Chicago Film Critics Awards

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CHICAGO FILM CRITICS AWARDS, this year known as the ROMAS (5 wins).

Winners
Best Film: ROMA
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED
Best Actress: Toni Collette, HEREDITARY
Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Best Supporting Actress: Olivia Colman, THE FAVOURITE
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED
Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Best Foreign-Language Film: ROMA
Best Animated Film: SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Best Documentary Film: MINDING THE GAP
Best Original Score: Nicholas Britelll, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Best Cinematography: Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA
Best Editing: Alfonso Cuaron & Adam Gough, ROMA
Best Production Design: THE FAVOURITE
Best Use of Visual Effects: ANNIHILATION
Most Promising Filmmaker: Ari Aster, HEREDITARY
Most Promising Performer: Elsie Fisher, EIGHTH GRADE

[rolotomasi99]

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Steven Yeun, Burning

I would love to see this nomination repeat at Oscars, but I doubt they would ever be that cool. After watching him for years as an affable but unremarkable actor on THE WALKING DEAD, I found Yen's performance in BURNING revelatory. For me, the only reason that movie works is because he makes the slow-burn transition so believable. I want to avoid spoilers, but what he did in that movie felt like a magician pulling off a magic trick. Not a big, showy performance, but still something pretty special.

[OscarGuy]

They aren't the first group to recognize Widows. The film had five citations prior to today. The Satellites nominated it 4 times. It was also nominated in the Los Angeles Online critics nominations.

[Mister Tee]

As I said the other day, a few of the old stand-bys deserve individual threads. Chicago, for some reason, releases nominations today and winners tomorrow. So, here are the nominations -- a mix of consensus/prediction with some artier fare on the edges.

Oh, and, in the proud Siskel/Ebert tradition, a Chicago group is the first to give any notice to Widows.


BEST PICTURE
The Favourite
First Reformed
Hereditary
Roma
A Star is Born

BEST DIRECTOR
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Paul Schrader, First Reformed

BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here

BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Timothee Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Steven Yeun, Burning

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Zoe Kazan, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star is Born

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Eighth Grade by Bo Burnham
The Favourite by Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
First Reformed by Paul Schrader
Roma by Alfonso Cuaron
Vice by Adam McKay

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
Roma
Shoplifters

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ruben Brandt: Collector
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cold War - Lukasz Zal
The Favourite - Robbie Ryan
First Man - Linus Sandgren
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Laxton
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Annihilation
Black Panther
The Favourite
Paddington 2
Roma

BEST EDITING
First Man
The Other Side of the Wind
Roma
Widows
You Were Never Really Here

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
First Man - Justin Hurwitz
If Beale Street Could Talk - Nicholas Britell
Mandy - Johan Johannson
Suspiria - Thom Yorke
You Were Never Really Here - Jonny Greenwood

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
Annihilation
Black Panther
First Man
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Paddington 2

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Ari Aster, Hereditary
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Bing Liu, Minding the Gap
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman & Monsters and Men