Detroit Film Critics Go for ‘Eighth Grade, ‘Vice’

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Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton in Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

The Detroit Film Critics went Gucci for Eighth Grade, naming it the best film of 2018, as well as Supporting Actor win for Josh Hamilton and Best Breakthrough for writer/director Bo Burnham. The film’s star, Elsie Fisher, lost out to Hereditary‘s Toni Collette.

Vice also found love from the group, winning Best Director for Adam McKay, Best Ensemble and Best Screenplay (again for McKay) in a tie with Green Book

Regina King is very quickly turning into the critics’ choice with another win in Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk

Here is the full list of winners. 

Best Film Eighth Grade

Best Director Adam McKay, Vice

Best Actress Toni Collette, Hereditary

Best Best Actor Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

Best Supporting Actress Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Supporting Actor Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade

EnsembleVice 

Best Screenplay [TIE] Green Book and Vice

Best Documentary Film Three Identical Strangers

Best Animated Film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Breakthrough Writer/Director Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Best Use of Music A Star is Born

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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