best picture

Top 10 of 2018

1. Hereditary – Ari Aster
2. Black Panther – Ryan Coogler
3. A Star is Born – Bradley Cooper
4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Christopher McQuarrie
5. Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Marielle Heller
6. A Quiet Place – John Krasinski
7. Roma – Alfonso Cuaron
8. Annihilation – Alex Garland
9. Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski
10. Three Identical Strangers – Tim Wardle

Honourable Mentions:

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee
Minding the Gap – Bing Liu
Green Book – Peter Farrelly
The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos
Bird Box – Susanne Bier
Vice – Adam McKay
Crazy Rich Asians – John M. Chu
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Ready Player One – Steven Spielberg
RBG – Betsy West and Julie Cohen

best director

Winner:
Alfonso Cuaron – Roma

Nominees:
Ryan Coogler – Black Panther
Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Marielle Heller – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Ari Aster – Hereditary

best lead actor

Winner:
Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born

Nominees:
John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
Ryan Gosling – First Man
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Viggo Mortenson – Green Book
Christian Bale – Vice

 

best lead actress

Winner:
Toni Collette – Hereditary

Nominees:
Sandra Bullock – Bird Box
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Joanna Kulig – Cold War
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Lady Gaga – A Star is Born

best supporting actor

Winner:
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Nominees:
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Nicholas Hoult – The Favourite
Alex Wolff – Hereditary
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Sam Elliott – A Star is Born

best supporting actress

Winner:
Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place

Nominees:
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Danai Gurira – Black Panther
Michelle Yeoh – Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Marina de Tavira – Roma

best original screenplay

Winner:
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite

Nominees:
Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki & Piotr Borkowski – Cold War
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Ari Aster – Hereditary
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski – A Quiet Place

best adapted screenplay

Winner:
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Nominees:
Alex Garland – Annihilation
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin – The Death of Stalin

best original score/soundtrack

Winner:
Ludwig Goransson – Black Panther

Nominees:
Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barlow – Annihilation
Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Bird Box
Justin Hurwitz – First Man

best original song

Winner:
“Shallow” – A Star is Born

Nominees:
“All the Stars” – Black Panther
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
“A Cover is Not the Book” – Mary Poppins Returns
“I’ll Fight” – RBG

best non-english language film

Winner:
Roma, (Mexico)

Runner-up:
Cold War (Poland)

best cinematography

Winner:
Lukasz Zal – Cold War

Nominees:
Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Pawel Pogorzelski – Hereditary
Rob Hardy – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Charlotte Bruus Christensen – A Quiet Place
Alfonso Curaon – Roma

best film editing

Winner:
Jennifer Lame & Lucian Johnston – Hereditary

Nominees:
Barry Alexander Brown – BlacKkKlansman
Anne McCabe – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Jaroslaw Kaminski – Cold War
Jay Cassidy – A Star is Born
Hank Corwin – Vice

best production design

Winner:
Black Panther

Nominees:
Annihilation
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Favourite
Isle of Dogs
Roma

best costume design

Winner:
Black Panther

Nominees:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Mary Poppins Returns

best sound

Winner:
Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Nominees:
Annihlation
Black Panther
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma

 

best makeup and hairstyling

Winner:
Suspiria

Nominees:
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Queen of Scots
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Vice

best visual effects

Winner:
Ready Player One

Nominees:
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Solo: A Star Wars Story

best stunts

Winner:
Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Runners-up:
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Hereditary
Solo: A Star Wars Story

best documentary

Winner:
Three Identical Strangers

Runner-up:
Minding the Gap
RBG

 

best ensemble

Winner:
Crazy Rich Asians

Nominees:
Annihilation
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Widows

best animated feature

Winner:
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Runner-up:
The Incredibles 2

best titles sequence

Winner:
Black Panther

best poster

Winner:
Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Please note that eligibility periods and category placements may not be 100% accurate, and is in the sole discretion of the writer to do as he wishes. Thanks.

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