‘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