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| Formation | 2005 |
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| Purpose | Film critics |
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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 three 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 Elliot Page Best Actress for his role in Hard Candy over Helen Mirren for her performance in The Queen, as Mirren had swept the category so far during the award 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]
Categories
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Film Editing
- Best Ensemble
- Best Animated Film
- Best Foreign Language Film
- Best First Film
- Best Documentary
- Best Cinematography
- Best Score
- Best Stunts
- Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
- The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
- Austin Film Award
- Special Honorary Award
Ceremonies
Winners
- † = Winner of the Academy Award
Best Picture
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2019 | Parasite † | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All At Once † | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
Best Director
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018 | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho † | Parasite |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2021 | Jane Campion † | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert † | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
Best Actor
| Year | Nominee | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Pastor Ernst Toller |
| 2019 | Adam Sandler | Uncut Gems | Howard Ratner |
| 2020 | Riz Ahmed | Sound of Metal | Ruben Stone |
| 2021 | Nicolas Cage | Pig | Robin "Rob" Feld |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin | Pádraic Súilleabháin |
| 2023 | Cillian Murphy | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer |