IndieWire Critics Survey 2011

The IndieWire Critics’ Poll is so thoroughly exhaustive, it’s exhausting just trying to get a manageable list trimmed down to post. IndieWire surveys nearly 160 critics and reveals all the internal numbers. So you can see the integrity of their math and vice versa. Categories are expandable to dozens and dozens of rankings, so there’s a lot of fascinating gratifying/infuriating detail in the complete breakdown.

Best Film
1. The Tree of Life
2. Melancholia
3. A Separation
4. Drive
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Certified Copy
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
8. Hugo
9. Margaret
10. Meek’s Cutoff
11. Shame
12. The Descendants
13. The Artist
14. Take Shelter
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
(full list up to #60, after the cut)

Best Director
1. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
2. Lars von Trier, Melancholia
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
3. Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
4. Raul Ruiz, Mysteries of Lisbon
5. Kelly Reichart, Meek’s Cutoff

Best Performance
1. Michael Fassbender, Shame
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
2. Anna Paquin, Margaret
3. Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy
4. Yun Jung-hee, Poetry
5. Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia

Best Supporting Performance
1. Christopher Plummer, Beginners
2. Albert Brooks, Drive
3. Jeannie Berlin, Margaret
4. Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
5. Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method

Best Ensemble
1. Margaret
2. Bridesmaids
3. A Separation
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
4. Margin Call
5. House of Pleasures
Melancholia
Midnight in Paris
The Descendants

Best Screenplay
1. A Separation
2. Margaret
3. Moneyball
4. Young Adult
5. A Dangerous Method
Certified Copy
Mysteries of Lisbon

Best Cinematography
1. The Tree of Life
2. Hugo
3. Drive
Melancholia
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
5. Meek’s Cutoff

Partial expanded list of IndieWire’s Best Film rankings. (Gotta give grudging respect to any group that makes looking for your personal favorite feel like a scavenger hunt.)

1. The Tree of Life
2. Melancholia
3. A Separation
4. Drive
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Certified Copy
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
8. Hugo
9. Margaret
10. Meek’s Cutoff
11. Shame
12. The Descendants
13. The Artist
14. Take Shelter
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
16. A Dangerous Method
17. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
18. We Need to Talk About Kevin
19. Film Socialisme
20. Weekend
21. Poetry
22. Nostalgia for the Light
23. The Interrupters
The Skin I Live In
24. Midnight in Paris
25. The Arbor
26. Le Quattro Volte
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
27. To Die Like a Man
28. Beginners
29. A Brighter Summer Day
30. Le Havre
31. Moneyball
32. Of Gods and Men
33. Attack the Block
34. Tuesday, After Christmas
35. House of Pleasures
36. Bridesmaids
37. Incendies
38. PINA
39. City of Life and Death
40. Aurora
41. The Future
42. Jane Eyre
43. Contagion
I Saw the Devil
44. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
45.Bill Cunningham New York
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
46. Project Nim
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Trip
Young Adult
47. Bellflower
48. Go Go Tales
Pariah
Win Win
49. Cold Weather
Warrior
50. 50/50
Margin Call
51. Into the Abyss
52. BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer’s Journey
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
53. Extraordinary Stories
Senna
54. El Sicario: Room 164
Super 8
The Time That Remains
War Horse
55. 13 Assassins
Bombay Beach
Sleeping Beauty
56. Agrarian Utopia
Rango
57. Another Earth
J. Edgar
The Guard
58. Higher Ground
Tomboy
59. The Muppets
United Red Army
60. Hanna
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Like Crazy
Tabloid
Terri