2018 IndieWire Critics Poll

2018 IndieWire Critics Poll
Date	December 17, 2018
Highlights
Best Film	Roma
Most awards	Roma (4)

The winners of the 2018 IndieWire Critics Poll were announced on December 17, 2018.

Winners and nominees

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