917 - Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
• Article 15 - Anubhav Sinha and Gaurav Solanki
• Better Days - Lam Wing Sum, Li Yuan and Xu Yimeng
• Beware of Children - Dag Johan Haugerud
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie - Vince Gilligan
• Dragged Across Concrete - S. Craig Zahler
• An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo
• Gully Boy - Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti and Vijay Maurya
• The Immortal - Marco D'Amore, Leonardo Fasoli, Giulia Forgione, Francesco Ghiaccio and Maddalena Ravagli
• Incitement - Ron Leshem, Yair Hizmi and Yaron Zilberman
• Joker - Todd Phillips and Scott Silver
• The Journalist - Michihito Fujii, Roba Shimori and Akihiko Takaishi
• Kumbalangi Nights - Syam Pushkaran
• Light of My Life - Casey Affleck
• Matthias & Maxime - Xavier Dolan
• Midsommar - Ari Aster
• Motherless Brooklyn - Edward Norton
• Odessa - Maksim Belozor
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Quentin Tarantino
• Pain and Glory - Pedro Almodóvar
• Rojo - Benjamín Naishtat
• Sin - Elena Kiseleva and Andrey Konchalovskiy
• The Standoff at Sparrow Creek - Henry Dunham
• A Sun - Chung Mong-hong and Chang Yao-sheng
• Truth and Justice - Tanel Toom
• The Two Popes - Andrew McCarten

Best Supporting Actress

• Margaret Qualley as Delia Angus, in "Donnybrook"

Relentless as Tim Sutton's "Donnybrook" is as a venture into the seediest of the modern world, Margaret Qualley is stunningly sincere as that world's purest victim, abused into her own self-destruction by and a futile liberation from her psychotic brother, and portrayed with such transformative commitment, agonizing woe and poignant resolve by the rising starlet that if anything makes the grueling thriller worth experiencing, it's 2019's most immersed and devastating performance by a supporting actress.

Highlights:

• Kathy Bates as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell, in "Richard Jewell"
• Anne Coesens as Céline Geniot, in "Mothers' Instinct"
• Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat, in "Doctor Sleep"
• Sara Forestier as Marie, in "Oh Mercy!"
• Debbie Honeywood as Abbie Turner, in "Sorry We Missed You"
• Mary Stuart Masterson as Claire, in "Daniel Isn't Real"
• Vasilisa Perelygina as Masha, in "Beanpole"
• Léa Seydoux as Claude, in "Oh Mercy!"
• Odessa Young as Lilly, in "A Million Little Pieces"

Honorable Mentions:

• Kate Beckinsale as Ingrid Carpenter, in "Farming"
• Nazanin Boniadi as Zahra Kashani, in "Hotel Mumbai"
• Meera Chopra as victim Anjali Dangle, in "Section 375"
• Belén Cuesta as Rosa, in "The Endless Trench"
• Kyliegh Curran as Abra Stone, in "Doctor Sleep"
• Laura Dern as Nora Fanshaw, in "Daniel Isn't Real"
• Adèle Exarchopoulos as Margot Vasilis, in "Sibyl"
• Caitlin Gerard as Elizabeth "Lizzy" Macklin, in "The Wind"
• Yamie Grégoire as Shaniss, in "Kuessipan"
• Isabelle Huppert as Greta Hideg, in "Greta"
• Lily James as Deb Hale, in "Little Woods"
• Samantha Ko as Qin, in "A Sun"
• Krista Kosonen as Mona, in "Dogs Don't Wear Pants"
• Ester Kuntu as Mari Paas, in "Truth and Justice"
• Aïssa Maïga as Agnes Kamkwamba, in "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"
• Alexandra Masangkay as Miharu, in "The Platform"
• Stasya Miloslavskaya as Tanya, in "Byk"
• Ella Øverbye as Lykke, in "Beware of Children"
• Bhumi Pednekar as Indumati Tomar, in "Sonchiriya"
• Octavia Spencer as Harriet Wilson, in "Luce"
• Naomi Watts as Amy Edgar, in "Luce"
• Emily Meade as Stacy Willingham, in "Trial by Fire"
• Julianne Nicholson as Sara "Doctora" Watson, in "Monos"
• Florence Pugh as Amy March, in "Little Women"
• Noomi Rapace as Bianca Lind, in "Stockholm"
• Margot Robbie as Kayla Pospisil, in "Bombshell"
• Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
• Irina Rozanova as Raisa Irovna, in "Odessa"
• Ella Rumpf as Boba, in "Sympathy for Devil"
• Maiken Schmidt as Krõõt Paas, in "Truth and Justice"
• Alia Shawkat as Tyler, in "Animals"
• Ann Sheetal as Vasudha, in "Ishq"
• Lauren "Lolo" Spencer as Tracy, in "Give Me Liberty"
• Yum Jung-ah as Young-joo, in "Another Child"

Best Supporting Actor

• Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake, in "The Lighthouse"

As the ultimate irritable New English brute, Willem Dafoe carries the energy of "The Lighthouse" with a riotously manic command and dead-on delivery with a dead-on accent, before his terrifying display of a slow collapse into bloody lunacy and fear carry intensity with all the impact of anything else in the taut psycho-thriller.

Highlights:

• Sterling K. Brown as Ronald Williams, in "Waves"
• Bill Camp as Wilbur Tennant, in "Dark Waters"
• John Cusack as Christopher "Dutch" Albert, in "Never Grow Old"
• James Badge Dale as Hank Peck, in "Mickey and the Bear"
• Chiwetel Ejiofor as Trywell Kamkwamba, in "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind"
• Brendan Fletcher as Simon Stull, in "Night Hunter"
• Jamie Foxx as Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, in "Just Mercy"
• Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
• Aldis Hodge as Anthony Woods, in "Clemency"
• Gene Jones as Hubbel, in "The Standoff at Sparrow Creek"
• Shia LaBeouf as James Lort, in "Honey Boy"
• Omid Memar as Vedat, in "7500"
• Tim Blake Nelson as Ralph Myers, in "Just Mercy"
• Al Pacino as James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa, in "The Irishman"
• Peter Plaugborg as Jens, in "Resin"
• Jan Gunnar Røise as Anders, in "Beware of Children"
• Amandeep Singh as Imran, in "Hotel Mumbai"
• Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown/It, in "It Chapter Two"

Honorable Mention:

• Vladislav Abashin as Stas, in "The Watchman"
• Robert Aramayo as Keating, in "The Standoff at Sparrow Creek"
• Swann Arlaud as Emmanuel Thomassin, in "By the Grace of God"
• Konstantin Balakirev as Stepan, in "Beanpole"
• Roberto Benigni as Mister Geppetto, in "Pinocchio"
• Gerard Butler as James Ducat, in "The Vanishing"
• Bill Camp as Fred "Hammer" Krager, in "Skin"
• Shine Tom Chacko as Alwin, in "Ishq"
• Jeremy Childs as Michael Clark, in "The Dead Center"
• Emilio Buale Coka as Baharat, in "The Platform"
• Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel, in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
• Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, in "Knives Out"
• John Dagleish as Levi, in "Farming"
• Dane DeHaan as Billy the Kid, in "The Kid"
• Joel Edgerton as Sir John Falstaff, in "The King"
• Asier Etxeandia as Alberto Crespo, in "Pain and Glory"
• Baykali Ganambarr as "Billy" Mangala, in "The Nightingale"
• Julián Giraldo as Wolf, in "Monos"
• Rémy Girard as Tom, in "And the Birds Rained Down"
• Walton Goggins as Lemuel Childs, in "Them That Follow"
• Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Wallace Fiennes, in "The Mountain"
• Frank Grillo as Chainsaw Angus, in "Donnybrook"
• Frank Grillo as Sloan, in "Into the Ashes"
• Mark Hamill as Chucky, in "Child's Play"
• Paul Hamy as Mickey, in "Get In"
• Lucas Hedges as Luke, in "Waves"
• Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah "Mr. Glass" Price, in "Glass"
• Robbie Jones as Mazz, in "American Dreamer"
• Thanawut Kasro as Rom Ran, in "Buoyancy"
• Toby Kebbell as James Foley, in "Daniel"
• Kim Sung-kyu as "K", in "The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil"
• Akshaye Khanna as Tarun Saluja, in "Section 375"
• Lal as Paul, in "Helen"
• Gustav Lindh as Gustav, in "Queen of Hearts"
• John Lithgow as Roger Ailes, in "Bombshell"
• James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, etc., in "Glass"
• Ben Mendelsohn as King Henry IV, in "The King"
• Clive Owen as Dovidl Rapoport, in "The Song of Names"
• Park Hae-joon as Kwon Tae-joo, in "Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage"
• Park Myung-hoon as Oh Geun-sae, in "Parasite"
• Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino, in "The Irishman"
• Jesse Plemons as Todd Alquist, in "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie"
• Bagavathi Perumal as Berlin, in "Super Deluxe"
• Wendell Pierce as Reverend Tillman, in "Burning Cane"
• Giovanni Ribisi as John, in "A Million Little Pieces"
• Sam Rockwell as Watson Bryant, in "Richard Jewell"
• Seth Rogen as John "Viking Man" Milius, in "Zeroville"
• Dennis Quaid as Charlie Peck, in "The Intruder"
• Richard Schiff as Marty Lumetta, in "Clemency"
• Albrecht Schuch as Michael Heller, in "System Crasher"
• Patrick Schwarzenegger as Daniel, in "Daniel Isn't Real"
• Ranvir Shorey as Vakil Singh, in "Sonchiriya"
• Gilbert Sicotte as Charlie, in "And the Birds Rained Down"
• Alexander Skarsgård as Sergeant Deeks
• Matt Smith as Charles "Charlie" Manson, in "Charlie Says"
• Morgan Spector as Sadie's Husband, in "A Vigilante"
• Sergey Sosnovskiy as Zhorik, in "Odessa"
• Maxim Stoyanov as Dima, in "Give Me Liberty"
• Chris Sullivan as the Man, in "I Trapped the Devil"
• Connor Swindells as Donald, in "The Vanishing"
• Robert Taylor as Frank Parson, in "Into the Ashes"
• Billy Bob Thornton as Leonard, in "A Million Little Pieces"
• Luis Tosar as Pastor, in "Out in the Open"
• Gaspard Ulliel as Igor Maleski, in "Sibyl"
• Taika Waititi as Adolf Hitler, in "Jojo Rabbit"
• Leonid Yarmolnik as Grigoriy Iosifovich, in "Odessa"
• Djebril Zonga as Gwada, in "Les Misérables"

Best Actress

• Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland, in "Judy"

Never mind the late Judy Garland's, Renée Zellweger makes a glowing comeback in her total submersion into the title role of "Judy", the grace and grandeur she beams as a starlet to define a generation, as well as the constant rage, regret and emotional instability of one of its greatest Hollywood tragedies, make a captivating declaration of a star reborn.

Highlights:

• Anna Ben as Helen Paul, in "Helen"
• Veerle Baetens as Alice Brunelle, in "Mothers' Instinct"
• Cate Blanchett as Bernadette Fox, in "Where'd You Go, Bernadette"
• Sarah Bolger as Sarah Collins, in "A Good Woman Is Hard to Find"
• Mya Bollaers as Lola, in "Lola"
• Ana de Armas as Marta Cabrera, in "Knives Out"
• Carol Duarte as Eurídice Gusmão, in "The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão"
• Trine Dyrholm as Anne, in "Queen of Hearts"
• Cynthia Erivo as Araminta "Minty" Ross/Harriet Tubman, in "Harriet"
• Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine's Mikuan, in "Kuessipan"
• Aisling Franciosi as Clare Carroll, in "The Nightingale"
• Go Ah-sung as Yu Gwan-sun, in "A Resistance"
• Luise Heyer as Liv, in "The Most Beautiful Couple"
• Andrea Bræin Hovig as Anja, in "Hope"
• Scarlett Johansson as Nicole Barber, in "Marriage Story"
• Emelie Jonsson as the Mimarobe, in "Aniara"
• Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, in "Bombshell"
• Vicky Knight as Jade Nugent, in "Dirty God"
• Marta Kozlova as Anna, in "Anna's War"
• Diane Kruger as Rachel, in "The Operative"
• Lesley Manville as Joan Thompson, in "Ordinary Love"
• Sienna Miller as Debra "Deb" Callahan, in "American Woman"
• Viktoria Miroshnichenko as Ilya "Beanpole" Sergueeva, in "Beanpole"
• Camila Morrone as Michaela "Mickey" Peck, in "Mickey and the Bear"
• Elisabeth Moss as Becky Something, in "Her Smell"
• Ellen Page as Lucy Moro, in "My Days of Mercy"
• Park Ji-hoo as Eun-hee, in "House of Hummingbird"
• Mary Kay Place as Diane, in "Diane"
• Natalie Portman as Lucy Cola, in "Lucy in the Sky"
• Florence Pugh as Dani Ardor, in "Midsommar"
• Noomi Rapace as Lizzie, in "Angel of Mine"
• Nahéma Ricci as Antigone Hipponome, in "Antigone"
• Saoirse Ronan as Joanna "Jo" Marsh", in "Little Women"
• Taylor Russell as Emily Williams, in "Waves"
• Sadhana as Pappa, in "Peranbu"
• Nimisha Sajayan as Janaki, in "Chola"
• Ricarda Seifried as Becky, in "Germany. A Winter's Tale"
• Christine Sønderris as Rie, in "Cutterhead"
• Julia Stockler as Guida Gusmão, in "The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão"
• Mia Wasikowska as Judy, in "Judy and Punch"
• Naomi Watts as June E. Leigh, in "The Wolf Hour"
• Olivia Wilde as Saide, in "A Vigilante"
• Alfre Woodard as Warden Bernadine Williams, in "Clemency"
• Wu Ke-xi as Nina Wu, in "Nina Wu"
• Alla Yuganova as Vera, in "The Watchman"
• Helena Zengel as Bernadette "Benni", in "System Crasher"
• Zhou Dongyu as Chen Nian, in "Better Days"

Honorable Mentions:

• Noée Abita as Charlotte, in "Genesis"
• Samantha Akkineni as Vaembu, in "Super Deluxe"
• Daniel Auteuil as Victor Drumond, in "La Belle Époque"
• Awkwafina as Billi Wang, in "The Farewell"
• Sosie Bacon as Patricia Krenwinkel, in "Charlie Says"
• Almila Bagriacik as Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü, in "A Regular Woman"
• Jillian Bell as Brittany Forgler, in "Brittany Runs a Marathon"
• Alia Bhatt as Safeena Firdausi, in "Gully Boy"
• Juliette Binoche as Claire Millaud, in "Who You Think I Am"
• Anastasyia Bogach as Anna, in "Twin Flower"
• Evgenia Brik as Mira, in "Odessa"
• Sofía Buenaventura as Rambo, in "Monos"
• Stéphane Caillard as Chloé Diallo, in "Get In"
• Richa Chadda as Hiral Gandhi, in "Section 375"
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas as Aditi Chaudhary, in "The Sky Is Pink"
• Chun Woo-hee as Choi Ryeon-hwa, in "Idol"
• Lily Collins as Elizabeth "Liz" Kendall, in "Extremely Wick, Shockingly Evil and Vile"
• Blythe Danner as Ronnie Meisner, in "The Tomorrow Man"
• Lima Das as Nirmali, in "Aamis"
• Natalia de Molina as Elisa, in "Elisa & Marcela"
• Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf, in "Vita & Virginia"
• Mariana Di Girolamo as Ema, in "Ema"
• Virginie Efira as Sybil, in "Sibyl"
• Alice Englert as Mara Childs, in "Them That Follow"
• Elle Fanning as Violet Valenski, in "Teen Spirit"
• Greta Fernández as Marcela, in "Elisa & Marcela"
• Angie Ferro as Lola Igna, in "Lola Igna"
• Karen Gillan as Ruby, in "All Creatures Here Below"
• Holliday Grainger as Laura, in "Animals"
• Eva Green as Sarah, in "Proxima"
• Zita Hanrot as Zunaira, in "The Swallows of Kabul"
• Lena Headey as Wendy, in "The Flood"
• Taraji P. Henson as Ann Atwater, in "The Best of Enemies"
• Vivelill Søgaard Holm as Liv, in "Resin"
• Alexane Jamieson as Juliette, in "Jeune Juliette"
• Krystyna Janda as Maria Linde, in "Dolce Fine Giornata"
• Jeon Do-yeon as Soon-nam, in "Birthday"
• Jung Yu-mi as Kim Ji-young, in "Kim Ji-young: Born 1982"
• Seána Kerslake as Sarah O'Neill, in "The Hole in the Ground"
• Lyna Khoudri as Nedjma, in "Papicha"
• Kim Go-eun as Kim Mi-soo, in "Tune in for Love"
• Kim Hyang-gi as Yim Ji-woo, in "Innocent Witness"
• Kim Hye-jun as Joo-ri, in "Another Child"
• Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun, in "Official Secrets"
• Andrée Lachapelle as Marie-Desneige, in "And the Birds Rained Down"
• Atsuko Maeda as Yoko, in "To the Ends of the Earth"
• Tatiana Maslany as Jenna, in "Pink Wall"
• Chiara Mastroianni as Maria Mortemart, in "On a Magical Night"
• Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ruth, in "Fast Color"
• Noémie Merlant as Marianne, in "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"
• Maria Mironova as Eva, in "Loudspeaker"
• Radha Mitchell as Celeste "Cel" Young, in "Celeste"
• Julianne Moore as Gloria Bell, in "Gloria Bell"
• Chloë Grace Moretz as Frances McCullen, in "Greta"
• Elli Rhiannon Müller Osbourne as Frida, in "Psychobitch"
• Hannah Murray as Leslie Van Houten, in "Charlie Says"
• Veronica Ngo as Hai Phượng, in "Furie"
• Nguyễn Phương Trà My as Mây, in "The Third Wife"
• Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson / Red, in "Us"
• Taapsee Pannu as Naina Sethi, in "Badla"
• Park Se-jin as Yoon-ah, in "Another Child"
• Phantira Pipityakorn as Sai, in "Inhuman Kiss"
• Anna Pniowsky as Anna Elizabeth "Rag" Shaw, in "Light of My Life"
• Anne Ratte-Polle as Marion, in "I Was, I Am, I Will Be"
• Vanessa Redgrave Elizabeth Lowry, in "Mrs Lowry & Son"
• Daisy Ridley as Ophelia, in "Ophelia"
• Maria Rodríguez Soto as Vir, in "The Days to Come"
• Alina Serban as Pamela, in "Alone at My Wedding"
• Shim Eun-kyung as Erika Yoshioka, in "The Journalist"
• Jette Søndergaard as Kris, in "Uncle"
• Octavia Spencer as Sue Ann "Ma" Ellington, in "Ma"
• Kristen Stewart as Savannah Knoop / JT LeRoy, in "JT LeRoy"
• Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, in "Seberg"
• Henriette Steenstrup as Liv, in "Beware of Children"
• Meryl Streep as Ellen Martin / Elena / Herself, in "The Laundromat"
• Parvathy Thiruvothu as Pallavi Raveendran, in "Uyare"
• Tessa Thompson as Ollie Hale, in "Little Woods"
• Jodie Turner-Smith as Angela "Queen" Johnson, in "Queen & Slim"
• Anastasia Ukolova as Yekaterina, in "Loudspeaker"
• Yeo Yann Yann as Ling, in "Wet Season"
• Wang Yuwen as Huang Ling, in "An Elephant Sitting Still"
• Mia Wasikowska as Jackie, in "Piercing"
• Mimosa Willamo as Aurora, in "Aurora"
• Yong Mei as Wang Liyun, in "So Long, My Son"

Best Actor

• Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker, in "Joker"

An iconic actor of instability's commitment to the pop culture icon of instability only starts with emaciated weight loss, then slowly soars from there as a pathologically tickled loser's collapse to agonizing dread and rise to dreadfully villainous resolve make "Joker" a haunting vehicle for the greatest performance of 2019, and a casual reminder that Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors alive.

Highlights:

• Casey Affleck as Dad, in "Light of My Life"
• Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo, in "Pain and Glory"
• Jamie Bell as Bryon "Babs" Widner, in "Skin"
• Bartosz Bielenia as Daniel, in "Corpus Christi"
• Jean-Luc Bubert as Maik, in "Germany. A Winter's Tale"
• Yuriy Bykov as Vlad, in "The Watchman"
• Jonas Dassler as Fritz Honka, in "The Golden Glove"
• Robert De Niro as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, in "The Irishman"
• Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
• Adam Driver as Charlie Barber, in "Marriage Story"
• Pierfrancesco Favino as Tommaso Buscetta, in "The Traitor"
• Jim Gaffigan as Cam, in "American Dreamer"
• Levan Gelbakhiani as Merab Lominadze, in "And Then We Danced"
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tobias Ellis, in "7500"
• Luke Grimes as Nick Brenner, in "Into the Ashes"
• Yehuda Nahari Halevi as Yigal Amir, in "Incitement"
• Kit Harrington as John F. Donovan, in "The Death & Life of John F. Donovan"
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Tyler "Ty" Williams, in "Waves"
• Damon Herriman as Punch, in "Judy and Punch"
• Kris Hitchen as Ricky Turner, in "Sorry We Missed You"
• Han Suk-kyu as Goo Myung-hui, in "Idol"
• Paul Walter Hauser as Richard Jewell, in "Richard Jewell"
• Ethan Hawke as Kaj Hansson/Lars Nystrom, in "Stockholm"
• Ethan Hawke as Russell Earl "Russ" Millings, in "Adopt a Highway"
• Anthony Hopkins as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI, in "The Two Popes"
• Damson Idris as Enitan "Eni", in "Farming"
• Jackson Yee as Zhang Bei Shan, in "Better Days"
• Kevin Janssens as Patrick, in "Patrick"
• Priit Loog as Andres Paas, in "Truth and Justice"
• George MacKay as Lance Corporal William "Schof/Will" Schofield, in "1917"
• Luca Marinelli as Martin Eden, in "Martin Eden"
• Tori Matsuzaka as Takumi Sugihara, in "The Journalist"
• Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, in "Doctor Sleep"
• Mads Mikkelsen as Overgård, in "Arctic"
• Liam Neeson as Tom Thompson, in "Ordinary Love"
• Adama Niane as Paul Diallo, in "Get In"
• Edward Norton as Lionel Essrog, in "Motherless Brooklyn"
• Robert Pattinson as Ephraim Winslow, in "The Lighthouse"
• Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman, in "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie"
• Alexander Petrov as Ilya Goryunov, in "Text"
• Scott Poythress as Steve, in "I Trapped the Devil"
• Jonathon Pryce as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio/Pope Frances, in "The Two Popes"
• Miles Robbins as Luke, in "Daniel Isn't Real"
• Mark Ruffalo as Robert Bilott, in "Dark Waters"
• Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, in "Uncut Gems"
• Matthias Schoenaerts as Roman Coleman, in "The Mustang"
• Thomas Schubert as Tommi, in "Germany. A Winter's Tale"
• Vijay Sethupathi as Shilpa/Manickam, in "Super Deluxe"
• Niels Schneider as Paul Marchand, in "Sympathy for the Devil"
• Stellan Skarsgård as Trond, in "Out Stealing Horses"
• Esben Smed as Daniel Rye Ottosen, in "Daniel"
• Sol Kyung-gu as Yoo Joong-sik, in "Idol"
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey, in "A Million Little Pieces"
• Alberto Testone as Michelangelo Buonarroti, in "Sin"

Honorable Mention:

• Christopher Abbott as Reed, in "Piercing"
• John Abraham as John Abraham as ACP Sanjay Kumar, in "Batla House"
• Idir Ben Addi as Ahmed, in "Young Ahmed"
• Sam Adewunmi as Olufemi "Femi", in "The Last Tree"
• Moisés Arias as Bigfoot, in "Monos"
• Christian Bale as Ken Miles, in "Ford v Ferrari"
• Alfonso Barón as Juan, in "The Blonde One"
• Arghadeep Baruah as Sumon, in "Aamis"
• Alireza Bayram as Mansoud Behzad, in "Blame Game"
• Jamie Bell as Jarhead Earl, in "Donnybrook"
• Remzi Bilyalov as Alim, in "Homeward"
• Damien Bonnard as Stéphane Ruiz, in "Les Misérables"
• Yuriy Borisov as Anton "Byk" Bykov, in "Byk"
• Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare, in "All Is True"
• Maximilian Brückner as Malte, in "The Most Beautiful Couple"
• Gary Carr as Charles "Buddy" Bolden, in "Bolden"
• Vincent Cassel as Bruno Haroche, in "The Specials"
• Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V/Hal, in "The King"
• Dean-Charles Chapman as Lance Corporal Thomas "Tom" Blake, in "1917"
• Chen Yi-wen as A-wen, in "A Sun"
• Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo, in "Parasite"
• Jesper Christensen as Jens, in "Before the Frost"
• Bryan Cranston as Phillip Lacasse, in "The Upside"
• Rory Culkin as Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, in "Lords of Chaos"
• James Badge Dale as Gannon, in "The Standoff at Sparrow Creek"
• Gabriel D'Almeida Freitas as Matthias "Matt" McAfee, in "Matthias & Maxime"
• Marco D'Amore as Ciro "L'immortale" Di Marzio, in "The Immortal"
• David Dastmalchian as Gensan "Buddy", in "All Creatures Here Below"
• Roman Griffin Davis as Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, in "Jojo Rabbit"
• Antonio de la Torre as Higinio Blanco, in "The Endless Trench"
• Johnny Depp as Richard Brown, in "The Professor"
• Dhanush as Sivasaami, in "Asuran"
• August Diehl as Franz Jägerstätter, in "A Hidden Life"
• Xavier Dolan as Maxime "Max" le Duke, in "Matthias & Maxime"
• Robert Downey, Jr., as Tony Stark/Iron Man, in "Avengers: Endgame"
• Jean Dujardin as Marie-Georges Picquart, in "An Officer and a Spy"
• Jay Duplass as Leon, in "Pink Wall"
• Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, in "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile"
• Taron Egerton as Elton John/Reginald "Reggie" Dwight, in "Rocketman"
• Jesse Eisenberg as Vincent Zaleski, in "The Hummingbird Project"
• Karra Elejalde as Miguel de Unamuno, in "While at War"
• Ansel Elgort as Theodore "Theo" Decker, in "The Goldfinch"
• Amir Escandari as Darian, in "Aurora"
• Fahadh Faasil as Mugil, in "Supper Deluxe"
• Oakes Fegley as Young Theodore "Theo" Decker, in "The Goldfinch"
• Joaquín Furriel as Lorenzo Roy, in "The Son"
• Joju George as "Aashan", in "Chola"
• Félix Germán as Eliseo Layo, in "The Projectionist"
• Mel Gibson as Brett Ridgeman, in "Dragged Across Concrete"
• Matthew Glave as Walter Campbell, in "Funny Story"
• John Goodman as William Mulligan, in "Captive State"
• Darío Grandinetti as Claudio, in "Rojo"
• Han Suk-kyu as Goo Myung-hui, in "Idol"
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Luce Edgar, in "Luce"
• Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, in "Honey Boy"
• Sarm Heng as Chakra, in "Buoyancy"
• Ivanno Jeremiah as Haile Solomon Dewalde, in "The Flood"
• Jeon Do-yeon as Soon-nam, in "Furie"
• Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, in "Just Mercy"
• Jung Hae-in as Cha Hyun-woo, in "Tune in for Love"
• Noah Jupe as Young Otis Lort, in "Honey Boy"
• Daniel Kaluuya as Ernest "Slim" Hines, in "Queen & Slim"
• Shahid Kapoor as Dr. Kabir Rajdheer Singh, in "Kabir Singh"
• Ayushmann Khurrana as Balmukund "Bala" Shukla, in "Bala"
• Kalill Kone as Basim, in "Twin Flower"
• Petr Kotlár as The Boy, in "The Painted Bird"
• Bouli Lanners as Mario Messina, in "Real Love"
• Kamil Larin as Lev, in "Loudspeaker"
• Lee Sun-kyun as Jo Pil-ho, in "Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage"
• John Lithgow as Ed Hemsler, in "The Tomorrow Man"
• Liu Congxi as Wang Jin, in "An Elephant Sitting Still"
• Jaime López as Niño, in "Out in the Open"
• Ma Dong-seok as Jang Dong-soo, in "The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil"
• Lorn Macdonald as Spanner, in "Beats
• Benoît Magimel as Philippe, in "Lola"
• Christian Malheiros as Socrates, in "Socrates"
• Mammooty as Amudhavan "Amu", in "Peranbu"
• Iván Massagué as Goreng, in "The Platform"
• Ian McKellen as Roy Courtnay, in "The Good Liar"
• James McAvoy as Bill Denbrough, in "It Chapter Two"
• Denis Ménochet an François Debord, in "By the Grace of God""
• Tom Mercier as Yoav, in "Synonyms"
• Kresimir Mikic as Ivo, in "Cutterhead"
• Mohammed Ismail Mohammed as Zakaria, in "Sons of Denmark"
• Mohanlal as Stephen "Lucifer" Nedumpally, in "Lucifer"
• Eddie Murphy as Rudy Ray Moore, in "Dolemite Is My Name"
• Nani as Arjun, in "Jersey"
• Shane Nigam as Bobby, in "Kumbalangi Nights"
• Shane Nigam as Sachidhanandan "Sham", in "Ishq"
• James Norton as Gareth Jones, in "Mr Jones"
• Jack O'Connell as Cameron Todd Willingham, in "Trial by Fire"
• Cristian Ortega as Johnno, in "Beats"
• Théodore Pellerin as Guillaume, in "Genesis"
• Peng Yuchang as Wei Bu, in "An Elephant Sitting Still"
• Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
• Brad Pitt as Roy McBride, in "Ad Astra"
• Xabiani Ponce de León as Carlos, in "This Is Not Berlin"
• Melvil Poupaud as Alexandre Guerin, in "By the Grace of God"
• Jon Ranes as Young Trond, in "Out Stealing Horses"
• Gaston Re as Gabriel/Gabo, in "The Blonde One"
• Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel, in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
• Géza Röhrig as Shmuel, in "To Dust"

Best Director

• Sam Mendes, for "1917"

Painstakingly arranged to look like a single tracking shot, and scaled between the most sweeping adventure and the most intensive war thriller, Sam Mendes' direction of "1917" is a technical marvel; but it's the elegant transition from chilling suspense to the deepest poignancy on impeccable pacing, tone and lyricism that solidify the richest directorial performance of both 2019 and a master dramatic craftman's career.

Highlights:

• Marco Bellocchio, for "The Traitor"
• Bong Joon-ho, for "Parasite"
• Robert Eggers, for "The Lighthouse"
• Vince Gilligan, for "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie"
• Thiagarajan Kumararaja, for "Super Deluxe"
• Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, for "Avengers: Endgame"
• Martin Scorsese, for "The Irishman"
• Trey Edward Shults, for "Waves"
• Joe Talbot, for "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"

Honorable Mentions:

• Boris Akopov, for "Byk"
• Yuriy Bykov, for "The Watchman"
• Abhishek Chaubey, for "Sonchiriya"
• Marco D'Amore, for "The Immortal"
• Mike Flanagan, for "Doctor Sleep"
• Dag Johan Haugerud, for "Beware of Children"
• Noah Hawley, for "Lucy in the Sky"
• Rian Johnson, for "Knives Out"
• Anthony Maras, for "Hotel Mumbai"
• Olivier Masset-Depasse, for "Mothers' Instinct"
• Melina Matsoukas, for "Queen & Slim"
• Tim Mielants, for "Patrick"
• Hans Petter Moland, for "Out Stealing Horses"
• Lijo Jose Pellissery, for "Jallikattu"
• Ulaa Salim, for "Sons of Denmark"
• Derek Tsang, for "Better Days"
• Brian Welsh, for "Beats"

Best Film

• The Irishman (4.5/5 - Great)

Okay, Martin Scorsese be not cursed after all, as "The Irishman" (I prefer "I Hear You Paint Houses") finds him escalating his mastery of visceral style, sprawling world-building and overall filmmaking perfectionism to a mammoth gangland bio-epic, bolstered by refined character and political intelligence, sobered by existentialist self-awareness, and fastened as both the sire of crime cinema's masterpiece of that formula and 2019's most filling cinematic experience.

Highlights:

• 1917 (4.25/5 - Excellent)
• Avengers: Endgame (4.25/5 - Excellent)
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Parasite (4/5 - Outstanding)
• Super Deluxe (4.25/5 - Excellent)
• The Traitor (4/5 - Outstanding)

Honorable Mentions (All 3.75/5 - Strong)

• Article 15
• Better Days
• Beware of Children
• Doctor Sleep
• Gully Boy
• The Immortal
• Incitement
• Joker
• The King
• Kumbalangi Nights
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• The Lighthouse
• Marriage Story
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Pain and Glory
• Sonchiriya
• Truth and Justice
• Waves