Precursor: 12th Women Journalists Nominations (2018)

The Alliance of Women Film Jouranlists have made their selection for the best of the year along with a treasure trove of unique categories highlighting women in cinema. The rest of the nominations are fairly standard with few exceptions to the current rules of the season.

Award Tallies

(11) The Favourite
(8) Leave No Trace, Roma, Vice
(7) Can You Ever Forgive Me?
(6) Black Panther
(5) BlacKkKlansman, If Beale Street Could Talk
(4) Widows
(3) Destroyer,
Fifty Shades Freed, Green Book, Overboard, Red Sparrow

The Awards

Best Film

BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
Green Book
Leave No Trace
Roma
Vice

Best Animated Film

Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Smallfoot
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee
The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos
Leave No Trace – Debra Granik
Roma – Alfonso Cuaron
Vice – Adam McKay

Best Actress

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Glenn Close – The Wife
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Viola Davis – Widows
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actor

Christian Bale – Vice
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate
Ben Foster – Leave No Trace
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Vice
Claire Foy – First Man
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Steve Carell – Vice
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther

Best Original Screenplay

Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Reformed
Roma
Vice

Best Adapted Screenplay

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Hate U Give
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace

Best Editing

Black Panther
The Favourite
Roma
Vice
Widows

Best Cinematography

Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

Best Non-English-Language Film

Burning
Capernaum
Cold War
Roma
Shoplifters

Best Documentary

Free Solo
Liyana
RBG
Shirkers
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Ensemble Cast

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
Vice

Best Woman Director

Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
Marielle Heller – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Tamara Jenkins – Private Life
Karyn Kusama – Destroyer
Nadine Labiki – Capernaum
Rugano Nyoni – I Am Not a Witch
Sally Potter – The Party
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Chloe Zhao – The Rider

Best Woman Screenwriter

Diablo Cody – Tully
Deborah Davis – The Favourite (with Tony McNamara)
Debra Granik, Anne Rossellini – Leave No Trace
Nicole Holofcener – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (with Jeff Whitty)
Tamara Jenkins – Private Life
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Audrey Wells – The Hate U Give
Chloe Zhao – The Rider

Best Animated Female

Elastigirl – Incredibles 2 (Holly Hunter)
Gwen Stacy – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Hailee Steinfeld)
Meechee – Smallfoot (Zendaya)
Tracy Walker – Isle of Dogs (Greta Gerwig)
Vanellope – Ralph Breaks the Internet (Sarah Silverman)

Best Breakthrough Performance

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
KiKi Layne – If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Letitia Wright – Black Panther

Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry

– 82 women who stood on the Palais des Festivals steps at the Cannes Film Festival to protest gender inequality in festival programming.
– Ava DuVernay for hiring women filmmakers for “Queen Sugar” and other projects.
– Megan Ellison for challenging the status quo and producing projects by unique and diverse voices.
– Nicole Kidman for a banner year of performances in “Destroyer,” “Boy Erased,” and “Aquaman,” and for opening opportunity for women in production.
– Rachel Morrison for paving the road for women cinematographers with her Oscar nomination for “Mudbound” and scoring as DP on “Black Panther.”
– Shondra Rhimes, Reese Witherspoon, and all the women speaking out in the #MeToo movement.

Best Actress Defying Age and Ageism

Glenn Close – The Wife
Viola Davis – Widows
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
Sissy Spacek – The Old Man & the Gun
Tea with Dames – Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith

Bravest Performance

Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Viola Davis – Widows
Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Charlize Theron – Tully
Mary Elizabeth Winstead – All About Nina

Actress Most in Need of a New Agent

Anna Faris – Overboard
Jennifer Garner – Peppermint
Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades Freed
Jennifer Lawrence – Red Sparrow
Melissa McCarthy – Everything except Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Amy Schumer – I Feel Pretty

Most Egregious Age Difference Between the Lead and the Love Interest Award

Mandy – Andrea Riseborough & Nicolas Cage
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Rebecca Ferguson & Tom Cruise
Overboard – Anna Faris & Eugenio Derbez
Red Sparrow – Jennifer Lawrence & Joel Edgerton
Siberia – Ana Ularu & Keanu Reeves