Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
– Meryl Streep, Actress
BEST ACTRESSES OF 2018
Runners Up
Blake Lively- A Simple Favor
Rachel Weisz– Disobedience, The Favourite
Glenn Close- The Wife
Olivia Colman– The Favourite
Elsie Fisher- Eighth Grade
Emma Stone– The Favourite
Tessa Thompson- Sorry to Bother You, Creed II
Shailene Woodley- Adrift
Charlize Theron– Tully
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie- Leave No Trace
Natalie Portman- Annihilation/ Vox Lux
Katheryn Hahn- Private Life
Amy Adams– Vice
Yalitza Aparicio- Roma
Carey Mulligan- Wildlife
Nicole Kidman- Boy Erased, Destroyer
Viola Davis- Widows
Rosamund Pike- A Private War
Julia Roberts- Ben Is Back
Regina King– If Beale Street Could Talk
Margot Robbie- Mary Queen of Scots
Kiki Layne- If Beale Street Could Talk
Rachel McAdams- Game Night, Disobedience
Saoirse Ronan- Mary Queen of Scots
Jamie Lee Curtis- Halloween (2018)
Amandla Stenberg- The Hate U Give
Cynthia Erivo– Bad Times at the El Royale, Widows
Tilda Swinton- Suspiria (2018)
TOP 5
Five:
CLAIRE FOY
(UNSANE, FIRST MAN, THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB)
Four:
LADY GAGA
(A STAR IS BORN (2018))
Three:
EMILY BLUNT
(A QUIET PLACE, MARY POPPINS RETURNS)
Two:
MELISSA McCARTHY
(CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?)
One:
TONI COLLETTE
(HEREDITARY)
BEST ACTORS OF 2018
Runners Up
Chadwick Boseman- Black Panther
Nick Robinson- Love, Simon
Joe Cole- A Prayer Before Dawn
Richard E. Grant– Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Shia LaBeouf- Borg vs. McEnroe
John Krasinski- A Quiet Place
Daveed Diggs- Blindspotting
Ben Foster– Leave No Trace
Rafael Casal- Blindspotting
Barry Keoghan- American Animals
Logan Marshall-Green- Upgrade
Viggo Mortensen– Green Book
Rami Malek- Bohemian Rhapsody
Mahershala Ali- Green Book
Willem Dafoe- At Eternity’s Gate
Josh Brolin- Avengers: Infinity War, Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Timothy Chalamet- Hot Summer Nights, Beautiful Boy
Evan Peters- American Animals
Alex Wolff– Hereditary
Tom Cruise- Mission:Impossible – Fallout
LaKeith Stanfield– Sorry to Bother You
John David Washington– BlacKkKlansman
John Cho- Searching
Nicolas Cage- Mandy
Jeff Bridges- Bad Times at the El Royale
Paul Giamatti- Private Life
Ryan Gosling– First Man
Robert Redford- The Old Man & the Gun
John C. Reilly- The Sisters Brothers, Stan & Ollie
TOP 5
Five (Tie):
LUCAS HEDGES
(BOY ERASED, BEN IS BACK)
Five (Tie):
MICHAEL B. JORDAN
(BLACK PANTHER, CREED II)
Four:
CHRISTIAN BALE
(VICE)
Three:
ETHAN HAWKE
(FIRST REFORMED, JULIET, NAKED)
Two:
BRADLEY COOPER
(A STAR IS BORN (2018))
One:
JOAQUIN PHOENIX
(YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, DON’T WORRY, HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT, THE SISTERS BROTHERS)
To make a film is easy; To make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
– Alejandro González Iñárritu, Director
BEST DIRECTORS OF 2018
Runners Up
Tamara Jenkins– Private Life
George Tillman Jr.- The Hate U Give
Barry Jenkins– If Beale Street Could Talk
Alfonso Cuarón– Roma
Luca Guadagnino– Suspiria (2018)
Peter Farrelly– Green Book
Marielle Heller– Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Damien Chazelle- First Man
Paul Schrader- First Reformed
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin- Free Solo
Drew Goddard– Bad Times at the El Royale
Panos Cosmatos- Mandy
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Boots Riley- Sorry to Bother You
Bo Burnham- Eighth Grade
Bart Layton- American Animals
Ari Aster– Hereditary
Morgan Neville- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Jason Reitman- Tully/ The Front Runner
Christopher McQuarrie– Mission Impossible – Fallout
Carlos Lopez Estrada- Blindspotting
Joe and Anthony Russo- Avengers: Infinity War
Wes Anderson- Isle of Dogs
Yorgos Lanthimos- The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay– You Were Never Really Here
Alex Garland- Annihilation
Steve McQueen- Widows
Paul Dano- Wildlife
TOP 5
Five:
RYAN COOGLER
(BLACK PANTHER)
Four:
JOHN KRASINSKI
(A QUIET PLACE)
Three:
BRADLEY COOPER
(A STAR IS BORN (2018))
Two:
SPIKE LEE
(BLACKKKLANSMAN)
One:
ANEESH CHAGANTY
(SEARCHING)
“Nature Boy” Brandon Vick is the resident film critic of the SoBros Network, and star of Brandon’s Box Office In Your Mouth. Follow him on Twitter@SirBrandonV and be sure to search #VicksFlicks for all of his latest movie reviews.
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