News Posted December 9, 2018 Posted December 9, 2018 On Saturday night, the Chicago Film Critics Association announced their winners for its year-end awards. Alfonso Cuaron’s autobiographical Roma, which received the most nominations from the group with nine, won a whopping total of five awards, including Best Picture, Best Foreign Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. The Favourite, First Reformed, Hereditary, and If Beale Street Could Talk all took home two awards each. The Favourite won Best Supporting Actress for Olivia Colman and Art Direction/Set Direction, while First Reformed nabbed Best Original Screenplay for Paul Schrader and Best Actor for Ethan Hawke. Hereditary walked away with Best Actress for Toni Collette and Most Promising Filmmaker for Ari Aster, while If Beale Street Could Talk won Best Adapted Screenplay for Barry Jenkins as well as Best Original Score prize for Nicholas Britell. Other notable wins include Minding the Gap for Best Documentary, Eighth Grade‘s Elsie Fisher for Most Promising Performer, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse winning Best Animated Film. Sadly, Paddington 2 went home empty-handed. It should be noted that Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman, Film Editor Dominick Suzanne-Mayer, Associate Editor Allison Shoemaker, and senior writers Blake Goble and Clint Worthington are all voting members of the CFCA. Consult the full list of winners below. Best Picture: The Favourite First Reformed HereditaryRoma A Star is Born Best Director: Bradley Cooper, A Star is BornAlfonso Cuaron, Roma Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here Paul Schrader, First Reformed Best Actor: Christian Bale, Vice Bradley Cooper, A Star is BornEthan Hawke, First Reformed Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here Best Actress: Yalitza Aparicio, RomaToni Collette, Hereditary Lady Gaga, A Star is Born Regina Hall, Support the Girls Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book Timothee Chalamet, Beautiful BoyRichard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther Steven Yeun, Burning Best Supporting Actress:Olivia Colman, The Favourite Elizabeth Debicki, Widows Zoe Kazan, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk Rachel Weisz, The Favourite Best Original Screenplay:Eighth Grade The FavouriteFirst Reformed Roma Vice Best Adapted Screenplay:BlacKkKlansman Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Death of StalinIf Beale Street Could Talk A Star is Born Best Foreign Language Film:Burning Capernaum Cold WarRoma Shoplifters Best Documentary:Free SoloMinding the Gap RBG Three Identical Strangers Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Best Animated Feature:The Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Ralph Breaks the Internet Ruben Brandt: CollectorSpider-Man: Into the Spider-verse Best Art Direction and Production Design:Annihilation Black PantherThe Favourite Paddington 2 Roma Best Cinematography:Cold War – Lukasz ZalThe Favourite – Robbie RyanFirst Man – Linus SandgrenIf Beale Street Could Talk – James LaxtonRoma – Alfonso Cuaron Best Editing:First Man The Other Side of the WindRoma Widows You Were Never Really Here Best Original Score: Justin Hurwitz – First ManNicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mandy Thom Yorke – Suspiria Jonny Greenwood – You Were Never Really Here Best Use of Visual Effects:Annihilation Black Panther First Man Mission: Impossible – Fallout Paddington 2 Most Promising Filmmaker:Ari Aster, Hereditary Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born Bing Liu, Minding the Gap Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You Most Promising Performer: Yalitza Aparicio, RomaElsie Fisher, Eighth Grade Lady Gaga, A Star is Born Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman & Monsters and Men Source Quote
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