Roma tops OFCS awards

Roma Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical film Roma has been named Best Picture in the Online Film Critics Society annual awards, alongside a clutch of other awards. It beat off strong competition from the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite, which had led the field with the most nominations.

The black and white film, which tracks the year in the life of a maid in a Mexican middle-class family was also named Best Film Not in The English Language and saw Cuarón named Best Director and Best Cinematographer.

Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk won three awards - Bets Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Regina King and Best Score for Nicholas Britell. Meanwhile Ari Aster picked up the Best Debut film award for Hereditary.

The main acting awards went to Ethan Hawke for his role as a troubled priest in Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Toni Colette for her portrayal of a grieving and disturbed mother in Hereditary, while Michael B Jordan was named Best Supporting Actor for the role of Erik Killmonger Marvel Comics adaptation Black Panther.

The OFCS, which has a global membership of 283 critics, also gave five Lifetime Achievement Awards to cinematographer Roger Deakins, Blakkklansman director Spike Lee, French filmmaker Agnès Varda, Robert Redford - who said The Old Man & The Gun will be his final film as an actor - and Puerta Rican star Rita Moreno.

The full list of nominees and winners is below:

Best Picture

• Annihilation
• BlacKkKlansman
• Eighth Grade
• The Favourite
• First Reformed
• Hereditary
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• WINNER: Roma
• A Star Is Born
• Suspiria
• You Were Never Really Here

Best Animated Feature

• Incredibles 2
• Isle Of Dogs
• Mirai
• Ralph Breaks The Internet
• WINNER: Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Best Director

• WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
• Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
• Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
• Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

Best Actor

• Christian Bale – Vice
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
• WINNER: Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
• Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
• John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman

Best Actress

• Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
• WINNER: Toni Collette – Hereditary
• Olivia Colman – The Favourite
• Regina Hall – Support The Girls
• Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali – Green Book
• Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
• Richard E Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• WINNER: Michael B Jordan – Black Panther
• Steven Yeun – Burning

Best Supporting Actress

• Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
• WINNER: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
• Emma Stone – The Favourite
• Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Best Original Screenplay

• Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham
• The Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
• WINNER: First Reformed – Paul Schrader
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• Sorry To Bother You – Boots Riley

Best Adapted Screenplay

• BlacKkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
• WINNER: If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins
• Leave No Trace – Debra Granik, Anne Rossellini
• Widows – Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen

Best Editing

• The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis
• First Man – Tom Cross
• WINNER: Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Eddie Hamilton
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough
• Widows – Joe Walker

Best Cinematography

• Cold War – Lukasz Zal
• The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
• First Man – Linus Sandgren
• If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton
• WINNER: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Best Original Score

• Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
• First Man – Justin Hurwitz
• WINNER: If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
• Isle Of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
• Suspiria – Thom Yorke

Best Début Feature

• WINNER: Ari Aster – Hereditary
• Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
• Carlos López Estrada – Blindspotting
• Boots Riley – Sorry To Bother You

Best Film Not in the English Language

• Burning
• Cold War
• WINNER: Roma
• Shoplifters
• Zama

Best Documentary

• Free Solo
• Minding The Gap
• Shirkers
• Three Identical Strangers
• WINNER: 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

OFCS 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.