The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the intimate drama Moonlight as the best film of 2016, according to the results of its 23rd annual critics' poll released today.
Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were as follows:
2) Manchester by the Sea
3) La La Land
4) Hell or High Water
5) Arrival
6) Jackie
7) Loving
8) 20th Century Women
9) Hacksaw Ridge
10 Silence
Best Actor
1) Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea
2) Denzel Washington for Fences
3) Joel Edgerton for Loving
4) Ryan Gosling for La La Land
5) Tom Hanks for Sully
Best Actress
1) Natalie Portman for Jackie
2) Emma Stone for La La Land
3) Ruth Negga for Loving
4) Amy Adams for Arrival
5) Annette Bening for 20th Century Women
Best Supporting Actor
1) Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
2) Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water
3) Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals
4) Lucas Hedges for Manchester by the Sea
5) Ben Foster for Hell or High Water
Best Supporting Actress
1) Viola Davis for Fences
2) Naomie Harris for Moonlight
3) Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea
4) Greta Gerwig for 20th Century Women
5) Judy Davis for The Dressmaker
Best Director
1) Barry Jenkins for Moonlight
2) Damien Chazelle for La La Land
3) Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
4) David Mackenzie for Hell or High Water
5) Denis Villeneuve for Arrival
Best Foreign Language Film
1) The Handmaiden
2) Toni Erdmann
3) Elle
4) Neruda
5) The Salesman
Best Documentary
1) Tower
2) 13th
3) Gleason
4) I Am Not Your Negro
5) Weiner
Best Animated Film
1) Zootopia
2) Kubo and the Two Strings
3) Moana
Best Screenplay
1)Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
2) Barry Jenkins for Moonlight
Best Cinematography
1) Linus Sandgren for La La Land
2) Rodrigo Prieto for Silence
Best Musical Score
Juston Hurwitz, La La Land
Mica Levi, Jackie
Russell Smith Award
The association also voted MOONLIGHT as the winner of the Russell Smith Award, named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association consists of 33 broadcast, print and online journalists from throughout North Texas. For more information, visit www.dfwcritics.com or follow us on Facebook or Twitter @dfwfilmcritics.
