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7th Filmiest Awards Winners

I will now reveal the winners in my own personal film honors — the Filmiest Awards! Check out my picks below, with winners at the top of each category followed by the rest of the nominees.

BEST PICTURE

If Beale Street Could Talk

  • BlacKkKlansman
  • The Favourite
  • First Man
  • Hereditary
  • Leave No Trace
  • The Rider
  • Roma
  • A Star Is Born
  • Suspiria

BEST DIRECTOR

Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk

  • Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
  • Debra Granik for Leave No Trace
  • 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

Toni Collette as Annie Graham in Hereditary

  • Glenn Close as Joan Castleman in The Wife
  • 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

Richard E. Grant as Jack Hock in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  • Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2
  • 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

Regina King as Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk

  • Elizabeth Debicki as Alice Gunner in Widows
  • Cynthia Erivo as Darlene Sweet in Bad Times at the El Royale
  • Rachel Weisz as Sarah Churchill in The Favourite
  • Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Sung-Young in Crazy Rich Asians

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

  • Eighth Grade — Bo Burnham
  • 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

If Beale Street Could Talk — Nicholas Britell

  • Annihilation — Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
  • Black Panther — Ludwig Göransson
  • BlacKkKlansman — Terence Blanchard
  • First Man — Justin Hurwitz

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

A Star Is Born (“Shallow”) — Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt

  • 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 (“Always Remember Us This Way”) — Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna
  • Vox Lux (“Wrapped Up”) — Sia and Greg Kurstin

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Favourite — Fiona Crombie; Alice Felton

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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

If Beale Street Could Talk — James Laxton

  • Cold War — Łukasz Żal
  • The Favourite — Robbie Ryan
  • 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

Suspiria — Mark Coulier, Fernanda Perez and Manolo Garcia

  • 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

BEST SOUND DESIGN

A Star Is Born — Alan Robert Murray, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve A. Morrow

  • 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
  • Suspiria — Frank Kruse, Yves-Marie Omnes and Lars Ginzel

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Paddington 2 — Nicholas Bennett, Rupert Davies, Andy Kind, Peter McDonald, Carlos Monzon, Glen Pratt

  • 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

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MULTIPLE WINS

5 — If Beale Street Could Talk

3 — A Star Is Born

2 — BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite