Iowa Film Critics Association (IFCA) loves Lady Bird

The Iowa Film Critics Association (IFCA) have bestowed their Best Film, Director and Actress awards to Lady Bird.

The group fell in line with the current batch of acting frontrunner from critics with Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) in Best Actor, Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) in Supporting Actor and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird). They also have a dubious prize called the Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa, which went to Call Me By Your Name, which is still in limited release (yet managed Best Actor and Supporting Actor runner-up mentions).

Here is the full list of winners and runners-up.

FILM
•“Lady Bird”
•(Runners up: “Dunkirk” and “The Shape of Water”)

DIRECTOR
•Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
•(Runners up: Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk,” and Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”)

ACTOR
•Gary Oldman, “The Darkest Hour”
•(Runners up: Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name,” and James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”)

ACTRESS
•Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
•(Runners up: Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water,” and Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
•Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
•(Runners up: Armie Hammer, “Call Me By Your Name,” and Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
•Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
•(Runners up: Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound,” and Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”)

ANIMATED FILM
•“Coco”
•(Runners up: “Ferdinand” and “Lego Batman”)

DOCUMENTARY
•“Jane”
•(Runners up: “Faces Places” and “City of Ghosts”)

SCORE
•“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
• (Runners up: “The Post” and “The Shape of Water”)

SONG
•“Remember Me,” “Coco”
•(Runners up: “Mystery of Love,” “Call Me By Your Name,” and “Evermore,” “Beauty and the Beast.”

Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa
•“Call Me By Your Name”

• Author
• Recent Posts

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.

Latest posts by Erik Anderson (see all)

• 2025 Oscars: Eligibility Lists for Animated Feature, Documentary Feature and International Feature Film for the 97th Academy Awards - November 21, 2024
• Nava Mau, Sean Wang Among 2024 BAFTA Breakthroughs Championing New ‘Must-Watch’ Creatives - November 21, 2024
• Hans Zimmer, ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Diane Warren Top 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards - November 21, 2024