So if you are looking for a bit of variations this awards season, then let’s have a look at the winners with the Dublin Film Critics Circle. Distribution and release dates across the water really make for interesting reading here.
As for the winners. Well, A Star is Born somehow won Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Actress. While Alfonso Cuarón wins Best Director for the trillionth time, except Roma didn’t even make the top ten – sorry, twelve. Anyway, here are the results:
BEST FILM
1. A Star is Born
2. Cold War
3. Lady Bird
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Loveless / A Quiet Place
6. BlacKKKlansman
7. Leave No Trace
8. Shoplifters
9. First Man
10. The Rider / Mandy
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
2. Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
3. Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
4. Paweł Pawlikowski, Cold War
5. Damien Chazelle, First Man
6. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
7. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters
8. Spike Lee, BlacKKKlansman
9. Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
10. Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
BEST ACTRESS
1. Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
2. Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
3. Toni Collette, Hereditary
4. Sarah Greene, Rosie
5. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. Viola Davis, Widows
7. Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
8. Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread
9. Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water/ Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians
10. Charlize Theron, Tully
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
3. Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
4. Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
5. Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
6. Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, BlacKKKlansman
7. Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Leave No Trace
8. Xavier Legrand, Custody
9. Dan Kokotajlo, Apostasy
10. Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Głowacki, Cold War
BEST ACTOR
1. Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
2. Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
3. Daniel Day Lewis, Phantom Thread
4. Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
5. John David Washington, BlacKKKlansman
6. Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
8. Marcello Fonte, Dogman
9. Brady Jandreau, The Rider
10. Nakhane Touré, The Wound
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Linus Sandgren, First Man
2. Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
3. Łukasz Żal, Cold War
4. Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
5. Benjamin Loeb, Mandy
6. Joe Anderson, The Old Man and the Gun
7. Benoît Debie, Climax
8. Ashley Connor, The Miseducation of Cameron Post
9. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
10. Norm Li, Never Steady, Never Still
BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. Three Identical Strangers
2. Katie
3. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
4. Whitney
5. Filmworker
6. Studio 54
7. Free Solo
8. McQueen
9. Cambodian Spring
10. I, Dolours
BEST IRISH
1. Rosie
2. Michael Inside
3. Black 47
4. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
5. The Little Stranger
6. The Breadwinner
7. Making the Grade
8. Kissing Candice
9. Katie
10. The Image You Missed
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST
Dafhyd Flynn, Michael Inside
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
Cynthia Erivo, Widows
Charlie Plummer, Lean on Pete
Millicent Simmons, A Quiet Place