Beale Street Wins Five Austin Critics Awards
Rely on the Austin Film Critics Association! They'll never let you down! Barry Jenkins' wondrous James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk wins five awards in the AFCA's 2018 voting including Best Film and Best Director, a delightful tonic from some of the more dispiriting awards picks from more high profile groups recently. Alas, this leaves a mere single award for Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, but then it's been doing well enough with critics groups elsewhere that I guess I'll sanction this brief break from convention. Check out the AFCA's nominees at this link, and their award winners below:
Best Film*
If Beale Street Could Talk
1. The Favourite
2. Roma
3. Blindspotting
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. First Reformed
7. If Beale Street Could Talk
8. Eighth Grade
9. Shoplifters
10. Suspiria
*Yes, I know, If Beale Street Could Talk wins the award while only placing seventh on their poll, which is topped by The Favourite. I don't understand it either.
Best Director
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Actress
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Supporting Actor
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Best Original Screenplay
Sorry to Bother You
Best Adapted Screenplay
If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Cinematography
Roma
Best Film Editing
First Man
Best Original Score
Mandy
Best Ensemble
Widows
Best Stunts
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Best Animated Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary
Won't You Be My Neighbour?
Best Foreign Film
Burning
Best First Film
Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade)
Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk / Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Widows)
Best Motion Capture / Special Effects Performance
Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War)
Austin Film Award
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
Special Honorary Award
Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade) - for their brilliant collaborative work