Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS): ‘The Favourite’ wins Best Pic, Supporting Actress, Screenplay

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The Favourite has won Best Picture from the Houston Film Critics Society and with it wins for Best Supporting Actress (Rachel Weisz) and Best Screenplay.

Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA picked up wins for Best Director, Cinematography and Foreign Language Film. The lead acting prizes went to Christian Bale for Vice and Toni Collette for Hereditary.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Picture
The Favourite

Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA

Best Actor
Christian Bale, Vice

Best Actress
Toni Collette, Hereditary

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Screenplay
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara, The Favourite

Best Cinematography
Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA

Best Animated Film
Isle of Dogs

Best Original Score
Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Original Song
“Shallow,” A Star is Born

Best Foreign Language Film
ROMA

Best Documentary Feature
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Texas Independent Film Award
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek

Visual Effects
First Man

Best Worst Film of the Year
The Happytime Murders

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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