The Village Voice Film Poll was an annual polling by The Village Voice film section of more than 100 major film critics for alternative media sources. Although the majority of the critics work for the alt-weeklies, a number are former Voice critics who now work for the mainstream media or have retired. It was compiled every year from top 10 lists, best performance lists, and votes for other categories. The poll results were printed alongside the annotated top 10 lists of J. Hoberman, Dennis Lim and Michael Atkinson. The 1999 poll included votes for Best Film of the Decade (Safe), Best Director of the Decade (Hou Hsiao-hsien), and Best Film of the Century (Citizen Kane). In the 2009 poll, Mulholland Drive was voted the best film of the decade. The Village Voice ceased publication altogether in August 2018. However, much like the Village Voice's own Pazz & Jop poll, the Film Poll has continued on through different publications since the newspaper ended. Film critic Mike D'Angelo has continued to survey frequent contributors of the poll for the Best Film category. The results were published in Slate in 2018 and Filmmaker in 2019 and 2020. Winners Best Film 1999: Being John Malkovich 2000: Beau Travail 2001: Mulholland Drive 2002: Far from Heaven 2003: Lost in Translation 2004: Before Sunset 2005: A History of Violence 2006: Army of Shadows 2007: There Will Be Blood 2008: WALL-E 2009: The Hurt Locker 2010: The Social Network 2011: The Tree of Life 2012: The Master 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis 2014: Boyhood 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road 2016: Moonlight 2017: Phantom Thread 2018: First Reformed 2019: The Irishman 2020: First Cow Best Director 1999: Mike Leigh – Topsy-Turvy 2000: Edward Yang – Yi Yi 2001: David Lynch – Mulholland Drive 2002: Todd Haynes – Far from Heaven 2003: Gus Van Sant – Elephant 2004: Richard Linklater – Before Sunset 2005: David Cronenberg – A History of Violence 2010: Olivier Assayas – Carlos 2011: Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life 2012: Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master 2013: Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave 2014: Richard Linklater – Boyhood 2015: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road 2016: Barry Jenkins – Moonlight 2017: Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread Best Lead Performance 1999: Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry 2000: Gillian Anderson – The House of Mirth 2001: Naomi Watts – Mulholland Drive 2002: Julianne