As the precursor season continues, nominations lists tend to look more uniform. The same names and titles keep showing up and this group is no different. While the configurations aren’t identical, the end results are similar enough to feel rote. If Beale Street Could Talk has its best showing to date with Roma and The Favourite continuing to dominate the awards season.

Nominations Tallies

(9) The Favourite
(8) Roma
(7) If Beale Street Could Talk
(5) BlacKkKlansman
(4) Black Panther, First Man, First Reformed
(3) Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Isle of Dogs, Vice

The Nominations

Best Picture

BlacKkKlansman
The Favourite
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

Best Animated Feature

Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee
The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos
First Reformed – Paul Schrader
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins
Roma – Alfonso Cuaron

Best Actor

Christian Bale – Vice
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

Best Actress

Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
Regina Hall – Support the Girls
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
Russell Hornsby – The Hate U Give

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Vice
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
The Favourite
First Reformed
Roma
Vice

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Score

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs

Best Editing

The Favourite
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
The Other Side of the Wind
Roma

Best Cinematography

Cold War
The Favourite
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

Best Production Design

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

Best Foreign Language Film

Burning
Cold War
Let the Sunshine In
Roma
Shoplifters

Best Documentary

Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Shirkers
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Special Citation for Under-Appreciated Independent Cinema

Chained for Life – Aaron Schimberg’s playfully penetrating satire about onscreen representations of disability.
The Endless – a genre-bending story of emotionally estranged brothers starring and directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.
Madeline’s Madeline – Josephine Decker’s fluid collision of dream, reality and performance starring powerhouse newcomer Helena Howard

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Data

Year Founded: 2002
First Awards: 2002 (17)