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Film News: Chicago Film Critics Best Film of 2018 is ‘Roma’
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CHICAGO – The personal, emotional essence of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” – a memory film set in the Mexico City neighborhood in the early 1970s – took home the Best Picture honor at the 2018 Chicago Film Critics Association annual dinner. “Roma” also was honored as Best Foreign Film, Director, Cinematography and Editing.
Other major awards included the Best Supporting Actress for Olivia Coleman in “The Favourite,” as the insecure Queen Anne caught between two ladies in waiting. Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” had Ethan Hawke taking Best Actor honors as a guilt-plagued preacher. Toni Collette, as a horrified mother in a collapsing family dynamic, was Best Actress for “Hereditary,” and Richard E. Grant was honored as Best Supporting Actor for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” as a partner in crime.
‘Roma’ is the CFCA Best Picture
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Other honors bestowed were Best Animated Feature for “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” and the young actress Elsie Fisher getting Most Promising Performer in her heartful role as the title student of “Eighth Grade.” A notable Chicago produced doc, “Minding the Gap,” directed by Bing Liu for the local Kartemquin Films, was honored as Best Documentary of 2018. The dinner also included the announcement of the upcoming Chicago Critics Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, from May 17th through 23rd, 2019.
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is an organization that oversees many events in the Chicagoland area, including the Chicago Film Critics Awards, the Chicago Critics Film Festival and various film discussions and events around the city and surrounding suburbs. The CFCA Awardees for the best of 2018 films are…
Best Picture
Roma
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón (-) Roma
Best Actress
Toni Collette (-) Hereditary
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke (-) First Reformed
Best Supporting Actress
Olivia Colman (-) The Favourite
Best Supporting Actor
Richard E. Grant (-) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Original Screenplay
Paul Schrader (-) First Reformed
Best Adapted Screenplay
Barry Jenkins (-) If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Foreign Language Film
Roma
Best Documentary
Minding the Gap
Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Art Direction/Production Design
The Favourite
Best Cinematography
Roma (-) Alfonso Cuarón
Best Use of Visual Effects
Annihilation
Best Editing
Roma (-) Alfonso Cuarón & Adam Gough
Best Original Score
If Beale Street Could Talk (-) Nicholas Britell
Most Promising Performer
Elsie Fisher (-) Eighth Grade
Most Promising Filmmaker
Ari Aster (-) Hereditary
By PATRICK McDONALD |