North America’s critics’ groups honors are coming fast and furious and both Toronto and San Francisco announced their winners on Sunday. Like the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, they both named Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” as Best Picture. They two orgs only agreed on a few other honors.
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor” took the Documentary honor from each group and “First Reformed” earned Screenplay from both organizations (in Original from the San Fran critics and a tie or in general from the Canadians). Ethan Hawke won two more Best Actor statues for “First Reformed” as did Regina King for “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
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Toronto’s complete winners’ list is as follows:
Best Picture: “Roma”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Burning”
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
Best Screenplay: “The Favourite,” “First Reformed” (Tie)
Best First Feature: “Sorry to Bother You”
Best Animated Feature: “Isle of Dogs”
Alan King Documentary Award: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Best Supporting Actor: Steven Yeun, “Burning”
Best Actress: Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
San Francisco’s winners are as follows:
Best Picture: “Roma”
Best Director: Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
Best Documentary: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Roma”
Best Animated Feature: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”
Best Film Editing: Bob Murawski, Orson Welles, “The Other Side of the Wind”
Best Production Design: Hannah Beachler, “Black Panther”
Best Original Score: Terence Blanchard, “BlacKkKlansman”
Best Cinematography: Alfonso Cuaron, “Roma”
Best Screenplay, Adapted: Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
Best Screenplay, Original: Paul Schrader,” “First Reformed”
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Best Supporting Actor: Michael B. Jordan, “Black Panther”
Best Actress: Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me”
Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Special Citation for under-appreciated independent film: “The Endless”
Marlin Riggs Award: Boots Riley