Thursday, March 7, 2019

Bringing in the Steves


Presenting...the 2018 Golden Steve Awards.

See preceding palaver...

And now, the worthy honorees:

Best Picture
BlacKkKlansman
A Bread Factory
Burning
The Favourite
First Reformed
You Were Never Really Here

Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Lee Chang-dong, Burning
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Patrick Wang, A Bread Factory

Best Actor
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Zama
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Charlie Plummer, Lean on Pete
Michael Shannon, What They Had

Best Actress
Jessie Buckley, Beast
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Carey Mulligan, Wildlife

Best Supporting Actor
Norman Foster, The Other Side of the Wind
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Steven Yeun, Burning

Best Supporting Actress
Tyne Daly, A Bread Factory
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at the El Royale
Rachel McAdams, Disobedience
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Best Screenplay--Adapted
BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel, David
          Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee)
Burning (Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider,
          Ian Martin)
Paddington 2 (Paul King, Simon Farnaby)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)

Best Screenplay--Original
A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang)
The Favourite (Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Personal Problems (Ishmael Reed)
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)

Best Animated Feature
Have a Nice Day (Liu Jian)
Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (Phil Johnston, Rich Moore)
Ruben Brandt, Collector (Milorad Krstic)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti,
          Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)

Special Mention: Trevor Jimenez's Weekends, ineligible here due to its 16-minute runtime, but 2018's finest animated film.

Best Non-Fiction Film
Bisbee '17 (Robert Greene)
Crime + Punishment (Stephen Maing)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)

Best Foreign Language Film
Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
Milla (Valerie Massadian)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel)

Best Original Song
"All the Stars," Black Panther
(Sounwave, Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Tiffith, SZA)
"Girl in the Movies," Dumplin'
(Dolly Parton, Linda Perry)
"Maybe It's Time," A Star is Born
(Jason Isbell)
"Shallow," A Star is Born
(Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando,
          Andrew Wyatt)
"Suspirium," Suspiria
(Thom Yorke)
"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings," The Ballad
       of Buster Scruggs
       (David Rawlings, Gillian Welch)