Curveball! Utah Critics Go Deep Into The Spider-Verse

I've given the Utah Film Critics Association its fair share of flack over the years, all of it wholly deserved, but this year? Well, this year the UFCA made some... choices. And, though I'm entirely unsurprised that they've gotten a reaction out of me yet again, I'm highly surpised that the reaction is so positive. I just can't find it in myself to criticize any critics group that finds three big awards for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, with one of them being Best Picture. It's something, for sure, whether or not it's something good, but it sure is something! All the Utah winners and runners-up below:

Best Picture

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2. Roma

Best Directing

1. Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)

2. Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)

Best Performance in a Lead Role, Female

1. Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)

2. Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)

Best Performance in a Lead Role, Male

1. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)

2. Christian Bale (Vice)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role, Female

1. Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

2. Elizabeth Debicki (Widows)

Best Performance in a Supporting Role, Male

1. Hugh Grant (Paddington 2)

2. Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give)

Best Original Screenplay

1. Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade)

2. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourite)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

2. Audrey Wells (The Hate U Give)

Best Cinematography

1. Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)

2. Rob Hardy (Annihilation)

Best Original Score

1. Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury (Annihilation)

2. Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Animated Feature

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Feature

1. Won't You Be My Neighbour?

2. Minding the Gap

Best Non-English Language Feature

1. Roma

2. Burning

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