The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk look to be the popular choices with the Austin Film Critics Association, who announced their 2018 nominations earlier. Winners will be announced on Monday 7th January 2019. Here are the nominees:
BEST FILM
Blindspotting
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
ROMA
Suspiria
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón – ROMA
Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – Vice
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
BEST ACTRESS
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
Regina Hall – Support the Girls
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk
Steven Yeun – Burning
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – Vice
Claire Foy – First Man
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Reformed
ROMA
Sorry to Bother You
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Annihilation
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mandy
Suspiria
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Burning
The Favourite
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
ROMA
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Burning
Cold War
The Guilty
ROMA
Shoplifters
BEST FIRST FILM
Blindspotting
Eighth Grade
Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
A Star Is Born
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Yalitza Aparicio, ROMA
Jim Cummings – Thunder Road
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Widows
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
BEST ENSEMBLE
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Widows
BEST MOTION CAPTURE/SPECIAL EFFECTS PERFORMANCE
Josh Brolin, Avengers: Infinity War
Sonoya Mizuno, Annihilation
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ben Whishaw, Paddington 2
BEST STUNTS
Black Panther
Mandy
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
The Night Comes for Us
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