Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2018

The 14th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2018, were announced on January 7, 2019.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominees were announced on December 27, 2018.^[4]^[5]

Winners and nominees

Best Film	Best Director
If Beale Street Could Talk The Favourite Roma Blindspotting You Were Never Really Here Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse First Reformed Eighth Grade Shoplifters Suspiria	Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Debra Granik – Leave No Trace The Favourite Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed Christian Bale – Vice Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here	The Favourite Toni Collette – Hereditary Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Regina Hall – Support the Girls Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk Steven Yeun – Burning	Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk Amy Adams – Vice Claire Foy – First Man The Favourite The Favourite
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Sorry to Bother You – Boots Riley Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed – Paul Schrader Roma – Alfonso Cuarón	If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin Leave No Trace – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Best Film Editing	Best Ensemble
First Man - Tom Cross If Beale Street Could Talk - Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders Roma - Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis Widows – Joe Walker	Widows Avengers: Infinity War Black Panther Crazy Rich Asians The Favourite
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet	Burning Cold War The Guilty Roma Shoplifters
Best First Film	Best Documentary
Eighth Grade Hereditary A Star Is Born Blindspotting Sorry to Bother You	Won't You Be My Neighbor? Free Solo Minding the Gap RBG Shirkers
Best Cinematography	Best Score
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Burning – Hong Kyung-pyo First Man – Linus Sandgren If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton Widows – Sean Bobbitt	Mandy – Jóhann Jóhannsson Annihilation – Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow First Man – Justin Hurwitz If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell Suspiria – Thom Yorke
Best Stunts	Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
Mission: Impossible – Fallout Black Panther Mandy The Night Comes for Us Upgrade	Josh Brolin - Avengers: Infinity War Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Sonoya Mizuno - Annihilation Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Solo: A Star Wars Story Ben Whishaw - Paddington 2
Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award	Austin Film Award
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Widows Yalitza Aparicio – Roma Jim Cummings – Thunder Road Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You	Support the Girls – Andrew Bujalski 1985 – Yen Tan Call Her Ganda – PJ Raval Damsel – David Zellner and Nathan Zellner Run Like the Devil – Steve Mims
Special Honorary Award
To Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton for their brilliant collaborative work on Eighth Grade.

References

^ Stoddard, Elizabeth (January 8, 2019). "2018 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
^ Whittaker, Richard (January 7, 2019). "Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2018's Best Films and More". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
^ Stoddard, Elizabeth (December 11, 2018). "AFCA Announces Austin Film Award Nominees for 2018". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
^ Whittaker, Richard (December 28, 2018). "Austin Film Critics Release 2018 Awards Nominee Lists". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 27, 2018). "The 2018 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". nextbestpicture.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

External links

Official website

[1] Stoddard, Elizabeth (January 8, 2019). "2018 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

[2] Whittaker, Richard (January 7, 2019). "Austin Film Critics Association Announces 2018's Best Films and More". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

[3] Stoddard, Elizabeth (December 11, 2018). "AFCA Announces Austin Film Award Nominees for 2018". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

[4] Whittaker, Richard (December 28, 2018). "Austin Film Critics Release 2018 Awards Nominee Lists". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

[5] Neglia, Matt (December 27, 2018). "The 2018 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". nextbestpicture.com. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2023.

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