International Online Film Critics' Poll
The International Online Film Critics' Poll is a bi-annual polling of film critics from United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Poland, France, and Canada. The award was created to recognize excellences in film every two years.
The IOFCP was founded in 2007 by George McCoy. The award was created to recognize excellence in film every two years because, in the opinion of the founders, a biennial award allows the comparison of different film seasons. Its membership includes film critics and journalists from Metroactive, Le Nouvel Observateur, Mymovies.it, Cinefilos.it, Las Vegas Weekly, Examiner.com, BBC, The Times, IndieWire, and other periodicals.
The 2010 poll included votes for Best Film of the Decade, Best Director of the Decade, Best Actor of the Decade, Best Actress of the Decade, and Top Ten Films of the Decade.
Categories
The IOFCP features 15 categories. For each category, in all editions, there are five nominees. These are the award categories:- Best Picture
- Top Ten Films
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Ensemble Cast
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Cinematography
- Best Production Design
- Best Editing
- Best Original Score
- Best Visual Effects
Winners
1st Edition (2008)
The winners of the 1st Edition were revealed on January 4, 2009. The nominees were revealed on December 5, 2008.
Were eligible all the films released in the United States from November 15, 2006, to November 14, 2008. The big winners were Slumdog Millionaire, with four awards, including Best Picture, and The Dark Knight, with four awards.
Best Picture
- Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle
- Atonement by Joe Wright
- The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan
- Into the Wild by Sean Penn
- Let the Right One In by Tomas Alfredson
- Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy
- No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
- Ratatouille by Brad Bird
- Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle
- There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
- WALL-E by Andrew Stanton
- Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In
- Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
- Marion Cotillard – La Vie en rose
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
- Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton
- The Dark Knight
- Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Jim Reardon – WALL-E
- Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
- Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer – Atonement
- Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
- Alberto Iglesias – The Kite Runner
- Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Timothy Webber, and Paul J. Franklin – The Dark Knight''
2nd Edition (2010)
2nd IOFCP Awards
January 9, 2011
Best Film:
Inglourious Basterds
The winners of the 2nd Edition were revealed on January 9, 2011. The nominees were revealed on December 5, 2010.
Were eligible all the films released in the United States from November 15, 2008, to November 15, 2010. The big winners was Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, with four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Best Picture
- Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
- Avatar by James Cameron
- Frost/Nixon by Ron Howard
- Inception by Christopher Nolan
- Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
- Milk by Gus Van Sant
- The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- The Social Network by David Fincher
- Up by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
- Up in the Air by Jason Reitman
- The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
- Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
- Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
- Carey Mulligan – An Education
- Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
- Mo'Nique – '
- Up in the Air
- Dustin Lance Black – Milk
- Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
- Wally Pfister – Inception
- Larry Dias, Doug Mowat, and Guy Hendrix Dyas – Inception
- Chris Innis and Bob Murawski – The Hurt Locker
- Michael Giacchino – Up
- Richard Baneham, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Andrew R. Jones –
3rd Edition (2012)
The winners of the 3rd Edition were revealed on December 20, 2012. The nominees were revealed on December 1, 2012.
Were eligible all the films released in the United States from November 16, 2010, to November 15, 2012. The big winners were Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, with seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and The Master, with four awards.
Best Picture
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by Tomas Alfredson
- Argo by Ben Affleck
- The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius
- Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
- Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky
- The King's Speech by Tom Hooper
- Lincoln by Steven Spielberg
- The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Skyfall by Sam Mendes
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by Tomas Alfredson
- The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
- Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Natalie Portman – Black Swan
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
- Amy Adams – The Master
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
- Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Janusz Kamiński – Lincoln
- Maria Djurkovic – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Tariq Anwar – The King's Speech
- Ludovic Bource – The Artist
- Chris Corbould and Paul Franklin – The Dark Knight Rises
4th Edition (2014)
4th IOFCP Awards
January 26, 2015
Best Film:
Boyhood
The winners of the 4th Edition were revealed on January 26, 2015.
Best Picture
- Boyhood by Richard Linklater
- 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen
- Blue is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche
- Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Boyhood by Richard Linklater
- Her by Spike Jonze
- Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski
- The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson
- The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino
- The Imitation Game by Morten Tyldum
- The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese
- Richard Linklater – Boyhood
- Michael Keaton – Birdman
- Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
- J. K. Simmons – Whiplash
- Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Original Screenplay
- Spike Jonze – Her
- John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave
- Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity
- Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock – The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger – Gravity
- Alexandre Desplat – The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, and Neil Corbould – Gravity