The San Francisco Film Critics Circle named Roma the Best Picture of 2018 along with Best Foreign Language Picture but gave the award for Best Director to Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman. BlacKkKlansman also won the awards for Best Original Score and Best Screenplay, Adapted.
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” won a total of five awards and was named the Best Picture of 2018 by the Chicago Film Critics Association. The film, which received the most nominations from the group with nine also won the Foreign Film prize and three awards for Cuaron himself for Director, Cinematography and Editing, the latter shared with co-editor Adam Gough.
“The Favourite” leads the nominations for the 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Olivia Colman for Best Actress and Best Actress in a Comedy, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz both for Best Supporting Actress, Best Acting Ensemble, and Yorgos Lanthimos for Best Director.
Roma continues to be the darling of the critics, winning Best Film at the 44th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (LAFCA). Roma also won Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuaron. The award for Best Foreign Language Film was tie and went to Burning and Shoplifters; and the award for Best Documentary went to Shirkers.
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” is the clear favorite with the Chicago Film Critics Association, earning the most nominations of all for their 2018 film awards with nine. In addition to being one of the finalists for Best Picture, Cuaron himself was personally nominated in four additional categories for Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing, the latter alongside Adam Gough. Yalitza Aparicio, the non-professional chosen by Cuaron to star in the film received two nominations herself for Best Actress and Most Promising Performer and it also received nods for Art Direction/Production Design and Foreign Film.
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The American Film Institute has named the honorees of AFI AWARDS 2018, celebrating the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image — with 10 films and 10 television programs deemed culturally and artistically significant.
In addition to the 20 honorees, AFI also recognizes ROMA with an AFI Special Award, designated for a work of excellence outside the Institute’s criteria for American film.
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The Favourite and Black Panther top the 2018 Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (LAOFCS) nominations list with ten nominations each, followed by A Star is Born with nine and BlacKkKlansman with eight. Indie films were well represented with Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade scoring six nominations. and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk scoring a total of five nominations including Best Supporting Actress.
The members of the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society have also voted on some of the more underrepresented films this award season including Fox’s The Hate U Give, Focus Features’ Tully, Sony Pictures’ Searching, and Roadside’s Ben is Back, among several others.
“In a year where diversity and representation have been at the forefront of so many conversations, I believe that the LAOFCS nominations this year proves how much representation truly matters. There have been a lot of great films this year that have tackled important issues, so I am thrilled to see that reflected in our nominations,” added LAOFCS’ Scott Menzel.
In addition to the film nominations, the LAOFCS will also announce a few other awards including the recipient of this Trailblazer Award which was previously awarded to Jessica Chastain.
The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society (LAOFCS) 2nd Annual Awards Ceremony will be held on January 9th, 2019, at the Taglyan Complex in Los Angeles.
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Eighth Grade is the big winner at 2018 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards with eight nominations and three wins for Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor; and Breakthrough for Bo Burnham, the film’s writer and director.
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Vice received five nominations and three wins for Adam McKay, Best Director; Best Ensemble; and tied for Best Screenplay with Green Book, which had four nominations. Other top nominees include A Star Is Born with six nominations and one win for Best Use of Music and The Favourite with five nominations, but no wins.
The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in the Spring of 2007 and consists of a group of 21 film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York, New York.
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite continues to be the star of the award season winning multiple accolades from the Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) 2018 film awards including Best Lead Actress for Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone, Best Ensemble Cast and Best Screenplay. In addition the film emerged as number one on the list of the Top 10 Films of 2018. Other winning films include Best Documentary for Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Roma for Best Foreign Language Film.
“Our list includes period dramas, inventive horror, commentary on religion, race relations and the environment, minimalist art-house fare, stark social media observations, sci-fi fantasy and a fresh take on the traditional Hollywood epic,” says AFCC co-founder Michael Clark. “It covers the gamut and I’m very pleased with the members’ collective enthusiasm.”
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The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) which comprises of 60 DC-based film critics from the District, Maryland and Virginia announced their nominees for the 2018 awards. The Favourite lead with 10 nominations including Best Film and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos. Other films nominated for Best Film include A Star Is Born, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Roma.
The nominees for Best Documentary are Free Solo, RBG, Science Fair, Three Identical Strangers and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? The nominees for Best Foreign Film are Burning, Capernaum, Cold War, Roma and Shoplifters. The nominees for the special category The Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC are The Front Runner, RBG and Vice.
The 2018 WAFCA Award winners will be announced on Monday, December 3, 2018.
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The New York Film Critics Circle announced its 2018 award winners live on Twitter this morning, naming Roma the Best Film of 2018, along with awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography for Alfonso Cuarón. First Reformed won awards for Best Screenplay: Paul Schrader and Best Actor for Ethan Hawke. Minding the Gap directed by Bing Liu won for Best Documentary, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War won for Best Foreign Language Film, and Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham won the award for Best First Film.
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, RomaBest Film: Roma #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Screenplay: Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón / Roma #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Actress: Regina Hall, Support the GirlsBest Screenplay: First Reformed (Paul Schrader) #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, First ReformedBest Actress: Regina Hall / Support the Girls #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, If Beale Street Could TalkBest Actor: Ethan Hawke / First Reformed #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?Best Supporting Actress: Regina King / If Beale Street Could Talk #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Cinematography: Roma, Alfonso CuaronBest Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant / Can You Ever Forgive Me? #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Non-fiction Film: Minding the Gap, director Bing Liu Best Foreign Language Film: “Cold War,” director Pawel PawlikowskiBest Cinematography: Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Best First Film: Eighth Grade, director Bo BurnhamBest Non-Fiction Film: Minding the Gap (Bing Liu) #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Special Award For Career Achievement: David Schwartz, Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image for 33 yearsBest First Film: Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham) #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
Special Award: Kino Classics Box Set Pioneers: First Women FilmmakersSpecial Award: David Schwartz, stepping down as Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image after 33 years #NYFCC
— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 29, 2018
