2018 Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards Announced
An ever-interesting lineup of award winners and finalists from the Dublin Film Critics Circle. International titles abound, as do a few holdovers from 2017 that received Irish release in 2018 (always happy to see them remembered so many months later), but it's Oscar frontrunner A Star Is Born that triumphs overall. Not only does it top the Best Film poll, it also takes prizes for both of its lead actors. There are some excellent choices in here, so while it's almost a shame that the Dublin critics opted for such a conventional Best Film winner, it's only almost a shame, since there's plenty to appreciate otherwise. All the details below.
Best Film
1. A Star Is Born
2. Cold War
3. Lady Bird
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Loveless
= A Quiet Place
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. Leave No Trace
8. Shoplifters
9. First Man
10. Mandy
= The Rider
Best Director
1. Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
2. Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
3. Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
4. Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
5. Damien Chazelle (First Man)
6. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
7. Koreeda Hirokazu (Shoplifters)
8. Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
9. Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
10. Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
Best Actress
1. Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
2. Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
3. Toni Collette (Hereditary)
4. Sarah Greene (Rosie)
5. Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
6. Viola Davis (Widows)
7. Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
8. Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread)
9. Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
= Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians)
10. Charlize Theron (Tully)
Best Actor
1. Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
2. Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)
3. Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
4. Ben Foster (Leave No Trace)
5. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)
6. Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
7. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
8. Marcello Fonte (Dogman)
9. Brady Jandreau (The Rider)
10. Nakhane Toure (The Wound)
Best Screenplay
1. Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
3. Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
4. Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
5. Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You)
6. Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman)
7. Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini (Leave No Trace)
8. Xavier Legrand (Custody)
9. Dan Kokotajlo (Apostasy)
10. Janusz Glowacki and Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Best Cinematography
1. Linus Sandgren (First Man)
2. Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
3. Lukasz Zal (Cold War)
4. Dan Lausten (The Shape of Water)
5. Benjamin Loeb (Mandy)
6. Joe Anderson (The Old Man & the Gun)
7. Benoit Debie (Climax)
8. Ashley Connor (The Miseducation of Cameron Post)
9. Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Suspiria)
10. Norm Li (Never Steady, Never Still)
Best Documentary
1. Three Identical Strangers
2. Katie
3. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
4. Whitney
5. Filmworker
6. Studio 54
7. Free Solo
8. McQueen
9. A Cambodian Spring
10. I, Dolours
Best Breakthrough Artist
Dafhyd Flynn (Michael Inside)
Best Irish Film
1. Rosie
2. Michael Inside
3. Black 47
4. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
5. The Little Stranger
6. The Breadwinner
7. Making the Grade
8. Kissing Candice
9. Katie
10. The Image You Missed
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