A GHOST STORY || With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost (Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal—a wholly-unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
Best Picture
Toby Halbrooks
James M. Johnston
Adam Donaghey
Best Director
David Lowery
Best Original Screenplay
David Lowery
Best Actor
Casey Affleck
Best Actress
Rooney Mara
Best Cinematography
Andrew Droz Palermo
Best Production Design
Jade Healy
Tom Walker
Best Film Editing
David Lowery
Best Costume Design
Annell Brodeur
Best Original Score
Daniel Hart
Best Original Song
“I Get Overwhelmed”
Written by Daniel Hart
Best Sound Mixing
Re-Recording Mixer
Johnny Marshall
Best Sound Editing
Sound Design
Johnny Marshall
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Key Makeup & Hair
Amy Forsythe
Meagan D’Von
Best Visual Effects
Visual Effects Supervisors
Richard Krause
Eric Saindon
GOOD TIME || Following the mind-bending HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie return to the mean streets of New York City with GOOD TIME, a hypnotic crime thriller that explores with bracing immediacy the tragic sway of family and fate.
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city’s underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night, Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.
Anchored by a career-defining performance from Robert Pattinson, GOOD TIME is a psychotic symphony of propulsive intensity crafted by two of the most exciting young directors working today. Josh and Benny Safdie’s transcendent vision is an intoxicating portrait of desperation and destruction that will not be soon forgotten.
Best Picture
Paris Kassidokostas-Latsis
Terry Dougas
Oscar Boyson
Sebastian Bear-McClard
Best Director
Josh and Benny Safdie
Best Original Screenplay
Ronald Bronstein
Josh Safdie
Best Actor
Robert Pattinson
Best Supporting Actor
Benny Safdie
Buddy Duress
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Taliah Webster
Best Cinematography
Sean Price Williams
Best Production Design
Sam Lisenco
Audrey Turner
Best Film Editing
Benny Safdie
Ronald Bronstein
Best Costume Design
Miyako Bellizzi
Mordechai Rubinstein
Best Original Score
Oneohtrix Point Never
Best Original Song
“The Pure and the Damned”
Written and Performed by Oneohtrix Point Never and featuring Iggy Pop
Best Sound Mixing
Re-Recording Mixer
Evan Mangiamele
Best Sound Editing
Sound by
Patrick Southern
Benny Safdie
Sound Designer
Evan Mangiamele
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Department Head Makeup
Anouck Sullivan
Department Head Hair
Vickie Vidov
Best Visual Effects
VFX Supervisor
Adam Teninbaum
IT COMES AT NIGHT || Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut Krisha with the psychological horror thriller It Comes At Night, centering on a teenaged boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he grapples with mounting terrors—external and otherwise—in the aftermath of an unnamed cataclysm.
Secure within a desolate home with his vigilant, protective and heavily armed parents (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo), 17-year-old Travis navigates fear, grief and paranoia amid scarce resources as a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough) seeks refuge in his family home with their young child.
Despite the best intentions of both families, panic and mistrust boil over as the horrors of the outside world creep ever closer. But they are nothing compared to the horrors within, where Travis discovers that his father’s commitment to protecting the family may cost him his soul.
Best Picture
David Kaplan
Andrea Roa
Best Director
Trey Edward Shults
Best Original Screenplay
Trey Edward Shults
Best Actor
Joel Edgerton
Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Abbott
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Best Supporting Actress
Carmen Ejogo
Riley Keough
Best Cinematography
Drew Daniels
Best Production Design
Production Designer
Karen Murphy
Set Decorator
Sally Levi
Best Film Editing
Trey Edward Shults &
Matthew Hannam, CCE
Best Costume Design
Meghan Kasperlik
Best Original Score
Brian McOmber
Best Sound Mixing
Re-Recording Mixer
Roberto Fernandez
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Damian Volpe, MPSE
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Makeup Artist
Sasha Grossman
Hair Stylist
Alexa Quiroga
Best Visual Effects
Visual Effects Supervisor
John Bair
LADY GIRL || Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, LADY BIRD focuses on the loving yet turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her deeply caring, highly opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird’s father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Written and directed by Greta Gerwig and featuring an ensemble cast that also includes Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith, and Stephen McKinley Henderson, LADY BIRD is a look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
Best Picture
Scott Rudin
Eli Bush
Evelyn O’Neil
Best Director
Greta Gerwig
Best Original Screenplay
Greta Gerwig
Best Actress
Saoirse Ronan
Best Supporting Actress
Laurie Metcalf
Beanie Feldstein
Best Supporting Actor
Tracy Letts
Lucas Hedges
Timothée Chalamet
Best Cinematography
Sam Levy
Best Production Design
Chris Jones
Traci Spadorcia
Best Film Editing
Nick Houy
Best Costume Design
April Napier
Best Original Score
Jon Brion
Best Sound Mixing
Re-recording Mixers
Skip Lievsay
Paul Hsu
Production Sound Mixer
Amanda Beggs
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Paul Hsu
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Makeup Department Head
Jacqueline Marie Knowlton
Hair Department Head
Aubrey Marie
Best Visual Effects
Visual Effects Supervisor
Andrew Lim
MENASHE || Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent.
Shot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, Menashe is a warm, life-affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family, love, connection, and community.
Best Picture
Alex Lipschultz
Traci Carlson
Joshua Z Weinstein
Daniel Finkelman
Yoni Brook
Best Director
Joshua Z Weinstein
Best Original Screenplay
Joshua Z Weinstein
Alex Lipschultz
Musa Syeed
Best Actor
Menashe Lustig
Best Supporting Actor
Ruben Niborski
Best Cinematography
Yoni Brook
Joshua Z Weinstein
Best Film Editing
Scott Cummings
Best Original Score
Aaron Martin
Dag Rosenqvist
Best Sound Mixing
Re-Recording Mixer
Ian Stynes
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Ian Stynes
THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN || When cowboy Lefty Brown (Bill Pullman) witnesses the murder of his longtime partner — the newly-elected Senator Edward Johnson (Peter Fonda) — he strikes out to find the killers and avenge his friend’s gruesome death. Tracking the outlaws across the vast and desolate Montana plains, Lefty recruits a young gunslinger, Jeremiah (Diego Josef), and an old friend, a hard-drinking U.S. Marshall (Tommy Flanagan), to help deliver the men to justice.
After a gunfight with the outlaws leaves Jeremiah wounded, Lefty returns home with the names of Johnson’s killers only to find that he is being accused of his friend’s murder. With the tables turned, and with his friend in the governor’s mansion (Jim Caviezel) refusing to help, Lefty must evade the law and prove his innocence by exposing the powerful men ultimately responsible for Johnson’s death. A thrilling and action-packed Western, The Ballad of Lefty Brown is a story about loyalty, friendship, and the relentless pursuit of justice.
Best Picture
Edward Parks
Neda Armian
Dan Burks
Jared Moshé
Best Director
Jared Moshé
Best Original Screenplay
Jared Moshé
Best Actor
Bill Pullman
Best Supporting Actor
Joseph Anderson
Jim Caviezel
Tommy Flanagan
Peter Fonda
Best Supporting Actress
Kathy Baker
Best Cinematography
David McFarland
Best Production Design
Eve McCarney
Best Film Editing
Terel Gibson
Best Costume Design
Jonny Pray
Best Original Score
H. Scott Salinas
Best Sound Mixing
Re-recording Mixer
Jason Gaya
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Bryan Parker
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Head Makeup/Hair Artist
Melissa Oteri- Ferreira
Best Visual Effects
VFX Supervisor
Scott Mitchell
THE DISASTER ARTIST || With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero’s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy’s cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (“The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend — and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
Best Picture of the Year
James Franco
Vince Jolivette
Evan Goldberg
Seth Rogen
James Weaver
Best Director
James Franco
Best Adapted Screenplay
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Best Actor
James Franco
Best Supporting Actor
Dave Franco
Seth Rogen
Josh Hutcherson
Paul Scheer
Best Supporting Actress
Alison Brie
Ari Graynor
Best Cinematography
Brandon Trost
Best Production Design
Chris Spellman
Susie Lynch
Best Film Editing
Stacey Schroeder
Best Costume Design
Brenda Abbandandolo
Best Original Score
Dave Porter
Best Sound Mixing
Re-recording Mixers
Christopher S. Aud
Aaron Glascock
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Christopher S. Aud
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Head Makeup Artist
Sweet P Vaughn
Head Hairstylist
Vanessa Price
THE FLORIDA PROJECT || Warm, winning and gloriously alive, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood.
Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in a stunning breakout turn) and her rag-tag gang of friends. Moonee and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite, another major discovery) live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget motel managed by Bobby (a career-best Willem Dafoe), whose stern exterior hides a deep reservoir of kindness and compassion.
Despite her harsh surroundings, the precocious and ebullient Moonee has no trouble making each day a celebration of life, her endless afternoons overflowing with mischief and grand adventure as she and her playmates—including Jancey, a new arrival to the area who quickly becomes Moonee’s best friend—fearlessly explore the utterly unique world into which they’ve been thrown. Unbeknownst to Moonee, however, her delicate fantasy is supported by the struggle and sacrifice of Halley, who is forced to explore increasingly dangerous possibilities in order to provide for her daughter.
With The Florida Project, Sean Baker gives life and a voice to a community rarely seen on screen. Through the eyes of Moonee, Halley, and Bobby, Baker has created a spellbinding and transformative portrait of contemporary lives lived in the margins that are otherwise too easily forgotten. The Florida Project declares, boldly and proudly, that anywhere can be a Magic Kingdom – it just depends on how you see it.
Best Picture of the Year
Sean Baker
Chris Bergoch
Kevin Chinoy
Andrew Duncan
Alex Saks
Francesca Silvestri
Shih-Ching Tsou
Best Director
Sean Baker
Best Original Screenplay
Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch
Best Actress
Brooklynn Prince
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe
Best Supporting Actress
Bria Vinaite
Best Cinematography
Alexis Zabé
Best Production Design
Stephonik Youth
Kurt Thoresen
Best Film Editing
Sean Baker
Best Costume Design
Fernando A. Rodriguez
Best Sound Mixing
Sound Supervisor/ Re-recording Mixer
Coll Anderson
Best Sound Editing
Sound Supervisor/ Re-recording Mixer
Coll Anderson
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Department Head Makeup
Diana Thomas-Madison
Department Head Hair
Carol Raskin
Best Visual Effects
VFX Supervisor
Philippe Désiront
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER || Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their two exemplary children, 12-year-old Bob (Sunny Suljian) and 14-year-old Kim (Raffey Cassidy). Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has covertly taken under his wing. As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family’s life in ever-more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long-forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family’s domestic bliss.
Lanthimos has crafted a sensational thriller brimming with unsettling humor and creeping dread, steeped in Greek tragedy, existential horror, Hitchcockian psychodrama, and riveting suspense. Darting confidently between genres to subvert our expectations at every turn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer firmly cements Lanthimos in the pantheon of world-class auteurs and marks him as a cinematic provocateur without precedent.
Best Picture
Ed Guiney
Yorgos Lanthimos
Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Best Original Screenplay
Yorgos Lanthimos
Efthimis Filippou
Best Actor
Colin Farrell
Best Supporting Actor
Barry Keoghan
Best Supporting Actress
Nicole Kidman
Best Cinematography
Thimios Bakatakis, GSC
Best Production Design
Production Designer
Jade Healy
Set Decorator
Adam Willis
Best Film Editing
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE
Best Costume Design
Nancy Steiner
Best Sound Mixing
Sound Designer/ Re-recording Mixer
Johnnie Burn
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor/ Re-recording Mixer
Johnnie Burn
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Makeup Department Head
Tina Roesler Kerwin
Hair Department Head
Kelvin R. Trahan
Best Visual Effects
Visual Effects Supervisor
Ed Bruce
Visual Effects Supervisor
Nicholas Murphy
THE LOVERS || The Lovers is a refreshingly funny look at love, fidelity, and family, starring Debra Winger and Tracy Letts as a long-married and completely dispassionate husband and wife. Both are in the midst of serious affairs and are increasingly committed to their new partners. But on the brink of officially calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly and unexpectedly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance that forces them to navigate the hilarious complications of “cheating” on their respective lovers. A mixture of humor and powerful emotion, the story is a uniquely honest take on modern marriage.
Best Picture
Chris Stinson
Ben LeClair
Best Director
Azazel Jacobs
Best Original Screenplay
Azazel Jacobs
Best Actor
Tracy Letts
Best Actress
Debra Winger
Best Cinematography
Tobias Datum
Best Production Design
Production Design
Sue Tebbutt
Set Decoration
Nancy Niksic
Best Film Editing
Darrin Navarro, ACE
Best Costume Design
Diaz Jacobs
Best Original Score
Mandy Hoffman
Best Sound Mixing
Re-Recording Mixer
Alexandra Fehrman
Best Sound Editing
Supervising Sound Editor
Alexandra Fehrman
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Department Head Makeup Artist
Jeong-Hwa Fonkalsrud
Department Head Hairstylist
Elizabeth Cortez
Best Visual Effects
VFX
Gavin Carlton
