Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread Chosen Best Film of the Year

FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2018:

The FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2018, awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics to the best film of the past year, goes to “Phantom Thread” by Paul Thomas Anderson. A total of 473 members throughout the world voted in one or both phases of the online poll. 

The initial nominating process resulted in four finalists, which were then submitted for votes. The 426 valid responses received* in the final poll were distributed in the following way:

1.     Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson: 115 (27.00%, or 28.47% without considering the blank votes)
2.     Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh: 106 (24.88%, or 26.24% without the blank votes)
3.     Zimna Wojna (Cold War), Pawel Pawlikowski: 92 (21.60%, or 22.77% without the blank votes)
4.     Zama, Lucrecia Martel: 91 (21.36%, or 22.52% without the blank votes)
None of the above (blank vote): 22 (5.16%)

Other than the four above-mentioned finalists, the films that received the next highest scores** in the first phase of the poll (open nominations) were:
5.     Burning, Lee Chang Dong: 70
6.     Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro), Alice Rohrwacher: 55
7.     Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters), Hirokazu Kore-eda: 42
8.     Le livre d’image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard: 38
9.     Leto (Summer), Kirill Serebrennikov: 32
10.   The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro: 28
       Transit, Christian Petzold: 28
12.  Mother!, Darren Aronofsky: 25
      Da xiang xi di er zuo (An Elephant Sitting Still), Hu Bo: 25
14. Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree), Nuri Bilge Ceylan: 24
     Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan: 24
16.    Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz: 23
17.  Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson: 22
      Climax, Gaspar Noé: 22
19.    Jusqu’à la garde (Custody), Xavier Legrand: 20
20.    Dogman, Matteo Garrone: 19

*    This corresponds to the 426 complete responses, for one of the four films or explicitly blank, and does not include those left unanswered (not validated). Those who voted twice were only counted once. If both responses were different, it was assumed that the second vote was meant to replace the first one, and therefore it was the first vote that was deleted.
**    5 points were given to films proposed in first place; 4 to those in second place, and 3 to third choices.

Thank you very much to all the national sections that forwarded the calls for votes, and to each one of the 473 members of FIPRESCI who took part in the poll, in one or both phases:

Mario Abbade – Ilhem Abdelkèfi – Mo Abdi – Gulnara Abikeyeva – Marcin Adamczak – Eva Af Geijerstam – Natallia Ahafonava – Kerem Akca – Neta Alexander – Necla Algan – Maurie Alioff – Carlos Almeida – Jan-Olov Andersson – David Ansen – Amanda Aouad Almeida – Jerzy Armata – Marta Armengou – Jon Asp – Frederik Asschenfeldt Vandrup – Göksen Aydemir – Senay Aydemir – Daria Badior – Ruth Baettig – Marta Balaga – Neusa Maria Barbosa – Janet Baris – Manoj Barpujari – Gabriele Barrera – Diego Batlle – Nicolas Bauche – Pablo Bazarello – Gunnar Bergdahl – Malik Berkati – Tina Bernik – Paolo Bertolin – Hansjörg Betschart – Birgit Beumers – Dunja Bialas – Martin Bilodeau – N. T. Binh – Pradip Biswas – Pascal Blum – Basje Boer – Bitopan Borborah – Max Borg – Rita Boronyák – Martin Botha – Myrna Brandão – Carlos Brandão – Ingeborg Bratoeva – Tereza Brdeckova – Žiga Brdnik – Carlos Brito – Diego Brodersen – Anne Brodie – Joost Broeren-Huitenga – Denise Bucher – Andrzej Bukowiecki – Yesim Burul – Pedro Butcher – Francisco Carbone – Gabriel Carneiro – Octavio Caruso – Gerard Casau – Alberto Castellano – Mariangiola Castrovilli – Massimo Causo – Cüneyt Cebenoyan – Chi Wa Chan – Prem Chand – Justin Chang – Luc Chaput – Shoma Chatterji – Mihai Chirilov – Roger Clarke – Rich Cline – Guido Convents – Denise Costa Lopes – André Crous – Celio Da Silva Junior – Isabelle Danel – Adrian Danks – Colette De Castro – Pablo De Vita – Domenica Demaio – Christine Dériaz – Hasan Nadir Derin – Giuseppe Di Salvatore – Rita Di Santo – Alejandro Díaz Castaño – Ernesto Diezmartinez – Andrea Dittgen – Giulia Dobre – Katharina Dockhorn – Atilla Dorsay – Kees Driessen – Sadadsad Dsadas – 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