Hypothetical 2016 Village Voice Ballot

Best Film
1. Manchester by the Sea
2. Cameraperson
3. My Golden Days
4. The Handmaiden
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. Mountains May Depart
7. Cemetery of Splendour
8. Right Now, Wrong There
9. Kate Plays Christine
10. Certain Women

Best Actor
1. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
2. Hidetoshi Nishijima, Creepy
3. Jung Jae-young, Right Now, Wrong Then

Best Actress
1. Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine
2. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
3. Kim Min-hee, The Handmaiden

Best Supporting Actress
1. Lily Gladstone, Certain Women
2. Sylvia Chang, Mountains May Depart
3. Michelle Williams, Certain Women

Best Supporting Actor
1. Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea
2. Tom Bennett, Love & Friendship
3. Mathieu Amalric, My Golden Days

Best Director
Jia Zhangke

Best Screenplay
Manchester by the Sea

Best Undistributed Film
N/A

Best First Feature
The Edge of Seventeen

Best Documentary
Cameraperson

Best Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings

Worst Film
Suicide Squad

Movie Everybody Is Wrong About
La La Land

2016 EOY Preparation

Jia
Park
Kurosawa
Scorsese
Johnson

Lyn Sheil
Tao
Huppert
Braga
Deyn
Steinfeld/Kim/Kim/Kim/Huppert/Huppert/Bening/Beckinsale/Robinson/Cotillard

Affleck
Nishijima
Jung
Garfield
Hanks
Weiner
Corban
Marshall-Green
Driver

Hedges
Bennett
Kagawa
Ogata
Lafitte
Asano
Amalric

Gladstone
Chang
Williams
Courau
Farahani
Rice

MBTS
RNWT
Elle
Silence
MGD
TTC

Violence montage
The voice
The accident flashback
In living color
Throw away your books, run away in the fields
Emoji texting
Tête-à-tête/*Happy Hour scene*/The dinner invitation/Interrogation/Final confrontation/"Sing Sing Sing"/First night at Sound Machine/Claire and Tom's interlude/Menstruation discussion/The movie theater/Jamie's long drive home/The monkey's tale/"Go West" reprise

Ensemble
Happy Hour
Handmaiden
L&F
20th
HGBD
Silence
MBTS
CW
EoS
Rules

Cinematography
Handmaiden
MMD
Silence
SS
Shallows
Moonlight
CW
Paterson

Score
Handmaiden
MMD
MBTS
OJ
Moonlight
Paterson
KPC

Editing
Cameraperson
MBTS
Handmaiden
OJ
TTC/Aquarius
Silence
Happy Hour
Paterson

Body of Work
Huppert
Kim
Garfield
Williams
Broderick
Stewart

Breakthrough
Gladstone
Kim
Johnson
Craig
Hedges

Arrival Fragment

His focus remains resolutely on the efforts of humans to come to terms with these newfound entities. For all intents and purposes taking place in the present, complete with radio conspiracy theorists and a jab at Fox News, it is clear that underneath all the mammoth pods (the twelve spaceships that land in various places around the world) and the heavy military presence,

An Ethos

Wanted to post this to remind myself: "I definitely believe in some notion of objectivity and that there is an importance in the divide between that and subjectivity; readers should take into account the fact that there is a living, breathing person writing the piece and adjust accordingly but part of the onus is on the writer to deliver a fair and level-headed assessment of the film."