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. Andrew 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)

1    1. Mank -- 18 pts.

2. Wonder Woman 1984-- 15 pts.

3. Da 5 Bloods -- 10 pts.

4. Hillbilly Elegy -- 6 pts.

    The Prom -- 20 pts. RESCINDED 

NOTE: Some felt trashing The Prom 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 buffs 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 Prom -- 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 World -- 12 pts.
5. Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and The Trial 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 Prophète -- 30 pts. 

    (tie) Tangerine -- 30 pts. 

6. Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood -- 29 pts. 

7. Laurence Anyways -- 26 pts. 

8. In Jackson Heights -- 24 pts. 

9. The Tree Of Life -- 20 pts. 

10. The Tribe -- 19 pts. 

NOTE: At the end of each decade, the IRAs offer up their first impressions of the best films of the past ten years. Members simply read off 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 Kajillionaire 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 Project -- 12 pts. 

17. (tie) Call Me By Your Name -- 11 pts. 

      (tie) Fill The Void -- 11 pts. 

19. (tie) The Other Side Of The Wind -- 10 pts. 

      (tie) Parasite -- 10 pts. 

      (tie) Toni Erdmann -- 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 Teacher 

Nomadland 

Promising Young Woman

Relic 

Sound Of Metal 

Sylvie's Love 

Time 

The Vast 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: 
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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: 
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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: 
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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: 
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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:
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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 

      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, 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.