Eighth Grade is the big winner at 2018 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards with eight nominations and three wins for Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor; and Breakthrough for Bo Burnham, the film’s writer and director.
Vice received five nominations and three wins for Adam McKay, Best Director; Best Ensemble; and tied for Best Screenplay with Green Book, which had four nominations. Other top nominees include A Star Is Born with six nominations and one win for Best Use of Music and The Favourite with five nominations, but no wins.
The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in the Spring of 2007 and consists of a group of 21 film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York, New York.
2018 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards Winners
(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)
BEST PICTURE
Winner: Eighth Grade
A Quiet Place
First Reformed
Green Book
Roma
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Adam McKay, Vice
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington, BlackKklansman
BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Toni Collette, Hereditary
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Jesse Plemons, Game Night
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Amy Adams, Vice
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weiss, The Favourite
BEST ENSEMBLE
Winner: Vice
Crazy Rich Asians
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
Roma
BREAKTHROUGH
Winner: Bo Burnham, Writer/Director (Eighth Grade)
Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, Writers/Actors (Blindspotting)
Elsie Fisher, Actress (Eighth Grade)
Lady Gaga, Actress (A Star Is Born)
Boots Riley, Writer/Director (Sorry to Bother You)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Winner: Adam McKay, Vice
Winner: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, The Favourite
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Three Identical Strangers
Free Solo
RBG
Whitney
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Smallfoot
BEST USE OF MUSIC
Winner: A Star Is Born
Bohemian Rhapsody
Green Book
Mandy
Mary Poppins Returns