Austin Film Critics Association Award Nominations

Winners announced January 7th:

Best Film
Blindspotting
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
Suspiria

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here

Best Actor
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here

Best Actress
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actor
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Steven Yeun, Burning

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Original Screenplay
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Reformed
Roma
Sorry to Bother You

Best Adapted Screenplay
Blackkklansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace

Best Cinematography
Burning
The Favourite
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

Best Original Score
Annihilation
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mandy
Suspiria

Best Foreign Language Film
Burning
Cold War
The Guilty
Roma
Shoplifters

Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

Best Ensemble
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Widows

Best Editing
The Favourite
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
Widows

Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
Josh Brolin, Avengers: Infinity War
Sonoya Mizuno, Annihilation
Shameik Moore, Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ben Whishaw, Paddington 2

Best Stunts
Black Panther
Mandy
Mission Impossible: Fallout
The Night Comes for Us
Upgrade

Best First Film
Blindspotting
Eighth Grade
Hereditary
Sorry To Bother You
A Star is Born

Breakthrough Artist
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Jim Cummings, Thunder Road
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You

Austin Film Award
1985 - Yen Tan
Call Her Ganda - PJ Raval
Damsel - David & Nathan Zellner
Run Like the Devil - Steve Mims
Support the Girls - Andrew Bujalski