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7th Filmiest Awards Nominations

January 31, 2019 Kevin Jacobsen Oscars 0

The time has come for me to reveal the 7th Filmiest Awards nominations, my own personal nominations for the films of 2018. While I still have not seen every great film that came out in 2018, I feel very strongly about the quality of the films, performances, directors, writers and craftspeople you will see nominated below.

The 7th Filmiest Awards winners will be revealed Monday, Feb. 4. Read the full list of nominations below!

BEST PICTURE

  • BlacKkKlansman
  • The Favourite
  • First Man
  • Hereditary
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Leave No Trace
  • The Rider
  • Roma
  • A Star Is Born
  • Suspiria

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
  • Debra Granik for Leave No Trace
  • Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite
  • Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman

BEST ACTOR

  • Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine in A Star Is Born
  • Ben Foster as Will in Leave No Trace
  • Ethan Hawke as Ernst Toller in First Reformed
  • Stephan James as Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt in If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Joaquin Phoenix as Joe in You Were Never Really Here 

BEST ACTRESS

  • Glenn Close as Joan Castleman in The Wife
  • Toni Collette as Annie Graham in Hereditary
  • Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite
  • Melissa McCarthy as Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Thomasin McKenzie as Tom in Leave No Trace

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2
  • Richard E. Grant as Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Josh Hamilton as Mark Day in Eighth Grade
  • Brian Tyree Henry as Daniel Carty in If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Russell Hornsby as Maverick Carter in The Hate U Give

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Elizabeth Debicki as Alice Gunner in Widows
  • Cynthia Erivo as Darlene Sweet in Bad Times at the El Royale
  • Regina King as Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Rachel Weisz as Sarah Churchill in The Favourite
  • Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Young in Crazy Rich Asians

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
  • The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
  • First Reformed — Paul Schrader
  • Private Life — Tamara Jenkins
  • Shoplifters — Hirokazu Kore-eda

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • BlacKkKlansman — Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me? — Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
  • If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
  • Leave No Trace — Debra Granik and Anne Rossellini
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

  • Annihilation — Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
  • Black Panther — Ludwig Göransson
  • BlacKkKlansman — Terence Blanchard
  • First Man — Justin Hurwitz
  • If Beale Street Could Talk — Nicholas Britell

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

  • Black Panther (“All the Stars”) — Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave, Al Shux, SZA
  • Mary Poppins Returns (“A Cover Is Not the Book”) — Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman
  • A Star Is Born (“Shallow”) — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt
  • A Star Is Born (“Always Remember Us This Way”) — Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna
  • Vox Lux (“Wrapped Up”) — Sia and Greg Kurstin

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • Annihilation — Mark Digby; Michelle Day
  • Black Panther — Hannah Beachler; Jay Hart
  • The Favourite — Fiona Crombie; Alice Felton
  • Isle of Dogs — Paul Harrod and Adam Stockhausen
  • Roma — Eugenio Caballero; Bárbara Enríquez

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Cold War — Łukasz Żal
  • The Favourite — Robbie Ryan
  • If Beale Street Could Talk — James Laxton
  • The Rider — Joshua James Richards
  • Roma — Alfonso Cuarón

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

  • Black Panther — Ruth E. Carter
  • Crazy Rich Asians — Mary E. Vogt
  • The Favourite — Sandy Powell
  • If Beale Street Could Talk — Caroline Eselin
  • Mary Poppins Returns — Sandy Powell

BEST FILM EDITING

  • BlacKkKlansman — Barry Alexander Brown
  • First Man — Tom Cross
  • If Beale Street Could Talk — Joi McMillion and Nat Sanders
  • Minding the Gap — Joshua Altman and Bing Liu
  • Widows — Joe Walker

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

  • Black Panther — Joel Harlow, Camille Friend and Ken Diaz
  • The Favourite — Nadia Stacey
  • Mary Queen of Scots — Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
  • Stan & Ollie — Jeremy Woodhead and Mark Coulier
  • Suspiria — Mark Coulier, Fernanda Perez and Manolo Garcia

BEST SOUND DESIGN

  • First Man — Ai-Ling Lee, Midred Iatrou Morgan, Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, and Mary H. Ellis
  • Hereditary — Lewis Goldstein, Thomas Ryan and Steve Laneri
  • Roma — Sergio Díaz, Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
  • A Star Is Born — Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve A. Morrow
  • Suspiria — Frank Kruse, Yves-Marie Omnes and Lars Ginzel

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Annihilation — Andrew Whitehurst, Sara Bennett, Richard Clarke and Simon Hughes
  • Avengers: Infinity War — Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
  • First Man — Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm
  • Mission: Impossible — Fallout — Rohit Prakash Gujar, Vinod Gundre, Jody Johnson
  • Paddington 2 — Nicholas Bennett, Rupert Davies, Andy Kind, Peter McDonald, Carlos Monzon, Glen Pratt

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NOMINATION TOTALS

10 — If Beale Street Could Talk

9 — The Favourite

5 — Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, First Man, Leave No Trace, Roma, A Star Is Born

4 — Suspiria

3 — Annihilation, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Hereditary, Mary Poppins Returns

2 — Crazy Rich Asians, Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Paddington 2, The Rider, Widows

1 — Avengers: Infinity War, Bad Times at the El Royale, Cold War, The Hate U Give, Isle of Dogs, Mary Queen of Scots, Minding the Gap, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Stan & Ollie, Vox Lux, The Wife, You Were Never Really Here