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Newer Post Older PostMONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021
THE IRAS SAY #METOO! -- BUT IN A GOOD
WAY -- AT THE 46TH ANNUAL IRA AWARDS
 The 46st Annual IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS --
2020/EARLY 2021 Releases
The IRAs are a mysterious but august film society launched in 1976
when it proudly named Stanley Kubrick's  Barry Lyndon  the best film
of the previous year. Officially known as the New York Independent
Film Critics Awards -- but lovingly nicknamed the IRAs -- they are
more international and indie focused than the Oscars, more mercurial
than the LA Film Critics and even more loyal to their favorites than the
Golden Globes. The IRAs are proud to announce their picks for the best
movies released commercially on any platform in 2020 (ish).
Without further ado, the IRA goes to... 
 
Best Picture:  Kajillionaire
Best Director:  Miranda July for  Kajillionaire
Best Actor: Bartosz Bielenia  for Corpus Christi 
Best Actress:  Kate Winslet for  Ammonite
Best Supporting Actor: Glynn Turman  for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 
Best Supporting Actress: Robyn Nevin  for Relic
Best Nonfiction Film:  Dick Johnson Is Dead and My Octopus Teacher
(tie)
Best Screenplay:   Miranda July for  Kajillionaire
Best Cinematography:  Benjamin Kracun  for Beats and Monsoon and
Promising Young Woman
Best Production Design: Mayne Berke for  Sylvie's Love and Sergey
Ovanov for  Beanpole (tie)   
Best Score/Use Of Music:  Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran
for Ammonite
Best Editing:  Andrew Patterson  for The Vast Of Night
Best Costumes: Michael O'Connor for  Ammonite
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  Tenet
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Mank
Mechanical Actress: Elizabeth Moss  for The Invisible Man and Shirley
Mechanical Actor: James Corden for  The Prom
The 2019 IRAs took place in March in NYC right before lockdown. The
group approached a cinematic Singularity with a half human/half
machine ceremony unlike any in its existence.  The typical gathering
over the years might feature one or at most two virtual attendees. Last
year,  it morphed into a Kubrickian spectacle with a circle of chairs
featuring a human seated next to a laptop next to a human next to a
tablet next to a human a smartphone and so on. It was...surreal but no
stranger than what everyone would deal with for the next year of the
pandemic. 
This year, the 2020 IRAs took place later than ever with an April 17,
2021 ceremony. The eligible films covered a rough, much-debated
calendar stretching from January of 2020 to February (ish) of 2021 and
included any film you could see any place, anywhere and any time, be it
Netflix or digital download or a drive-in or -- on blessed but rare
occasions -- an indoor movie theater. 
The actual gathering was digital only, with everyone Zooming in from
their respective homes, cars and spider holes. The titular Ira zoomed in
from a surprisingly spacious pad set decorated by Spike Jonze,
maintaining a Sphinx-like silence throughout. The quips, insults and
asides that make the IRAs the IRAs became entangled in digital delays,
unintentional self-muting and other mechanical tripwires. Worse,
Official Stenographer Alex abandoned his usual role of transcribing the
choicest comments for posterity (or at least an amusing recap the next
day). George suggested he simply record the entire event and pull out
the best quotes later, but for legal reasons, that was abandoned.   
On the other hand, zoom meetings are so familiar to everyone that
members who often restricted themselves to submitting a paper ballot
took part again for the first time in literally decades. (Okay, 18 years to
be exact.) Who knew Adam sported a mustache? Mark! David! And
Julia and Jim in the role of UN observers! Here's hoping everyone
takes part any way they can in 2022 AND that most of us are together
in the same damn room. 
Our dream that a zoom gathering might proceed with alacrity was soon
dashed. Evening became morning as the voting veered from this year's
best to this year's worst and a first impressions take on the best of the
2010s. 
And now a blow-by-blow description of the night, in order of voting.
We begin, as always, with the category of Best Costumes. Instead of our
traditional first vote led by the titular Ira, we began alphabetically with
Aaron to Adam to Alex and so on.  The IRA goes to...
BEST COSTUME
1. Michael O'Connor for Ammonite -- 24 pts (out of a possible
40-45 pts.)
2. Jacqueline Durran for  Lovers Rock and Alex Wheatle -- 23 pts. 
3. Olga Smirnova for  Beanpole -- 18 pts.
4. Phoenix Mellow for  Sylvie's Love -- 14 pts.
5. Jennifer Johnson for Kajillionaire -- 12 pts.
POINT OF ORDER: This year eight to nine ballots were in play
throughout the night. (Some voters popped in and out as family made
its demands, as families will, zoom meeting or no zoom meeting.)  With
a top score for each nominee of 5 pts, the maximum any one nominee
could achieve in any category was 45 pts. when everyone was voting.
Voting begins with each member naming their top pick. If a majority of
the ballots name the same winner, this triumph is acknowledged as a
win "by acclamation." However a winner may be chosen (by
acclamation or by a complete tally), this is followed by the automatic
vote to rescind.
The Vote To Rescind is offered after every single category. Why? Once
the totals are in, members may feel the actual winner doesn't reflect the
best choice. Or perhaps they prefer the runner-up. After the winner is
announced, members are asked to consider a Vote To Rescind. If a
majority of the members actively voting support it, the winner is
rescinded and the runner-up is made the official champion. This is
followed by  another  vote to rescind until the victor is confirmed. It's a
somewhat controversial tactic. But it rarely comes into play more than
once a year and in a spirit of we're-all-in-this-together, the Vote To
Rescind played no role this year until one brief appearance in the
negative awards that end the night.  
NOTE: Like Presidential nominating conventions of yore, the real
action at the IRAs typically takes place in smoke-filled backrooms
where pressure is applied, deals are made and better angels are
fruitlessly appealed. OK, there's no smoke and we're usually eating cake
and gobbling snacks but deals are struck. OK, I'll give you points for
production design for -- ugh -- Wes Anderson -- but you have to give
me points in the screenplay category for that four hour Albanian
drama! It's fun!  It works! And this year, it happened by text if at all.
Not. The. Same. 
Runner-ups Lovers Rock and Alex Wheatle  are two episodes in the five
part TV anthology series Small Axe. They prove the IRAs recent open-
mindedness towards streaming was prescient, bold and ultimately no
big deal. The major awards followed in our wake this year since the
pandemic made insisting on a theatrical release nigh on impossible.
Sure, the Oscars may take one step back in 2022 after this year's
bowing to reality, but the door (or in this case, the window) has been
opened. 
Who cares what platform a work of art is released on? If HBO MAX
buys a movie at Sundance, why does that automatically mean the
project is "TV" and not a movie? But if a streamer like Netflix buys it
and opens it day and date in a theater it's a ..."streamer"? But not a
"movie" by Oscar standards? And if it's bought by IFC and plays one
week on one screen in New York City before heading to streaming
anyway a few months then suddenly later it's a movie again? Yep, it
made no sense to us either. So we changed the rules, not without much
hard-wringing. The result? One year after the new rules allow any
movie available to IRA members as a whole in any way to be eligible, all
sorts of films seen via Netflix or VOD or the like pepper the list. In
short, if you can see it and convince other IRAS voters that what you
saw is  and a movie -- and a good movie,  at that -- it's fair game. Thus
three parts of a five part anthology series that aired on BBC One and
Amazon Prime are in the mix throughout the evening. And no one
blinked an eye. 
Finally, Ammonite scored early while Michael's favorite Beanpole was
in the mix and drew admiring comments from a number of quarters.
Meanwhile, Kajillionaire, a  quirky, little-discussed  comedy by writer-
director Miranda July, popped in with a modest, last place finish for its
costumes. Hey, that was a great track suit. 
 BEST EDITING
1. Andr ew Patterson (as Junius Tully) for The Vast Of Night -- 20
pts.
2. (tie) Gabriel Rhodes for Time -- 15 pts.
    (tie)  Chloé Zhao   for Nomadland -- 15 pts.
4. Robin Hill for  Beats --12 pts.
5. Dana Bunescu, George Cragg and Alexander Nanau for  Collective -
- 9 pts.
NOTE: When editing was added to the list of categories that the IRAs
vote on, some concern arose it might be dominated by nonfiction films.
Even though many docs have a script, by nature they are often
discovered after filming has ended. Recent years have proven narrative
films can hold their own. Yes, the docs  Time  and  Collective  (which was
edited by a collective, apparently) scored points. But the overall winner
is the low-budget, little-seen yet highly admired (by us) sci-fi flick  The
Vast Of Night. It's a smart film made on a dime that  shows off great
talent in editing, cinematography, acting and especially the co-writing,
editing and directing of Andrew Patterson.  The Vast Of Night  is the
sort of film the IRAs can usefully shine a spotlight on. Check it out! And
Patterson is one to watch. 
BEST SCORE/USE OF MUSIC
1. Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran for Ammonite -
- 27 pts.
2. (tie) Emile Mosseri for Kajillionaire and  Minari -- 17 pts.
3. (tie)  Ed Bailie and Abi Leland, music supervisors  for Lovers Rock -- 17
pts.
4. Stephen Hindman and Penelope Trappes for  Beats --13 pts.
5. Lin-Manuel Miranda for  Hamilton -- 10 pts.
NOTE: How do you compare the score for  Ammonite  to the soundtrack
of late 1970s Britain deep reggae and "lovers rock" songs? By re-
naming your award "Best Score/Use Of Music" and letting the4 gods
sort it out. Lovers Rock definitely serves up the better playlist for
outside-of-movie listening. But in fairness to the others, its mosts
transcendent moment during the evening long house party is when the
movie drops the actual song playing out of the mix and all you see and
hear are the people in the room dancing and moving and singing along
to the song we're no longer hearing. It's the best moment in the movie
and captures better than any other moment in cinema this year the joy
of communal pleasure in a song...and yet there's not a note playing!
Genius.  Beats is a Scottish film not enough people saw since it popped
onto our radar late in the day. But the few who saw it mostly loved it
and  Beats is another little-known flick worth checking out a reason the
IRAs are worth doing. 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. Mayne Berke for Sylvie's Love (tie)  -- 19 pts.
    Sergey Ovanov for Beanpole (tie) -- 19 pts.
3. Sarah Finlay for  Ammonite -- 15 pts.
4. Steven Jones-Evans for  Relic -- 13 pts.
5. (tie) Adam Dietrich for  The Vast Of Night -- 11 pts. 
    (tie) Sam Lisenco for  Kajillionaire -- 11 pts.
NOTE: The Harlem-set period drama  Sylvie's Love shows the Brits
don't have a patent on music-centric films of romance set in the black
community. Tied for first is the smashing Russian
drama  Beanpole, which has an AMAZING production
design.  Ammonite is close behind, but some films are strong in the tech
awards and then soon fade away. Horror flick gets some love -- it will
receive more later -- and  The Vast Of Night shows it might be a comer.
Meanwhile, Miranda July's  Kajillionaire is in last place again. Keep
moving, nothing to see here, move along please. 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Benjamin Kracun  for Beats and Monsoon and Promising
Young Woman -- 24 pts.
2. Kseniya Sereda for  Beanpole -- 15 pts.
3. Andrey Naydenov for  Dear Comrades! -- 12 pts.
4. Stéphanie Fontaine for  Ammonite -- 11 pts.
5. Miguel I. Littin-Menz for The Vast Of Night  -- 9 pts.
NOTE: Ok, so the crew pushing  Beats isn't done yet as it scores what
would prove the indie's biggest win of the night. When an artist is
involved with more than one film, we honor that person's entire work
in the period of eligibility UNLESS a vote is taken to specifically
remove a second or third (or fourth) film from the role of honor. Since
cinematographer Benjamin "release the" Kracun worked on three
admired films, he jumped to the top of this category for  Beats,
Promising Young Woman and  Monsoon. It was pointed out that
Kracun merely photographed the Cary Grant-handsome actor Henry
Golding in  Monsoon and doesn't actually deserve any credit for how
appealing Golding is, but to no avail. Again, three favorites of Michael
are in the mix, with  The Vast Of Night and  Ammonite making the list
while his favorite  Beanpole is in second place again. This is proving to
be a very good night indeed. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy's late
career success  Dear Comrades! benefitted from a strong campaign by
Greg, shining a light on a career some of us summed up with the good
B movie  Runaway Train. He is indeed the older brother of Nikita
Mikhalkov, a tiresome nationalist whose politics are violently opposite
to those of the typical IRA voter. After much back and forth, we
couldn't determine Konchalovskiy's leanings but  Dear Comrades! is
certainly no ode to Mother Russia. Sorry  Dear Comrades!, the night
can belong to only one Russian film **smirk** and that film
is Beanpole.   
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Miranda July for  Kajillionaire -- 25 pts.
2. Lee Isaac Chung for  Minari -- 16 pts.
3. Mateusz Pacewicz for  Corpus Christi -- 14 pts.
4. Evan Morgan for  The Kid Detective -- 11 pts.
5. Francis Lee for  Ammonite -- 10 pts.
NOTE: Oops. The also-ran  Kajillionaire vaults to the top with a
commanding win for Best Screenplay. Director Miranda July's offbeat
sensibility is surely the film's strong suit and it has a lovely grace note
at the end that makes this her most emotionally engaging and sweet
film to date. So fair is fair. It has to win something. The subtle work
for Minari  is a worthy honorable mention, while  Ammonite is still a
player. Two movies gain traction: the excellent Polish film  Corpus
Christi and the delightful genre flick  The Kid Detective. What if
Encyclopedia Brown grew up, still wanted to solve crimes and everyone
around him kept saying, "It's not cute anymore!" That's the premise
of The Kid Detective" which grows from that amusing premise into a
genuine noir boasting a career-best performance from the very
appealing Adam Brody. That's the way we do it in the O.C. bitch! But
where the heck is  Beanpole?
BEST NONFICTION FILM
1. Dick Johnson Is Dead (tie) -- 18 pts.
My Octopus Teacher (tie) -- 18 pts.
3. Collective -- 17 pts.
4. Time -- 13 pts.
5. Crip Camp -- 10 pts.
NOTE: The Best Nonfiction Film is a recent add to the IRAs and not
without controversy (of course), since creating a category like this
almost ensures a nonfiction film won't win the much-desired top prize
for Best Film.  It was another banner year for documentary films. If this
hasn't already been dubbed a Golden Age for docs, it's been so dubbed
now. These five films could easily be expanded to ten without blinking
an eye. The two winners were tub-thumped by Aaron right to victory
and deservedly so.  Collective is perhaps the front runner for the
Academy Award but My Octopus Teacher is coming up strong
while  Crip Camp and  Time both have passionate adherents. All five are
absolutely worth your time, as are the five flicks picked down below for
Best Picture.  
FOOD BREAK
Andy offered some digital cake to the zoomers. A sweet gesture indeed.
But....  Not. The. Same. And then action resumes!
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Robyn Nevin  for Relic -- 20 pts.
2. Vasilisa Perelygina for  Beanpole -- 14 pts.
3. (tie) Lesley Manville for  Let Him Go -- 10 pts.   
    (tie) Amanda Seyfried for  Mank -- 10 pts.
    (tie) Debra Winger for  Kajillionaire -- 10 pts.
    (tie) Yuh-Jung Youn for  Minari -- 10 pts.
NOTE:  Beanpole is back, baby! No, it didn't win Best Supporting
Actress. That was the very IRA victory for Robyn Nevin in a horror flick
strongly backed by our Master of Ceremonies Alex.
But  Beanpole continues to score strongly as we hit the Big Six of acting,
directing and Best Picture.  Kajillionaire garnered more love but that
was a four way tie for third place. A fluke! Sure  Kajillionaire has
popped up in four categories, but so has  Beanpole. Soon, the dreams
for Beanpole will be dashed to the ground. Soon, but not yet.  
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Glynn Turman  for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom -- 20 pts.
2. Peter MacNeil for  The Kid Detective -- 15 pts.
3. Richard Jenkins for  Kajillionaire -- 14 pts.
4. (tie) Alan Kim for  Minari --11 pts.
    (tie) Lorn Macdonald for  Beats -- 11  pts.
NOTE: I don't think a single IRA voter actually liked  Ma Rainey's
Black Bottom. But the fine actor Glynn Turman made the most of the
great playwright August Wilson's words and scored a Best Supporting
Actor IRA award, manic editing or no manic editing. Some argued that
surely the performance wasn't so good that we needed to bring
attention to a movie no one was recommending? Wouldn't it be better -
- and indeed more IRAnian -- to honor a great performance in the fun
flick  The Kid Detective, a movie we  could  heartily recommend to movie
lovers?  Sadly, this impeccable logic fell on deaf ears.
(Kajillionaire? Again??)
                                            
BEST ACTRESS
1. Kate Winslet for Ammonite -- 24 pts.
2. Evan Rachel Wood for  Kajillionaire -- 23 pts.
3. Viktoria Miroschnichenko for  Beanpole -- 14 pts.
4. Maria Bakalova for  Borat Subsequent Moviefilm  --11 pts.
5. Carey Mulligan for  Promising Young Woman -- 8 pts.
NOTE: Kate Winslet's marvelous work in  Ammonite barely squeaked
out a victory over the deep-voiced,  poignant turn by Evan Rachel
Wood in  Kajillionaire. Barely . And the tall, gangly, unforgettable turn
by the titular star of  Beanpole? A very distant third. Michael began
cursing quietly under his breath. However, it's around this time and
category a momentous shift occurred in the Great Game of IRA award
politicking. Some IRA members are blissfully unconcerned with
influencing the outcome of the vote. They have their favorites for each
category and by god, they're sticking to them. Even if no one else has
even  seen  their favorite performance or heard the score they love and
switching votes around might mean their second-favorite score
triumphs and wins the IRA, they just won't do it. Their votes are their
votes and they're sticking to 'em. George and Andy are first among
equals in this purist approach to the IRAs, with George especially
determined to give his five points to that Belgian Holocaust drama that
played one week at Anthology Archives and which no one else has even
heard of, much less seen. But by god it has the best damn production
design and he's sticking with it! Pleas for him to strategize and fight for
victory rather than suffer yet another noble defeat always fell on
indifferent ears. Until now. This year, for some reason known only to
him and his G-d, George quietly but determinedly changed his five
point favorite from one pick that hadn't a chance in hell of triumphing
to another  pick that did indeed have a chance in hell of winning. Jaws
dropped. He embraced a new strategy and it was a beautiful thing to
see. Can Andy be far behind? Will the IRAs become even more
cutthroat in the future? We shall see.
BEST ACTOR
1. Bartosz Bielenia  for Corpus Christi   -- 23 pts.
2. Riz Ahmed for  Sound Of Metal -- 29 pts.
3. Mads Mikkelsen for  Another Round-- 18 pts.
4. (tie) Adam Brody for  The Kid Detective-- 9 pts.
    (tie) Steve Yeun for  Minari -- 9 pts.
NOTE: Huzzah!  Corpus Christi is hardly unheralded: Poland chose it
as that country's entry for the Best International Film category at the
Academy Awards. Still, who in the West is touting the magnetic, fierce,
compassionate, star-making performance of Bartosz Bielenia as the
violent juvenile offender turned priest imposter? No one! No one, that
is, until the IRAs step in to save the day. Riz Ahmed is a worthy runner
up for the Oscar hopeful  Sound Of Metal. Plus, he'll be pleased to know
we honored his work years ago in the cult favorite  Nightcrawler. That
film will also be a major contender in our picks for the best movies of
the 2010s below. 
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Miranda July for  Kajillionaire -- 20 pts.
2. Francis Lee for  Ammonite -- 17 pts.
3. Kantemir Balagov for  Beanpole -- 13 pts.
4. Jan Komasa for  Corpus Christi -- 10 pts.
5. Andrey Konchalovskiy for  Dear Comrades! -- 9 pts.
NOTE: The IRA group is not  a signatory to any auteurist manifesto as
such, but Best Director and Best Picture often go hand in hand. Not
always, since runner-up Francis Lee will see her film  Ammonite fall to
#4 in the Best Picture round while Thomas Vinterberg barely made a
peep in Best Director and yet his film  Another Round damn near wins
Best Picture! What's going on? Just a last minute attempt by Michael to
stop the  Kajillionaire train in its tracks. No luck. If he symbolically laid
down across the tracks like some damsel in a silent one-reeler, Michael
was flattened as quickly and completely as a copper penny. How
'bout  Ammonite? (George admired Kate Winslet but not the
film.)  Another Round? Anybody?  Corpus Christi? Too little, too late.
On the bright side, July is only the third woman to win Best Director at
the IRAs, following Nadine Labaki for 2018's  Capernaum and Nancy
Savoca for 1993's  Household Saints.
BEST PICTURE
1. Kajillionaire -- 20 pts.
2. Another Round -- 18 pts.
3. Beanpole -- 14 pts.
4. Ammonite -- 13 pts.
5. Corpus Christi -- 9 pts.
And so  Kajillionaire wins the Top Prize.  Miranda July becomes the
third woman to win the IRA for Best Director and the second woman to
direct a Best Picture winner, after  Capernaum for 2018. Are the IRAs
waking up the importance of diversity? No, because the IRAs have a
long and proud history of embracing films, performances and technical
achievements by people of color, various sexual orientations and
women from all over the world. If anything, the weak representation of
women in the top prizes is a chicken and egg dilemma. The more
women get the opportunity to make movies, the more their work will be
recognized by the IRAs, where two of the last three years have seen
women triumph. Nonetheless, Michael is forced to point out that $500
a month is a LOT of money to pay for a living space regularly flooded
with pink suds. It beggars belief. 
FOOD BREAK
A digital cake from Andy offered a byte or two for those not on a diet
and then it was back to the awards. Up next, our "negative" awards,
where we bitch about performances and movies that did not please us
at all. That's followed by our First Impressions vote on the Best Films
of the 2010s. It seems like only yesterday we were voting on the Best
Films of the Noughts. How quickly the years pass.... 

SOMINEX (The movie that put you to sleep)
1. Tenet -- 23 pts.
2. Mank -- 18 pts.
3. The Trial Of The Chicago 7 -- 11 pts.
4. The Midnight Sky -- 8 pts.
5. (tie)  Ammonite -- 5  pts.
    (tie)  Shirley -- 5 pts. 
    (tie)  Wolfwalkers -- 5 pts. 

DRAMAMINE (The film that made you sick)
. Mank  -- 18 pts.
2. Wonder W oman 1984--  15 pts.
3. Da 5 Bloods --  10 pts.
4. Hillbilly Elegy -- 6  pts.
    The Pr om -- 20 pts. RESCINDED 
NOTE: Some felt trashing  The Pr om was too easy and a vote to rescind was
successful, putting our bllseye squarely on the back of  Mank.  Movies are
NEVER historically accurate but Pauline Kael's long-debunked theory on who
wrote  Citizen Kane  is a poor choice for basing a movie on that's geared to
movie buf fs who know better than anyone how dumb its premise actually
proved to be. So there! P .S. It's a sled.  
MECHANICAL ACTRESS
1. Elisabeth Moss for The Invisible Man and Shirley  -- 23 pts.
2. Meryl Streep  for Let Them All Talk and The Prom  -- 17 pts.
3. Viola Davis for  Ma Rainey's Black Bottom --  15 pts.
4. Glenn Close for  Hillbilly Elegy -- 14  pts.
5. Nicole Kidman for  The Pr om --  10 pts.
MECHANICAL ACTOR
1. James Corden for The Prom  -- 22 pts.
2. Kenneth Branagh for  Tenet --  19 pts.
3. Gary Oldman for  Mank --  14 pts.
4. Tom Hanks for  Greyhound  and News Of The W orld --  12 pts.
5. Sacha Baron Cohen for  Borat Subsequent Moviefilm  and The T rial Of The
Chicago 7--  8 pts. 
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: THE BEST OF THE 2010s (2010-2019) 
1. A Separation  -- 33 pts. 
2. Nightcrawler  -- 32 pts. 
3. Moonlight  -- 31 pts. 
4. (tie)  Un Pr ophète  -- 30 pts. 
    (tie)  Tangerine  -- 30 pts. 
6. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood  -- 29 pts. 
7. Laur ence Anyways  -- 26 pts. 
8. In Jackson Heights  -- 24 pts. 
9. The T ree Of Life  -- 20 pts. 
10. The T ribe -- 19 pts. 
NOTE: At the end of each decade, the IRAs of fer up their first impressions of
the best films of the past ten years. Members simply read of f their ten favorite
films, ranking each film so their top choice receives ten points, their second
choice nine points on down to one. Then we tot them up. Easy peasy! Except
even here Michael's campaigning fell short. He was hopeful  Mad Max: Fury
Road  could make the Top 10. But the stink of failure that clung to him after
that desperate attempt to stop a kajillion wins for  Kajillionair e made Michael's
push for Top 10 glory fall short. Ah well. As Doris Day sang, que sera sera. It's
an admirable Top 10 nonetheless. Anyone wanting to see some of the best
films of the decade can start here with confidence. 
NOT ON THE OFFICIAL TOP 10 LIST
11. (tie)  Mad Max: Fury Road  -- 18 Pts. 
      (tie)  Pain & Glory  -- 18 pts 
13. (tie)  End Of The Century  -- 16 pts. 
      (tie)  Roma  -- 16 pts. 
15. B.P.M. -- 15 pts. 
16. The Florida Pr oject  -- 12 pts. 
17. (tie)  Call Me By Y our Name  -- 11 pts. 
      (tie)  Fill The V oid -- 11 pts. 
19. (tie)  The Other Side Of The W ind -- 10 pts. 
      (tie)  Parasite  -- 10 pts. 
      (tie)  Toni Er dmann  -- 10 pts.
THE 2020 FILMS HONORED BY THE IRAS IN ALPHABETICAL
ORDER
Alex Wheatle
Ammonite
Another Round
Beanpole
Beats
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Collective
Corpus Christi
Crip Camp
Dear Comrades!
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Hamilton
Kajillionaire
The Kid Detective
Let Her Go
Lovers Rock 
Mank 
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom  
Minari 
Monsoon 
My Octopus T eacher 
Nomadland 
Promising Y oung W oman
Relic 
Sound Of Metal 
Sylvie's Love 
Time 
The V ast Of Night
WHO OR WHAT ARE THE IRAS? A HISTORY
The IRAs are a mysterious but august film society that has voted on the
best films of the year since 1976. Officially known as the New York
Independent Film Critics Awards -- but lovingly nicknamed the IRAs --
they are more international and indie focused than the Oscars, more
mercurial than the LA Film Critics, more loyal to their favorites than
the Golden Globes. 
The IRAs began when passionate film students and friends complained
about the parade of annual awards shows, declaring, "We could do
better!" What followed was an all-night, knock-down, drag-out fight to
establish the very first winners of the IRAs. (One of the members is
named Ira, but how his name became the name of the award is a story
lost in the mist of time, alcohol and since it was the 1970s perhaps
cannabis.) The IRAs group has been profiled in  The New Yorker, so it
is officially a New York institution, though no one has ever heard of
it. Over the years, its rotating cast of voting members have included
Oscar-winning writers, major directors, top studio execs, best-selling
and critically acclaimed authors of books on movies, critics,
screenwriters, budding playwrights, film scholars, plain old movie buffs
and so on. 
Every year, the IRAs shine a light on some of the best movies of the
year. The secret reason the IRAs flourish is that its members are
passionate film lovers. Many have careers involving the arts, but it's not
always easy to stay in the swim of things, to keep on top of the flood of
new releases every year, especially when the movies favored by IRA
members are not always playing at your local multiplex for weeks at a
time. The movies they appreciate tend to be harder to catch, playing in
theaters only briefly before popping up (hopefully) eventually on some
streaming service or DVD. Quite simply, the IRAs force them to stay
committed to seeing new movies with the same fervor they felt in their
college days when going to see a film was the only purpose in life,
before jobs and family made frivolous claims on their time. So if you
want to stay on top of great cinema every year or explore its history,
there's no better place to start than the award winners of the IRAs. 
True, the IRAs have no more claim to pronounce the best films of the
year than anyone else. But they've been doing it for decades so hey, it's
tradition! 
PAST IRA WINNERS
THE COMPLETE IRA MOVIE AWARD WINNERS
1975  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Barry Lyndon
Best Director: Claude Chabrol for  La Rupture  and  Just Before
Nightfall
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in  One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Actress: Ellen Burstyn in  Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Best Supporting Actor: François Perrier in  Just Before Nightfall
Best Supporting Actress: Blythe Danner in  Hearts Of The West
Best Screenplay: Tom Stoppard and Thomas Wiseman for  The
Romantic Englishwoman
Best Cinematography: John Alcott for  Barry Lyndon
1976 IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture: (tie)  Lipstick  and  The Marquise Of O
Best Director: Eric Rohmer for  The Marquise Of O
Best Actor: Sean Connery in  Robin And Marian
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek in  Carrie
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards in  All The President’s Men
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Bancroft in  Lipstick
Best Screenplay: Alain Tanner and John Berger for  Jonah Who Will Be
25 In The Year 2000
Best Cinematography: Nestor Almendros for  The Marquise Of O
1977  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Annie Hall
Best Director: Wim Wenders for  The American Friend
Best Actor: John Gielgud in  Providence
Best Actress: Dianne Keaton in  Annie Hall  and  Looking For Mr.
Goodbar
Best Supporting Actor: G. D. Spradlin in  One On One
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in  Julia
Best Screenplay: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman for  Annie Hall
Best Cinematography: Robby Müller for  The American Friend
1978  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Days Of Heaven
Best Director: Terence Malick for  Days Of Heaven
Best Actor: Jon Voight in  Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda in  Coming Home
Best Supporting Actor: Dom DeLuise in  The End
Best Supporting Actress: Stephane Audran in  Violette
Best Screenplay: Eric Rohmer for  Perceval
Best Cinematography: Nestor Almendros for  Days Of Heaven
1979  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Fedora
Best Director: Blake Edwards for  10
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood in  Escape From Alcatraz
Best Actress: Hanna Schygulla in  The Marriage Of Maria Braun
Best Supporting Actor: Denholm Elliott in  Cuba  and  Saint Jack
Best Supporting Actress: Frances Sternhagen in  Fedora  and  Starting
Over
Best Screenplay: Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond for  Fedora
Best Cinematography: Tak Fujimoto for  Last Embrace  and  Remember
My Name
Best Music: Miklos Rozsa for  Fedora  and  Last Embrace
Best Production Design: Dean Edward Mitzner for  1941
1980  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  The Big Red One
Best Director: Sam Fuller for  The Big Red One
Best Actor: Lee Marvin for  The Big Red One
Best Actress: Jodie Foster for  Carny  and  Foxes
Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Joe Pesci in  Raging Bull  and Harry Dean
Stanton in  The Black Marble, The Long Riders, Private
Benjamin  and  Wise Blood
Best Supporting Actress: Pamela Reed in  The Long Riders  and  Melvin
And Howard
Best Screenplay: Sam Fuller for  The Big Red One
Best Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth for  Altered States
Best Music: Dana Kaproff for  The Big Red One
Best Production Design: Tambi Larsen for  Heaven’s Gate
1981  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Cutter’s Way
Best Director: Ivan Passer for  Cutter’s Way
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges in  Cutter’s Way
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway in  Mommie Dearest
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson in  Reds
Best Supporting Actress: Mona Washbouurne in  Stevie
Best Screenplay: John Guare for  Atlantic City
Best Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth for  Cutter’s Way
Best Music: Georges DeLerue for  The Last Metro, Rich and Famous,
True Confessions  and  The Woman Next Door
Best Production Design: Ken Adam for  Pennies From Heaven
Best Costume Design: Shirley Russell for  Reds
1982  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Victor/Victoria
Best Director: Blake Edwards for  Victor/Victoria
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in  Missing
Best Actress: (tie) Julie Andrews in  Victor/Victoria  and Jessica Lange
in Frances
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Preston in  Victor/Victoria
Best Supporting Actress: Lesley Ann Warren in  Victor/Victoria
Best Screenplay: Blake Edwards for  Victor/Victoria
Best Cinematography: Xaver Schwartzenberger for  Lola  and  Veronika
Voss
Best Music: Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse for  Victor/Victoria
Best Production Design: Rodger Maus for  Victor/Victoria
Best Costume Design: Patricia Norris for  Victor/Victoria
1983  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Berlin Alexanderplatz
Best Director: Andrzej Wajda for  Danton
Best Actor: Eric Roberts for  Star ’80
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine for  Terms Of Endearment
Best Supporting Actor: Jerry Lewis for  The King Of Comedy
Best Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis for  Trading Places
Best Screenplay: Bill Forsyth for  Local Hero
Best Cinematography: Sven Nykvist for  Star ’80
Best Music: Peer Raben for  Berlin Alexanderplatz
Best Production Design: Fernando Scarfiotti for  Scarface
Best Costume Design: Yvonne Sassinot DeNestle for  Danton
Sominex Award:  The Dresser
Dramamine Award:  The Big Chill
Mechanical Actor: Matt Dillon for  The Outsiders and  Rumble Fish
Mechanical Actress: Nastassja Kinski for  The Moon In The
Gutter and Exposed
1984  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture: (tie)  L’Argent  and  Once Upon A Time In America
Best Director: Sergio Leone for  Once Upon A Time In America
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood in  Tightrope
Best Actress: Helen Mirren in  Cal
Best Supporting Actor: Jean-Luc Godard in  First Name: Carmen
Best Supporting Actress: Christine Lahti in  Swing Shift
Best Screenplay: Franco Arcalli, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De
Bernardi, Franco Ferrini, Sergio Leone, Enrico Medioli for  Once Upon
A Time In America
Best Cinematography: Robby Müller for  Paris Texas  and  Repo Man
Best Music: Ennio Morricone for  Once Upon A Time In America
Best Production Design: James Singelis for  Once Upon A Time In
America
Best Costume Design: Mic Cheminal for  Entre Nous
Sominex Award: 
Dramamine Award: 
Mechanical Actor:  
Mechanical Actress: 
1985  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Prizzi’s Honor
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for  After Hours
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson in  Prizzi’s Honor
Best Actress: Mia Farrow in  The Purple Rose Of Cairo
Best Supporting Actor: William Hickey in  Prizzi’s Honor
Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston in  Prizzi’s Honor
Best Screenplay: Joseph Minion for  After Hours
Best Cinematography: Andrzej Bartkowiak for  Prizzi’s Honor
Best Music: Brian Gascoigne and Junior Hamrich for  The Emerald
Forest
Best Production Design: Jeffrey Townsend for  After Hours
Best Costume Design: Ann Roth for  The Jagged Edge  and  Sweet
Dreams
Sominex Award: 
Dramamine Award: 
Mechanical Actor:  
Mechanical Actress: 
1986  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Eyes On The Prize
Best Director: David Lynch for  Blue Velvet
Best Actor: (tie) Daniel Day-Lewis in  My Beautiful Laundrette  and Jeff
Goldblum in  The Fly
Best Actress: Laura Dern in  Smooth Talk
Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi in  Parting Glances
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Stuart Masterson in  At Close Range
Best Screenplay: Hanif Kureishi for  My Beautiful Laundrette
Best Cinematography: Frederick Elmes for  Blue Velvet
Best Music: (tie) George Delerue for  Platoon  and Herbie Hancock
for Round Midnight
Best Production Design: Patricia Norris for  Blue Velvet
Best Costume Design: Jenny Beaven and John Bright for  A Room With
A View
Sominex Award:  Brighton Beach Memoirs
Dramamine Award:  Crocodile Dundee
Mechanical Actor: Jon Cryer for  Pretty In Pink
Mechanical Actress: Meryl Streep for  Heartburn
1987  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Housekeeping
Best Director: Bill Forsyth for  Housekeeping
Best Actor: Gary Oldman in  Prick Up Your Ears
Best Actress: Christine Lahti in  Housekeeping
Best Supporting Actor: John Mahoney in  Moonstruck  and  Tin Men
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in  Prick Up Your Ears
Best Screenplay: Bill Forsyth for  Housekeeping
Best Cinematography: Phillippe Rousselot for  Hope And Glory
Best Music: David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su for  The Last
Emperor
Best Production Design: Santo Loquasto for  Radio Days
Best Costume Design: Mary-Jane Reyner for  Housekeeping
Sominex Award:  Dark Eyes
Dramamine Award:  Fatal Attraction
Mechanical Actor: Eddie Murphy for  Beverly Hills Cop II
Mechanical Actress: Sean Young for  No Way Out and Wall Street
1988  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Dead Ringers
Best Director: David Cronenberg for  Dead Ringers
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons in  Dead Ringers
Best Actress: Jodie Foster in  The Accused
Best Supporting Actor: Divine in  Hairspray
Best Supporting Actress: Claudia Karvan in  High Tide
Best Screenplay: Christopher Hampton for  Dangerous Liaisons
Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro for  Tucker: The Man And His
Dream
Best Music: George Fenton for  Dangerous Liaisons
Best Production Design: Dean Tavoularis for  Tucker: The Man And His
Dream
Best Costume Design: Van Smith for  Hairspray
Sominex Award:  Wings Of Desire
Dramamine Award:  Mississippi Burning (by acclamation!)
Mechanical Actor: William Hurt for  Broadcast News
Mechanical Actress: Maria Conchita Alonso for  Extreme
Prejudice and The Running Man
1989  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Story Of Women
Best Director: Claude Chabrol for  Story
Of Women
Best Actor: John Hurt in  Scandal
Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert in  Story Of Women
Best Supporting Actor: Ethan Hawke in  Dad  and  Dead Poets Society
Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston in  Enemies: A Love Story
Best Screenplay: Blake Edwards for  Skin Deep
Best Cinematography: Jeff Preiss for  Let’s Get Lost
Best Music: Michael Kamen for  The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti for  The Adventures Of Baron
Munchausen
Best Costume Design: Jane Robinson for  Scandal
Sominex Award:  Batman
Dramamine Award:  Steel Magnolias
Mechanical Actor: Spike Lee for  Do The Right Thing
Mechanical Actress: Roseanne Barr for  She-Devil
1990  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  GoodFellas
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for  GoodFellas
Best Actor: Michel Blanc in  Monsieur Hire
Best Actress: Anjelica Huston in  The Grifters
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci in  GoodFellas
Best Supporting Actress: Lorraine Bracco in  GoodFellas
Best Screenplay: Craig Lucas for  Longtime Companion
Best Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton for  The Grifters
Best Music: Elmer Bernstein for  The Grifters
Best Production Design: Dennis Gassner for  The Grifters
Best Costume Design: Richard Bruno for  The Grifters
Sominex Award: 
Dramamine Award: 
Mechanical Actor:  
Mechanical Actress: 
1991  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  The Man In The Moon
Best Director: Robert Mulligan for  The Man In The Moon
Best Actor: River Phoenix in  Dogfight  and  My Own Private Idaho
Best Actress: Judy Davis in  Barton Fink, Impromptu,  and  Naked
Lunch
Best Supporting Actor: Harvey Keitel in  Bugsy, Mortal
Thoughts,  and  Thelma (ampersand) Louise
Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Lewis in  Cape Fear
Best Screenplay: Michael Tolkin for  The Rapture
Best Cinematography: Freddie Francis for  Cape Fear  and  The Man In
The Moon
Best Music: Ennio Morricone for  Bugsy
Best Production Design: Dennis Gassner for  Barton Fink  and  Bugsy
Best Costume Design: Albert Wolsky for  Bugsy
Sominex Award: 
Dramamine Award: 
Mechanical Actor:  
Mechanical Actress: 
1992  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Raise The Red Lantern
Best Director: Robert Altman for  The Player
Best Actor: Tim Robbins in  Bob Roberts  and  The Player
Best Actress: Emma Thompson in  Howards End
Best Supporting Actor: Jaye Davidson in  The Crying Game
Best Supporting Actress: Judy Davis in  Husbands And Wives
Best Screenplay: Michael Tolkin for  The Player
Best Cinematography: Zhao Fei and Lun Yang for  Raise The Red
Lantern
Best Music: Lenny Niehaus for  Unforgiven
Best Production Design: Marc Caro for  Delicatessen
Best Costume Design: Alexander Julien for  The Player
Sominex Award:  A Few Good Men
Dramamine Award:  Basic Instinct
Mechanical Actor: Michael Douglas in  Basic Instinct
Mechanical Actress: ****
1993  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Six Degrees Of Separation
Best Director: Nancy Savoca for  Household Saints
Best Actor: Dennis Quaid in  Flesh And Bone
Best Actress: Stockard Channing in  Six Degrees Of Separation
Best Supporting Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio in  A Boy’s Life  and  What’s
Eating Gilbert Grape?
Best Supporting Actress: Regina Tourney in  Like Water For Chocolate
Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh for  Naked
Best Cinematography: Michael Balhaus for  The Age Of Innocence
Best Music: Elmer Bernstein for  The Age Of Innocence  and  The
Cemetery Club
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti for  The Age Of Innocence
Best Costume Design: Gabriella Pescucci for  The Age Of Innocence
Sominex Award:  Heaven And Earth
Dramamine Award:  Falling Down
Mechanical Actor: Richard Gere in  Sommersby
Mechanical Actress: Madonna in  Body Of Evidence
1994  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Red
Best Director: Krzyzstof Kieslowski for  Red and  White
Best Actor: Terence Stamp in  Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Best Actress: Linda Fiorentino in  The Last Seduction
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale in  Little Women
Best Supporting Actress: Kristin Scott Thomas in  Four Weddings and
a Funeral
Best Screenplay: Steve Baranczek for  The Last Seduction
Best Cinematography: Stephen Czapsky for  Ed Wood
Best Music: Zbigniew Preissner for  Red and  White
Best Production Design: Dennis Gastner for  The Hudsucker Proxy
Best Costume Design: Lizzie Gardiner and Tim Chappel for  Priscilla,
Queen of The Desert
Sominex Award:  Wyatt Earp
1995  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Exotica
Best Director: Terry Zwigoff for  Crumb
Best Actor: John Travolta in  Get Shorty
Best Actress: (A three-way tie) Mia Kershner in  Exotica;  Alicia
Silverstone in  Clueless;  Nicole Kidman in  To Die For
Best Supporting Actor: Tim Roth in  Rob Roy
Best Supporting Actress: Mare Winningham in  Georgia
Best Screenplay: (tie) Atom Egoyan for  Exotica  and Buck Henry for  To
Die For
Best Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel for  The Usual Suspects
Best Music: John Ottman for  The Usual Suspects
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti for  Casino
Best Costumes: Mona May for  Clueless
Sominex Award:  The Brothers McMullen
Dramamine Award:  Braveheart
Mechanical Actor: Dennis Miller in  The Net  and the cast of  The
Brothers McMullen
Mechanical Actress: Annette Bening in  The American President
1996  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  La Ceremonie
Best Director: Claude Chabrol for  La Ceremonie
Best Actor: Ewen McGregor in  Trainspotting
Best Actress: (tie) Kristin Scott Thomas in  The English Patient  and
Emily Watson in  Breaking The Waves
Best Supporting Actor: Ian Holm in  Big Night
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Kay Place in  Citizen Ruth  and  Manny
and Lo
Best Screenplay: John Sayles for  Lone Star
Best Cinematography: (tie) Darius Khondji for  Stealing Beauty  and
Oliver Stapleton for  Kansas City
Best Music: Tiffany Anders, Burt Bacharach, David Baerwald, Carole
Bayer Sager, Ed Berghoff, Elvis Costello, Gerry Goffin, Louise Goffin,
Tonio K, Larry Klein, J. Mascis, Joni Mitchell, Boyd Rice, David A.
Stewart, and J. Mayo Williams for  Grace Of My Heart
Best Production Design: Harley Jessup for  James And The Giant Peach
Best Costume Design: Dona Granata for  Kansas City
Sominex Award:  The English Patient
Dramamine Award:  A Time To Kill
Mechanical Actor: All the men in  She’s The One
Mechanical Actress: Maxine Bahns in  She’s The One
1997  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture: (tie)  Crash  and  Grosse Pointe Blank
Best Director: David Cronenberg for  Crash
Best Actor: John Cusack for  Grosse Pointe Blank
Best Actress: Julie Christie in  Afterglow
Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey in  L. A. Confidential
Best Supporting Actress: Christina Ricci in  The Ice Storm
Best Screenplay: Neil LaBute for  In The Company Of Men
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins for  Kundun
Best Music: (tie) Eleni Karaindrou for  Ulysses’ Gaze  and Michael
Nyman for  Gattaca
Best Production Design: (tie) Dan Weil for  The Fifth Element  and Jan
Roelfs for  Gattaca
Best Costume Design: Denise Cronenberg for  Crash
Sominex Award:  The Pillow Book
Dramamine Award:  Con Air
Mechanical Actor: Billy Zane in  Titanic
Mechanical Actress: Elisabeth Shue in  Deconstructing Harry  and  The
Saint
1998  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Gods And Monsters
Best Director: (tie) Bill Condon for  Gods And Monsters  and Todd
Solondz for  Happiness
Best Actor: Ian McKellen in  Gods And Monsters
Best Actress: Christina Ricci in  The Opposite Of Sex
Best Supporting Actor: Dylan Baker in  Happiness
Best Supporting Actress: Lisa Kudrow in  The Opposite Of Sex
Best Screenplay: Bill Condon for  Gods And Monsters
Best Cinematography: Maryse Alberti for  Happiness  and  Velvet
Goldmine
Best Music: Carter Burwell for  Gods And Monsters
Best Production Design: Thérèse DePrez for  Happiness
Best Costume Design: Bruce Finlayson for  Gods And Monsters
Sominex Award:  Dangerous Beauty
Dramamine Award:  Stepmom
Mechanical Actor: Bruce Willis in  Armageddon, The
Siege  and  Mercury Rising
Mechanical Actress: Jena Malone in  Stepmom
1999  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Fight Club
Best Director: (tie) David Fincher for  Fight Club  and Spike Jonze
for Being John Malkovich
Best Actor: Terence Stamp in  The Limey
Best Actress: (tie) Nicole Kidman in  Eyes Wide Shut  and Hillary Swank
in Boys Don’t Cry
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman in  Magnolia  and  The
Talented Mr. Ripley
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener in  Being John Malkovich
Best Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for  Election
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson for  Bringing Out The
Dead  and  Snow Falling On Cedars
Best Music: Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman for  South Park: Bigger,
Longer and Uncut
Best Production Design: Owen Paterson for  The Matrix
Best Costume Design: Michael Kaplan for  Fight Club
Sominex Award:  The World Is Not Enough
Dramamine Award:  The Green Mile
Mechanical Actor: Kevin Spacey in  American Beauty
Mechanical Actress: Annette Bening in  American Beauty
2000  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  L’ Humanite
Best Director: (tie) Terence Davies for  The House Of Mirth  and Jim
Jarmusch for  Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai
Best Actor: Forrest Whitaker in  Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai
Best Actress: (tie) Severine Caneele in  L’ Humanite  and Michelle Yeoh
in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Black in  High Fidelity  and  Jesus’s Son
Best Supporting Actress: Lupe Ontiveros in  Chuck And Buck
Best Screenplay: Kenneth Lonnergan for  You Can Count On Me
Best Cinematography: Remi Adefarasin for  The House Of Mirth
Best Music: RZA for  Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai
Best Production Design: Gideon Ponte for  American
Psycho  and  Hamlet
Best Costume Design: Monica Howe for  The House Of Mirth
Sominex Award:  Mission Impossible 2
Dramamine Award:  The Replacements  (aka The Scabs)
Mechanical Actor: Ian Holm in  Joe Gould’s Secret
Mechanical Actress: Charlize Theron in  Reindeer Games
2001  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  The Werckmeister Harmonies
Best Director: Bela Tarr for  The Werckmeister Harmonies
Best Actor: John Cameron Mitchell for  Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Best Actress: Naomi Watts in  Mulholland Drive
Best Supporting Actor: Steve Buscemi in  Ghost World
Best Supporting Actress: Scarlett Johansson in  Ghost World  and  The
Man Who Wasn’t There
Best Screenplay: Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff for  Ghost World
Best Cinematography: (tie) Peter Deming for  From
Hell  and  Mulholland Drive  and Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-
bin for  In The Mood For Love
Best Music: Mihály Vig for  The Werckmeister Harmonies
Best Production Design: Edward T. McAvoy for  Ghost World
Best Costume Design: Mary Zophres for  Ghost World
Sominex Award:
Dramamine Award:
Mechanical Actor:
Mechanical Actress:
2002  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture: (tie)  Far From Heaven  and  The Son’s Room
Best Director: (tie) Todd Haynes for  Far From Heaven  and Aleksandr
Sokurov for  Russian Ark
Best Actor: Greg Kinnear in  Auto Focus
Best Actress: (tie) Emmanuelle Devos in  Read My Lips  and Julianne
Moore in  Far From Heaven  and Samantha Morton in  Minority
Report  and  Morvern Callar
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Izzard in  The Cat’s Meow
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson in  Far From Heaven
Best Screenplay: Bill Condon for  Chicago
Best Cinematography: Tilman Büttner for  Russian Ark
Best Music: Elmer Bernstein for  Far From Heaven
Best Production Design: Mark Friedberg for  Far From Heaven
Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell for  Far From Heaven  and  Gangs
Of New York
Sominex Award:  Naqoyqatsi
Dramamine Award:  Bowling For Dollars
Mechanical Actor: Anthony Hopkins in  Red Dragon
Mechanical Actress: Catherine Keener in  Lovely And Amazing
2003  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Decasia
Best Director: Bill Morrison for  Decasia
Best Actor: Johnny Depp in  Pirates Of The Caribbean
Best Actress: Hope Davis in  American Splendor  and  The Secret Lives
Of Dentists
Best Supporting Actor: Max Pirkis in  Master and Commander: The
Far Side Of The World
Best Supporting Actress: Ludivine Sagnier in  Swimming Pool
Best Screenplay: Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini
for American Splendor
Best Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky for  Spider
Best Music: Michael Gordon for  Decasia
Best Production Design: Andrew Laws for  Down With Love
Best Costume Design: Daniel Orlandi for  Down With Love
Sominex Award:
Dramamine Award:  In My Skin
Mechanical Actor: Anthony Hopkins in  The Human Stain
Mechanical Actress: Nicole Kidman in  The Human Stain
2004  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Kinsey
Best Director: Bill Condon for  Kinsey
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke in  Before Sunset
Best Actress: Laura Linney in  Kinsey  and  P.S.
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Sarsgaard in  Kinsey
Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst in  Eternal Sunshine Of The
Spotless Mind
Best Screenplay: Bill Condon for  Kinsey
Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle for  Hero, Last Life In The
Universe and  Days Of Being Wild
Best Music: Alberto Iglesias for  Bad Education
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti for  The Aviator
Best Costume Design: Emi Wada for  Hero  and  House Of The Flying
Daggers
Sominex Award:  The Village
Dramamine Award:  The Passion Of The Christ
Mechanical Actor: Cate Blanchett in  The Aviator
Mechanical Actress: Anthony Hopkins in  Alexander
2005  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Mysterious Skin
Best Director: Gregg Araki for  Mysterious Skin
Best Actor: Joseph Gordon-Leavitt in  Mysterious Skin
Best Actress: Maria Bello in  A History Of Violence
Best Supporting Actor: Paddy Constantine in  My Summer Of Love
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener in  Capote
Best Screenplay: Gregg Araki for  Mysterious Skin
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit for  Good Night And Good
Luck  and  Syriana
Best Music: Howard Shore for  A History Of Violence
Best Production Design: William Chang Suk Ping for  2046
Best Costume Design: William Chang Suk Ping for  2046
Sominex Award: Saraband
Dramamine Award: Crash
Mechanical Actor: Tom Cruise for  War Of The Worlds
Mechanical Actress: Dakota Fanning for  War Of The Worlds
Complete coverage of the 2005 IRAs here.
2006  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  L’Enfant
Best Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne for  L’Enfant
Best Actor: Ryan Gosling in  Half Nelson
Best Actress: Maggie Cheung in  Clean
Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Mackie in  Half Nelson
Best Supporting Actress: Carmen Maura in  Volver
Best Screenplay: (tie) Guillermo Del Toro for  Pan’s Labyrinth  and
Jean- Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne for  L’Enfant
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for  Children Of Men
Best Production Design: Eugenio Caballero for  Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Music: Philip Glass for  Notes On A Scandal  and  The Illusionist
Best Costume Design: Sharon Davis for  Dreamgirls
Sominex Award:  The Da Vinci Code
Dramamine Award:  Babel
Mechanical Actor: Robert Downey, Jr. in  Fur and  A Scanner Darkly
Mechanical Actress: Julianne Moore in  Children Of Men
Complete coverage of the 2006 IRAs here.
2007  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert
Ford
Best Director: Andrew Dominik for  The Assassination Of Jesse James
By The Coward Robert Ford
Best Actor: Casey Affleck in  The Assassination Of Jesse James By The
Coward Robert Ford  and  Gone Baby Gone
Best Actress: Marina Hands in  Lady Chatterley
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Schneider in  The Assassination Of Jesse
James By The Coward Robert Ford and  Lars And The Real Girl
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan in  Gone Baby Gone
Best Screenplay: Corneliu Porumboiu for  12:08 East Of Bucharest
Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins for  The Assassination Of Jesse
James By The Coward Robert Ford, In The Valley Of Elah  and  No
Country For Old Men
Best Production Design: Patricia Norris for  The Assassination Of Jesse
James By The Coward Robert Ford
Best Music: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for  The Assassination Of Jesse
James By The Coward Robert Ford
Best Costume Design: Patricia Norris for  The Assassination Of Jesse
James By The Coward Robert Ford
Sominex Award:  Youth Without Youth
Dramamine Award:  Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
Mechanical Actor: John Travolta in  Hairspray
Mechanical Actress: Meryl Streep in  Lions For Lambs  and  Rendition
Complete coverage of the 2007 IRAs here.
2008  IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  The Edge Of Heaven
Best Director: Fatih Akin -  The Edge Of Heaven
Best Actor: Michael Shannon -  Shotgun Stories
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca -  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Supporting Actor: Emile Hirsch -  Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Hanna Schygulla -  The Edge Of Heaven
Best Screenplay: Fatih Akin -  The Edge Of Heaven
Best Cinematography: Jody Shapiro -  My Winnipeg
Best Production Design: Rejean Labrie -  My Winnipeg
Best Music: Carter Burwell for  In Bruges  and  Burn After Reading
Best Costumes: Danny Glicker -  Milk
Sominex:  The Happening
Dramamine:  The Reader
Mechanical Actor: Mark Wahlberg for  The Happening
Mechanical Actress: Meryl Streep for  Doubt
Complete coverage of the 2008 IRAs here.
2009 IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  Hunger
Best Director: Olivier Assayas -  Summer Hours
Best Actor: Sharlto Copley -  District 9
Best Actress: Catalina Saavedra -  The Maid
Best Supporting Actor: Liam Cunningham -  Hunger
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Faris -  Observe And Report
Best Screenplay: Olivier Assayas -  Summer Hours
Best Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt -  Hunger
Best Production Design: Philip Ivey -  District 9
Best Music: Marvin Hamlisch -  The Informant!
Best Costumes: Janet Patterson -  Bright Star
Sominex:  Public Enemies
Dramamine:  Anti-Christ
Mechanical Actor: Peter Sarsgaard for  An Education
Mechanical Actress: Hilary Swank for  Amelia
2010 IRA Film Award Winners
Best Picture:  A Prophet/Un Prophete
Best Director: Jacques Audiard -  A Prophet/Un Prophete
Best Actor: Edgar Ramirez -  Carlos
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton -  I Am Love
Best Supporting Actor: Niels Arestrup -  A Prophet/Un Prophete
Best Supporting Actress: Dale Dickey -  Winter's Bone
Best Screenplay: Thomas Bidegain and Jacques Audiard -  A
Prophet/Un Prophete
Best Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux -  I Am Love
Best Production Design: Francesca Balestra Di Mottola -  I Am Love
Best Music: John Adams -  I Am Love
Best Costumes: Antonella Cannarozzi -  I Am Love
Sominex:  Cairo Time
Dramamine:  Black Swan
Mechanical Actor: Vincent Cassel for  Black Swan
Mechanical Actress: Natalie Portman for  Black Swan
The Governor Scott Walker Award For Achievement In Political
Thuggery:  Waiting For "Superman"
Complete coverage of the 2010 IRAs here .
2011 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  The Tree Of Life
Best Director: Terrence Malick -  The Tree Of Life
Best Actor: Peyman Moadi -  A Separation
Best Actress: Leila Hatami -  A Separation
Best Supporting Actor: Hunter McCracken -  The Tree Of Life
Best Supporting Actress: Sareh Bayet -  A Separation
Best Screenplay: Ashgar Farhadi -  A Separation
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki -  The Tree Of Life
Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti -  Hugo
Best Score: Alberto Iglesias -  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy  and  The Skin I
Live In
Best Editing: Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy
Weber, Mark Yoshikawa -  The Tree Of Life
Best Costumes: Jacqueline Durran -  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  Midnight In Paris
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  The Help
Mechanical Actress: Meryl Streep -  The Iron Lady
Mechanical Actor: Owen Wilson -  Midnight In Paris
Complete coverage of the 2011 IRAs here.
2012 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan -  Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Best Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant -  Amour
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz -  The Deep Blue Sea
Best Supporting Actor: Taner Birsel -  Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Best Supporting Actress: Cecile De France -  The Kid With A Bike
Best Screenplay: Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Ercan Kesal
- Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Best Cinematography: Gokhan Tiryaki -  Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Best Production Design: Arvinder Grewal -  Cosmopolis
Best Score: Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin -  Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Best Editing: Todd Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk -  How To
Survive A Plague
Best Costumes: Kari Perkins - Bernie
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): (tie)  Les
Miserables and Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  The Intouchables
Mechanical Actress: Anne Hathaway -  Les Miserables
Mechanical Actor: Russell Crowe -  Les Miserables
Complete coverage of the 2012 IRAs here.
2013 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Laurence Anyways
Best Director: Xavier Dolan for  Laurence Anyways and  I Killed My
Mother
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for  Her
Best Actress: Hadas Yaron for  Fill The Void
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Bruhl for  The Fifth Estate and  Rush
Best Supporting Actress:  Nathalie Baye  for Laurence Anyways
Best Screenplay: Sarah Polley for  Stories We Tell
Best Cinematography:  Asaf Sudri  for Fill The Void
Best Production Design:  K.K. Barrett  for Her
Best Score: (tie) Alex Ebert for  All Is Lost  and Arcade Fire for  Her
Best Editing:  Mike Munn  for Stories We Tell
Best Costumes:  Francois Barbeau, Xavier Dolan  for Laurence Anyways
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  Faust
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  The Great Gatsby
Mechanical Actress:  Meryl Streep for  August: Osage County
Mechanical Actor:  Jared Leto for  Dallas Buyers Club
Complete coverage of the 2013 IRAs here. 
2014 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Nightcrawler
Best Director: Dan Gilroy for  Nightcrawler
Best Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal for  Nightcrawler
Best Actress: Essie Davis for  The Babadook
Best Supporting Actor: Ethan Hawke for  Boyhood
Best Supporting Actress:  Agata Kulesza  for Ida
Best Screenplay:   Dan Gilroy for  Nightcrawler
Best Cinematography:  Robert Elswit for  Nightcrawler and  Inherent
Vice
Best Production Design:  Suzie Davies  for Mr. Turner
Best Score:  Mica Levi for  Under The Skin
Best Editing: (tie) Simon Njoo for  The Babadook;  Jay Cassidy, Stuart
Levy and Conor O'Neill for  Foxcatcher
Best Costumes: (tie)  Kasia Walicka-Maimone  for Foxcatcher and  A
Most Violent Year (but not  St. Vincent); Jacqueline Durran for Mr.
Turner
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  The Monuments
Men
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  The Imitation
Game
Mechanical Actress: Lilla Crawford  for Into The Woods
Mechanical Actor: The Entire Cast of  The Monuments Men
Complete coverage of the 2014 IRAs here. 
2015 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Tangerine
Best Director:  Miroslav Slaboshpytski for  The T ribe
Best Actor:  Jason Segel for  The End Of The T our 
Best Actress:  (tie) Anne Dorval for  Mommy
                   (tie) Kitana Kiki Rodriguez for  Tangerine
Best Supporting Actor:  Alexander Skarsgård for  The Diary Of A Teenage
Girl
Best Supporting Actress:  Mya Taylor for  Tangerine  by acclamation
Best Nonfiction Film:  In Jackson Heights
Best Screenplay:   Donald Mar gulies for  The End Of The T our
Best Cinematography:  Sean Baker and Radium Cheung for  Tangerine
Best Production Design:  (tie) Judy Becker for  Carol
                                    (tie) Colin Gibson for  Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Score:  (tie) Junkie XL for  Mad Max: Fury Road
                 (tie) Atticus Ross and Brian Wilson for Love And Mercy
Best Editing:  Sean Baker for  Tangerine
Best Costumes:  Shih-Ching Tsou for  Tangerine
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  The Assassin
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Chi-Raq
Mechanical Actress: Eddie Redmayne  for The Danish Girl
Mechanical Actor: John Cusack for  Chi-Raq and  Love And Mercy
Complete coverage of the 2015 IRAs here.
2016 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Moonlight
Best Director:  Barry Jenkins for  Moonlight
Best Actor:  Antonythasan  Jesuthasan  for Dheepan
Best Actress:  Annette Bening for  20th Century Women
Best Supporting Actor:  Ralph Fiennes for  A Bigger Splash  and Hail,
Caesar!
Best Supporting Actress:  Linda Emond for  Indignation
Best Nonfiction Film:  O.J.: Made In America
Best Screenplay:  Taylor Sheridan for  Hell Or High W ater
Best Cinematography:  James Laxton for  Moonlight
Best Production Design:  (tie) Craig Lathrop for  The Witch
                                            (tie) Ryan Warren Smith for  Green Room
Best Score:  Nicholas Britell for  Moonlight
Best Editing:  Andrey Paperniy for  Under The Sun
Best Costumes:  Madeline Fontaine for  Jackie
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  Girl On A Train
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Nocturnal
Animals
Mechanical Actress: Nicole Kidman  for Lion
Mechanical Actor: Aaron Taylor-Johnson for  Nocturnal Animals
Complete coverage of the 2016 IRAs here.
2017 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  BPM
Best Director:  Robin Campillo for  BPM
Best Actor: Michael Keaton  for The Founder
Best Actress:  Daniela Vega for  A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer
Fantástica)
Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe  for The Florida Pr oject
Best Supporting Actress: Lesley Manville  for Phantom Thr ead
Best Nonfiction Film:  Dawson City: Frozen Time
Best Screenplay:   Robert Siegel for  The Founder
Best Cinematography:  Alexis Zabe for  The Florida Pr oject
Best Production Design: Stephonik Youth for  The Florida Project
Best Score:  Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never for  Good Time
Best Editing:  Robin Campillo, Stéphanie Léger and Anita Roth for  BPM
Best Costumes: Pascaline Chavanne for  Frantz
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  The Post
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  mother!
Mechanical Actress: Emma Watson  for Beauty and the Beast and  The
Circle
Mechanical Actor: James Franco for  The Disaster Artist, et. al 
Complete coverage of the 2017 IRAs here.
2018 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Capernaum
Best Director:  Nadine Labaki for  Capernaum
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix  for Don't W orry, He W on't Get Far On Foot;
Mary Magdalene; The Sisters Br others; Y ou W ere Never Really Her e
Best Actress:  Sakura Andô for  Shoplifters
Best Supporting Actor: Brian Tyree Henry  for Hotel Artemis , If Beale
Street Could Talk, Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse, White Boy Rick,
Widows
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King  for If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Nonfiction Film:  Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Best Screenplay:  Barry Jenkins  for If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Cinematography:  Alfonso Cuaron  for Roma
Best Production Design: Eugenio Caballero for  Roma
Best Score/Use Of Music:  Nicholas Britell for  If Beale Street Could
Talk
Best Editing:  Nick Fenton, Chris Gill and Julian Hart  for American
Animals
Best Costumes: Caroline Eselin for  If Beale Street Could Talk
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  On The Basis Of
Sex
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  The Favourite
Mechanical Actress: Tilda Swinton  for Suspiria
Mechanical Actor: Rami Malek for  Bohemian Rhapsody
Complete coverage of the 2018 IRAs here.
2019 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  End Of The Century
Best Director:  Lucio Castro for  End Of The Century
Best Actor: Antonio Banderas  for Pain And Glory
Best Actress:  Lupita Nyong'o for  Us
Best Supporting Actor: Asier Etxeandia  for Pain And Glory
Best Supporting Actress: Shuzhen Zhao  for The Farewell
Best Nonfiction Film:  American Factory
Best Screenplay:   Pedro Almodóvar  for Pain And Glory
Best Cinematography:  David Gallego  for Birds Of Passage
Best Production Design: Barbara Ling for  Once Upon A Time...In
Hollywood
Best Score/Use Of Music:  Mary Ramos for  Once Upon A Time...In
Hollywood
Best Editing:  Kim Horton  for 63 Up
Best Costumes: Arianne Phillips for  Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  The Lighthouse
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Joker
Mechanical Actress: Renee Zellwegger  for Judy
Mechanical Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for  Joker
2020 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS
Best Picture:  Kajillionaire
Best Director:  Miranda July for  Kajillionaire
Best Actor: Bartosz Bielenia  for Corpus Christi 
Best Actress:  Kate Winslet for  Ammonite
Best Supporting Actor: Glynn Turman  for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 
Best Supporting Actress: Robyn Nevin  for Relic
Best Nonfiction Film:  Dick Johnson Is Dead and  My Octopus
Teacher (tie)
Best Screenplay:   Miranda July for  Kajillionaire
Best Cinematography:  Benjamin
Kracun  for Beats and  Monsoon and  Promising Young Woman
Best Production Design:  Mayne Berke for  Sylvie's Love and Sergey
Ovanov for  Beanpole (tie)  
Best Score/Use Of Music:  Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O'Halloran
for Ammonite
Best Editing:  Andrew Patterson  for The Vast Of Night
Best Costumes: Michael O'Connor for  Ammonite
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep):  Tenet
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Mank
Mechanical Actress: Elizabeth Moss  for The Invisible Man and  Shirley
Mechanical Actor: James Corden for  The Prom

IRA BEST PICTURE WINNERS
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Lipstick  and  The Marquise Of O (tie) (1976)
Annie Hall (1977)
Days Of Heaven (1978)
Fedora (1979)
The Big Red One (1980)
Cutter’s Way (1981)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1983)
L’Argent  and  Once Upon A Time In America (tie) (1984)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Eyes On The Prize (1986)
Housekeeping (1987)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Story Of Women (1989)
GoodFellas (1990)
The Man In The Moon (1991)
Raise The Red Lantern (1992)
Six Degrees Of Separation (1993)
Red (1994)
Exotica (1995)
La Ceremonie (1996)
Crash  (the David Cronenberg film) and  Grosse Pointe Blank (tie)
(1997)
Gods And Monsters (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
L’ Humanite (2000)
The Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
Far From Heaven  and  The Son’s Room (tie) (2002)
Decasia (2003)
Kinsey (2004)
Mysterious Skin (2005)
L’Enfant (2006)
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Edge Of Heaven (2008)
Hunger (2009)
A Prophet/Un Prophete (2010) 
The Tree Of Life (2011)
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2012)
Laurence Anyways (2013)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Tangerine (2015)
Moonlight (2016)
BPM (2017)
Capernaum (2018)
End Of The Century (2019)  
Kajillionaire (2020) 
THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1940S
1. Citizen Kane  (Orson Welles, 1941)
2. Letter From An Unknown Woman  (Max Ophüls, 1948)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons  (Orson Welles, 1942)
4. Notorious  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
5. The Big Sleep  (Howard Hawks, 1946)
6. Shadow Of A Doubt  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
7. Red River  (Howard Hawks, 1948)
8. It's A Wonderful Life  (Frank Capra, 1946)
9. To Have And Have Not  (Howard Hawks, 1944)
10. The Palm Beach Story  (Preston Sturges, 1942)
See the complete list of the Top 100 Films Of The 1940s here.
THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1950s
1. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
2. Touch of Evil  (Orson Welles, 1958)
3. Vertigo  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
4. Rear Window  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) 
5. The Searchers  (John Ford, 1956) 
6. In a Lonely Place  (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 
7. Anatomy of a Murder  (Otto Preminger, 1959) 
8. Tokyo Story  (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 
9. North by Northwest  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) 
10. Pickpocket  (Robert Bresson, 1959) 
See the complete list of the Top 100 Films Of The 1950s here. 
THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1960s
1. Psycho  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
2. The Apartment  (Billy Wilder, 1960)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance  (John Ford, 1962)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey  (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
5. Chimes At Midnight  (Orson Welles, 1965)
6. Once Upon A Time In The West  (Sergio Leone, 1968) 
7. The Birds  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) 
8. Marnie  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) 
9. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs  (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
10. Contempt  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)....
See the complete list here.
THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 1980s
1. Dekalog
2. Shoah
3. Housekeeping
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Raging Bull
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Once Upon A Time In America
8. Eyes On The Prize
9. Danton
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors
See the complete list here.
THE IRA AWARDS: THE BEST FILMS OF THE 2000s (2000-
2009) (voted in 2010)
1. The Son/Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2002)
2. Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
4. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert
Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
5. The Edge Of Heaven (Fatih Akin, 2007)  (tie)
In The Mood For Love (Kar Wai Wong, 2000)  (tie)
7. The Heart Of The World (Guy Maddin, 2001)
8. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)  (tie)
Bus 174 (José Padilha and Felipe Lacerda, 2002)  (tie)
10. The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)  (tie)
Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004)  (tie)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)  (tie) 
THE IRA AWARDS: THE BEST FILMS OF THE 2010s (2010-
2019) (voted in 2021)
1. A Separation  (Asghar Farhadi, 201 1)  
2. Nightcrawler  (Dan Gilroy , 2014)  
3. Moonlight  (Barry Jenkins, 2016)   
4. (tie)  Un Pr ophète  (Jacques Audiard, 2009/2010)  
    (tie)  Tangerine  (Sean Baker , 2015)  
6. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood  (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)  
7. Laur ence Anyways  (Xavier Dolan, 2012)  
8. In Jackson Heights  (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)  
9. The T ree Of Life  (Terrence Malick, 201 1)  
10. The T ribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, 2014) 
THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL
TIME (voted in 2012)
1. The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
2. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
5. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
6. Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
7. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
10. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
See the complete list of the Top 100 Films Of All Time here.
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