Las Vegas Film Critics Society: Once Upon a Time…is Best Picture, Director and more

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Sony/Columbia)

The Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS) has chosen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as the Best Picture of 2019, also awarding Quentin Tarantino Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Young star Julia Butters picked up the group’s Best Female Youth Performance.

Awards were spread out after that amongst many films with all of the acting wins coming from four different movies: Adam Sandler won Best Actor for Uncut Gems, Renée Zellweger won Best Actress for Judy, Willem Dafoe was selected as Best Supporting Actor for The Lighthouse and Margot Robbie won Best Supporting Actress, not for Once…but for Bombshell. Love Las Vegas? You can also check some interesting hotels for a Las Vegas bachelor party.

Missing Link won Best Animated Feature and Apollo 11 took Best Documentary.

Best Picture
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Director
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Actor
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems

Best Actress
Renée Zellweger – Judy

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse

Best Supporting Actress
Margot Robbie – Bombshell

Best Original Screenplay
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Two Popes

Best Cinematography
1917

Best Film Editing
Ford v Ferrari

Best Score
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Song
Stand Up – Harriet

Best Documentary
Apollo 11

Best Animated Film
Missing Link

Best Foreign Film
Parasite

Best Costume Design
Dolemite is My Name

Best Ensemble
Knives Out

Breakout Filmmaker
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart

Best Male Youth Performance (Under 21)
Noah Jupe – Honey Boy

Best Female Youth Performance (Under 21)
Julia Butters – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Art Direction
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Visual Effects
Avengers: Endgame

Best Action Film
Ford v Ferrari

Best Comedy
Dolemite is My Name

Best Horror/Sci-Fi
Midsommar

Best Family Film
Fighting With My Family

William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
Ruth E. Carter

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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