San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2018

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The 23rd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 10, 2018.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees[]

Best Film[]

Leave No Trace

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• A Quiet Place

Best Director[]

Debra Granik – Leave No Trace

• Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
• Peter Farrelly – Green Book
• John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
• Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

Best Male Actor[]

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed

• Christian Bale – Vice
• Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased
• Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
• John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers

Best Female Actor[]

Glenn Close – The Wife

• Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
• Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
• Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Carey Mulligan – Wildlife

Best Male Supporting Actor[]

Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy (TIE)
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (TIE)

• Mahershala Ali – Green Book
• Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
• Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born

Best Female Supporting Actor[]

Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased

• Nina Arianda – Stan & Ollie
• Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
• Alia Shawkat – Blaze

Best Comedic Performance[]

Hugh Grant – Paddington 2

• Awkwafina – Crazy Rich Asians
• Jason Bateman – Game Night
• Jesse Plemons – Game Night
• Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2

Best Original Screenplay[]

Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade

• Wes Anderson – Isle of Dogs
• Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods – A Quiet Place
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury, and David Schneider – The Death of Stalin

• Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
• Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Leave No Trace
• Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• David Lowery – The Old Man & the Gun

Best Animated Film[]

Isle of Dogs

• Have a Nice Day
• Incredibles 2
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary[]

Three Identical Strangers

• Free Solo
• Love, Gilda
• RBG
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Shoplifters

• Capernaum
• Cold War
• The Guilty
• Roma

Best Cinematography[]

Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TIE)
Joshua James Richards – The Rider (TIE)

• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
• Alexander Dynan – First Reformed
• Magnus Nordenhof Jønck – Lean on Pete

Best Costume Design[]

Sandy Powell – The Favourite (TIE)
Lindy Hemming – Paddington 2 (TIE)

• Guy Speranza – Stan & Ollie
• Mary E. Vogt – Crazy Rich Asians
• Mary Zophres – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Editing[]

Jamie Gross and Dave Egan – Game Night

• Roderick Jaynes – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Yorgos Mavropsaridis – The Favourite
• Christopher Tellefsen – A Quiet Place
• Patrick J. Don Vito – Green Book

Best Production Design[]

Fiona Crombie – The Favourite

• Hannah Beachler – Black Panther
• Tim Galvin – Green Book
• John Paul Kelly – Stan & Ollie
• Adam Stockhausen – Ready Player One

Best Visual Effects[]

Ready Player One

• Black Panther
• Christopher Robin
• Isle of Dogs
• Paddington 2

Best Use of Music in a Film[]

Bad Times at the El Royale

• Blaze
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Green Book
• A Star Is Born

Best Breakout Artist[]

Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace

• Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
• Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
• Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
• Charlie Plummer – Lean on Pete

Best Ensemble[]

Game Night

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Boy Erased
• The Favourite
• Green Book

Best Body of Work[]

John C. Reilly for Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Sisters Brothers, and Stan & Ollie

References[]

External links[]

• Official website