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Austin Film Critics Association

The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from Austin, Texas, United States.

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 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.

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.

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.

Categories

Ceremonies

Winners

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Multiple award winners

Films

  • 9 awards:
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Ensemble
  • 8 Awards:
  • Oppenheimer (2023):
  • 6 Awards:
  • Anora (2024): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Robert R. "Buddy" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award (Mikey Madison)
  • 5 awards:
  • There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
  • The Dark Knight (2008): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Black Swan (2010): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography
  • If Beale Street Could Talk (2018): Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Breakthrough Artist Award
  • The Power of the Dog (2021): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score
  • 4 awards:
  • Juno (2007): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
  • Take Shelter (2011): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award*
  • Boyhood (2014): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Austin Film Award
  • Moonlight (2016): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
  • Parasite (2019): Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film
  • Sing Sing (2024): Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Ensemble, Best Austin Film
  • 3 awards
  • The Hurt Locker (2009): Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography
  • Inglourious Basterds (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
  • The Master (2012): Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
  • 12 Years a Slave (2013): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Her (2013): Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score
  • Nightcrawler (2014): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
  • Room (2015): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
  • Tower (2016): Best Documentary, Austin Film Award, Breakthrough Artist Award
  • Get Out (2017): Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
  • Call Me by Your Name (2017): Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
  • Pig (2021): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (2023): Best Film, Best Actress, Breakthrough Artist Award

Producers, directors, and cinematographers

<u>6 awards</u> <br> Barry Jenkins

<br> Richard Linklater

<br> <u>4 awards</u> <br> Alfonso Cuarón

<br> Bong Joon-ho

<br> Emmanuel Lubezki

<br> Keith Maitland

  • Best Documentary
  • 2016 – Tower
  • Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
  • 2016 – Tower
  • Austin Film Award
  • 2016 – Tower
  • Special Honorary Award
  • 2016 – Tower

<br> <u>3 awards</u> <br> Paul Thomas Anderson

<br> Kathryn Bigelow

<br> Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

<br> Guillermo del Toro

<br> Jordan Peele

  • Best Film
  • 2017 – Get Out
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • 2017 – Get Out
  • Best First Film
  • 2017 – Get Out

<br> Robert Rodriguez

<br> <u>2 awards</u> <br> Mark Boal

<br> Megan Ellison

<br> Paul Haggis

  • Best Film
  • 2005 – Crash
  • Best Director
  • 2005 – Crash

<br> Rian Johnson

  • Best First Film
  • 2006 – Brick
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • 2012 – Looper

<br> Quentin Tarantino

Actors

<u>3 awards</u> <br> Brie Larson

<br> <u>2 awards</u> <br> Timothée Chalamet

  • Best Actor
  • 2017 – Call Me by Your Name
  • Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
  • 2017 – for his work in Call Me By your Name, and Lady Bird

<br> Jessica Chastain

<br> Colin Firth

<br> Lily Gladstone

<br> Anne Hathaway

<br> Allison Janney

  • Best Supporting Actress
  • 2007 – Juno
  • 2017 – I, Tonya

<br> Mikey Madison

  • Best Actress
  • 2024 – Anora
  • Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
  • 2024 – Anora

<br> Elliot Page

<br> Christoph Waltz

Top 10 Films of the Decade (2000s)

  1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
  3. The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003)
  4. The Dark Knight (2008)
  5. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  6. ' (2003/4)
  7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  8. The Incredibles (2004)
  9. Children of Men (2006)
  10. Memento (2000) / The Departed (2006) (TIE)

Top 10 Films of the Decade (2010s)

  1. Mad Max Fury Road (2015)
  2. Moonlight (2016)
  3. The Social Network (2010)
  4. Get Out (2017)
  5. Arrival (2016)
  6. The Handmaiden (2016)
  7. Parasite (2019)
  8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
  9. Boyhood (2014)
  10. Phantom Thread (2017)

Notes

A: Elliot Page won before his gender transition in 2020.

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