2018: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. If Beale Street Could Talk (dir: Barry Jenkins)

2. Zama (dir: Lucrecia Martel; US release date)

3. First Reformed (dir: Paul Schrader; US release date)

4. Madeline's Madeline (dir: Josephine Decker)

5. Mission: Impossible — Fallout (dir: Christopher McQuarrie)

6. Paddington 2 (dir: Paul King)

7. The Favourite (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)

8. Foxtrot (dir: Samuel Moaz; US release date)

9. The Rider (dir: Chloé Zhao; US release date)

10. Suspiria (dir: Luca Guadagnino)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), BlacKkKlansman (dir: Spike Lee), Cold War (dir: Pawel Pawlikowski), Everybody Knows (dir: Asghar Farhadi), The House That Jack Built (dir: Lars Von Trier), The Kindergarten Teacher (dir: Sara Colangelo), Mandy (dir: Panos Cosmatos), Red Sparrow (dir: Francis Lawrence), Roma (dir: Alfonso Cuaron), Shoplifters (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda), The Sisters Brothers (dir: Jacques Audiard), A Star Is Born (dir: Bradley Cooper), Support the Girls (dir: Andrew Bujalski), Unsane (dir: Steven Soderbergh), Widows (dir: Steve McQueen), and You Were Never Really Here (dir: Lynne Ramsay).

Best Film of the Year: If Beale Street Could Talk
Director: Barry Jenkins Producers: Megan Ellison, Dede Gardner, Barry Jenkins, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski 
US Distributor: Annapurna Pictures

Best Director:
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Lucrecia Martel, Zama
3. Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible — Fallout
4. Josephine Decker, Madeline's Madeline
5. Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite

Best Actor:
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
2. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
3. Matt Dillon, The House That Jack Built
4. Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here AND The Sisters Brothers AND Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot
5. John C. Reilly, The Sisters Brothers

Best Actress:
Helena Howard, Madeline's Madeline
2. Emma Stone, The Favourite
3. Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Kindergarten Teacher
4. Olivia Colman, The Favourite
5. Claire Foy, Unsane

Best Supporting Actor:
Jonah Hill, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
2. Tom Waits, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
3. Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk AND Widows
4. Daniel Kaluuya, Widows
5. Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
3. Jeon Jong-seo, Burning
4. Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
5. Mary-Louise Parker, Red Sparrow

Best Original Screenplay
First Reformed — Paul Schrader
2. The Favourite — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
3. Shoplifters — Hirokazu Koreeda
4. The Rider — Chloé Zhao
5. Foxtrot – Samuel Maoz

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Zama — Lucrecia Martel
2. Suspiria — David Kajganich
3. If Beale Street Could Talk — Barry Jenkins
4. The Kindergarten Teacher – Sara Colangelo
5. Paddington 2 – Paul King and Simon Farnaby

Best Cinematography
First Man — Linus Sandgren
2. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron
3. Cold War — Łukasz Żal
4. The Favourite — Robbie Ryan
5. Suspiria — Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Best Original Score
If Beale Street Could Talk — Nicholas Britell
2. First Man — Justin Hurwitz
3. Mandy — Jóhann Jóhannsson and Stephen O'Malley
4. Annihilation — Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury
5. Thoroughbreds — Erik Friedlander

Best Film Editing
You Were Never Really Here — Joe Bini
2. Madeline's Madeline — Harrison Atkins, Josephine Decker, and Elizabeth Rao
3. Roma — Alfonso Cuaron and Adam Gough
4. If Beale Street Could Talk — Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders
5. The Kindergarten Teacher — Lee Percy and Marc Vives

Best Production Design
The Favourite — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
2. Suspiria — Inbal Weinberg, Christin Busse and Merissa Lombardo
3. Isle of Dogs – Adam Stockhausen, Paul Harrod, and Curt Enderle
4. Black Panther — Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart
5. The Sisters Brothers — Michel Barthélémy and Angela Nahum

Best Costume Design
Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
2. The Favourite — Sandy Powell
3. Mary Poppins Returns — Sandy Powell
4. Zama — Julio Suarez
5. If Beale Street Could Talk — Caroline Eselin

Best Visual Effects
Paddington 2
2. Annihilation
3. Mission: Impossible — Fallout

Best Sound
Mission: Impossible — Fallout
2. Suspiria
3. First Man

Best Makeup
Border
2. Suspiria
3. The Favourite

Best Documentary Feature
Minding the Gap — Bing Liu
2. Bisbee ‘17 — Robert Greene
3. Hale County This Morning, This Evening — RaMell Ross

Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
2. Isle of Dogs — Wes Anderson
3. The Incredibles 2 — Brad Bird

Best Limited Series:
The Little Drummer Girl — Park Chan-wook, Michael Lesslie, Claire Wilson, and Laura Hastings-Smith
2. Escape at Dannemora — Ben Stiller, Michael Tolkin, Brett Johnson, Adam Brightman and Lisa M. Rowe
3. A Very English Scandal — Stephen Frears, Russell T. Davies, Sarah Phelps, and Dan Winch

Best Documentary Series:
Wild Wild Country — Chapman Way and Maclain Way
2. America to Me — Steven James, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann
3. Bobby Kennedy for President — Dawn Porter

Best Ensemble Cast: 
The Favourite

Best First Feature: 
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born

(left) Best Ensemble Cast: The Favourite (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos) in alphabetical order: Joe Alwyn, Olivia Colman (pictured), Martin Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, James Smith, Emma Stone (pictured), and Rachel Weisz.

(right) Best First Feature: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born

RECAP

W I N S :

If Beale Street Could Talk — 4,
The Favourite — 2, A Star Is Born — 2, Black Panther — 1, Border — 1, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot — 1, First Man — 1, First Reformed — 1, The Little Drummer Girl — 1, Madeline’s Madeline — 1, Minding the Gap — 1, Mission: Impossible-Fallout — 1, Paddington 2 — 1, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — 1, Wild Wild Country — 1, You Were Never Really Here — 1, Zama — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Favourite — 10,
If Beale Street Could Talk — 8, Suspiria — 6, Madeline’s Madeline — 4, Mission: Impossible-Fallout — 4, Zama — 4, First Reformed — 3, The Kindergarten Teacher — 3, Paddington 2 — 3, The Sisters Brothers — 3, Annihilation — 2, Black Panther — 2, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot — 2, First Man— 2, Foxtrot — 2, Isle of Dogs— 2, The Rider — 2, Roma — 2, A Star Is Born — 2, Widows — 2, You Were Never Really Here — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s