Yesterday, the Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) hosted its second vote for year-end awards, and the results are in: our favorite is The Favourite. As you can see in the announcement below, The Favourite nearly swept, taking home Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble and Best Screenplay.
Other notable wins include Alfonso Cuaron for Best Director for Roma, Ethan Hawke for Best Actor in First Reformed, and Sam Elliott getting the nod for Best Supporting Actor in A Star Is Born.
Take a peek at the full awards list below, as well as the final tally of the group's top ten films. Another great year of cinema!
Atlanta
Film Critics Circle Announces Its 2018 Winners
For the
second year, the 25 voting members in Atlanta’s only dedicated city-specific
critics group, the Atlanta Film Critics Circle, has awarded its top films of
the year.
The number
one film this year is Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s gender-bending tale of
female jockeying for power during Queen Anne’s reign in 18th century England, The
Favourite. Featuring a
powerhouse female cast including Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz,
the film also garnered a Best Actress Award for Olivia Colman, a Best
Supporting Actress nod for Emma Stone, as well as Best Screenplay and Best
Ensemble Cast awards.
“The film is
defined by incredible performances and a powerful rendering of the viciousness
behind class divisions,” says AFCC co-founder Felicia Feaster. “Though set in
the 18th century, there is clear resonance for our current age and the often
brutal circumstances for women who are powerless and lack social standing in
Yorgos Lanthimos’ trenchant rendering of gender divisions and power,” says
Feaster.
Actor Bradley
Cooper’s directorial debut A Star Is Born was the second of the top 10 films,
with Alfonso Cuarón’s unconventional autobiographical tale Roma
centered on his beloved
housekeeper coming in third. Roma also netted awards for Best Foreign Language Film, for Best
Director and Best Cinematography.
Other notable
winners included Best Documentary Won’t You Be My
Neighbor? which
spotlights the revered PBS television program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood”
host Fred Rogers, who brought uncommon kindness, civility and a social
conscience to his work with children.
For his role
as a morally conflicted priest in the somber Paul Schrader-directed drama First
Reformed, Ethan Hawke
won a Best Actor Award with Sam Elliott garnered a Best Supporting Actor award
for his turn as the older brother and surrogate father to Bradley Cooper’s
country music star in A Star Is Born.
The AFCC also
presented special awards for Best Breakthrough Performer, a category that was
tied between Elise Fisher as the painfully awkward teenager at the center of
the funny, poignant Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade and Grammy-winning Lady Gaga as the
rising pop star in the musical melodrama A Star Is Born.
“Our list includes period dramas, inventive horror,
commentary on religion, race relations and the environment, minimalist
art-house fare, stark social media observations, sci-fi fantasy and a fresh
take on the traditional Hollywood epic,” says AFCC co-founder Michael Clark.
“It covers the gamut and I’m very pleased with the members’ collective
enthusiasm.”
About the AFCC
Co-founded by longtime Atlanta film critics Felicia
Feaster and Michael Clark, the Atlanta Film Critics Circle is an attempt to
fill a void in the local film community and in the representation of Atlanta’s
media on the national stage.
Composed of a dynamic mix of Atlanta-based critics
working in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, the AFCC’s mission is to
establish a national presence for a film critics group in Atlanta and to foster
a vibrant film culture in Atlanta, already home to an exploding film industry
production presence.
Founding members (critics living in and/or currently
writing for global, national, regional and/or Atlanta metro area outlets) of
AFCC vote in early December for the group’s annual awards.
Complete AFCC Award List
Top 10 films
1. THE FAVOURITE
2. A STAR IS BORN
3. ROMA
4. A QUIET PLACE
5. FIRST REFORMED
6. EIGHTH GRADE
7. BLACKkKLANSMAN
8. Tie: FIRST MAN
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
9. BLACK PANTHER
Best Lead Actor
Ethan
Hawke in FIRST REFORMED
Best Lead Actress
Olivia
Colman in THE FAVORITE
Best Supporting Actor
Sam
Elliott in A STAR IS BORN
Best Supporting Actress
Emma
Stone in THE FAVORITE
Best Ensemble Cast
THE
FAVOURITE
Best Director
Alfonso
Cuarón for ROMA
Best Screenplay
Deborah
Davis and Tony McNamara for THE FAVOURITE
Best Documentary
WON’T
YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
Best Foreign Language Film
ROMA
Best Animated Film
ISLE
OF DOGS
Best Cinematography
Alfonso
Cuarón for ROMA
Best Original Score
Justin
Hurwitz for FIRST MAN
AFCC Special Award for
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Tie:
Elsie Fisher and Lady Gaga
AFCC Special Award for BEST
FIRST FILM
Bradley
Cooper for A STAR IS BORN
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