It’s that time of year again.

All ballots are in, and this is what we, as a collective, have decided was the best in film in 2018. Now given our small sample size, some weird stuff was about to come out, but I have to say, I’m thrilled with this slate of nominees and winners.

All five DtHL writers were asked to provide 10 ranked nominees for Best Film, and up to five ranked nominees for every other category. Any given nominee had to have at least two scored votes to qualify for a nomination. Then, thanks to the magic of mathematics, a winner was declared in each category based on those ballots. Said winners are indicated in bold below.

Best Film

• Agua Viva
• Assassination Nation
• First Reformed
• The House the Jack Built
• Mandy
• The Night Comes for Us
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Support the Girls
• You Were Never Really Here

Best Director

• Panos Cosmatos, Mandy
• Josephine Decker, Madeline’s Madeline
• Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
• Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Best Actor

• Nicolas Cage, Mandy
• Jim Cummings, Thunder Road
• Matt Dillon, The House that Jack Built
• Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
• Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here

Best Actress

• Toni Collette, Hereditary
• Regina Hall, Support the Girls
• Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
• Andrea Riseborough, Mandy
• Mengda Zhang, Agua Viva

Best Supporting Actor

• Peter Bogdanovich, The Other Side of the Wind
• Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
• Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
• Alex Wolff, Hereditary
• Steven Yeun, Burning

Best Supporting Actress

• Shayna “Junglepussy” McHale, Support the Girls
• Hari Nef, Assassination Nation
• Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
• Tessa Thompson, Annihilation
• Tessa Thompson, Sorry to Bother You

Best Young Performer

• Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
• Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
• Koyu Rankin, Isle of Dogs
• Ekaterina Samsonov, You Were Never Really Here
• Milly Shapiro, Hereditary

Best Cast

• Annihilation
• Assassination Nation
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• The Favourite
• Sorry to Bother You
• Support the Girls

Best Original Screenplay

• Andrew Bujalski, Support the Girls
• Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
• Paul Schrader, First Reformed
• Orson Welles and Oja Kodar, The Other Side of the Wind

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Alex Garland, Annihilation
• Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Oh Jung-mi and Lee Chang-dong, Burning
• Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here

Best Non-Fiction Film

• Fighting in the Age of Loneliness
• Fourth Era
• Minding the Gap
• Shirkers

Best Animated Film

• Agua Viva
• Isle of Dogs
• Mirai
• Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Non-English Language Film

• Burning
• Mirai
• Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
• The Night Comes for Us

Best Miniseires

• Fighting in the Age of Loneliness
• The Little Drummer Girl
• The Terror

Best Cinematography

• Hong Kyung-pyo, Burning
• James Laxton, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Benjamin Loeb, Mandy

Best Editing

• Harrison Atkins and Josephine Decker, Madeline’s Madeline
• Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here
• Arifin Cu’unk, The Night Comes for Us
• Orson Welles and Bob Murawski, The Other Side of the Wind

Best FX

• Annihilation
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Mandy
• The Night Comes for Us

Best Music

• Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Jonny Greenwood, You Were Never Really Here
• Johann Johannson, Mandy
• Tune-Yards and The Coup, Sorry to Bother You

Best Animal Performance

• The “bear,” Annihilation
• Olivia, Game Night
• Olivia, Widows

Best Scene

• Bathroom fight, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Butcher shop fight, The Night Comes for Us
• CCTV extraction, You Were Never Really Here
• Golden hour dance, Burning
• Magical mystery tour, First Reformed

Generation Award: Best Film of 1988

• Akira
• Beetlejuice
• Dead Ringers
• Die Hard
• The Last Temptation of Christ