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Austin Film Critics Release 2018 Awards Nominee Lists
By Richard Whittaker, December 28, 2018, 11:30am, Picture in Picture
The Austin Film Critics Association has just released the list of nominees for its 2018 film awards, and The Favourite is living up to its name so far, leading the pack with a total on nine nominations.
Among its honors, Yorgos Lanthimos' crackling depiction of political and sexual intrigue in the court of Queen Anne is one of the five feature to make the short list of contenders for best picture, joining Oakland gentrification dramedy Blindspotting and horror remake Suspiria. Plus there are two films by former AFCA best picture winners in contention: Barry Jenkins' follow-up to his 2016 best film winner Moonlight, literary adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk; and Roma by Alfonso Cuarón, who won in 2013 for Gravity.
The association has issued awards since its formation in 2005, but the list of categories expanded this year, with four new awards up for grabs that the members felt reflect the current state of the art: Best Ensemble, Best Editing, Best Stunts, and Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance.
The AFCA will announce the winners (including for the previously announced Austin Film Award) on Jan. 7, Now, here's the full list of nominees:
Best Film
Blindspotting
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
Suspiria
The Favourite
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron,
Roma
Barry Jenkins,
If Beale Street Could Talk
Debra Granik,
Leave No Trace
Lynne Ramsay,
You Were Never Really Here
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper,
A Star Is Born
Christian Bale,
Vice
Ethan Hawke,
First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix,
You Were Never Really Here
Rami Malek,
Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Actress
Elsie Fisher,
Eighth Grade
Melissa McCarthy,
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Olivia Colman,
The Favourite
Regina Hall,
Support the Girls
Toni Collette,
Hereditary
Best Supporting Actor
Brian Tyree Henry,
If Beale Street Could Talk
Hugh Grant,
Paddington 2
Michael B. Jordan,
Black Panther
Richard E. Grant,
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Steven Yeun,
Burning
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams,
Vice
Claire Foy,
First Man
Emma Stone,
The Favourite
Rachel Weisz,
The Favourite
Regina King,
If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Original Screenplay
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
Roma
Sorry to Bother You
The Favourite
Best Adapted Screenplay
Blackkklansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
The Death of Stalin
Best Cinematography
Burning
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
The Favourite
Best Original Score
Annihilation
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mandy
Suspiria
Best Foreign Language Film
Burning
Cold War
Roma
Shoplifters
The Guilty
Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Best Ensemble
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Widows
Best Editing
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
The Favourite
Widows
Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
Ben Whishaw,
Paddington 2
Josh Brolin,
Avengers: Infinity War
Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Shameik Moore,
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Sonoya Mizuno,
Annihilation
Best Stunts
Black Panther
Mandy
Mission Impossible: Fallout
The Night Comes for Us
Upgrade
Best First Film
A Star is Born (D. Bradley Cooper)
Blindspotting (D. Carlos López Estrada)
Eighth Grade (D. Bo Burnham)
Hereditary (D. Ari Aster)
Sorry To Bother You (D. Boots Riley)
Breakthrough Artist
Boots Riley,
Sorry to Bother You
Brian Tyree Henry,
If Beale Street Could Talk,
Widows,
Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse
Elsie Fisher,
Eighth Grade
Jim Cummings,
Thunder Road
Yalitza Aparicio,
Roma
Austin Film Award
1985 (D. Yen Tan)
Call Her Ganda (D. PJ Raval)
Damsel (D. David & Nathan Zellner)
Run Like the Devil (D. Steve Mims)
Support the Girls (D. Andrew Bujalski)
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