Eighth Grade Named Best Picture by the Detroit Film Critics Society
The Detroit Film Critics Society (of which CinemaNerdz Editor-in-Chief, Mike Tyrkus, is a member and newly-elected President) is pleased to announce the Best of winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in the Spring of 2007 and consists of a group of 21 film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York, New York.
Each critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following 12 categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot. In the event of a tie, more than five entries were placed on the ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated and the winners were decided.
Eighth Grade was the big winner with eight nominations and three wins for Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor; and Breakthrough for Bo Burnham, the film’s writer and director. Vice received five nominations and three wins for Adam McKay, Best Director; Best Ensemble; and tied for Best Screenplay with Green Book, which had four nominations. Other top nominees include A Star Is Born with six nominations and one win for Best Use of Music and The Favourite with five nominations, but no wins.
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The Best of 2018
as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)
BEST PICTURE
- Winner: Eighth Grade
- A Quiet Place
- First Reformed
- Green Book
- Roma
BEST DIRECTOR
- Winner: Adam McKay, Vice
- Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
- Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST ACTOR
- Winner: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
- Christian Bale, Vice
- Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
- Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
- John David Washington, BlackKklansman
BEST ACTRESS
- Winner: Toni Collette, Hereditary
- Olivia Colman, The Favourite
- Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
- Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Winner: Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
- Mahershala Ali, Green Book
- Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
- Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Jesse Plemons, Game Night
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Winner: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
- Amy Adams, Vice
- Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
- Emma Stone, The Favourite
- Rachel Weiss, The Favourite
BEST ENSEMBLE
- Winner: Vice
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Eighth Grade
- The Favourite
- Roma
BREAKTHROUGH
- Winner: Bo Burnham, Writer/Director (Eighth Grade)
- Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, Writers/Actors (Blindspotting)
- Elsie Fisher, Actress (Eighth Grade)
- Lady Gaga, Actress (A Star Is Born)
- Boots Riley, Writer/Director (Sorry to Bother You)
BEST SCREENPLAY
- Winner: Adam McKay, Vice
- Winner: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Green Book
- Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, The Favourite
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST DOCUMENTARY
- Winner: Three Identical Strangers
- Free Solo
- RBG
- Whitney
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- The Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Smallfoot
BEST USE OF MUSIC
- Winner: A Star Is Born
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Green Book
- Mandy
- Mary Poppins Returns
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