A look back at last year when Get Out won Picture, Director, Ensemble, Original Screenplay & Sound.
picture
EIGHTH GRADE
2018 offered up many specific and engrossing character studies. Bo Burnham's modestly-mounted but deeply affecting Eighth Grade is a standout coming-of-age tale with funny, wry details and an emotional pull.
nominees
BURNING
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
THE FAVOURITE
HAPPY AS LAZZARO
LEAVE NO TRACE
THE RIDER
ROMA
SHIRKERS
WIDOWS
director
Sandi Tan, SHIRKERS
Sandi Tan's tale is a painful one from an artist's perspective, but it's brought to life in her doc with great complexity, humor, creativity and soul. A bright year for female directors. Chloé Zhao's distinctive efforts almost made my line-up and Marielle Heller's film was wonderful as well.
nominees
Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE
Debra Granik, LEAVE NO TRACE
Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE
Alice Rohrwacher, HAPPY AS LAZZARO
actor
Lakeith Stanfield, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Stanfield's well-calibrated, rich turn carries the tricky genre bends of Boots Riley's social commentary dirge.
nominees
Yoo Ah-in, BURNING
Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED
Brady Jandreau, THE RIDER
Adriano Tardiolo, HAPPY AS LAZZARO
actress
Olivia Colman, THE FAVOURITE
Colman finally gets a centerpiece performance in The Favourite--showing tremendous range (vocally and emotionally) through all of Queen Anne's miserable existence.
Outisde of a narrowed-down five, there are so many other great lead female performances from 2018: Nadia Alexander in Blame, Glenn Close in The Wife, Viola Davis in Widows, Zoey Deutch in Flower, Edie Falco in Outside In, Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher, Regina Hall in Support the Girls, Helena Howard in Madeline's Madeline, Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, Andrea Riseborough in Nancy (also great in Mandy), Emma Stone in The Favourite, and Charlize Theron in Tully.
nominees
Toni Collette, HEREDITARY
Elsie Fisher, EIGHTH GRADE
Melissa McCarthy, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, LEAVE NO TRACE
supporting actor
Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Classic supporting turn, given great humor and deep specificity by character actor Richard E. Grant.
nominees
Raul Castillo, WE THE ANIMALS
Josh Hamilton, EIGHTH GRADE
Linus Roache, MANDY
Steven Yeun, BURNING
supporting actress
Sakura Ando, SHOPLIFTERS
I was entranced by Ando's very natural presence in Shoplifters throughout. She delivers the film's most crushing line.
nominees
Elizabeth Debicki, WIDOWS
Jeon Jong-seo, BURNING
Shayna McHayle, SUPPORT THE GIRLS
Molly Parker, MADELINE’S MADELINE
original screenplay
Alice Rohrwacher, HAPPY AS LAZZARO
Exemplary script in dialogue and in its unique, twinning form.
nominees
Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE
Christina Choe, NANCY
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara, THE FAVOURITE
Boots Riley, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
adapted screenplay
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
The mark of Holofcener, one of my favorite screenwriters, is here. Acerbic and moving.
nominees
Desiree Akhavan & Cecilia Frugiuele, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
Gillian Flynn & Steve McQueen, WIDOWS
Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini, LEAVE NO TRACE
Oh Jung-mi & Lee Chang-dong, BURNING
ensemble
WIDOWS
The hammy collides with the more quietly introspective, in this broad, appealing mix of actorly styles--a throwback to ensemble pics of the 1970s--where, somehow, everyone seems to create a cohesive whole.
nominees
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
THE FAVOURITE
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
SHOPLIFTERS
foreign film
HAPPY AS LAZZARO
Such a mesmerizing fable, made evocative by direction, script and cast. Other nominees here are equally outstanding in their own ways.
nominees
BURNING
COLD WAR
ROMA
SHOPLIFTERS
documentary
SHIRKERS
One of the most interesting docs of the year in its use of the form and the story (and lost film) within it.
nominees
FREE SOLO
MINDING THE GAP
OF FATHERS AND SONS
WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
cinematography
Pascale Granel, THE WILD BOYS
Really vivid work from Granel, with a mix of hyper-coloring and throwbacks to 30s black & white flicks like Captains Courageous. This was definitely one of the most visually-arresting works I saw this year.
nominees
Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA
Benjamin Loeb, MANDY
Mart Taniel, NOVEMBER
Lukasz Zal, COLD WAR
film editing
Bob Murawski & Orson Welles, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
Most in this category have very flashy, distinctive editing styles which shape the films with unusual rhythms. The Other Side of the Wind is an astounding feat in Murawksi's six month efforts in editing Welles' famously lost picture.
nominees
Bernard Beets, LET THE CORPSES TAN
Lucas Celler, Sandi Tan, & Kimberley Has, SHIRKERS
Bing Liu, MINDING THE GAP
Joe Walker, WIDOWS
art direction / production design
HEREDITARY
The miniatures, the creepy, woodsy house, Joan's eerie apartment--all an excellent, precise display of art direction and production design at work in Hereditary.
nominees
BLACK PANTHER
EL ANGEL
THE FAVOURITE
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
film score
Nicholas Brittell, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
One of the finest film scores I've heard in years--not only in its tuneful beauty--but its evocative use of instrumentation and motifs throughout.
nominees
Thomas Adès, COLETTE
Jóhann Jóhannsson, MANDY
Anna Meredith, EIGHTH GRADE
Thomas Newman, UNSANE
song
“Shallow,” A STAR IS BORN
A big, satisfying ballad that soars in the early part of A Star is Born.
nominees
“All the Stars,” BLACK PANTHER
“Amulet of the Weeping Maze,” MANDY
“OYAHYTT,” SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
“Pray for Me,” BLACK PANTHER
costume design
Sandy Powell, THE FAVOURITE
Powell continues her streak of using unusual, out-of-time fabrics for period costuming. She makes the black & white palate so intrinsic to the characters and themes of the picture.
nominees
Ruth E. Carter, BLACK PANTHER
Sarah Edwards, OCEAN’S 8
Caroline Eselin, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Julio Suárez, EL ANGEL
make-up & hair
SUSPIRIA
Consider me dazzled by the Tilda Swinton transformation, Tilda's long, brushed-out hair, and the gory effects in Suspiria.
nominees
BLACK PANTHER
BORDER
MANDY
ZAMA
sound design
MADELINE’S MADELINE
A clanging, banging, anxious mix--part of the main characters' psyche--a risk that pays off as one of the film's most defining elements.
nominees
FIRST MAN
HEREDITARY
A QUIET PLACE
A STAR IS BORN
visual effects
FIRST MAN
Gorgeous, practical effects. Wish more films of this era employed them.
BLACK PANTHER
PADDINGTON 2
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