‘ROMA’ leads North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) nominations
Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA leads the 2018 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) nominations with 8 mentions, including Best Film, Director and Best Actress for Yalitza Aparicio.
The NCFCA consists of forty-two professional critics who live in the state or whose work contributes to an outlet based in North Carolina.
If Beale Street Could Talk was next with six and rounding out the Best Film nominees were BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther and First Man all with five mentions apiece.
A Star Is Born also earned five nominations, including three for acting, as is the most nominated film to not get a Best Film nod.
The Coen Brothers grabbed a Best Director spot for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, one of only two mentions for the multi-vignette film (cinematography being the other).
Bohemian Rhapsody and Vice earned single nominations, both for their lead actors.
Winners will be announced on January 2, 2019. Here is the full list of nominations.
BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
ROMA
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Free Solo
RBG
Shirkers
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
The Guilty
ROMA
Shoplifters
BEST DIRECTOR
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Damien Chazelle – First Man
Alfonso Cuarón – ROMA
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Spike Lee — BlacKkKlansman
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón – ROMA
Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
James Laxton – If Beale Street Could Talk
Linus Sandgren – First Man
Lukasz Zal – Cold War
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – Vice
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio – ROMA
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favorite
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Alfonso Cuarón – ROMA
Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara – The Favourite
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
Paul Schrader – First Reformed
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole – Black Panther
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters – A Star Is Born
Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee — BlacKkKlansman
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Ready Player One
BEST MUSIC
Annihilation
Black Panther
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
This award recognizes a film, artists, or performer with a special connection to North Carolina. In 2017, the Tar Heel Award was dedicated to longtime North Carolina film critic Ken Hanke.
Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased, Ben is Back) – UNC School of the Arts
David Gordon Green and Danny McBride (Halloween) – UNC School of the Arts
Peyton Reed (Ant-Man and the Wasp) – North Carolina native
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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