Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” Wins FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2016

The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2016, awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics to the best film of the past year, goes to “Toni Erdmann” by Maren Ade. 

Thank you very much to the 475 members, listed below, who took part in one or both phases of the poll. In the first phase, where any feature-length films premiered since July 2015 could be nominated, the titles that received the highest scores were the three that went on to the final phase (in order):

1.    Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade
2.    Paterson, Jim Jarmusch
3.    Anomalisa, Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman

The following ten films with the highest scores in the first round of the poll were, in order:

1.    The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2.    Elle, Paul Verhoeven
3.    Sieranevada, Cristi Puiu
4.    Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare), Gianfranco Rosi 
5.    I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach
6.    Graduation (Baccalauréat), Cristian Mungiu
7.    Spotlight, Tom McCarthy
8.    Room, Lenny Abrahamson
9.    Francofonia, Aleksandr Sokurov
10.    La Mort de Louis XIV, Albert Serra

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