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Christopher Campbell
Founding Editor, Nonfics
1. Cameraperson
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Kate Plays Christine
4. Weiner
5. Under the Sun
6. Zero Days
7. 13th
8. Nuts!
9. Gleason
10. Rats
11. No Home Movie
12. The Other Side
13. I Am Not Your Negro
14. The Event
15. My Love, Don’t Cross That River
16. Fire at Sea
17. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
18. Dark Horse
19. Presenting Princess Shaw
20. Tickled
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Daniel Walber
Associate Editor, Nonfics
1. Cameraperson
2. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
3. Under the Sun
4. The Illinois Parables
5. The Other Side
6. No Home Movie
7. I Am Not Your Negro
8. Kate Plays Christine
9. Weiner
10. Lost and Beautiful
11. Fire at Sea
12. Nuts!
13. 13th
14. The Event
15. O.J.: Made in America
16. Thank You for Playing
Landon Palmer
Critic, Nonfics and Film School Rejects
1. The Other Side
2. Under the Sun
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Weiner
5. 13th
6. No Home Movie
Dan Schindel
Critic, Nonfics and The Film Stage
1. Cameraperson
2. Kate Plays Christine
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. Under the Sun
5. Into the Inferno
6. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
7. Notes on Blindness
8. My Love, Don’t Cross That River
9. The Illinois Parables
10. De Palma
Jason Gorber
Critic, Nonfics and Dork Shelf
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Cameraperson
3. Pickle
4. Into the Inferno
5. Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
6. Miss Sharon Jones!
7. Tickled
8. Weiner
9. Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Quiang
10. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Sam Adams
Critic, Slate
1. Cameraperson
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
5. Fire at Sea
6. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
7. Kate Plays Christine
8. Peter and the Farm
9. 13th
10. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Fernando Andres
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
4. 13th
5. Nuts!
Edwin Arnaudin
Critic, Asheville Citizen-Times
1. De Palma
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Oasis: Supersonic
4. 13th
5. Weiner
6. Tickled
7. The Witness
8. Tower
9. Nuts!
10. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years
Adam Benzine
Filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
1. Zero Days
“Alex fascinates with his ability to take an incredibly complex, important and difficult-to-explain issue and craft it into a thrilling, terrifying, two-hour-long mind-fuck. More than any other movie I saw in 2016, Zero Days made me reflect on the kind of future we are racing towards. How do we live in a world where a disgruntled teenager with a laptop could write a piece of malware that can melt down a nuclear reactor?”
2. Weiner
3. Gleason
4. O.J.: Made in America
5. Planet Earth II
“O.J.: Made in America and Planet Earth II were the two best nonfiction TV series of 2016. Epic in their scope, ambition and breadth.”
6. I Am Not Your Negro
7. Tickled
8. Cameraperson
9. Bacon and God’s Wrath
Joey Berlin
President, Broadcast Film Critics Association
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Tower
3. 13th
4. The Eagle Huntress
5. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years
6. The Witness
7. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
8. Fire at Sea
9. Gleason
Colin Biggs
Critic, CutPrintFilm and Film School Rejects
1. Cameraperson
2. Weiner
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. 13th
5. Tower
6. The Voyage of Time
7. De Palma
8. Oasis: Supersonic
9. Hamilton’s America
10. Kate Plays Christine
Alex Billington
Critic, FirstShowing.net
1. 13th
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. Into the Inferno
4. Cameraperson
5. Tickled
6. Life, Animated
7. Before the Flood
8. Weiner
9. Zero Days
10. Mifune: The Last Samurai
Danny Bowes
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. 13th
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Cameraperson
5. No Home Movie
6. De Palma
7. Fire at Sea
8. Oasis: Supersonic
9. Kate Plays Christine
10. The First Monday in May
Jeffrey Bowers
Curator, Vimeo and Vice
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
3. Speaking is Difficult
4. Cameraperson
5. I Am Not Your Negro
6. Weiner
7. Life, Animated
8. Under the Sun
9. Thank You For Playing
10. Tower
Clint Bowie
Director of Programming, New Orleans Film Festival
1. Cameraperson
2. All These Sleepless Nights
3. Weiner
4. Trapped
5. Life, Animated
6. The Other Side
7. Fire at Sea
8. The Eagle Huntress
9. Pervert Park
10. Nuts!
Josh Brunsting
Critic, The CriterionCast
1. The Other Side
2. Fire at Sea
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. Cameraperson
5. Kate Plays Christine
6. Do Not Resist
7. The Thoughts That Once We Had
8. Fragment 53
9. On Football (O Futebol)
10. O.J.: Made in America
Dor Dotson
President, Genuine Article
Nonfics Patron
1. Cameraperson
2. Trapped
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. The Bad Kids
5. Off the Rails
6. Tickled
7. No More Babies (No Mas Bebes)
8. National Bird
9. City of Gold
10. Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Edward Douglas
Critic, Film Journal International and New York Daily News
1. Gleason
2. 13th
3. Newtown
4. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years
5. Danny Says
6. De Palma
7. I Am Not Your Negro
8. Amanda Knox
9. Tower
10. Off the Rails
Scott Feinberg
Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Life, Animated
3. Gleason
4. Weiner
5. Tower
6. Off the Rails
7. The Witness
8. The First Monday in May
9. Tickled
10. The Eagle Huntress
Adam Frazier
Critic, Geeks of Doom
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. De Palma
4. Cameraperson
5. Tickled
6. Holy Hell
7. City of Gold
8. Gimme Danger
9. Weiner
10. Danny Says
11. 13th
12. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Cynthia Fuchs
Critic, PopMatters
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. Cameraperson
3. Starless Dreams (Royahaye Dame Sobh)
4. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
5. Fire at Sea
6. The Other Side
7. Kate Plays Christine
8. Under the Sun
9. O.J.: Made in America
10. Sonita
11. Weiner
12. 13th
Kenji Fujishima
Critic, Slant Magazine and Paste Magazine
1. Cameraperson
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. The Illinois Parables
4. No Home Movie
5. The Witness
6. Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands
7. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
8. 13th
9. Kate Plays Christine
10. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
Leah Gage
Critic, Leah’s Movie Lowdown
1. Weiner
2. For the Love of Spock
3. Seed: The Untold Story
4. Zero Days
5. How to Leg Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change
6. Requiem for the American Dream
7. Do Not Resist
8. Building Star Trek
9. Jim: The James Foley Story
10. Peter and the Farm
Noah Gittell
Critic, The Atlantic and Washington City Paper
1. Cameraperson
2. 13th
3. Tower
4. Weiner
5. Tickled
6. Gleason
7. Kate Plays Christine
8. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
9. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
10. Do Not Resist
Arlin Golden
Critic, Film Inquiry
1. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
2. Weiner
3. Tickled
4. Under the Sun
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. Life, Animated
7. Into the Inferno
8. Miss Sharon Jones!
9. Off the Rails
10. 13th
11. Chicken People
12. Fursonas
Chad Gracia
Filmmaker, The Russian Woodpecker
1. The Event
2. Weiner
3. Above and Below
4. Breaking a Monster
5. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble
Steve Greene
Critic, IndieWire
1. Cameraperson
2. Francofonia
3. Kate Plays Christine
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. The Bad Kids
6. The Birth of Sake
7. Tickled
8. Weiner
9. Nuts!
10. Off the Rails
Tim Grierson
Critic, Screen International and The New Republic
1. The Other Side
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Notfilm
4. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
5. I Am Not Your Negro
6. No Home Movie
7. Under the Sun
8. Peter and the Farm
9. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
10. Cameraperson
Christian Hamaker
Film Critic, Crosswalk.com
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. Tower
3. Mavis!
4. Miss Sharon Jones!
5. Eva Hesse
6. Cameraperson
7. De Palma
8. The Lovers and the Despot
9. Doc & Darryl
10. O.J.: Made in America
Tim Horsburgh
Director of Communications and Distribution, Kartemquin Films
1. Cameraperson
2. HyperNormalization
3. Tower
4. Do Not Resist
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. Raising Bertie
7. Tickled
8. Fear Itself
9. Under the Sun
10. (TIE) Newtown
and Speaking is Difficult
Paul Allen Hunton
Filmmaker, Put Me to Suffering and Between Earth and Sky
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. The Eagle Huntress
3. Weiner
4. Cameraperson
5. Trapped
6. Kate Plays Christine
7. Fire at Sea
8. Zero Days
9. Under the Sun
10. 13th
Paul Landriau
Critic, Point de Vues
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. A Woman and Her Car (Elle pis son char)
3. De Palma
4. Tickled
5. Weiner
Joanna Langfield
Critic, The Movie Minute
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. 13th
3. Cameraperson
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Weiner
6. Tower
7. Life, Animated
8. Fire at Sea
9. Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened…
10. De Palma
J.S. Lewis
Critic, Cineflect
1. Cameraperson
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. My Love, Don’t Cross That River
4. Weiner
5. Under the Sun
6. Peter and the Farm
7. I Am Not Your Negro
8. De Palma
9. Tower
10. Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
Craig D. Lindsey
Critic, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and RogerEbert.com
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. I Am Not Your Negro
3. Tower
4. Cameraperson
5. 13th
6. Life, Animated
7. De Palma
8. Weiner
9. Kate Plays Christine
10. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years
Adam Lubitow
Critic, CITY Newspaper
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Tower
3. Weiner
4. In Transit
5. I Am Not Your Negro
6. Tickled
7. Cameraperson
8. Gleason
9. The Witness
10. De Palma
11. Do Not Resist
12. Check It
13. Miss Sharon Jones!
Matthew Lucas
Critic, The Lexington Dispatch and From the Front Row
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. 13th
3. Weiner
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
6. Life, Animated
7. The Thoughts That Once We Had
8. Lo and Behold: Reveries of a Connected World
9. Fire at Sea
10. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Kenny Miles
Critic, FilmFad
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. 13th
3. Weiner
4. Cameraperson
5. I Am Not Your Negro
6. Fire at Sea
7.(TIE) Nuts!
and Tower
9. Jim: The James Foley Story
10. The Bad Kids
11. Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Victor Morton
Critic, Rightwing Film Geek
1. Cameraperson
2. Kate Plays Christine
3. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
4. Weiner
5. The Lovers and the Despot
6. Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
7. Tower
8. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
9. Nuts!
10. De Palma
Patrick Mullen
Critic, Point of View Magazine
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. Miss Sharon Jones!
3. Presenting Princess Shaw
4. The Uncondemned
5. Zero Days
6. Weiner
7. Almost Holy
8. The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble
9. Into the Inferno
10. Gleason
Damen Norton
Critic, HeyUGuys
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. The Lovers and the Despot
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. Tickled
5. Weiner
6. De Palma
7. Everything is Copy
8. Audrie & Daisy
9. Mifune: The Last Samurai
10. The Voyage of Time
Jenny Nulf
Educational Marketing and Outreach Coordinator, Tugg
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Tower
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. 13th
5. Weiner
Jordan Raup
Editor-in-Chief, The Film Stage
1. Cameraperson
2. De Palma
3. The Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Kate Plays Christine
6. O.J.: Made in America
7. One More Time with Feeling 3D
8. Weiner
9. Into the Inferno
10. 13th
Tom Roston
Critic, POV’s Documentary Blog
1. Peter and the Farm
2. Weiner
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Zero Days
5. 13th
6. Audrie & Daisy
7. Tickled
8. Hooligan Sparrow
9. Cameraperson
10. Life, Animated
11. Fire at Sea
12. Under the Sun
13. Tower
Marshall Shaffer
Critic, Movie Mezzanine
1. Cameraperson
2. Weiner
3. 13th
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Kate Plays Christine
6. Tickled
7. Nuts!
8. Fire at Sea
9. Francofonia
10. The Voyage of Time
Nick Shimkin
Programmer, New Orleans Film Festival
1. Weiner
2. O.J. Made in America
3. Francofonia
4. Do Not Resist
5. Tickled
6. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
7. Boone
8. Trapped
9. I Am Not Your Negro
10. Tower
Honorable mentions: 13th, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, The Other Side, Two Trains Runnin’, The White Helmets, Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.
Robert Sims
Critic, Lights Camera Austin
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. 13th
3. Tower
4. O.J.: Made in America
5. Weiner
6. De Palma
7. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
8. Gleason
9. Holy Hell
10. The Bandit
Shane Slater
Critic, The Awards Circuit
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. 13th
3. O.J.: Made in America
4. Amanda Knox
5. Hooligan Sparrow
6. Among the Believers
7. Audrie & Daisy
8. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
9. Fire at Sea
10. Life, Animated
Jordan M. Smith
Critic, IonCinema.com and Stranger Than Fiction
1. Cameraperson
2. Contemporary Color
3. I Am Not Your Negro
4. Fire at Sea
5. O.J.: Made in America
6. Author: The JT LeRoy Story
7. Kate Plays Christine
8. The Other Side
9. Weiner
10. Project X
Brian Tallerico
Critic, RogerEbert.com
1. O.J.: Made in America
2. Cameraperson
3. 13th
4. Kate Plays Christine
5. Tower
6. I Am Not Your Negro
7. Justin Timberlake +The Tennessee Kids
8. Newtown
9. Life, Animated
10. Gleason
Basil Tsiokos
Director of Programming, DOC NYC and Nantucket Film Festival
1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. My Love, Don’t Cross That River
3. Weiner
4. Under the Sun
5. Nuts!
6. Tickled
7. Cameraperson
8. Fire at Sea
9. Homo Sapiens
10. Kate Plays Christine
Neil Young
Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
1. We’ll Go to Neuilly, Inshallah (On ira à Neuilly, inch’allah)
2. The French Road (aka The French Road, Detroit MI)
3. No’i
4. A Brief History of Princess X
5. António, Dashing António (António, lindo António)
6. Miss Kiet’s Children (De kinderen van Juf Kiet)
7. measuring change
8. Gorse and Flowers (Toxos e flores)
9. Before the Flight (Avant l’envol)
10. Capital Cuba
11. Uzu
12. Tempestad
