Austin Film Critics Association
Formation | 2005 |
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Purpose | Film critics |
Location |
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Founders |
Cole Dabney Robert “Bobby” McCurdy |
Website |
austinfilmcritics |
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from Austin, Texas.
Each year, the AFCA votes on their end of year awards for films released in the same calendar year. A special award, the Austin Film Award, is given each year to the best film made in Austin or by an Austin-area director.
History
The Austin Film Critics Association was founded in 2005 by local film critics Cole Dabney and Robert “Bobby” McCurdy while attending Bowie High School in Austin. The organization grew in its first eight years, expanding from 3 members in 2005 to 25 members in 2013.[1]
On January 12, 2007, after only one year in existence, Entertainment Weekly called the AFCA “wildly contrarian” for naming Ellen Page Best Actress for her role in Hard Candy over Helen Mirren for her performance in The Queen, as Mirren had swept the category so far during awards season.[2]
The association chose to name the group’s Breakthrough Artist Award to honor Robert “Bobby” McCurdy starting in 2010. McCurdy died on December 19, 2010 while training to become a Naval Aviator.[3]
Winners
- † = Winner of the Academy Award
2000s
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2005 | Crash † | Paul Haggis |
2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
2009 | The Hurt Locker † | Kathryn Bigelow |
2010s
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2010 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
2011 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
2016 | Moonlight † | Barry Jenkins |
2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
2000s
Year | Winner | Film |
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2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash |
2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men |
2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood |
2008 | Christopher Nolan | The Dark Knight |
2009 | Kathryn Bigelow † | The Hurt Locker |
2010s
Year | Winner | Film |
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2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
2013 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Gravity |
2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
2017 | Guillermo del Toro † | The Shape of Water |
2000s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
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2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman † | Capote | Truman Capote |
2006 | Leonardo DiCaprio | The Departed | Billy |
2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis † | There Will Be Blood | Daniel Plainview |
2008 | Sean Penn † | Milk | Harvey Milk |
2009 | Colin Firth | A Single Man | George Falconer |
2010s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
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2010 | Colin Firth † | The King's Speech | King George VI |
2011 | Michael Shannon | Take Shelter | Curtis LaForche |
2012 | Joaquin Phoenix | The Master | Freddie Quell |
2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup |
2014 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Nightcrawler | Louis “Lou” Bloom |
2015 | Michael Fassbender | Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs |
2016 | Casey Affleck † | Manchester by the Sea | Lee Chandler |
2017 | Timothée Chalamet | Call Me by Your Name | Elio Perlman |
2000s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
---|---|---|---|
2005 | Reese Witherspoon † | Walk the Line | June Carter Cash |
2006 | Ellen Page | Hard Candy | Hayley Stark |
2007 | Ellen Page | Juno | Juno McGuff |
2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married | Kym |
2009 | Mélanie Laurent | Inglourious Basterds | Shosanna Dreyfus/Emmanuelle Mimieux |
2010s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Natalie Portman † | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
2011 | Tilda Swinton | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Eva Khatchadourian |
2012 | Jennifer Lawrence † | Silver Linings Playbook | Tiffany Maxwell |
2013 | Brie Larson | Short Term 12 | Grace Howard |
2014 | Rosamund Pike | Gone Girl | Amy Elliott Dunne |
2015 | Brie Larson † | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
2017 | Frances McDormand † | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
2000s
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2005 | William Hurt | A History of Violence | Richie Cusack |
2006 | Jack Nicholson | The Departed | Francis "Frank" Costello |
2007 | Javier Bardem † | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
2008 | Heath Ledger (posthumous) † | The Dark Knight | The Joker |
2009 | Christoph Waltz † | Inglourious Basterds | Hans Landa |
2010s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Christian Bale † | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
2011 | Albert Brooks | Drive | Bernie Rose |
2012 | Christoph Waltz † | Django Unchained | Lancaster Dodd |
2013 | Jared Leto † | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon |
2014 | J. K. Simmons † | Whiplash | Terence Fletcher |
2015 | Sylvester Stallone | Creed | Rocky Balboa |
2016 | Mahershala Ali † | Moonlight | Juan |
2017 | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
2000s
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2005 | Laura Linney | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
2006 | Rinko Kikuchi | Babel | Chieko Wataya |
2007 | Allison Janney | Juno | Bren MacGuff |
2008 | Taraji P. Henson | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie |
2009 | Anna Kendrick | Up in the Air | Natalie Keener |
2010s
Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Hailee Steinfeld | True Grit | Mattie Ross |
2011 | Jessica Chastain | Take Shelter | Samantha LaForche |
2012 | Anne Hathaway † | Les Misérables | Fantine |
2013 | Lupita Nyong'o † | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
2014 | Patricia Arquette † | Boyhood | Olivia Evans |
2015 | Alicia Vikander | Ex Machina | Ava |
2016 | Viola Davis † | Fences | Rose Maxson |
2017 | Allison Janney † | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden |
Multiple award winners
Films
- 5 awards:
- There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
- The Dark Knight (2008): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Black Swan (2010): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography
- Moonlight (2016): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Special Honorary Award
- 4 awards:
- Juno (2007): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
- Take Shelter (2011): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award*
- Her (2013): Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Special Honorary Award
- Boyhood (2014): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award
- Tower (2016): Best Documentary, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award, Special Honorary Award
- 3 awards
- The Hurt Locker (2009): Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography
- Inglourious Basterds (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
- The Master (2012): Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
- 12 Years a Slave (2013): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Nightcrawler (2014): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
- Room (2015): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
- 2 awards
- Crash (2005): Best Film, Best Director
- Hustle & Flow (2005): Breakthrough Artist Award, Best First Film
- Sin City (2005): Best Animated Film, Austin Film Award
- The Departed (2006): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
- Children of Men (2006): Best Director, Best Cinematography
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Best Foreign Film, Best Original Screenplay
- No Country for Old Men (2007): Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Up (2009): Best Original Score, Best Animated Film
- Up in the Air (2009): Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Me and Orson Welles (2009): Breakthrough Artist Award, Austin Film Award
- Drive (2011): Best Director, Best Supporting Actor
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Best First Film, Breakthrough Artist Award
- Gravity (2013): Best Director, Best Cinematography
- Short Term 12 (2013): Best Actress, Breakthrough Artist Award
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014): Best Cinematography, Best Score
- Gone Girl (2014): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Ex Machina (2015): Best Supporting Actress, Best First Film
- Inside Out (2015): Best Original Screenplay, Best Animated Film
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Best Film, Best Director
- La La Land (2016): Best Cinematography, Best Score
Producers, directors and cinematographers
6 awards
- Richard Linklater
- Best Film
- 2014 – Boyhood
- Best Director
- 2014 – Boyhood
- Best Austin Film
- 2006 – A Scanner Darkly
- 2009 – Me and Orson Welles
- 2012 – Bernie
- 2014 – Boyhood
- Best Film
4 awards
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Best Cinematography
- 2006 – Babel
- 2011 – The Tree of Life
- 2013 – Gravity
- 2014 – Birdman
- Best Cinematography
- Keith Maitland
3 awards
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Best Film
- 2007 – There Will Be Blood
- Best Director
- 2007 – There Will Be Blood
- 2012 – The Master
- Best Film
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Best Film
- 2009 – The Hurt Locker
- 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
- Best Director
- 2009 – The Hurt Locker
- Best Film
- Robert Rodriguez
- Best Austin Film
- 2005 – Sin City
- 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Quentin Tarantino)
- Best Animated Film
- 2005 – Sin City
- Best Austin Film
2 awards
- Mark Boal
- Best Film
- 2009 – The Hurt Locker
- 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
- Best Film
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Best Director
- 2006 – Children of Men
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- 2006 – Children of Men
- Best Director
- Megan Ellison
- Best Film
- 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
- 2013 – Her
- Best Film
- Paul Haggis
- Quentin Tarantino
- Best Original Screenplay
- 2009 – Inglourious Basterds
- Best Austin Film
- 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Robert Rodriguez)
- Best Original Screenplay
- Rian Johnson
- Barry Jenkins
Actors
3 awards
- Brie Larson
- Best Actress
- 2013 – Short Term 12
- 2015 – Room
- Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
- 2013 – Short Term 12
- Best Actress
2 awards
- Jessica Chastain
- Best Supporting Actress
- 2011 – Take Shelter
- Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
- 2011 – for her work in The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life
- Best Supporting Actress
- Colin Firth
- Best Actor
- 2009 – A Single Man
- 2010 – The King's Speech
- Best Actor
- Anne Hathaway
- Best Actress
- 2008 – Rachel Getting Married
- Best Supporting Actress
- 2017 – Les Misérables
- Best Actress
- Allison Janney
- Ellen Page
- Best Actress
- 2006 – Hard Candy
- 2007 – Juno
- Best Actress
- Christoph Waltz
- Best Supporting Actor
- 2008 – Inglourious Basterds
- 2012 – Django Unchained
- Best Supporting Actor
Top 10 Films of the Decade (2000s)
References
- ↑ Austinfilmcritics.org
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly
- ↑ Austin360.com
- ↑ "2009 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
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