This is just for fun. I do this in my head every year anyway, so I figured I might as well write it down for a change. Here are my personal nominees in my favourite categories for films made in 2018. Winners will be announced in a future post.
Best Motion Picture
- Annihilation
- Blackkklansman
- Burning
- Eighth Grade
- The Favourite
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Leave No Trace
- Shoplifters
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
- You Were Never Really Here
Best Director
- Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade)
- Damien Chazelle (First Man)
- Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
- Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters)
- Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
- Spike Lee (Blackkklansman)
- Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
- Boots Riley (Sorry To Bother You)
- Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture
- Sakura Ando (Shoplifters)
- Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
- Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
- Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- KiKi Lane (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
- Chloe Grace Moretz (The Miseducation of Cameron Post)
- Carey Mulligan (Wildlife)
- Emma Stone (The Favourite)
- Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture
- Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting)
- Adam Driver (Blackkklansman)
- Ben Foster (Leave No Trace)
- Ryan Gosling (First Man)
- Jake Gyllenhaal (Wildlife)
- Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
- Stephen James (If Beale Street Could Talk)
- Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)
- Lakeith Stanfield (Sorry To Bother You)
- Stephen Yeun (Burning)
Best Screenplay
- Annihilation (Alex Garland & Jeff Vandermeer)
- Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
- The Favourite (Debra Davis & Tony McNamara)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
- Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- Sorry To Bother You (Boots Riley)
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman)
- Wildlife (Paul Dano & Zoe Kazan)
Best Cinematography
- Burning (Hong Kyung-pyo)
- Cold War (Lukasz Zal)
- The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
- First Man (Linus Sandgren)
- First Reformed (Alexander Dynan)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (James Laxton)
- Roma (Alfonso Cuaron)
- A Star Is Born (Matthew Libatique)
- Wildlife (Diego Garcia)
- You Were Never Really Here (Thomas Townend)
