# San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2018

The 23rd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 10, 2018.

## Winners and nominees
### Best Film

Leave No Trace
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* The Favourite
* Green Book
* A Quiet Place

### Best Director

Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
* Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
* Peter Farrelly – Green Book
* John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
* Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

### Best Male Actor

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
* Christian Bale – Vice
* Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased
* Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
* John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers

### Best Female Actor

Glenn Close – The Wife
* Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
* Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
* Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
* Carey Mulligan – Wildlife

### Best Male Supporting Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy (TIE)
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (TIE)
* Mahershala Ali – Green Book
* Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
* Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born

### Best Female Supporting Actor

Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased
* Nina Arianda – Stan & Ollie
* Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
* Alia Shawkat – Blaze

### Best Comedic Performance

Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
* Awkwafina – Crazy Rich Asians
* Jason Bateman – Game Night
* Jesse Plemons – Game Night
* Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2

### Best Original Screenplay

Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
* Wes Anderson – Isle of Dogs
* Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods – A Quiet Place
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book

### Best Adapted Screenplay

Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury, and David Schneider – The Death of Stalin
* Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
* Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Leave No Trace
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
* David Lowery – The Old Man & the Gun

### Best Animated Film

Isle of Dogs
* Have a Nice Day
* Incredibles 2
* Ralph Breaks the Internet
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

### Best Documentary

Three Identical Strangers
* Free Solo
* Love, Gilda
* RBG
* Won't You Be My Neighbor?

### Best Foreign Language Film

Shoplifters
* Capernaum
* Cold War
* The Guilty
* Roma

### Best Cinematography

Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TIE)
Joshua James Richards – The Rider (TIE)
* Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
* Alexander Dynan – First Reformed
* Magnus Nordenhof Jønck – Lean on Pete

### Best Costume Design

Sandy Powell – The Favourite (TIE)
Lindy Hemming – Paddington 2 (TIE)
* Guy Speranza – Stan & Ollie
* Mary E. Vogt – Crazy Rich Asians
* Mary Zophres – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

### Best Editing

Jamie Gross and Dave Egan – Game Night
* Roderick Jaynes – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Yorgos Mavropsaridis – The Favourite
* Christopher Tellefsen – A Quiet Place
* Patrick J. Don Vito – Green Book

### Best Production Design

Fiona Crombie – The Favourite
* Hannah Beachler – Black Panther
* Tim Galvin – Green Book
* John Paul Kelly – Stan & Ollie
* Adam Stockhausen – Ready Player One

### Best Visual Effects

Ready Player One
* Black Panther
* Christopher Robin
* Isle of Dogs
* Paddington 2

### Best Use of Music in a Film

Bad Times at the El Royale
* Blaze
* Bohemian Rhapsody
* Green Book
* A Star Is Born

### Best Breakout Artist

Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
* Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
* Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
* Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
* Charlie Plummer – Lean on Pete

### Best Ensemble

Game Night
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Boy Erased
* The Favourite
* Green Book

### Best Body of Work

John C. Reilly for Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Sisters Brothers, and Stan & Ollie