‘ROMA’ tops Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) winners

ROMA was the big winner with the Chicago Film Critics Association tonight, taking Best Picture, Director, Editing, Cinematography and Foreign Film. 

Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) won Best Actor and Actress while Olivia Colman earned a Supporting Actress win for The Favourite despite being pushed lead elsewhere. 

Check here for their list of nominees. Full list of winners below.

BEST PICTURE
Roma

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

BEST ACTOR
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed 

BEST ACTRESS
Toni Collette, Hereditary 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Timothee Chalamet, Beautiful Boy 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Olivia Colman, The Favourite

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
If Beale Street Could Talk by Barry Jenkins

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
First Reformed by Paul Schrader

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Minding the Gap

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Roma

BEST ART DIRECTION
The Favourite  

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roma – Alfonso Cuaron

BEST EDITING
Roma 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS
Annihilation 

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Ari Aster, Hereditary

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade

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