Bob's 2016 BOFCA Ballot

As I imagine most are aware, I'm a member and currently the Chairman of the Boston Online Film Critics Association, which late Friday night undertook voting for its year-end film awards. The results of said awards can be viewed HERE, and I invite you to share them as widely as you are able - every little bit helps.

Individual member ballots will be posted to the main BOFCA site at an upcoming date, but until then members are free to share their ballots as they see fit. After the jump, you can see mine:

NOTE: The BOFCA voting system using a weighted and ranked ballot, similar to an "instant runoff" system in electoral politics. What this means is that a choices are listed in order of preference, and winner's are determined not only by which choices occurred only the most ballots but also "narrowed down" based on how they were ranked.

BOB CHIPMAN'S 2016 BALLOT:

BEST PICTURE
1. THE HANDMAIDEN
2. NEON DEMON
3. MOONLIGHT
4. THE NICE GUYS
5. THE DRESSMAKER
6. GREEN ROOM
7. FENCES
8. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!
9. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
10. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Park Chan-Wook (THE HANDMAIDEN)
2. Nicholas Winding Refn (NEON DEMON)
3. Ilya Naishuller (HARDCORE HENRY)

BEST ACTOR
1. Denzel Washington (FENCES)
2. Ryan Gosling (THE NICE GUYS)
3. Anton Yelchin (GREEN ROOM)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Isabelle Huppert (ELLE)
2. Kim Tae-ri (THE HANDMAIDEN)
3. Kim Min-hee (THE HANDMAIDEN)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Mahershala Ali (MOONLIGHT)
2. Ashton Sanders (MOONLIGHT)
3. John Goodman (10 CLOVERFIELD LANE)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Viola Davis (FENCES)
2. Naomie Harris (MOONLIGHT)
3. Taraji P. Henson (HIDDEN FIGURES)

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. HAIL CAESAR! (Coen Brothers)
2. THE NICE GUYS (Shane Black)
3. ZOOTOPIA (Jared Bush & Phil Johnston)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. THE HANDMAIDEN (South Korea)
2. ELLE (France)
3. THE LOVERS & THE DESPOT (South Korea)

BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. DEPALMA
2. LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD
3. THE 13TH

BEST ANIMATED FILM
1. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
2. THE RED TURTLE
3. ZOOTOPIA

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. HARDCORE HENRY
2. NEON DEMON
3. THE HANDMAIDEN

BEST EDITING
1. THE HANDMAIDEN
2. HARDCORE HENRY
3. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1. NEON DEMON
2. JACKIE
3. DOCTOR STRANGE

BEST ENSEMBLE
1. FENCES
2. HAIL CAESAR!
3. CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

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