The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2018 nominees in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-one film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York City.
Each critic submitted their top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.
From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five in each category have been placed on the final ballot.
The final ballots will now be given to each critic to rank in order. The results will be tabulated and the winners will be announced on Monday, December 3, 2018.
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BEST PICTURE- A Quiet Place
- Eighth Grade
- First Reformed
- Green Book
- Roma
- Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
- Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
- Adam McKay, Vice
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
- Christian Bale, Vice
- Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
- Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
- Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
- John David Washington, BlackKklansman
- Toni Collette, Hereditary
- Olivia Colman, The Favourite
- Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
- Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
- Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Mahershala Ali, Green Book
- Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
- Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
- Jesse Plemons, Game Night
- Amy Adams, Vice
- Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
- Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
- Emma Stone, The Favourite
- Rachel Weiss, The Favourite
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Eighth Grade
- The Favourite
- Roma
- Vice
- Bo Burnham, Writer/Director (Eighth Grade)
- Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, Writers/Actors (Blindspotting)
- Elsie Fisher, Actress (Eighth Grade)
- Lady Gaga, Actress (A Star Is Born)
- Boots Riley, Writer/Director (Sorry to Bother You)
- Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
- Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, The Favourite
- Adam McKay, Vice
- Paul Schrader, First Reformed
- Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, Green Book
- Free Solo
- RBG
- Three Identical Strangers
- Whitney
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
- The Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Smallfoot
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- A Star Is Born
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Green Book
- Mandy
- Mary Poppins Returns
Mike Tyrkus
Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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