Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy The Favourite was out front with 10 nominations for the 39th annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, including Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress for Olivia Colman and Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. In addition, the film is nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that three hundred forty-seven feature films are eligible to compete for the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma continues its winning streak with the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards (SEFCA) as the film was awarded the top prize of Best Film along with Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron. The award for Best Documentary Film went to Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
The Seattle Film Critics Society (“SFCS”) awarded the top prize of Best Picture of the Year to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, a semi-autobiographical film that follows the life of a live-in housekeeper during a politically turbulent time in Mexico City. Roma also won three other awards, including Best Director and Best Foreign Film.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite leads the nominations for the 2018 Houston Film Critics Society awards with six, including Best Picture, and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos.
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed leads the Vancouver Film Critic’s Circle international awards with three wins, including Best Director for Schrader. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma however, picked up Best Picture along with Best Foreign Language Film, and Minding the Gap won for Best Documentary.
Roma and Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse scored three awards with the Utah Film Critics Association, with Spider-man receiving the honors of being named Best Picture of 2018.
“The Hate U Give,” a drama that examines contemporary race relations in America through the eyes of a culturally conflicted young woman, took three prizes at the 2018 Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) awards, including Best Film.
Roma and The Favourite took home three Kansas City Film Critics Circle’s James Loutzenhiser Awards each, and for the first time since 1992 and the fourth time in the organization’s 53-year history tied for the top prize of Best Film. Roma also won Best Foreign Film and helmer Alfonso Cuarón collected the Robert Altman Award for Best Director.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in consideration for the 91st Oscars® in nine categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film and Visual Effects.
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel won three award honors, including Best Picture of 2018 from the Boston Society of Film Critics.