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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