RELEASE DATE: JAN. 2, 2018
Get Out Earns Three Awards From North Carolina Film Critics Association
Best Narrative Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
Five films received four or more nominations from the North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA), including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with seven. Only Get Out earned multiple wins including Best Narrative Film, Director and Original Screenplay (Jordan Peele).
Gary Oldman won the Best Actor honor for his interpretation of Winston Churchill in the Darkest Hour; Willem Defoe gained Best Supporting Actor (The Florida Project); Sally Hawkins was awarded Best Actress for the Shape of Water; Laurie Metcalf was honored with Best Supporting Actress for Lady Bird.
Other honors went to Pixar’s Coco for Best Animation and Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was selected as Best Foreign Language Film. Kedi was awarded Best Documentary.
The NCFCA consists of nearly forty professional critics who live in the state or whose work contributes to an outlet based in North Carolina. NCFCA members actively engage in cinematic evaluation and critical analysis. This year, the NCFCA honored 14 film categories. The full list of nominations and winners for the sixth annual awards can be found below:
BEST NARRATIVE FILM
**Get Out** (Winner)
The Florida Project
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
**Kedi** (Winner)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Faces Places
Jane
Last Men in Aleppo
BEST ANIMATED FILM
**Coco** (Winner)
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
**Okja** (Winner)
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Faces Places
First They Killed My Father
Frantz
Raw
The Square
Thelma
BEST DIRECTOR
**Jordan Peele (Get Out)** (Winner)
Sean Baker (The Florida Project)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Steven Spielberg (The Post)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
**Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049)** (Winner)
Hoyte Van Hoytema (Dunkirk)
Dan Laustsen (The Shape of Water)
Rachel Morrison (Mudbound)
Alexis Zabe (The Florida Project)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
**War for the Planet of the Apes** (Winner)
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
BEST ACTOR
**Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)** (Winner)
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Tom Hanks (The Post)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
**Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)** (Winner)
Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Christopher Plummer (All The Money in the World)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Patrick Stewart (Logan)
BEST ACTRESS
**Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)** (Winner)
Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
Meryl Streep (The Post)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
**Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)** (Winner)
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip)
Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)
Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
**Jordan Peele (Get Out)** (Winner)
Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch (The Florida Project)
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (The Post)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
**Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Disaster Artist)** (tie)
**Aaron Sorkin (Molly’s Game)** (tie)
James Gray (The Lost City of Z)
James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name)
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (Mudbound)
KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
This award recognizes a film, artist, or performer with a special connection to North Carolina. In 2017, the Tar Heel Award was dedicated to long time North Carolina film critic Ken Hanke.
**Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (the studio drama was filmed in part in North Carolina).** (Winner)
Emily V. Gordon (born and raised in Winston-Salem and a graduate of UNC-Greensboro, Gordon is recognized for writing and co-producing The Big Sick)
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (documentary profiles the popular North Carolina musicians)
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Films with Multiple Wins
Get Out – 3
Films with Multiple Nominations
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 7
The Florida Project – 5
The Post -5
Get Out – 4
The Shape of Water –4
Dunkirk – 3
Lady Bird -3
Mudbound –3
The Big Sick -2
Blade Runner 2049 – 2
Call me by Your Name –2
The Disaster Artist – 2
Molly’s Game -2
*Most Nominations without a Win:
The Post -5
Additional Notes:
This is Aaron Sorkin’s first win (Molly’s Game); he was previously nominated in 2015 for the adapted screenplay for Steve Jobs.
Saoirse Ronan won previously for Brooklyn; this was her second nomination.
About the NCFCA
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) was formed by Kenneth R. Morefield in 2012 to promote film journalism in North Carolina. Membership consists of film critics/journalists established in North Carolina or those serving North Carolina-based outlets.
