furthermore, the film won best film and best director awards in an indiewire critics' poll taken in 2008, which ranked binoche's performance in the film the 5th best one of that year and in a village voice film poll taken the same year, the film won 2nd place for best film and 3rd place for best actress (binoche). in addition, "flight of the red balloon" won 3rd place in the 2009 international cinephile society (ics) awards for the "best film not in the english language" award, and the ics also nominated the film for best picture, best director, best actress (binoche), best adapted screenplay (hou hsiao-hsien and francois margolin) and best cinematography (ping bin lee) awards. the film was also nominated for a best foreign language film (france)by the online film & television association in 2009.