When we talk about minor critics awards, this group springs to mind since this is only their third year and they don’t pull up easily in search results on Google. That said, they have gone out of their way this year to look nothing like anything else out there. Sure, The Favourite did incredibly well, but most of these choices are off-the-wall.

Award Tallies

(4) The Favourite
(2) Burning

The Awards

Best Picture

The Favourite (RU: Burning)

Best Animated Film

The Wolf House (RU: Isle of Dogs)

Best Director

Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite (RU: Lee Chang-dong – Burning)

Best Actor

Victor Polster – Girl (RU: Ethan Hawke – First Reformed)

Best Actress

Glenn Close – The Wife (RU: Rose Byrne – Juliet, Naked)

Best Supporting Actor

Sam Elliot – A Star Is Born (RU: Ike Barinholtz – Blockers)

Best Supporting Actress

Sakura Ando – Shoplifters (RU: Emma Stone – The Favourite)

Best Original Screenplay

The Favourite (RU: Cold War)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Burning (RU: The Miseducation of Cameron Post)

Best Music / Score

Mary Poppins Returns (RU: First Man)

Best Original Song

“Suspirium” – Suspiria (RU: “Shallow” – A Star Is Born)

Best Editing

Roma (RU: In Fabric)

Best Cinematography

Cold War (RU: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)

Best Production Design

Bohemian Rhapsody (RU: Shadow)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Burning (RU: Roma)

Best Documentary

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (RU: Jane Fonda in Five Acts)

Best Ensemble

The Favourite (RU: A Star Is Born)

Best Young Actor / Actress

Zain al-Rafeea – Capernaum (RU: Lorenzo Ferro – El Angel)

Best Gleen Strange Honorary Award

Tim Curry
Kirk Douglas
Angela Lansbury
Christopher Lloyd
Dick Van Dyke

Best U.S. Route 66 Award

Bomb City

New Mexico Film Critics Data

First Awards: 2016 (3)