THE 51st ANNUAL IRA AWARDS

THE 51st IRA FILM AWARDS

Date: March 28, 2026

Location: New York City and far-flung locales via Zoom

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 1975. Officially known as the New York Independent Film Critics Awards–but lovingly nicknamed the IRAs–it is more international and indie focused than the Oscars, more mercurial than the LA Film Critics and more loyal to their favorites than the Golden Globes. The IRAs are proud to announce picks for the best movies released commercially on any platform since the last IRAs in April of 2025.

Without further ado, the IRA goes to... 
                                                                         

Best Picture: It Was Just An Accident

           Runner-up:  The History of Sound

Best Director: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident 

           Runner-up: Oliver Hermanus for The History of Sound

Best Actors: Josh O'Connor for The History of Sound, The Mastermind, Rebuilding, Wake Up Dead Man (co-winner) 

                           
                           Vahid Mobasseri for It Was Just An Accident (co-winner)                  

            Runner-up: Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon  

Best Supporting Actors: John Carroll Lynch for Sorry, Baby (co-winner) 

                                                    
                                                    Gaby Hoffman for The Mastermind and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (co-winner) 
                            

           Runner-up: A$AP Rocky for Highest 2 Lowest and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You  

Best Nonfiction Film:  Pee-wee As Himself 

            Runner-up: Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

Damien Bona Memorial G-ddamned Cartoon Award:  Zootopia 2 

            Runner-up: 100 Meters aka Hyakuemu  

Best Screenplay: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident 

            Runner-up: Robert Kaplow for Blue Moon

Best Cinematography: Alexander Dynan for The History of Sound

            Runner-up:  Darius Khondji for Eddington, Mickey 17 and Marty Supreme  

Best Production Design: Josefin Åsberg, Jørgen Stangebye Larsen for Sentimental Value    

            Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen for The Phoenician Scheme 

Best Score/Use Of Music: Ludwig Göransson for Sinners 

            Runner-up: Rob Mazurek for The Mastermind 

Best Editing: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme  

            Runner-up:  Andy Jurgensen for One Battle After Another (tie) 

                                      Xi Feng for Universal Language (tie)  

Best Costumes:  Miyako Bellizzi for Bonjour Tristesse, The History of Sound and Marty Supreme

            Runner-up:  Colleen Atwood for Kiss of the Spider Woman and One Battle After Another  

                                       

Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): Hamnet  

            Runner-up:  Peter Hujar's Day

                                      

Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick):  Blue Moon

            Runner-up:  A House of Dynamite

Mechanical Actors:  Emma Stone for Bugonia and Eddington (co-winner)  

                                            Sydney Sweeney for Christy and The Housemaid (co-winner)                                 

            Runner-up:  Sean Penn for One Battle After Another

This year, the 51st Annual IRA Awards took place on March 28, 2025. Any film that is commercially available roughly since our last ceremony qualifies for an IRA. This includes any film you can see in any way: a streamer, a digital download, a rental, a BluRay, at a multiplex, at a drive-in or–our favorite option–an old-fashioned movie palace. Festival play does not qualify. 

Want some great recommendations to check out? Here's a list of all the films that scored enough points to merit attention at the IRAs. If you want to see some of the best films of 2025-2026, let the IRAs lead the way.

 

The IRAs and the Oscars rarely overlap: only twice in the 51 year history of the IRAs have both named the same film as the Best Picture of the year.  1977's Annie Hall and 2016's Moonlight each won the top prize from both the Academy and the IRAs. While the IRAs certainly lean more indie and international, even the Oscar winner for Best International/Foreign Film has never won the IRA for Best Picture. 

In fact, the IRAs overlap very little with any other awards group. The films it honors are acclaimed, well reviewed and appear on many "best of the year" lists. And yet, its top honors often go to films overlooked by the others. Eclectic, thy name is IRA. And that's a great reason to check out our winners. 

 

Here are the top 10 vote-getters for Best Picture:

1.  It Was Just An Accident 

2. The History of Sound  

3. Blue Moon  

4. Marty Supreme  
5. Sorry, Baby 

6. Twinless 
7. The Plague 

8. Sentimental Value 

9. Sirat 

10. Ne Zha 2 (tie) 

      Rebuilding (tie)  

      The Secret Agent (tie) 

      Universal Language (tie)

Here's a link to The IRA What To Watch Website. You'll find many of these 2025 films and where you can find them online (Amazon, Hulu, Criterion, wherever). Throughout the year, we add in movies that members have seen and highly recommend. Why wait to the IRAs when you can discover great movies all the time?

And now, a blow-by-blow description of the night, in order of voting. A transfusion of new members proved a happy surprise. Dan arrived courtesy of our host's new bride. Paul arrived courtesy of academia and George the Younger. Paul foolishly made plans after the IRAs, as if the evening ever had a chance of ending before midnight. But his ardent support of goddamn cartoons (China's Ne Zha 2 was Paul's favorite film of the year) and wry comments showed Paul could be elbows up and take as good as he got. Dan amiably took Howard's stinging blows on his picks with amiable good grace. Don't be fooled. His friendly demeanor took  a dramatic turn by the end of the night, like an Agatha Christie novel where the mousy secretary is revealed in the final moments to be a femme fatale. 

 

The online contingent of the IRAs featured a cameo by Mark followed by an evening's worth of fun from the two Aarons, their home bases spanning our once glorious nation from East Coast to West. Maybe they'll make an in-person appearance in 2027 for our two night event, covering the best films of the 1930s and the best films of 2026-2027? We can only hope, since every time we eavesdropped on their tea spilling it sounded like they were having more fun than the rest of the room combined. 

We begin, as always, with the category of Best Costumes. Instead of our traditional first vote led by the titular Ira (whose warm presence is always felt, a la the Soderbergh film), we began with George, a scholar as well as CEO of the accounting firm Robinson, Robinson, Marcks & Giltz.  The IRA goes to...


BEST COSTUME

1.  Miyako Bellizzi for Bonjour Tristesse, The History of Sound and Marty Supreme (36 pts) (winner)

2. Colleen Atwood for Kiss of the Spider Woman and One Battle After Another (20 pts) 

3. Milena Canonera The Phoenician Scheme and Megadoc (18 pts) (tie)

    Negar Nemati for Universal Language  (18 pts) (tie)

5. Consolate Boyle for Blue Moon (14 pts) 

    

POINT OF ORDER: This year, twelve to thirteen ballots were in play throughout the night for most categories. (Adam voted by proxy and Paul left picks when he reluctantly departed.) Voting begins with each member naming their top pick in a category. If a majority of the ballots  name the same nominee, this triumph is acknowledged as a win "by acclamation." However a winner is chosen (by acclamation or by a complete tally), the result is followed by an automatic vote to rescind.

The Vote To Rescind is offered after every 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. The winner is then named the runner-up. The Vote To Rescind is seen by some as a last minute stop-gap to avoid a bland consensus pick. It is vehemently opposed by Founding Member™ Andy, who registers his displeasure over this rule with the dependable consistency of Old Faithful.  
 

NOTE: Costumes often roam far and wide, not revealing much about the tenor of the evening. Not so this year. Former IRA winner Bill Condon made a welcome cameo appearance with his handsomely mounted Kiss of the Spider Woman. Really, though, Colleen Atwood's honor came via One Battle After Another. Wes Anderson's bespoke comedies are always rich with technical award possibilities and The Phoenician Scheme proved no exception. Amusingly, this mean we could also tip our hats to Megadoc, the nonfiction film about director Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis fiasco. Canada's quirky, excellent Universal Language pops up right away. Will its early support mean a win for our friends in the true North? 

 

The winner is Miyako Bellizzi, who enjoyed an excellent year with the French remake of Bonjour Tristesse (another one of Paul's favorites), the period drama The History of Sound (think Brokeback Mountain, but with more singing) and Marty Supreme. That film went zero for nine at the Academy Awards, but it won't go home empty handed at the IRAs. Far from it. And what's this? IRA favorite Ethan Hawke's Blue Moon scores a surprising mention for the opening night threads of that film's after party for Oklahoma. This year, costumes are a bellweather, since we'll be hearing from Blue Moon, The History of Sound, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Phoenician Scheme and Universal Language all night long. Has the IRA winner for Best Picture already made some noise?

BEST EDITING

1. Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme (20 pts) (winner)

2. Andy Jurgensen for One Battle After Another (18 pts) (tie)  

    Xi Feng for Universal Language (18 pts) (tie) 

4. Cristóbal Fernández for Sirāt (14 pts) 

5. Kim Ho-bin, Kim Sang-beom for No Other Choice (13 pts) 

         

NOTE: Another technical award. It was feared the editing award would always go to a nonfiction film, since documentaries are so notable for the editing that shapes them. (Yes, many docs have a script, but these films are often "found" in the editing, not shaped by a writer.) Not this year, with all five films scoring points for their work in fiction. Two more films for whom attention must be paid: South Korea's No Other Choice and the Spain/France co-production Sirāt. But the winner is Marty Supreme, which goes two for two edging out Oscar Best Picture winner One Battle After Another. So the table tennis drama is two for two, showing PTA's epic IRA night won't go as smoothly for it as Oscar night. 

 

BEST SCORE/USE OF MUSIC

1. Ludwig Göransson for Sinners (30 pts) 

2. Rob Mazurek for The Mastermind  (18 pts) 

3. Kangding Rau for Sirat (14 pts) 

4. Oliver Coates for The History of Sound and Pillion (13 pts) (tie) 

    Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Jurassic World Rebirth and The Phoenician Scheme (13 pts) (tie) 

     Johan Lenox for The Plague (13 pts) (tie)

NOTE: Are the Oscars getting better or the IRAs getting more mainstream? As Howard said, the Oscars ain't the Oscars anymore, with so many new–and international–members giving a goose to the old white men who used to dominate (and still do, to a degree). We're seeing a lot of Oscar nominees in the mix, which isn't typical. And here the IRAs and the Academy agree: the best score/use of music award goes to the blues-drenched vampire dramaq Sinners. It's an especially strong list this year, with Rob Mazurek of Marfa on the list for his jazzy, rainy day music for The Mastermind, Kangding Rau's EDM-ish work on Sirāt and Oliver Coates popping in for The History of Sound, which lets us also honor the first love heartbreak of Pillion.  

 

IRA winner Alexandre Desplat makes the list with his typically delightful work on The Phoenician Scheme, but this lets us also spotlight his work on Frankenstein (another favorite of Paul), though it also means a grudging mention of Jurassic World Rebirth. And Michael's personal passion project The Plague sneaks onto the list in a tie for fourth place! Can the little seen, excellent debut of writer-director Charlie Polinger become a player? Michael's been pounding the drum for it ever since he saw the drama earlier this year and maybe his advocacy is paying off.

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Josefin Åsberg, Jørgen Stangebye Larsen for Sentimental Value (28 pts) 

2. Adam Stockhausen for The Phoenician Scheme (26 pts) 

3. Jack Fisk for Marty Supreme (21 pts) 
4. Louisa Schabas for Universal Language (20 pts) 
5. April Lasky for Oh, Hi! and Presence (12 pts)  

     

NOTE: In a squeaker, Sweden's Oscar winner Sentimental Value wins Best Production Design, edging past the flashier work of The Phoenician Scheme. Newcomer Paul held back no longer. His query as to what precisely we were honoring in the film amounted to a very polite WTF? We're giving Production Design to a film that found a house and shot in it? Really? "The house is a character!" rejoindered Howard and others. It changes throughout the decades; it reflects character; the decor, the furnishings, the human touches! It's alive! Umm, okay. (Next he'll be suggesting Highclere Castle isn't the best thing about Downton Abbey!) Another film makes the list, with our host Alex's personal favorite Presence from Steven Soderbergh shows up for its house. That means we also get to celebrate April Lasky's work on the Logan Lerman black comedy Oh, Hi! Love the handcuffs, but if I was going to award that film it would be for Best Costumes. 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. Alexander Dynan for The History of Sound (28 pts)

2. Darius Khondji for Eddington, Mickey 17 and Marty Supreme (20 pts)  

3. Jingsong Dong for Resurrection (17 pts)  

4. Seamus McGarvey for The Accountant 2 and Die My Love (16 pts) (tie)                           Alfonso Herrera Salcedo for Rebuilding (16 pts) (tie) 

    Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams (16 pts) (tie) 

NOTE: Okay, now it's getting interesting. One might have expected the gorgeously shot Train Dreams to score big here, but it barely squeaks into fourth place. Marty Supreme is proving its widely admired, giving Andy hope his favorite film of the year will be a big player come Best Picture and Best Actor, disses of opera notwithstanding. That flick's look is courtesy of Darius Khondji, who also delivered the goods for the COVID political satire Eddington and the wacky sci-fi comedy Mickey 17. 

 

More new films come into the mix, with George's last minute praise for the Chinese head trip Resurrection clearly prompting some quick streaming in the wee hours before the big night. Plus, director Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love has its supporters (if only so they can deliver the title with melodramatic relish). But it's the surprise victory of The History of Sound and the nod for quiet indie drama Rebuilding that capture my attention. I sense winning Best Cinematography–a very deserving but not obvious pick–indicates strong support for story of two song catchers in the early 1900s. Plus, it's a career year for actor Josh O'Connor and IRA voters have clearly been paying attention, if they're showing some tech award love for that film almost no one has seen, much less honored. 

 

BEST SCREENPLAY

1. Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident (40 pts) 

2. Robert Kaplow for Blue Moon (26 pts) 
3. Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby (21 pts) 

4. Michael Angelo Covino & Kyle Marvin for Splitsville (19 pts) 

5. Charlie Polinger for The Plague (12 pts) (tie) 

     Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value (12 pts) (tie) 

NOTE: Boom! Six awards in and suddenly Iran's It Was Just An Accident announces it's a player with a dominating win for Best Screenplay. (And no wonder. It's a cry from the heart for life under a repressive regime. But the structure! After a prologue, we begin with one person, then two, then add more and more people until it's a group and then back down to four, three, two and back to the one person we began with. Elegant.) Way back in second is Blue Moon (presumably IRA voters know those lyrics are by Lorenz Hart, right? Not Robert Kaplow.) with Sentimental Value and its family dynamics also appreciated. And The Plague! Michael's hopes rise. However, It Was Just An Accident isn't the only film to annonce its presence (sorry, Soderbergh). Eva Victor's marvelous debut Sorry, Baby pops up for the first time. As Greg proves, it's almost as much fun to say as Die My Love. And the screwball-like energy of Splitsville also gets some love, thrilling Michael (another flick he's been tub-thumping for) and redeeming us in the mind of Paul after his wariness over Production Design. 

DAMIEN BONA MEMORIAL GODDAMN CARTOON AWARD 

1. Zootopia 2 (17 pts) 

2. 100 Meters aka Hyakuemu (10 pts) 

3. Arco (8 pts)

4. Gaby's Dollhouse: The Movie (7 pts) 

5. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba–Infinity Castle, Part 1 (6 pts) 

 

NOTE: This is the second year the IRAs are giving an award to an animated film. Bitterly contested by Michael, who fears separate awards for Nonfiction Film and Animated Film ensure those films will never win the top prize of Best Picture, even though a great animated film or a great documentary film is just as worthy as a fictional effort. Best Nonfiction Film began for the films of 2015; before that, a documentary won the Top Prize only twice (Eyes on the Prize and Decasia, if you're wondering). So depending on your point of view, that means those rare wins are all but impossible now or the IRAs were essentially ignoring docs anyway so at least now they'll get well-deserved attention. **grumble grumble** The same is certainly true for animated films, which had never won a top IRA or even scored a mention as one of the top nominees. Damien Bona was a Founding Member™ of the IRAs and co-author of the classic awards history work Inside Oscar, co-written with fellow IRA member Mason Wiley. Whenever anyone had the temerity to nominate an animated film or even mention one, Bona would bark, "It's a g-ddamn cartoon!" and the speaker would slink away to lick their wounds. The Animated Film award is thus named in honor of the late, lamented Bona. 

Flow became our first winner last year in shocking fashion. It scored the IRA for Best Goddamn Cartoon of the year and became the first animated movie to ever rank among the Top Five Best Pictures of the year. In fact, it damn near beat Close Your Eyes and won it all. Go figure! 

 

This year, the opposite happened. Animated films simply didn't capture the attention of IRA voters. The winner Zootopia 2 was clearly the winner only by default: it was simply the one film more than two people saw and were willing to give points. Perhaps Paul will return in 2027 and give a jolt to our viewing of cartoons throughout the next year. Arco is a charming French film; stick with it: the movie elevates a familiar tale with some lovely grace notes at the end. Gaby's Dollhouse: The Movie is a live-action/animated hybrid and a personal favorite of one of the Aarons. (It's good! I liked it too.) Japan's Demon Slayer movie was a massive hit worldwide, though more of a spectacle than truly satisfying if you're not already immersed in the manga, TV series and previous films. 

 

By the way, 100 Meters aka Hyakuemu is a Japanese anime film (based on a manga, of course) and set in the world of sports. It's one of a string of Japanese animated sports films proving popular all over the world. The monster success in the genre is Japan's The First Slam Dunk, a really big hit all over the world. 100 Meters is notable for incorporating the technique of rotoscoping to give the running a more natural feel. (Ralph Bakshi was right!) Both are available via Netflix. 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS

1. John Carroll Lynch for Sorry, Baby (co-winner) (48 pts) (co-winner) 

    Gaby Hoffman for The Mastermind and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (co-winner)  (44 pts) (co-winner) 

3. A$AP Rocky for Highest 2 Lowest and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (36 pts) 

4. Dylan O'Brien for Anniversary and Twinless (30 pts) 

5. Mariam Afshari for It Was Just An Accident (28 pts) 

6. John Lithgow for The Rule of Jenny Pen (26 pts) 

7. Tânia Maria for The Secret Agent (25 pts) 

8. Yeom Hye-ran for No Other Choice (23 pts) 

9. Conan O'Brien in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (22 pts) 

10. Michael Cera for The Phoenician Scheme and The Running Man (21 pts) (tie) 

       Gwyneth Paltrow for Marty Supreme (21 pts) (tie) 

NOTE: This is the third year where the IRAs treat acting like every other category. We don't vote for the best female cinematographer or the best male costumer or the best non-binary editor, so why vote for best female supporting actor and best male actor and so on?  So, unlike every other category, here voters can nominate up to TEN performances. We announce two winners based on total points only, with the one with the most points listed first. We also list the top ten vote-getters. Reasonable concerns that women might get overlooked in this new system are happily not panning out.  

 

Figuring out whether an actor is lead or supporting is a perennial challenge. (At the IRAs, you're usually smart ot just go with the consensus, since that's the only way your favored actor is likely to get enough points.) But one has to say the two winners of Best Supporting Actor are classic examples of performers who really are supporting and not just leads in sheep's clothing. 

 

John Carroll Lynch pops into Sorry, Baby as the guy who chats with our hero outside a sandwich shop. It's a scene of such warm humanity you feel better just for having seen it. And Gaby Hoffman delivers a master class in disapproval as an old friend of our on-the-lam hero in The Mastermind. (She's also the mother of Bruce in the flashback scenes of Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere, a film much admired by Howard and a few others.) 

 

The rest of the list is delightful: A$AP Rocky is great in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (which definitely had some strong support) and easily the best thing in HIghest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee's woefully unnecessary remake of Kurosawa's brilliant High and Low. Dylan O'Brien in Twinless and Mariam Afshari (the photographer in It Was Just An Accident) both suffered from no agreement on whether they were leads or supporting or both would have scored higher, I think. (Liz Larsen of The Baltimorons also fell through the cracks.) All the rest are fun and worthy, though I was busy tabulating scores and didn't have a chance to say this about the votes for Conan O'Brien in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: Oh my god, he's TERRIBLE! (Whew, I got that off my chest.)

FOOD BREAK

Pizza!  

BEST NONFICTION FILM 

1. Pee-wee As Himself  (23 pts) 

2. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus
 (22 pts) 

3. Mr. Nobody Against Putin (15 pts)  

4. Afternoons of Solitude aka Tardes de Soledad (14 pts) 

5. Secret Mall Apartment (12 pts) (tie) 

NOTE: Now that it has its own category, does a nonfiction film have little to no chance of winning Best Picture? Well, here's one telling stat. Since the IRAs launched the award in 2015, no nonfiction film/documentary has made the Top 5 ballot for Best Picture, much less won it. Again, they almost never won in the past, so at least now a great film like Pee-wee As Himself gets its due, along with other worthy nominees like the wild ride of Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus. George made a mark with his last-minute touting of the Chinese drama Resurrection. He does it again here with his praise for the Spanish meditation on bullfigting titled Afternoons of Solitude aka Tardes de Soldedad. (Or maybe the others who voted for it had already seen the film?) 

 

Loved and scored in equal measure were two other nominess. Mr. Nobody Against Putin annoyed the hell out of Greg. (The teacher posts democracy symbols in his office, blares Lady Gaga's version of the US national anthem throughout the school, posts anti-Putin Xs in the window and is clearly "different" ie. gay but nobody does anthing to him ever. What the hell?). And boy did Howard despise Secret Mall Apartment, a favorite of one of the Aarons. Who cares, shouted Howard, who even hated the trailer for this "Sundance-y" doc. 

                                            

BEST ACTORS

1. Josh O'Connor for The History of Sound, The Mastermind, Rebuilding, Wake Up Dead Man (83 pts) (co-winner) 

    Vahid Mobasseri for It Was Just An Accident (55 pts) (co-winner) 

3. Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon (54 pts)  

4. Everett Blunck for The Plague and Griffin In Summer (50 pts) (tie) 

     Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (50 pts) (tie) 
     Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby (50 pts) (tie) 

7. Paul Mescal for The History of Sound and Hamnet (32 pts)  

8. Liz Larsen for The Baltimorons (30 pts) (tie) 

     Ben Wishaw for Peter Hujar's Day (30 pts) (tie) 
10. Jennifer Lawrence for Die My Love (25 pts) 

NOTE: As with supporting actor, we celebrate the two top vote-getters in the lead actor category, without bothering to worry about how they identify. 

 

If one category had an inevitable winner, it was Best Actor. We honored two people but it was Josh O'Connor who came out on top with a commanding win for his body of work. Clearly many folk admire The History of Sound, though some said O'Connor was merely supporting in that film. But he's excellent in it and clearly the lead in The Mastermind (which really captured the vibe of the 1970s, if you ask me) and the lovely, Tender Mercies-like indie Rebuilding. Plus, he's part of the ensemble in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery that was championed by IRA mainstay Joe, the standard bearer for the glamour and fun of old Hollywood. Coming on top of great work in Challengers and God's Own Country, it was clearly a career year for O'Connor. 

 

Also honored is Vahid Mobasseri, the marvelous anchor of It Was Just An Accident. Coming on the heels of its decisive win for Best Screenplay and multiple nods in the Best Supporting Actor category, the mo' as they say is clearly in its favor. 

 

Mobasseri just edges out the self-effacing work of Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon. And a three-way tie in fourth place proves the final nods of approval for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (a well-deserved appreciation for lead Rose Byrne) and star of tomorrow Everett Blunck of The Plague. On the other hand, Eva Victor's laurels for her lead performance in Sorry, Baby hinted the writer-director's debut wasn't done making noise.

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident  (36 pts) 

2. Oliver Hermanus for The History of Sound (20 pts) 

3. Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme (19 pts)  

4. Richard Linklater for Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague (18 pts)  

5. Steven Soderbergh for Black Bag and Presence (12 pts) 

NOTE: It feels a little like Cannes in the Best Director category. Old friends Richard Linklater and Steven Soderbergh are honored here, both for having two films out in 2025. And Josh Safdie has certainly been in the conversation in IRAs past, alongside his brother Bennie. (Boy, hanging out must be really awkward right now.) 

 

Oliver Hermanus has been a comer for a while at the IRAs, scoring attention for his draft drama Moffie and some love for Loving, which was his ill-advised–but more successful–remake of a Kurosawa classic (in that case, Ikiru). Last year, three of the five Best Directors honored were women. This year, even Eva Victor didn't make the list for Sorry, Baby, a worrying sign for its chances at Best Picture.

 

But at this stage it's all about the juggernaut It Was Just An Accident, which easily wins Best Director for Jafar Panahi. Not one person kvetched about its inevitability, for the simple fact that Panahi made such a good film. 

BEST PICTURE

1. It Was Just An Accident (47 pts) (last year 23 pts) (21st not-English winner)

2. The History of Sound (19 pts) 

3. Blue Moon (16 pts) 

4. Marty Supreme (14 pts) 
5. Sorry, Baby (13 pts)  

NOTE: It Was Just An Accident wins the IRA for Best Picture in resounding fashion, more than doubling the points of runner-up The History of Sound.   The other honorees are expected given the votes all evening long. The exception is Eva Victor's Sorry, Baby scoring a welcome spot just behind Marty Supreme. 

It Was Just An Accident becomes the 21st film not primarily in English to be honored as Best Picture. Clearly, the IRAs are fans of great movies from whatever country and in whatever language–21 times out of the past 54 wins (including ties), our pick for Best Picture has been an international film. But American films are coming back to life. The other four Best Picture winners are all American to one degree or another, each of them a bold work. Despite that strong showing, the night belongs to It Was Just An Accident, with awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and a shared award for Best Actor. Panahi, you're going to need a bigger boat. 

FOOD BREAK 

Cake!   

SOMINEX (The movie that put us to sleep)

1. Hamnet (28 pts) 

2. Peter Hujar's Day (15 pts)  

3. Plainclothes (13 pts) 

4. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (10 pts) 

5. Caught By The Tides (6 pts) 

             

DRAMAMINE (The film that made us sick)

1   1. Blue Moon (22 pts) 

2, 2. A House of Dynamite (19 pts) 

3. 3. Bugonia (18 pts) 

4. 4. After The Hunt (11 pts)  

5. 5.  Frankenstein (10 pts)  

4. 

5.

MECHANICAL ACTOR

1. Emma Stone for Bugonia and Eddington (42 pts) (co-winner)

    Sydney Sweeney for Christy and The Housemaid (35 pts) (co-winner)

3. Sean Penn for One Battle After Another (29 pts) 

4. June Squibb for Eleanor The Great and Zootopia 2 (19 pts) 

5. Rami Malek for Nuremberg (19 pts) 

6. George Clooney for Jay Kelly (17 pts) 

7. Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein (16 pts) 

8. Jennifer Lopez for Kiss of the Spider Woman (15 pts) 

    Amanda Seyfried for The Housemaid and The Testament Of Ann Lee (15 pts) (tie) 

10. Josh Brolin for The Running Man, Wake Up Dead Man and Weapons (12 pts) (tie) 

      Margot Robbie for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (12 pts) (tie) 

The negative awards are a chance to let off steam, bitch about the award winners you didn't like (or which stole a march on a personal favorite), chide actors for relying on the same tics in film after film and just dump on some really bad films. Those who resented having to watching Blue Moon, Peter Hujar's Day and Plainclothes at the behest of some IRA voters got their revenge here. Rami Malek–who was widely panned for his work in Nuremberg–was not spared here. 

 

But here's where Dan tossed aside his polite demeanor and revealed the assassin inside. It was like the end of a mystery where the one person you didn't suspect is standing there, dagger dripping with blood and confesses all. His victim? Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, which Dan dismembered with surgical precision via an aria of critiques withering in their contempt and passionate in their denunciation of a film he did not like at all. No one moved, no one intervened, no defenders of Linklater spoke up and there it was, Blue Moon, dead and buried and named the Dramamine winner. An eleven o'clock number if ever there was one.

 

That contract killing aside, my two favorite gibes came courtesy of Greg. He referred to June Squibb as the poor man's Betty White. And when giving points for the films that made him sick, Greg delivered the best prepared joke of the evening. "Ten points for One Battle After Another. Up and down and up and down and up and down. Nine points for Marty Supreme. Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth." 

 

The two Aarons also had their stingers, much like the old coots on The Muppet Show. They were perched in the balcony, laughing at us (I think) as much as the movies they hated. 

 

A good time was had by all, unless you were one of the artists being roasted. We taunt because we care. (At least, that's what my parents always told me.) 

THE 2025-2026 FILMS HONORED BY THE IRAS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER 

Afternoons of Solitude aka Tardes de Soledad 

Arco 

The Baltimorons 

Black Bag  
Blue Moon 

Bonjour Tristesse 

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba–Infinity Castle, Part 1  

Die My Love 
Eddington 

Frankenstein 

Gaby's Dollhouse: The Movie  
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

Highest 2 Lowest 
The History of Sound 
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

It Was Just An Accident 

Kiss of the Spider Woman  

Marty Supreme 

The Mastermind 

Megadoc  

Mickey 17 

Mr. Nobody Against Putin  

No Other Choice 

Nouvelle Vague  

Oh, Hi! 

One Battle After Another 

100 Meters aka Hyakuemu 

Pee-wee As Himself 

Peter Hujar's Day 

The Phoenician Scheme 

Pillion 

The Plague  

Presence 

Rebuilding 

Resurrection 

The Rule of Jenny Pen 

The Secret Agent 

Secret Mall Apartment  
Sentimental Value 

Sinners 

Sirāt  
Sorry, Baby 

Splitsville 

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere 

Train Dreams 

Twinless  

Universal Language 

Wake Up Dead Man 
Zootopia 2

THE IRA OF IRAS: THE BEST PICTURE WINNER FROM THE PAST 50 YEARS

And the IRA of IRAs goes to...

Three Colours: Red (1994; dir. Krzysztof Kieşlowski) 

The Top 10

1. Three Colours: Red

2. Berlin Alexanderplatz

3. Housekeeping  

4. Once Upon A Time In America

5. Moonlight

6. Tangerine  

7. L’Enfant  

8. Cutter’s Way

9. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

10. Nightcrawler  

For the complete list, go here. 

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: Diane 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 & 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 Tribe

Best Actor: Jason Segel for The End Of The Tour 

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 Margulies for The End Of The Tour

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 Water

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 Project

Best Supporting Actress: Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
Best Nonfiction Film: Dawson City: Frozen Time
Best Screenplay:  Robert Siegel for The Founder

Best Cinematography: Alexis Zabe for The Florida Project

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 Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot; Mary Magdalene; The Sisters Brothers; You Were Never Really Here

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 

Complete coverage of the 2019 IRAs here. 

      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 

     Complete coverage of the 2020 IRAs here.

      2021 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS 

Best Picture: A Hero 

Best Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi for Drive My Car 

Best Actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima for Drive My Car  

Best Actress: Jasna Djuricic for Quo Vadis, Aida? and Kristen Stewart for Spencer (tie)

Best Supporting Actor: Ethan Darbone for Red Rocket 

Best Supporting Actress: Suzanna Son for Red Rocket 
Best Nonfiction Film: Flee  
Best Screenplay:  Asghar Farhadi for A Hero  

Best Cinematography: Jessica Beshir for Faya Dayi  

Best Production Design: Adam Stockhausen for The French Dispatch and West Side Story   
Best Score/Use Of Music: Naren Chandavarkar (music producer and pre-mix) and Aneesh                                                Pradhan (music an research consultant/muisc design)  for The Disciple 

Best Editing: Jennifer Vecchiarello for C'mon C'mon 

Best Costumes: Mark Bridges  for Licorice Pizza 
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): Passing  
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick): The Lost Daughter 
Mechanical Actress: Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence & Meryl Streep  for Don't Look Up   
Mechanical Actor: Ansel Elgort for West Side Story 

     Complete coverage of the 2021 IRAs here.

 

  

     2022 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS 

Best Picture: Great Freedom 

Best Director: Sebastian Miese for Great Freedom  

Best Actors: Franz Rogowski for Great Freedom   

                      Aubrey Plaza for Emily The Criminal

Best Supporting Actor: Hong Chau for The Menu and The Whale 

                                          Barry Keoghan for The Banshees Of Inisherin   

Best Nonfiction Film: The Fire Within: A Requiem For Katia and Maurice Krafft   
Best Screenplay: Thomas Reider & Sebastian Miese for Great Freedom  

Best Cinematography: Hoyte Van Hotema for Nope   

Best Production Design: Michael Randel for Great Freedom    
Best Score/Use Of Music: ASKA aka Aska Matsumiya  for After Yang  

Best Editing: Blair McClendon for Aftersun  

Best Costumes: Shirley Kurata  for Everything Everywhere All At Once  
Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): All Quiet On The Western Front   
Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick): Tár  
Mechanical Actor: Tom Hanks for Elvis, A Man Called Otto and Pinocchio 
                                   Sadie Sink for The Whale 

 

Complete coverage of the 2022 IRAs here. 

2023 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS 

Best Picture: Monster 

Best Director: Celine Song for Past Lives  

Best Actors: Eden Dambrine for Close and 

                       Greta Lee for Past Lives 

Best Supporting Actors: Mehdi Bajestani for Holy Spider (four way tie)

                                            Ayo Edebiri for Bottoms, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and The Sweet East (four way tie)

                                            Catalina Saavedra for Rotting In The Sun (four way tie)

                                            Gustav De Waele for Close (four way tie)    

Best Nonfiction Film: The Pigeon Tunnel (tie) 

                                         Twenty Days In Mariupol  (tie)   
Best Screenplay: Celine Song for Past Lives  

Best Cinematography: Frank van den Eeden for Close   

Best Production Design: Jack Fisk for Killers Of The Flower Moon    

Best Score/Use Of Music: Robbie Robertson for Killers Of The Flower Moon

Best Editing: Kore-eda Hirokazu for Monster   

Best Costumes: Jacqueline West for Killers Of The Flower Moon  

Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): Priscilla (tie) 

                                                                                              The Zone Of Interest (tie)    

Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick): Saltburn  
Mechanical Actor:  Bradley Cooper for Maestro 

Complete coverage of the 2023 IRAs here.

2024 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS 

Best Picture: Close Your Eyes 

Best Director: Victor Erice for Close Your Eyes   

Best Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths (co-winner) 

                       Léa Drucker for Last Summer and Mars Express (co-winner)

Best Supporting Actors: Aubrey Plaza for My Old Ass (co-winner) 

                                             Mark Eydelshteyn for Anora (co-winner)      

Best Nonfiction Film: Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat   

Best Damien Bona Memorial G-ddamned Cartoon Award: Flow

Best Screenplay: Victor Erice and  Michel Gaztambide for Close Your Eyes   

Best Cinematography: Valentín Álvarez for Close Your Eyes   

Best Production Design: Suzie Davies for Conclave and Hard Truths     

Best Score/Use Of Music: Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist 

Best Editing: Chris Gill and Julian Ulrichs for Kneecap    

Best Costumes: J.W. Anderson for Challengers and Queer   

Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): Priscilla (tie) 

                                                                                              The Zone Of Interest (tie)    

Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick): Saltburn  
Mechanical Actors:  Dennis Quaid for Reagan and The Substance (co-winner) 

                                     Guy Pearce for The Brutalist (co-winner)

 

 

2025 IRA FILM AWARD WINNERS 

Best Picture: It Was Just An Accident 

Best Director: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident   

Best Actors: Josh O'Connor for The History of Sound, The Mastermind, Rebuilding, Wake Up Dead Man (co-winner)  

                       Vahid Mobasseri for It Was Just An Accident (co-winner)

Best Supporting Actors: John Carroll Lynch for Sorry, Baby (co-winner)  

                                             Gaby Hoffman for The Mastermind and Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (co-winner)       

Best Nonfiction Film: Pee-wee As Himself    

Best Damien Bona Memorial G-ddamned Cartoon Award: Zootopia 2 

Best Screenplay: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just An Accident   

Best Cinematography: Alexander Dynan for The History of Sound   

Best Production Design: Josefin Åsberg, Jørgen Stangebye Larsen for Sentimental Value     

Best Score/Use Of Music: Ludwig Göransson for Sinners 

Best Editing: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme    

Best Costumes: Miyako Bellizzi for Bonjour Tristesse, The History of Sound and Marty Supreme   

Sominex Award (The Movie That Put Us To Sleep): Hamnet     

Dramamine Award (The Movie That Made Us Sick): Blue Moon  
Mechanical Actors:  Emma Stone for Bugonia and Eddington (co-winner) 

                                     Sydney Sweeney for Christy and The Housemaid (co-winner)                 

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) 

A Hero (2021) 

Great Freedom (2022) 

Monster (2023) 

Close Your Eyes (2024) 

It Was Just An Accident (2025) 

THE IRA OF IRAS: THE BEST PICTURE WINNER FROM THE PAST 50 YEARS

And the IRA of IRAs goes to...

Three Colours: Red (1994; dir. Krzysztof Kieşlowski)  

The Top 10

1. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)

2. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1983)

3. Housekeeping  (Bill Forsyth, 1987)

4. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

6. Tangerine  (Sean Baker, 2015)

7. L’Enfant  (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2006)

8. Cutter’s Way (Ivan Passer, 1981)

9. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)

10. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

For the complete list, go here. 

THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE SILENT ERA 

1. The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)

2. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)

3. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)

4. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

5. Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

6. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dryer, 1928)

7. The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925)

8. Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929)

9. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)

10. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

See the complete list of the Top 100 Films Of The Silent Era here.

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 (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)

2. Shoah  (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

3. Housekeeping  (Bill Forsyth, 1987)

4. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1983)

5. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

6. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)

7. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, 1984)

8. Eyes On The Prize (Various Directors, 1989)

9. Danton (Andrzej Wajda, 1983)

10. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)

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, 2011)  

2. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)  

3. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)  

4. (tie) Un Prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009/2010)  

    (tie) Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)  

6. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)  

7. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012)  

8. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)  

9. The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)  

10. The Tribe (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. 

THE IRA AWARDS: THE TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME (voted in 2022) 

1. The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 

3. The Earrings Of Madame de... (Max Ophuls, 1953) 
4. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
5. Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953) 
6. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) 

7. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
8. Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948) 
9. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
10. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942) 

See the complete list of the Top 100 Films Of All Time (2022 edition) here. 

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