OFCS Winners
Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 10:40AM by Nathaniel R
Mission: Impossible - Fallout was one of only 2 films to win multiple prizes from the OFCS that was not on their top ten list (the other was Black Panther)
The Online Film Critics Society (a couple of TFE's contributors are among their 283 members) have announced their winners for their 22nd annual awards. Alfonso Cuarón's Roma continues its critical dominance by taking 4 prizes including both best foreign film and best film. Other multiple winners include Black Panther, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, If Beale Street Could Talk, First Reformed, and Hereditary. Four films on their top ten list were shut out of winning any prize: The Favourite, You Were Never Really Here, Eighth Grade, and Suspiria... five if you count their #2 film BlacKkKlansman but we figure the lifetime achievement award for Spike Lee covers that one. The complete list of winners follows after the jump...
Film Roma
Director Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Actress Toni Collette, Hereditary
Actor Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Supporting Actress Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Supporting Actor Michael B Jordan, Black Panther
Original Screenplay First Reformed
Adapted Screenplay If Beale Street Could Talk
Cinematography Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Editing Mission: Impossible- Fallout
Score If Beale Street Could Talk
Debut Feature Ari Aster, Hereditary
Animated Film Into the Spider-Verse
Foreign Language Film Roma
Documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Technical Achievements
These prizes vary from year to year -- they aren't set categories. The winners this year are...
Visual FX -Annihilation
Costume Design -Black Panther
Stunt Coordination -Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Sound Design -A Quiet Place
Original Songs -A Star is Born
Special Achievements
Ryan Coogler for Black Panther's critical and box office appeal
The City of Oakland, CA for hosting two of 2018's compelling films about race relations: Sorry to Bother You and Blindspotting
Lifetime Achievements
Roger Deakins
Spike Lee
Rita Moreno
Robert Redford
Agnes Varda
Top Ten
- Roma
- BlacKkKlansman
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- First Reformed
- The Favourite
- You Were Never Really Here
- Annihilation
- Eighth Grade
- Hereditary
- A Star is Born
- Suspiria
Reader Comments (29)
Could Michael B Jordan emerge the spoiler Oscar winner if enough people split their votes between Richard E Grant and Sam Elliott?
How can there be 11 in a top 10 -- especially when they're ranked, so you know there wasn't a tie?
Just saw Roma this morning.
I see what the fuss is about. Maybe I was a bit tired to watch a film like this at 3:30, and it simply deserves another viewing.
But while the direction was breathtaking, I don't know that even in that there is a great whole beyond the parts; in particular a film that has many parts that appear not to work. Where is the screenplay?
Will have to see it again.
Stunning opening shot...Bergman would be proud.
David: he'll have to get nominated first.
Ok, overall this is a really good bunch of winners.
Jordan? Really? Please dear Movie Gods don't let this happen! There are better and more deserving Supporting Actors to nominate. Praying!
MichaelR & Jason:
Was just a hunch since I'm not totally convinced Chalamet takes the 5th spot in Supporting Actor and they'd want to honor Black Panther somewhere.
Am I the only one who is not on the Michael B. Jordan train? I liked Black Panther and do like him as an actor, but I did not like his performance in that film at all.
Never happened anything like this year with lead actors and I still don't get how this will end. Collette and Hawke are winning EVERY critic award and they didn't get ANY nomination in Sag or Globes line. What do you think about?
I don't get the Michael B Jordan thing at all.
Happy for MBJ. I'm predicting he'll get in over Chalamet.
I'm so tired of the groupthink around Roma.
Weird about Collette, but especially Hawke (feels like he's winning the most). Not seen that before. He's the more obvious arthouse choice, and more obvious as being due.
As for Jordan...understandable people are a little surprised, or picking others. Odd that anyone likes the film but doesn't like him. He's terrific.
@Cash
They announced the nominees on 12/26 where there was presumably a tie which led to 11 films being up for Best Picture. Then they get their ranks during the final voting process.
The Coogler award feels like a classy way to honor Black Panther.
Michael B. Jordan is playing a character here who has already become iconic right down to his image and his expertly delivered dialogue, some of which has become quotable among those who love the film. The terrific line about death and bondage alone underlines his contributions to the film. While it's not Shakespeare, he does get to create a complicated (not cartoonish) character in an arguably Shakespearean story. I think his nomination would be a fitting way to represent the film, its cast, its themes, and a sign the Academy likes the film.
The award totals are all tabulated at nextbestpicture.com. Hawke and King have 24 apiece. Next is Cuaron with 21, and Grant with 15.
In the Best Actress race, the breakdown is:
1. Colman - 10 Best Actress prizes and 2 Supporting Actress prizes
2. Collette - 10 Best Actress prizes
3. McCarthy - 6 Best Actress prizes
4. Gaga - 5 Best Actress prizes
5. Hall - 3 Best Actress prizes
6. Davis and Aparacio - 2 Best Actress prizes apiece
Close, Fisher, Kulig, Fisher, Kidman, and Stenberg have all won one.
24? Damn
Why is everyone suddenly convinced MBJ is gonna be nominated? lol. He didn't get any major nods, unless you count the critics choice nom. Either way, it would be a good way to honor the film and a huge actor who hasn't been nominated yet. Much worse things have happened in Supporting Actor, and at least he's actually supporting.
@ Patrick T: That's so interesting, because I think he does come off as somewhat cartoonish in the film. To each their own! Happy the film is getting attention regardless.
@ Keelay!: LOL great attitude! I agree that it's great to see it in the discussion so long after its release.
All the prizes for Black Panther will cost a lot in the future to whom supported! Shame of movie! Shame of acclaim!
Did u noticed that the directors lists of best movies in 2018 (indiewire) only put Blackkklasman and Black Panther in 5 lists of a total o 52? And Blackkklasman has being release in fifty countries and Black Panther open around the world and, with that in mind, they still don't appear in the lists? You know why?
'Cause they are mediocre movies! All the directors know!
but a lot of critics embrace that... because they are mediocre too!
@Jon: Really didn't like the black movies this year, huh?
Jon^^
Shut up a little bit. And before anyone jumps in to say I shouldn't talk that way, please pay attention to the fact that Jon is, literally, doing nothing but yelling at other people's choices. And whiny and melodramatic at that.
I barely liked Black Panther. But damn, can't so-called film lovers critique a movie rather than launch into a pretentious rant?
Michael B. Jordan's performance is just as incredibly overrated as is the merely capable movie he stars in.
@Morgan (the 1st)
If I remember, If Beale street could talk is a black story, directed by a black director, and we could called a black movie, right?
the same with The Hate u Give and Sorry to bother you.
do you realize that there are a lot of black movies besides Black Panther and Blackkklasman ? MUCH BETTER BLACK MOVIES NOT IN THE CONVERSATITION O THE AWARDS INDUSTRY? Why that? Why only the Disney - Spike Lee movies are in the conversation?
Barry Jenkins is my fab work of the year!
@Me
Darling, If u have a little of criticism and movie history inside you, you will agree with me about Blackkklasman and Black Panther. There is an abbys between the greats black works of the year (look what I write) and this works I am a little critic.
If u are ok with seeing mediocre works being awarded, ok for you. I am not of this group. Are you ok with that? With the idea of better professionals and works don't be praised because the awards industry decides who they will love and who they will not based on criterias that is not good working achieved?
Is not being melodramatic, honey. It is speaking something that the confortable audience (you?) don't wanna say, think or change.
Jon -- but this assumes that all people who are film savvy think the same thing about every movie and we know that this is 1000% untrue from just following *any* group of say, 4 or 5 critics or moviegoers. For instance I am not a fan of Beale Street (you are) but love BlacKkKlansman (you don't). Does this mean I do not think critically and have no knowledge of film history? Or does it simply mean people have different opinions and takes on various works of art?.
I agree that Black Panther is overrated (there have been better superhero movies and it's action sequences are highly uneven) but calling it "mediocre" seems a bridge too far - it's a really solid, enjoyable, and even thoughtful film of its genre.
Come Through, Michael B. Jordan. Get that nomination!
Jon;
I don't think you're really getting me.
Also, who are these directors? They're a bunch of different people. Burnham is one of them.
Besides, a lot of films are revered and remembered more over time. A lot of artists go out of their way to share something smaller, or something that caught them off-guard. Music artists do it the most, but directors and actors do it too.