2019: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir: Céline Sciamma)

2. Uncut Gems (dir: Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie)

3. Peterloo (dir: Mike Leigh; US release date)

4. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

5. Ash Is Purest White (dir: Jia Zhangke; US release date)

6. Asako I & II (dir: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi; US release date)

7. The Nightingale (dir: Jennifer Kent; US release date)

8. Ad Astra (dir: James Gray)

9. The Irishman (dir: Martin Scorsese)

10. Parasite (dir: Bong Joon Ho)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Atlantics (dir: Mati Diop), The Beach Bum (dir: Harmony Korine), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (dir: Marielle Heller), Climax (dir: Gaspar Noe), The Dead Don’t Die (dir: Jim Jarmusch), Everybody Knows (dir: Asghar Farhadi), The Farewell (dir: Lulu Wang), Glass (dir: M. Night Shyamalan), A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick), Homecoming (dir: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter), Honey Boy (dir: Alma Har’El), Hustlers (dir: Lorene Scafaria), Knife+Heart (dir: Yann Gonzalez), Knives Out (dir: Rian Johnson), The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir: Joe Talbot), Little Women (dir: Greta Gerwig), Richard Jewell (dir: Clint Eastwood), The Souvenir (dir: Joanna Hogg), Sunset (dir: László Nemes), Transit (dir: Christian Petzold), and Wild Rose (dir: Tom Harper)

Best Film of the Year: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director: Céline Sciamma Producers: Véronique Cayla, Bénédicte Couvreur
US Distributor: Neon

Best Director:
Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
2. Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
4. Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale
5. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Actor:
Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
2. Tom Burke, The Souvenir
3. Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood AND Ad Astra
4. Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
5. Adam Driver, Marriage Story

Best Actress:
Zhao Tao, Ash Is Purest White
2. Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
3. Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell
4. Florence Pugh, Midsommar
5. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story

Best Supporting Actor:
Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
2. Al Pacino, The Irishman
3. Jonathan Majors, Last Black Man in San Francisco
4. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
5. Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy

Best Supporting Actress
Margot Robbie, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood AND Bombshell
2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
3. Fatma Mohamed, In Fabric
4. Octavia Spencer, Luce
5. Jo Yeo-jong, Parasite

Best Original Screenplay
Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Céline Sciamma
2. Peterloo — Mike Leigh
3. High Flying Bird — Tarell Alvin McCraney
4. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — Quentin Tarantino
5. Knives Out — Rian Johnson

Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Irishman — Steven Zaillian
2. Transit — Christian Petzold
3. Hustlers — Lorene Scafaria
4. Little Women — Greta Gerwig
5. Richard Jewell — Billy Ray

Best Cinematography
Long Day’s Journey Into Night — David Chizallet, Jingsong Dong, and Yao Hung-i
2. Ad Astra — Hoyte van Hoytema
3. The Lighthouse — Jarin Blaschke
4. Sunset — Mátyás Erdély
5. Knife+Heart — Simon Beaufils

Best Original Score
Ad Astra — Max Richter and Lorne Balfe
2. I Lost My Body — Dan Levy
3. Uncut Gems — Daniel Lopatin
4. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Nate Heller
5. A Hidden Life — James Newton Howard

Best Film Editing
Parasite — Jinmo Yang
2. Uncut Gems — Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
3. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Anne McCabe
4. Waves — Isaac Hagy and Trey Edward Shults
5. The Irishman — Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Production Design
Sunset — László Rajk, Dorka Kiss and Attila Digi Kövári
2. Parasite — Lee Ha-jun
3. 1917 — Dennis Gasner
4. Knives Out — David Crank and David Schlesinger
5. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design
Sunset — Györgyi Szakács
2. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — Arianne Phillips
3. Little Women — Jacqueline Durran
4. Rocketman — Julian Day
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire — Dorothée Guiraud

Best Documentary Feature
Black Mother — Khalik Allah
2. Honeyland — Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
3. American Factory — Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

Best Visual Effects
1917
2. Alita: Battle Angel
3. Ad Astra

Best Sound
Uncut Gems
2. Climax
3. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Best Makeup
Us
2. Bombshell
3. Sunset

Best Animated Feature
Marona’s Fantastic Tale — Anca Damian
2. I Lost My Body — Jérémy Clapin
3. Toy Story 4 — Josh Cooley

Best Limited Series
Watchmen — Damon Lindelof, Cord Jefferson, Claire Kiechel, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, and John Blair
2. Chernobyl — Johan Renck, Craig Mazin, and Sanne Wohlenberg
3. When They See Us — Ava DuVernay and Julian Breece

Best Documentary Series:
Lorena — Joshua Rofé
2. Country Music — Ken Burns
3. I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Michelle Carter — Erin Lee Carr

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Parasite

Best First Feature:
Alma Har’el, Honey Boy

Best Ensemble Cast: Parasite (dir: Bong Joon Ho) Choi Woo-sik, Jang Hye-jin, Jo Yeo-jong (pictured), Jung Ji-so, Lee Jeong-eun, Lee Sun-kyun, Park Myeong-hoon, Park Seo-joon, Park So-dam (pictured), and Song Kang-ho

Best First Feature: Noah Jupe and Shia Labeouf in Alma Har’El’s Honey Boy

RECAP

W I N S :

Uncut Gems — 3,
Parasite — 2, Portrait of a Lady on Fire — 2, Sunset — 2, 1917 — 1, Ad Astra — 1, Ash Is Purest White — 1, Black Mother — 1, Bombshell — 1, Honey Boy — 1, The Irishman — 1, The Lighthouse — 1, Long Day’s Journey into Night — 1, Lorena — 1, Marona’s Fantastic Tale — 1, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — 1, Us — 1, Watchmen — 1

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

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — 7,
Ad Astra — 6, Parasite — 6, Uncut Gems — 6, The Irishman — 4, Portrait of a Lady on Fire — 4, The Nightingale — 3, Sunset— 3, 1917— 2, Ash Is Purest White — 2, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — 2, Honey Boy – 2, Hustlers – 2, I Lost My Body — 2, Knives Out — 2, The Lighthouse — 2, Little Women — 2, Marriage Story — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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