Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2018 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of 21 film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Toledo, OH, New York, NY and Atlanta, GA.
Each critic submitted their top 5 picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature and Best Use of Music; making for a total of 12 categories. From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top 5 in each category were placed on the final ballot. From there, winners have been chosen based on the same point system. Below are the nominees with winners in bold font. Time to see what made the cut in 2018!
THE NOMINATIONS FOR 2018, WINNERS IN BOLD
(in alphabetical order)
BEST PICTURE
- A Quiet Place
- Eighth Grade
- First Reformed
- Green Book
- Roma
BEST DIRECTOR
- Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
- Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
- Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
- Adam Mckay – Vice
- Paul Schrader – First Reformed
BEST ACTOR
- Christian Bale – Vice
- Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
- Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
- Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
- John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
BEST ACTRESS
- Toni Collette – Hereditary
- Olivia Colman – The Favourite
- Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
- Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Mahershala Ali – Green Book
- Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born
- Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade
- Jesse Plemons – Game Night
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Amy Adams – Vice
- Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
- Thomasin Mckenzie – Leave No Trace
- Emma Stone – The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
BEST ENSEMBLE
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Eighth Grade
- The Favourite
- Roma
- Vice
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
- Bo Burnham – Writer/Director – Eighth Grade
- Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs – Writers/Actors – Blindspotting
- Elsie Fisher – Actress – Eighth Grade
- Lady Gaga – Actress – A Star Is Born
- Boots Riley – Writer/Director – Sorry to Bother You
BEST SCREENPLAY
- Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
- Deborah Davis, Tony Mcnamara – The Favourite
- Adam Mckay – Vice*
- Paul Schrader – First Reformed
- Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly – Green Book*
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Free Solo
- RBG
- Three Identical Strangers
- Whitney
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Smallfoot
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST USE OF MUSIC
- A Star Is Born
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Green Book
- Mandy
- Mary Poppins Returns
*Denotes tie
The Detroit Film Critics Society members for the 2018-2019 season in alphabetical order are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local; Paul Arlon – The Downtown Monitor; Kirk Baird – The Toledo Blade; Jonathan Barkan – DreadCentral.com; Christopher Giroux – Film Obsession; Adam Graham – The Detroit News; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Tom Long – The Detroit News & The Decider; Warren Pierce – WJR Radio; Mara Reinstein – MaraMovies.com & Parade Magazine; Greg Russell – WDIV Live in the D & Real Times Media; James Sanford – WMUK-FM; Tom Santilli – AXS, Critic Lee Speaking; Debbie Schlussel – Sirius XM Larry the Cable Guy Show, DebbieDoesMovies.com; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance show; John Serba – JohnSerbaAtLarge.com; Montilee Stormer – Film Obsession; Terri-Lee Sylvester – WWJ Newsradio 950; Lee Thomas – WJBK Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – Cinemanerdz.com; Carl Wheeler – TheReelGodfather.com.
