Although it won Best Picture, If Beale Street Could Talk was the group’s 7th best film of the year. That’s a very strange way to select the best of the year. Most of the selections were the same we’ve seen all year, so there isn’t much to discuss.

Award Tallies

(5) If Beale Street Could Talk
(2) Eighth Grade, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Widows

The Awards

Best Film

If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Animated Film

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director

Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Actor

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Favourite

Best Supporting Actor

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Original Screenplay

Sorry to Bother You

Best Adapted Screenplay

If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Original Score

Mandy

Best Editing

First Man

Best Cinematography

Roma

Best Foreign Language Film

Burning

Best Documentary

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Ensemble

Widows

Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance

Josh Brolin – Avengers: Infinity War

Best Stunts

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Best First Film

Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham

Breakthrough Artist

Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Austin Film

Support the Girls

Special Honorary Award

Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade

Top Ten

1. The Favourite
2. Roma
3. Blindspotting
4. You Were Never Really Here
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. First Reformed
7. If Beale Street Could Talk
8. Eighth Grade
9. Shoplifters
10. Suspiria

Austin Film Critics Data

First Awards: 2005 (14)