# Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2018

The 14th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2018, were announced on January 7, 2019. The nominees were announced on December 27, 2018.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Film | Best Director |
| If Beale Street Could Talk The Favourite Roma Blindspotting You Were Never Really Here Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse First Reformed Eighth Grade Shoplifters Suspiria | Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Debra Granik – Leave No Trace Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ethan Hawke – First Reformed Christian Bale – Vice Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here | Olivia Colman – The Favourite Toni Collette – Hereditary Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Regina Hall – Support the Girls Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk Steven Yeun – Burning | Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk Amy Adams – Vice Claire Foy – First Man Emma Stone – The Favourite Rachel Weisz – The Favourite |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Sorry to Bother You – Boots Riley Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara First Reformed – Paul Schrader Roma – Alfonso Cuarón | If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin Leave No Trace – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini |
| Best Film Editing | Best Ensemble |
| First Man - Tom Cross If Beale Street Could Talk - Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders Roma - Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis Widows – Joe Walker | Widows Avengers: Infinity War Black Panther Crazy Rich Asians The Favourite |
| Best Animated Film | Best Foreign Language Film |
| Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet | Burning Cold War The Guilty Roma Shoplifters |
| Best First Film | Best Documentary |
| Eighth Grade Hereditary A Star Is Born Blindspotting Sorry to Bother You | Won't You Be My Neighbor? Free Solo Minding the Gap RBG Shirkers |
| Best Cinematography | Best Score |
| Roma – Alfonso Cuarón Burning – Hong Kyung-pyo First Man – Linus Sandgren If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton Widows – Sean Bobbitt | Mandy – Jóhann Jóhannsson Annihilation – Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow First Man – Justin Hurwitz If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell Suspiria – Thom Yorke |
| Best Stunts | Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance |
| Mission: Impossible – Fallout Black Panther Mandy The Night Comes for Us Upgrade | Josh Brolin - Avengers: Infinity War Shameik Moore - Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Sonoya Mizuno - Annihilation Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Solo: A Star Wars Story Ben Whishaw - Paddington 2 |
| Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award | Austin Film Award |
| Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse and Widows Yalitza Aparicio – Roma Jim Cummings – Thunder Road Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You | Support the Girls – Andrew Bujalski 1985 – Yen Tan Call Her Ganda – PJ Raval Damsel – David Zellner and Nathan Zellner Run Like the Devil – Steve Mims |
| Special Honorary Award ||
| To Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton for their brilliant collaborative work on Eighth Grade. ||