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Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) After a heated battle, Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA is the best film of 2018, according to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). Lee-Chang Dong’s Burning was the group’s runner-up and in fact, three of the top five contender for Best Picture were foreign language films. Burning then tied with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters as Best Foreign …

Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap (Hulu) Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap bested all competition at the 34th Independent Documentary Association’s awards last night, winning three prizes: Best Feature, Editing and Emerging Filmmaker for Liu. The coming of age skateboarding doc won a Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is currently streaming …

ROMA ROMA was the big winner with the Chicago Film Critics Association tonight, taking Best Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography and Foreign Film.  Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) won Best Actor and Actress while Olivia Colman earned a Supporting Actress win for The Favourite despite being pushed lead elsewhere.  Check here for their list of nominees. Full list …

ROMABarry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)Viola Davis (Widows) The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle has chosen ROMA as the best film of 2018, Barry Jenkins as Best Director (If Beale Street Could Talk), Viola Davis (Widows) as Best Actress and Christian Bale (Vice) as Best Actor. Here is their full list of winners. Best Movie: ROMA Best Director: Barry Jenkins, If Beale …

AwkwafinaLaverne Cox Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Ocean’s Eight) and Laverne Cox (Orange Is the New Black, the upcoming Bad Hair) will announce the nominees for the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® on Wednesday, Dec. 12 at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The nominations announcement will be carried live on TNT, TBS, truTV, tntdrama.com/sag-awards,truTV.com and sagawards.org at 10 a.m. (ET) / 7 a.m. (PT). The Actor® Nominations also can be viewed via TNT’s Facebook, Twitter @TNTdrama and YouTube channels …

The Hate U GiveRami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)Toni Collette (Hereditary) The 2nd annual Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society winners have been announced with The Hate U Give snagging Best Picture, Rami Malek is Best Actor for Bohemian Rhapsody and Toni Collette is Best Actress for Hereditary. You can find their full list of nominations here.  Best PictureThe Hate U Give …

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Favourite, Green Book, Leave No Trace, A Quiet Place among the San Diego Film Critics Society’s 2018 awards nominations Often left of center when it comes to critics’ awards nominations, the San Diego Film Critics Society veered to the middle this year with a field-best 9 nominations for the feel-good racial road movie Green …

The new group sets January 20, 2019 for their first awards New York, NY – December 7, 2019 – The Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA) has formed under President Clayton Davis (owner of AwardsCircuit) in an effort to create a diverse voice in the industry for the Latino community. After realizing there was a glaring gap in the diversity conversation for Latino …

Rachel Weisz and Olivia Colman (The Favourite) The 2018 San Francisco Film Critics Circle have announced their nominations and the city by the Bay is in love with The Favourite, giving the wickedly funny queen saga 9 nominations, including three acting mentions for the film’s trifecta of actresses Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. Next up was Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma …

Kendrick LamarLady GagaAriana GrandeTaylor Swift The Grammy nominations, which made some major changes this year that boosted nomination totals from five to eight in the general field, found a lot to celebrate for female performers as women landed four of those titles. Janelle Monáe (Dirty Computer), Kacey Musgraves (Golden Hour), Brandi Carlile (By the Way, I Forgive You) and Cardi …