At long last, we’re putting the 2018 film year to rest with the 3rd Annual Altie Awards for Filmmaking Excellence. I’m a bit pinched for time, so there will be no text accompanying all these awards, but it’s still less of a disaster than what’s going on with that other award ceremony happening today.
BEST FEATURE
Mandy
1st Runner-Up: Zama
Honorable Mentions:
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DIRECTOR
Panos Cosmatos, Mandy
1st Runner-Up: Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Honorable Mentions:
Lucrecia Martel, Zama
Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Yuasa Masaaki, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
BEST ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Suspiria
1st Runner-Up: Joanna Kulig, Cold War
Honorable Mentions:
Toni Colette, Hereditary
Kathryn Hahn, Private Life
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
BEST ACTOR
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
1st Runner-Up: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Zama
Honorable Mentions:
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
John C. Reilly, The Sisters Brothers
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Raffey Cassidy, Vox Lux
1st Runner-Up: Blake Lively, A Simple Favor
Honorable Mentions:
Danai Gurira, Black Panther
Jasmine Cephas Jones, Blindspotting
Andrea Riseborough, The Death of Stalin
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya, Widows
1st Runner-Up: Simon Russell Beale, The Death of Stalin
Honorable Mentions:
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Jake Gyllenhaal, The Sisters Brothers
Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
BEST CAST
The Favourite
1st Runner-Up: Shoplifters
Honorable Mentions:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Death of Stalin
Widows
BEST STUNTS
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
1st Runner-Up: The Commuter
Honorable Mentions:
Aquaman
Mile 22
The Night Comes for Us
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
1st Runner-Up: First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Honorable Mentions:
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
1st Runner-Up: Suspiria (David Kajganich)
Honorable Mentions:
Annihilation (Alex Garland)
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (Ueda Makoto)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Honorable Mentions:
Incredibles 2
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE not cited under Best Feature
The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
1st Runner-Up: Cold War
Honorable Mentions:
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Roma
Shoplifters
BEST DOCUMENTARY
El Mar La Mar
1st Runner-Up: Minding the Gap
Honorable Mentions:
Infinite Football
Monrovia, Indiana
Shirkers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
1st Runner-Up: Blindspotting (Robby Baumgartner)
Honorable Mentions:
Cold War (Łukasz Żal)
El Mar La Mar (Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki)
Mandy (Benjamin Loeb)
BEST EDITING
Suspiria (Walter Fasano)
1st Runner-Up: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Eddie Hamilton)
Honorable Mentions:
In the Last Days of the City (Mohamed Abdel Gawad, Vartan Avakian, Barbara Boussuet)
Mandy (Brett W. Bachman)
You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Isle of Dogs (Adam Stockhausen, Paul Harrod)
1st Runner-Up: Solo: A Star Wars Story (Neil Lamont)
Honorable Mentions:
Annihilation (Mark Digby)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggss (Jess Gonchor)
Mandy
BEST COSTUMING
The Favourite (Sandy Powell)
1st Runner-Up: Suspiria (Giulia Piersanti)
Honorable Mentions:
Black Panther (Ruth Carter)
A Simple Favor (Renee Ehrlich Kalfus)
Sorry to Bother You (Deirdra Elizabeth Govan)
BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Suspiria
1st Runner-Up: The Favourite
Honorable Mentions:
Alpha
Border
Vox Lux
BEST SCORE
Mandy (Jóhan Jóhannsson)
1st Runner-Up: First Man (Justin Hurwitz)
Honorable Mentions:
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
The Sisters Brothers (Alexandre Desplat)
You Were Never Really Here (Jonny Greenwood)
BEST SOUND MIXING
Mandy
1st Runner-Up: Roma
Honorable Mentions:
First Man
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Zama
BEST SOUND EDITING
Aquaman
1st Runner-Up: The Guilty
Honorable Mentions:
First Man
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Suspiria
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
First Man
1st Runner-Up: Annihilation
Honorable Mentions:
Aquaman
Bumblebee
Welcome to Marwen
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