The 2018 Online Film Critics Society Awards

I have the privilege of being a voting member of two different groups of film critics. One, the Seattle Film Critics Society, already had our time to shine and I wrote about those awards HERE. The other, the Online Film Critics Society, just kicked off the new year by announcing our winners. Here they are.

I have mixed feelings on the matter when it comes to ranking films and performances and all that, but it’s usually a fun, or at least interesting process to watch and participate in. And, as always, I am fully on board with some of these choices (Toni Collette for Hereditary being one) and have a complete shoulder shrug of a response to others (I’ll let you figure out which ones those are). That’s bound to happen when 250+ opinionated movie fans and writers from around the globe get together to bicker about movies. Here are my personal favorites of 2018 if you're interested.

Enough rambling, here are the winner of the 22nd OFCS Awards:

BEST PICTURE
Roma

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

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Ethan Hawke - First Reformed

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Toni Collette - Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Schrader - First Reformed

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST EDITING
Eddie Hamilton - Mission: Impossible - Fallout

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST DEBUT FEATURE
Ari Aster - Hereditary

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Roma

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Annihilation - Best Visual Effects
Black Panther - Best Costume Design
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Best Stunt Coordination
A Quiet Place - Best Sound Design
A Star Is Born - Best Original Songs

ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY'S BEST OF THE YEAR
1. Roma
2. BlacKkKlansman
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. First Reformed
5. The Favourite
6. You Were Never Really Here
7. Annihilation
8. Eighth Grade
9. Hereditary
10. A Star Is Born
11. Suspiria

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Roger Deakins
Spike Lee
Rita Moreno
Robert Redford
Agnès Varda

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Director Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther's distinctive critical and box office appeal

The city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018's most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, "Sorry to Bother You" and "Blindspotting."