San Diego Film Critics winners: ‘Leave No Trace’ takes Best Picture, Director, Breakout Artist
The San Diego Film Critics Society has chosen Leave No Trace as its Best Picture for 2018, its director Debra Granik as Best Director and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie for Breakout Artist. This was Granik’s second win after earning accolades from Los Angeles this weekend and McKenzie’s second as well after the National Board of Review.
Green Book and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs came in with the most nominations, 9 and 7, respectively but wound up with slim to none to take home today. Buster Scruggs managed a single win in Best Cinematography, which it shared with The Rider. Green Book, the nomination leader, won zero but was the runner-up in no less than four races including Best Picture.
Other first wins of the season included Glenn Close in Best Actress for The Wife and Nicole Kidman in Best Supporting Actress for Boy Erased.
The action-comedy Game Night made an impact, winning Best Editing and Best Ensemble.
Here is the full list of winners and runners-up.
Best Picture
LEAVE NO TRACE
Runner-up: GREEN BOOK
Best Director
Debra Granik, LEAVE NO TRACE
Runner-up: Peter Farrelly, GREEN BOOK
Best Actor, Male
Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED
Runner-up: Viggo Mortensen, GREEN BOOK
Best Actor, Female
Glenn Close, THE WIFE
Runner-up: Melissa McCarthy, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Best Supporting Actor, Male (tie)
Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Timothée Chalamet, BEAUTIFUL BOY
Best Supporting Actor, Female
Nicole Kidman, BOY ERASED
Runner-up: Nina Arianda, STAN & OLLIE
Body of Work: John C. Reilly, THE SISTERS BROTHERS, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, STAN & OLLIE
Best Comedic Performance
Hugh Grant, PADDINGTON 2
Runner-up: Jesse Plemons, GAME NIGHT
Best Original Screenplay
Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE
Runner-up: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, GREEN BOOK
Best Adapted Screenplay
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows, Fabien Nury, THE DEATH OF STALIN
Runner-up: Joel Edgerton, BOY ERASED
Best Documentary
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
Runner-up: FREE SOLO
Best Animated Film
ISLE OF DOGS
Runner-up: SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Best Foreign-Language Film
SHOPLIFTERS
Runner-up: CAPERNAUM
Best Costume Design (tie)
Sandy Powell, THE FAVOURITE
Lindy Hemming, PADDINGTON 2
Best Editing
Jamie Gross, David Egan, GAME NIGHT
Runner-up: Christopher Tellefsen, A QUIET PLACE
Best Cinematography (tie)
Bruno Delbonnel, THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Joshua James Richards, THE RIDER
Best Production Design
Fiona Crombie, THE FAVOURITE
Runner-up: John Paul Kelly, STAN & OLLIE
Best Visual Effects
READY PLAYER ONE
Runner-up: CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
Best Use Of Music In A Film
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE
Runner-up: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Best Ensemble
GAME NIGHT
Runner-up: THE FAVOURITE
Best Breakout Artist
Thomasin McKenzie, LEAVE NO TRACE
Runner-up: Charlie Plummer, LEAN ON PETE
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