The Year in Film, Contributors’ Ballots

Below, you’ll find the individual ballots from Movie Mezzanine’s contributors and editors with their specific choices for the ten best films of 2016. To come up with the combined list of the 25 best films of 2016, we assigned point values to each choice from each writer: the number-one pick got 10 points, the number-two pick got 9 points, and so on. Enjoy!

Mallory Andrews

1. Paterson
2. Elle
3. The Handmaiden
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Cameraperson
6. Certain Women
7. Love & Friendship
8. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
9. Happy Hour
10. O.J.: Made in America

Jake Cole

1. No Home Movie
2. Cameraperson
3. Paterson
4. O.J.: Made In America
5. Toni Erdmann
6. Certain Women
7. Elle
8. Happy Hour
9. Knight of Cups
10. The Love Witch

Andy Crump

1. Moonlight
2. Krisha
3. Certain Women
4. Silence
5. Toni Erdmann
6. Paterson
7. Cameraperson
8. The Fits
9. Manchester by the Sea
10. The Handmaiden

Alex Engquist

1. Happy Hour
2. Mountains May Depart
3. Cameraperson
4. Moonlight
5. The Love Witch
6. Cemetery of Splendor
7. Elle
8. Certain Women
9. Manchester by the Sea
10. Love & Friendship

Valerie Ettenhofer

1. La La Land
2. The Witch
3. Lemonade
4. OJ: Made in America
5. Sing Street
6. The Neon Demon
7. The Fits
8. Hell or High Water
9. Moonlight
10. The Invitation

Sam Fragoso

1. Moonlight
2. Things to Come
3. Paterson
4. Always Shine
5. Don’t Think Twice
6. La La Land
7. Certain Women / River of Grass (re-release)
8. The Treasure
9. Mountains May Depart
10. Ouija: Origin of Evil

Kenji Fujishima

1. Paterson
2. Cameraperson
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Cemetery of Splendour
5. The Illinois Parables
6. Happy Hour
7. Love & Friendship
8. Swiss Army Man
9. No Home Movie
10. Right Now, Wrong Then

Sean Gilman

1. Paterson
2. Love & Friendship
3. Toni Erdmann
4. Mountains May Depart
5. Elle
6. Lemonade
7. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (aka Kill Zone 2)
8. Cemetery of Splendor
9. Sully
10. Sunset Song

Tina Hassannia

1. Toni Erdmann
2. Certain Women
3. Paterson
4. Love & Friendship
5. Happy Hour
6. Elle
7. The Edge of Seventeen
8. Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids
9. La La Land
10. Cameraperson

Fran Hoepfner

1. The Handmaiden
2. Jackie
3. Moonlight
4. Little Men
5. Hell Or High Water
6. American Honey
7. Everybody Wants Some!!
8. Weiner
9. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
10. Sing Street

Nathanael Hood

1. Paterson
2. 13th
3. Shin Godzilla
4. I, Daniel Blake
5. Jackie
6. Hell or High Water
7. Swiss Army Man
8. Arrival/Rogue One
9. Kubo and the Two Strings
10. The Nice Guys

Alex Huls

1. Toni Erdmann
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Manchester By the Sea
4. Cameraperson
5. Certain Women
6. The Witch
7. Moonlight
8. Arrival
9. La La Land
10. The Shallows

Elena Lazic

1. Elle
2. Manchester by the Sea
   
3. Certain Women
   
4. Paterson
5. Toni Erdmann
   
6. Love & Friendship
   
7. Cameraperson
8. Deepwater Horizon
   
9. Green Room
   
10. Sully

Willow Maclay

1. No Home Movie
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Cameraperson
4. Lemonade
5. Elle
6. Certain Women
7. The Edge of Seventeen
8. Happy Hour
9. Mountains May Depart
10. Sully

Vikram Murthi

1. Manchester by the Sea
2. Cameraperson
3. Happy Hour
4. Paterson
5. O.J.: Made In America
6. Elle
7. Everybody Wants Some!!
8. Toni Erdmann
9. Right Now, Wrong Then
10. My Golden Days

Max B. O’Connell

1. Happy Hour
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Certain Women
4. Everybody Wants Some!!
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. Lemonade
7. Rules Don’t Apply
8. Elle
9. The Witch
10. Kill Zone 2

Justine Smith

1. Manchester by the Sea
2. The Invitation
3. The Handmaiden
4. Toni Erdmann
5. Into the Inferno
6. Train to Busan
7. The Love Witch
8. The Lobster
9. The Witch
10. The Jungle Book

Josh Spiegel

1. Moonlight
2. La La Land
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. Kubo and the Two Strings
5. Cameraperson
6. Silence
7. Hail, Caesar!
8. Love & Friendship
9. De Palma
10. Fences

Colin Stacy

1. Hail, Caesar!
2. The Handmaiden
3. Things to Come
4. Sunset Song
5. The Neon Demon
6. Manchester By The Sea
7. No Home Movie
8. Kate Plays Christine
9. Certain Women
10. Love & Friendship

Emma Stefansky

1. Moonlight
2. The Handmaiden
3. Hell or High Water
4. Cemetery of Splendor
5. A Bigger Splash
6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
7. The Love Witch
8. The Fits
9. Love & Friendship
10. Hail, Caesar!

Kyle Turner

1. Lemonade
2. Elle
3. Moonlight
4. The Lobster
5. Kubo and the Two Strings
6. The Purge: Election Year
7. Love & Friendship
8. Certain Women
9. The Handmaiden
10. Spa Night