You look at the familiar winners of the Online Film Critics Society, announced earlier today, and wonder why so many still don’t pick these to go on and win at the Oscars. Even with some previous years where the critics awards domination still was not enough for some films and performances. Here, with Roma taking Best Picture, Ethan Hawke for First Reformed, and Toni Collette for Hereditary, still not making number one picks in the Oscars predictions game. Here are the winners from OFCS:
BEST PICTURE
Roma
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Toni Collette – Hereditary
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Schrader – First Reformed
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST EDITING
Eddie Hamilton – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST DEBUT FEATURE
Ari Aster – Hereditary
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Roma
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Annihilation – Best Visual Effects
Black Panther – Best Costume Design
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Best Stunt Coordination
A Quiet Place – Best Sound Design
A Star Is Born – Best Original Songs
ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY’S BEST OF THE YEAR
1. Roma
2. BlacKkKlansman
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. First Reformed
5. The Favourite
6. You Were Never Really Here
7. Annihilation
8. Eighth Grade
9. Hereditary
10. A Star Is Born
11. Suspiria
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Roger Deakins
Spike Lee
Rita Moreno
Robert Redford
Agnès Varda
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Director Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther’s distinctive critical and box office appeal
The city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018’s most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, Sorry to Bother You and Blindspotting.