2018 Alert The Audience Film Award Nominations

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)