North Carolina Film Critics Association Award Nominations

Winners announced Jan. 2nd.

BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Black Panther
BlacKKKlansman
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Free Solo
RBG
Shirkers
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
The Guilty
Roma
Shoplifters

BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Damien Chazelle – First Man
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Spike Lee — BlacKKKlansman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
James Laxton – If Beale Street Could Talk
Linus Sandgren – First Man
Lukasz Zal – Cold War

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – Vice
Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington – BlacKKKlansman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Adam Driver – BlacKKKlansman
Sam Elliott – A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther

BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Lady Gaga – A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favorite

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara – The Favourite
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Paul Schrader – First Reformed

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole – Black Panther
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters – A Star is Born
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee — BlacKKKlansman

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ready Player One

BEST MUSIC
Annihilation
Black Panther
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
(This award recognizes a film, artists, or performer with a special connection to North Carolina. In 2017, the Tar Heel Award was dedicated to longtime North Carolina film critic Ken Hanke.)
Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased, Ben is Back) – UNC School of the Arts
David Gordon Green and Danny McBride (Halloween) – UNC School of the Arts
Peyton Reed (Ant-Man and the Wasp) – North Carolina native