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 Favourite (2018)
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THE HATE U GIVE is Loved by Indiana Film Journalists, Named Best Film of 2018
THE HATE U GIVE “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.
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ROMA and THE FAVOURITE in Record Tie for Best Film Honors from Kansas City Film Critics
Roma 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.
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ROMA, THE RIDER, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR Win 2018 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Honors
The Rider by Chloe Zhao The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the musical drama A STAR IS BORN as the best film of 2018. Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were ROMA (2), THE FAVOURITE (3), VICE (4), BLACKkKLANSMAN (5), BLACK PANTHER (6), GREEN BOOK (7), IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (8), EIGHTH GRADE (9), and CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (10).
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THE FAVOURITE and ROADS IN FEBRUARY Lead Vancouver Film Critics’ Circles’ Awards Nominations
Roads in February (Les routes en février) Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite leads all films in the Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s international section with six nominations, and Katherine Jerkovic’s Roads in February leads all films in the Vancouver Film Critics’ Circles’ Canadian section with six nominations.
In the international section, Lanthimos’ delectable bodice ripper shares the Best Picture category with First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s pointed diagnosis of our ill-stricken times, and Alfonso Cuarón’s technically virtuosic and emotionally devastating Roma; Lanthimos, Schrader and Cuarón also assume their respective places in the Best Director category.
Burning, Roma and Shoplifters are up for Best Foreign Language Film, while Free Solo, Minding the Gap and Won’t You Be my Neighbor? are nominated for Best Documentary.
In the Canadian section, a wistful story about a young woman returning home to Uruguay after more than a decade away, Roads in February is nominated for Best Picture alongside Fausto, Andrea Bussmann’s loose adaptation of Goethe’s version of the Faust legend, and Edge of the Knife, co-directors Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown’s 19th century epic, scripted entirely in two endangered Haida dialects (of which there are only 20-odd fluent speakers remaining). Jerkovic, Bussmann and Edenshaw and Haig-Brown are all nominated for Best Director, where they are joined by Philippe Lesage for Genesis.
The Best Canadian Documentary nominees are ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch, The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs, and What Is Democracy?
2018 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Nominations – International
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THE FAVOURITE Olivia Colman to Receive Achievement Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival
Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite. Olivia Colman will be presented with the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress for The Favourite at the annual Film Awards Gala of the 30th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF). The award will be presented by her co-star in the film Emma Stone. The Festival runs January 3-14.
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BLACKKKLANSMAN, THE FAVOURITE among Top Nominees for 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards
BlacKkKlansman A Star is Born leads the nominees for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding individual, cast and ensemble performances in film with four nominations, followed by BlacKkKlansman and The Favourite with three nominations each. The cast of BlacKkKlansman and A Star is Born were also nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture along with Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody and Crazy Rich Asians.
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ZAMA, BURNING, and FIRST REFORMED Top Film Comment 2018 Best Films
First Reformed Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed took the top spots among films released in 2018 on Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, Roberto Minervini’s What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, Mariano Llinás’s La Flor, and Khalik Allah’s Black Mother received the top rankings.
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QUINCY, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, BLACKKKLANSMAN Win 2018 African American Film Critics Honors
If Beale Street Could Talk The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) named Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” the Best Film of 2018 along with Best Director (Ryan Coogler) and Best Song (“All the Stars” performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA with music and lyrics by Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Tiffith, Mark Spears, Solana Rowe and Al Shuckburgh) making it AAFCA’s top award-winner of 2018.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA Tops Sight & Sound’s Critics Poll of 2018 Best Films
Roma Sight & Sound, the BFI’s international film magazine, today named Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma as the Best Film of 2018 in one of the most anticipated and respected critics’ opinion poll: Sight & Sound’s Films of the Year. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar®-winning Phantom Thread is in second place, followed by Lee Chang-dong’s Burning in third.
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BLACKKKLANSMAN, ROMA, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Win 2018 San Francisco Film Critics Awards
BlacKkKlansman 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.
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ROMA, MINDING THE GAP, EIGHTH GRADE Win 2018 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Roma 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.