Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2018

American film awards event

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

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Best Film  | Best Director

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1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. The Favourite
3. Roma
4. Blindspotting
5. You Were Never Really Here
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
7. First Reformed
8. Eighth Grade
9. Shoplifters
10. Suspiria

* Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
* Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
* Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
* Yorgos Lanthimos – 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

* Olivia Colman – 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
* Emma Stone – The Favourite
* Rachel Weisz – 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
* Shameik Moore \- 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

* Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, 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

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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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