By Daniel Barnes
This is the ballot that I submitted for this year’s San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards. It should be noted that Madeline’s Madeline was nominated for our Special Citation Award, so I left it out of consideration for other awards. I also did not consider Mandy, which I doubt ten people in the group watched. Check out my full rankings of 2018 releases HERE.
BEST ACTRESS
- Juliette Binoche, Let the Sunshine In
- Joanna Kulig, Cold War
- Olivia Colman, The Favourite
- Sakura Ando, Shoplifters
- Kathryn Hahn, Private Life
BEST ACTOR
- Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
- Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
- John C. Reilly, The Sisters Brothers
- Yoo Ah-In, Burning
- Paul Giamatti, Private Life
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
- Emma Stone, The Favourite
- Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
- Jun Jong-seo, Burning
- Amanda Seyfried, First Reformed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Nicholas Hoult, The Favourite
- Tim Blake Nelson, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Cedric Sykes (aka Cedric the Entertainer), First Reformed
- Charlie Sexton, Blaze
- Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
BEST SCREENPLAY, Original
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
- Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski and Janusz Glowacki)
- Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
- Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
BEST SCREENPLAY, Adapted
- The Death of Stalin (Armando Ianucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows and Fabien Nury)
- Burning (Jungmi Oh and Chang-dong Lee)
- Leave No Trace (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)
- You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsey)
- Let the Sunshine In (Christine Angot and Claire Denis)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- The Favourite
- Cold War
- Burning
- You Were Never Really Here
- The Sisters Brothers
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- You Were Never Really Here
- The Sisters Brothers
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Isle of Dogs
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- The Favourite
- The Sisters Brothers
- Roma
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Isle of Dogs
BEST EDITING
- The Favourite
- You Were Never Really Here
- The Death of Stalin
- Isle of Dogs
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Isle of Dogs
- Seder-Masochism
- Have a Nice Day
- Mary and the Witch’s Flower
- The Incredibles 2
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
- Cold War
- Burning
- Shoplifters
- Let the Sunshine In
- A Twelve-Year Night
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Free Solo
- Monrovia, Indiana
- Filmworker
- Bisbee ‘17
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST DIRECTOR
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
- Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
- Lynne Ramsey, You Were Never Really Here
- Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs
- Chang-dong Lee, Burning
BEST PICTURE
- First Reformed
- The Favourite
- You Were Never Really Here
- Isle of Dogs
- The Death of Stalin
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Categories: Ballots and Best-of Lists, e street film society