The Chicago Film Critics Association held their annual dinner Saturday evening and named Roma Best Film of the year and handed it four other prizes to underline the point. The Favourite, First Reformed, and If Beale Street Could Talk each picked up two prizes. The complete list of winners is after the jump...
Film Roma
Director Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Actress Toni Colette, Hereditary
Actor Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Supporting Actor Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
These five winners are solidifying themselves as the critical darlings of the year along with Regina King in Beale Street but Regina did not emerge victorious in Chicago because...
Supporting Actress Olivia Colman, The Favourite
While we'd normally applaud a critics group for thinking for themselves, we have trouble with that when it comes to Category Fraud and the Chicago Film Critics totally indulged in the misguided belief that a film can only have one lead. They considered all the most talked about co-leads this year Mahershala Ali, Timothee Chalamet, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman to be supporting... except for Emma Stone who they deemed the sole lead of The Favourite's ménage à trois.
Original Screenplay First Reformed
Adapted Screenplay If Beale Street Could Talk
Animated Feature Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
Documentary Feature Minding the Gap
Foreign Film Roma
Most Promising Filmmaker Bing Liu, Minding The Gap
Most Promising Performer Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Editing Roma
Cinematography Roma
Score If Beale Street Could Talk
Production Design The Favourite
Use of Visual Effects Annihilation
Annihilation is a wonderful choice for visual effects and we hope the Academy makes room for it in their nominations. We consider it possible given the very satisfying surprise win for Alex Garland's Ex Machina a few years back.