Team Experience Awards 2018: Our Favourites

by staff

We couldn't let the Oscar season go without our team of writers giving you our 7th annual Team Experience Awards (Nathaniel doesn't vote on these but his Film Bitch Awards will resume in a couple of days). We've given ourselves some time to catch up to 2018's offerings and as a result we have some fun surprises in store for our ballot! This year our Best Film goes to Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, one of the six prizes we've given it of thirteen total nominations. Next behind is Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk with nine mentions, and then the love is spread pretty wide elsewhere with Roma, Hereditary, BlacKkKlansman, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? doing well among nominations.

Best Picture

1. The Favourite
2. If Beale Street Could Talk
   
3. Roma
   
4. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
5. Hereditary
   
6. BlacKkKlansman
   
7. Widows
   
8. Annihilation
   
9. First Man
   
10. We the Animals

Best Director

• Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
• Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk
• Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
• Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

Best Foreign Language Film

• Burning
  
• Cold War
  
• Happy as Lazarro
  
• Roma
  
• Shoplifters

Best Actress

• Toni Collette - Hereditary
• Olivia Colman - The Favourite
• Regina Hall - Support the Girls
• Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Emma Stone - The Favourite

Since some of you will likely be asking, our Oscar frontrunners Glenn Close and Lady Gaga only received two bids apiece from members of our team - never a threat to make our lineup. While these five names are some of the more mentioned underdogs of the season, our TFE writers clearly craved to see some new names recognized this season (as the rest of the ballot will show...).

Best Actor

• Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born
• Daveed Diggs - Blindspotting
• Ethan Hawke - First Reformed
• Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here
• John David Washington - BlacKkKlansman

Best Supporting Actress

• Sakura Andô - Shoplifters
• Elizabeth Debicki - Widows
• Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
• Blake Lively - A Simple Favor
• Rachel Weisz - The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor

• Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Brian Tyree Henry - If Beale Street Could Talk
• Nicholas Hoult - The Favourite
• Alessandro Nivola - Disobedience
• Steven Yeun - Burning

Best Adapted Screenplay

• BlacKkKlansman
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  
• The Death of Stalin
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Leave No Trace

Best Original Screenplay

• Eighth Grade
• The Favourite
• Private Life
• Sorry to Bother You
• Tully

Best Ensemble

• Black Panther
  
• The Favourite
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Shoplifters
• Widows

Best Documentary Feature

• Free Solo
  
• McQueen
• Minding the Gap
  
• Shirkers
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Best Animated Feature

• Incredibles 2
  
• Isle of Dogs
  
• Mirai
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
  
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Editing

• BlacKkKlansman
• The Favourite
  
• Hereditary
• Suspiria
• Widows

Best Cinematography

• Cold War
  
• The Favourite
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Roma
• A Star is Born

Best Costume Design

• Black Panther
  
• The Favourite
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Mary Poppins Returns
  
• A Simple Favor

Best Production Design

• Annihilation
  
• Black Panther
  
• The Favourite
  
• Hereditary
• Roma

Best Sound

• Annihilation
• First Man
  
• Hereditary
• Roma
• A Star is Born

Best Music

• First Man
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Mary Poppins Returns
  
• A Star is Born
  
• Suspiria

Best Visual Effects

• Annihilation
• Avengers: Infinity War
  
• First Man
  
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout
  
• Paddington 2

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Black Panther
  
• Border
• The Favourite
  
• Mary Queen of Scots
  
• Suspiria

Best Unreleased Film

• Ash is Purest White
  
• Her Smell
  
• High Life
  
• Three Faces
  
• Woman At War

Some fun trivia:

• A total 121 films received bids across all ballots/categories, with 55 films receiving Best Picture mentions.
• Some favourites that had no nominations though came close: Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Rider.
• Films that missed our Top Ten despite getting a #1 vote from one of our writers: American Animals, Leave No Trace, Madeline's Madeline, Mandy, and The Rider.
• The most contentious acting category was (naturally) Supporting Actress where 38 different performances showed up on ballots.
• The closest race was in Best Actor with winner Cooper duking it out with Ethan Hawke for a photo finish - and far ahead of their competition.
• Last year's Best Unreleased Film winner Western breaks the category's streak of the winning film appearing on the next year's ballot (A shame, because the film is a wonder). Your move Her Smell.

Previous Team Experience Award Winners:
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

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Comments

[Anon]

Glenn I'm more alarmed that you "didn't vote for any of the Favourite ladies anywhere" than by where you would have put them. That's even more insane than calling Weisz "supporting." 😂😂😂

[Anonny]

“Would you believe that Nathaniel thinks differently to others?”

@Glenn- no need to be condensending; obviously we all know that.

[stjeans]

Bradly Cooper? Really?....Pathetic