# Austin Film Critics Association

The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from Austin, Texas, United States.
Each year, the AFCA votes on their end-of-year awards for films released in the same calendar year. A special award, the Austin Film Award, is given each year to the best film made in Austin or by an Austin-area director.

## History

The Austin Film Critics Association was founded in 2005 by local film critics Cole Dabney and Robert "Bobby" McCurdy while attending Bowie High School in Austin. The organization grew in its first eight years, expanding from three members in 2005 to 25 members in 2013.
On January 12, 2007, after only one year in existence, Entertainment Weekly called the AFCA "wildly contrarian" for naming Elliot Page Best Actress for his role in Hard Candy over Helen Mirren for her performance in The Queen, as Mirren had swept the category so far during the award season.
The association chose to name the group's Breakthrough Artist Award to honor Robert "Bobby" McCurdy starting in 2010. McCurdy died on December 19, 2010, while training to become a Naval Aviator.

## Categories

* Best Film
* Best Director
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Best Original Screenplay
* Best Adapted Screenplay
* Best Film Editing
* Best Ensemble
* Best Animated Film
* Best Foreign Language Film
* Best First Film
* Best Documentary
* Best Cinematography
* Best Score
* Best Stunts
* Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
* The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
* Austin Film Award
* Special Honorary Award

## Ceremonies

* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024

## Winners

* † = Winner of the Academy Award

### Best Picture

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2005 | Crash † | Paul Haggis |
| 2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker † | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2011 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 2016 | Moonlight † | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2019 | Parasite † | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All At Once † | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer † | Christopher Nolan |
| 2024 | Anora † | Sean Baker |

### Best Director

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash |
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men |
| 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood |
| 2008 | Christopher Nolan | The Dark Knight |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow † | The Hurt Locker |
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
| 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
| 2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Gravity |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro † | The Shape of Water |
| 2018 | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho † | Parasite |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2021 | Jane Campion † | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert † | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan † | Oppenheimer |
| 2024 | Sean Baker † | Anora |

### Best Actor

| Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman † | Capote | Truman Capote |
| 2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | Billy |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
| 2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
| 2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
| 2010 | Colin Firth † | The King's Speech | King George VI |
| 2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
| 2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
| 2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis "Lou" Bloom |
| 2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck † | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
| 2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Pastor Ernst Toller |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2021 | Nicolas Cage | Pig | Robin "Rob" Feld |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2023 | Cillian Murphy † | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2024 | Colman Domingo | Sing Sing | John "Divine G" Whitfield |

### Best Actress

| Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
| 2005 | Reese Witherspoon † | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
| 2006 | Elliot Page | Hard Candy | Hayley Stark |
| 2007 | Elliot Page | Juno | Juno MacGuff |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married | Kym |
| 2009 | Mélanie Laurent | Inglourious Basterds | Shosanna Dreyfus / Emmanuelle Mimieux |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman † | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
| 2012 | Jennifer Lawrence † | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
| 2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 | Grace Howard |
| 2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott Dunne |
| 2015 | Brie Larson † | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand † | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman † | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2020 | Carey Mulligan | Promising Young Woman | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas |
| 2021 | Agathe Rousselle | Titane | Alexia / Adrien |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh † | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |
| 2023 | Lily Gladstone | Killers of the Flower Moon | Mollie Kyle |
| 2024 | Mikey Madison † | Anora | Anora "Ani" Makheeva |

### Best Supporting Actor

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2005 | William Hurt | A History of Violence | Richie Cusack |
| 2006 | Jack Nicholson | The Departed | Francis "Frank" Costello |
| 2007 | Javier Bardem † | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2008 | Heath Ledger (posthumous) † | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz † | Inglourious Basterds | Hans Landa |
| 2010 | Christian Bale † | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2011 | Albert Brooks | Drive | Bernie Rose |
| 2012 | Christoph Waltz † | Django Unchained | Lancaster Dodd |
| 2013 | Jared Leto † | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
| 2014 | J. K. Simmons † | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher |
| 2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Creed | Rocky Balboa |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali † | Moonlight | Juan |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2018 | Richard E Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock |
| 2019 | Brad Pitt † | Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2020 | Daniel Kaluuya † | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton |
| 2021 | Kodi-Smit McPhee | The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan † | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Waymond Wang |
| 2023 | Robert Downey Jr. † | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| 2024 | Yura Borisov | Anora | Igor |

### Best Supporting Actress

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2005 | Laura Linney | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
| 2006 | Rinko Kikuchi | Babel | Chieko Wataya |
| 2007 | Allison Janney | Juno | Bren MacGuff |
| 2008 | Taraji P. Henson | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie |
| 2009 | Anna Kendrick | Up in the Air | Natalie Keener |
| 2010 | Hailee Steinfeld | True Grit | Mattie Ross |
| 2011 | Jessica Chastain | Take Shelter | Samantha LaForche |
| 2012 | Anne Hathaway † | Les Misérables | Fantine |
| 2013 | Lupita Nyong'o † | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
| 2014 | Patricia Arquette † | Boyhood | Olivia Evans |
| 2015 | Alicia Vikander | Ex Machina | Ava |
| 2016 | Viola Davis † | Fences | Rose Maxson |
| 2017 | Allison Janney † | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden |
| 2018 | Regina King † | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers |
| 2019 | Jennifer Lopez | Hustlers | Ramona Vega |
| 2020 | Youn Yuh-jung † | Minari | Soonja |
| 2021 | Kirsten Dunst | The Power of the Dog | Rose Gordon |
| 2022 | Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki |
| 2023 | Da'Vine Joy Randolph † | The Holdovers | Mary Lamb |
| 2024 | Margaret Qualley | The Substance | Sue |

## Multiple award winners
### Films

* 9 awards:
** Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Ensemble
* 6 Awards:
** Anora (2024): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Robert R. "Buddy" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award (Mikey Madison)
* 5 awards:
** There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
** The Dark Knight (2008): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay
** Black Swan (2010): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography
** If Beale Street Could Talk (2018): Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Breakthrough Artist Award
** The Power of the Dog (2021): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score
* 4 awards:
** Juno (2007): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
** Take Shelter (2011): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award*
** Boyhood (2014): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award
** Moonlight (2016): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
** Parasite (2019): Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film
** Sing Sing (2024): Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Ensemble, Best Austin Film
* 3 awards
** The Hurt Locker (2009): Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography
** Inglourious Basterds (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
** The Master (2012): Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
** 12 Years a Slave (2013): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
** Her (2013): Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score
** Nightcrawler (2014): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
** Room (2015): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
** Tower (2016): Best Documentary, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award
** Get Out (2017): Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
** Call Me by Your Name (2017): Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
** Pig (2021): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film

### Producers, directors, and cinematographers

6 awards
Barry Jenkins
* Best Film
** 2016 – Moonlight
** 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
* Best Director
** 2016 – Moonlight
** 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
* Best Adapted Screenplay
** 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2016 – Moonlight
Richard Linklater
* Best Film
** 2014 – Boyhood
* Best Director
** 2014 – Boyhood
* Best Austin Film
** 2006 – A Scanner Darkly
** 2009 – Me and Orson Welles
** 2012 – Bernie
** 2014 – Boyhood
4 awards
Alfonso Cuarón
* Best Director
** 2006 – Children of Men
** 2013 – Gravity
* Best Adapted Screenplay
** 2006 – Children of Men
* Best Cinematography
** 2018 – Roma
Bong Joon-ho
* Best Film
** 2019 - Parasite
* Best Director
** 2019 - Parasite
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2019 - Parasite
* Best Foreign Language Film
** 2019 - Parasite
Emmanuel Lubezki
* Best Cinematography
** 2006 – Babel
** 2011 – The Tree of Life
** 2013 – Gravity
** 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Keith Maitland
* Best Documentary
** 2016 – Tower
* Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
** 2016 – Tower
* Austin Film Award
** 2016 – Tower
* Special Honorary Award
** 2016 – Tower
3 awards
Paul Thomas Anderson
* Best Film
** 2007 – There Will Be Blood
* Best Director
** 2007 – There Will Be Blood
** 2012 – The Master
Kathryn Bigelow
* Best Film
** 2009 – The Hurt Locker
** 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
* Best Director
** 2009 – The Hurt Locker
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
* Best Film
** 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
* Best Director
** 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
Guillermo del Toro
* Best Director
** 2017 – The Shape of Water
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2006 – Pan's Labyrinth
* Best Foreign Film
** 2006 – Pan's Labyrinth
Jordan Peele
* Best Film
** 2017 – Get Out
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2017 – Get Out
* Best First Film
** 2017 – Get Out
Robert Rodriguez
* Best Austin Film
** 2005 – Sin City
** 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Quentin Tarantino)
* Best Animated Film
** 2005 – Sin City
2 awards
Mark Boal
* Best Film
** 2009 – The Hurt Locker
** 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
Megan Ellison
* Best Film
** 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
** 2013 – Her
Paul Haggis
* Best Film
** 2005 – Crash
* Best Director
** 2005 – Crash
Rian Johnson
* Best First Film
** 2006 – Brick
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2012 – Looper
Quentin Tarantino
* Best Original Screenplay
** 2009 – Inglourious Basterds
* Best Austin Film
** 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Robert Rodriguez)

### Actors

3 awards
Brie Larson
* Best Actress
** 2013 – Short Term 12
** 2015 – Room
* Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
** 2013 – Short Term 12
2 awards
Timothée Chalamet
* Best Actor
** 2017 – Call Me by Your Name
* Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
** 2017 – for his work in Call Me By your Name, and Lady Bird
Jessica Chastain
* Best Supporting Actress
** 2011 – Take Shelter
* Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
** 2011 – for her work in The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life
Colin Firth
* Best Actor
** 2009 – A Single Man
** 2010 – The King's Speech
Anne Hathaway
* Best Actress
** 2008 – Rachel Getting Married
* Best Supporting Actress
** 2017 – Les Misérables
Allison Janney
* Best Supporting Actress
** 2007 – Juno
** 2017 – I, Tonya
Elliot Page
* Best Actress
** 2006 – Hard Candy
** 2007 – Juno
Christoph Waltz
* Best Supporting Actor
** 2008 – Inglourious Basterds
** 2012 – Django Unchained

## Top 10 Films of the Decade (2000s)

* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
* There Will Be Blood (2007)
* The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003)
* The Dark Knight (2008)
* Requiem for a Dream (2000)
* Kill Bill (2003/4)
* No Country for Old Men (2007)
* The Incredibles (2004)
* Children of Men (2006)
* Memento (2000) / The Departed (2006) (TIE)

## Top 10 Films of the Decade (2010s)

* Mad Max Fury Road (2015)
* Moonlight (2016)
* The Social Network (2010)
* Get Out (2017)
* Arrival (2016)
* The Handmaiden (2016)
* Parasite (2019)
* Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
* Boyhood (2014)
* Phantom Thread (2017)