The Dallas-Forth Worth Area Film Critics are the only group that release their choices ranked. This year, the group didn’t actively rank them on their website, but considering they weren’t posted in alphabetical order, I took them as needing to be in the below order. The three films that have dominated Precursor Season won multiple awards with Moonlight ultimately coming out on top.

Award Tallies

(3) Moonlight
(2) La La Land, Manchester by the Sea

The Awards

Top Ten Films

1. Moonlight
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. La La Land
4. Hell or High Water
5. Arrival
6. Jackie
7. Loving
8. 20th Century Women
9. Hacksaw Ridge
10. Silence

Best Animated Film

1. Zootopia
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Moana

Best Director

1. Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
2. Damien Chazelle – La La Land
3. Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
4. David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water
5. Denis Villeneuve – Arrival

Best Actor

1. Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
2. Denzel Washington – Fences
3. Joel Edgerton – Lovin
4. Ryan Gosling – La La Land
5. Tom Hanks – Sully

Best Actress

1. Natalie Portman – Jackie
2. Emma Stone – La La Land
3. Ruth Negga – Loving
4. Amy Adams – Arrival
5. Annette Bening – 20th Century Women

Best Supporting Actor

1. Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
2. Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
3. Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals
4. Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea
5. Ben Foster – Hell or High Water

Best Supporting Actress

1. Viola Davis – Fences
2. Naomie Harris – Moonlight
3. Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea
4. Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women
5. Judy Davis – The Dressmaker

Best Screenplay

1. Manchester by the Sea
2. Moonlight

Best Musical Score

1. La La Land
2. Jackie

Best Cinematography

1. La La Land
2. Silence

Best Foreign Language Film

1. The Handmaiden
2. Toni Erdmann
3. Elle
4. Neruda
5. The Salesman

Best Documentary

1. Tower
2. 13th
3. Gleason
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Weiner

Russell Smith Award (best low-budget, cutting-edge independent film)

Moonlight

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Data

First Awards: 1993 (24)