Austin Film Critics Association

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

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 "Bobby" 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

 * Best Film
 * Best Director
 * Best Actor
 * Best Actress
 * Best Supporting Actor
 * Best Supporting Actress
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * Best Adapted Screenplay
 * Best Film Editing
 * Best Ensemble
 * Best Animated Film
 * Best Foreign Language Film
 * Best First Film
 * Best Documentary
 * Best Cinematography
 * Best Score
 * Best Stunts
 * Best Motion Capture/Special Effects Performance
 * The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
 * Austin Film Award
 * Special Honorary Award

Ceremonies

 * 2005
 * 2006
 * 2007
 * 2008
 * 2009
 * 2010
 * 2011
 * 2012
 * 2013
 * 2014
 * 2015
 * 2016
 * 2017
 * 2018
 * 2019
 * 2020
 * 2021
 * 2022
 * 2023

Winners

 * † = Winner of the Academy Award

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
 * 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
 * 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

Producers, directors, and cinematographers
6 awards Barry Jenkins Richard Linklater 4 awards Alfonso Cuarón Bong Joon-ho Emmanuel Lubezki Keith Maitland 3 awards Paul Thomas Anderson Kathryn Bigelow Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Guillermo del Toro Jordan Peele Robert Rodriguez 2 awards Mark Boal Megan Ellison Paul Haggis Rian Johnson Quentin Tarantino
 * Best Film
 * 2016 – Moonlight
 * 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
 * Best Director
 * 2016 – Moonlight
 * 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
 * Best Adapted Screenplay
 * 2018 – If Beale Street Could Talk
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2016 – Moonlight
 * Best Film
 * 2014 – Boyhood
 * Best Director
 * 2014 – Boyhood
 * Best Austin Film
 * 2006 – A Scanner Darkly
 * 2009 – Me and Orson Welles
 * 2012 – Bernie
 * 2014 – Boyhood
 * Best Director
 * 2006 – Children of Men
 * 2013 – Gravity
 * Best Adapted Screenplay
 * 2006 – Children of Men
 * Best Cinematography
 * 2018 – Roma
 * Best Film
 * 2019 - Parasite
 * Best Director
 * 2019 - Parasite
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2019 - Parasite
 * Best Foreign Language Film
 * 2019 - Parasite
 * Best Cinematography
 * 2006 – Babel
 * 2011 – The Tree of Life
 * 2013 – Gravity
 * 2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
 * Best Documentary
 * 2016 – Tower
 * Bobby McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award
 * 2016 – Tower
 * Austin Film Award
 * 2016 – Tower
 * Special Honorary Award
 * 2016 – Tower
 * Best Film
 * 2007 – There Will Be Blood
 * Best Director
 * 2007 – There Will Be Blood
 * 2012 – The Master
 * Best Film
 * 2009 – The Hurt Locker
 * 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
 * Best Director
 * 2009 – The Hurt Locker
 * Best Film
 * 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
 * Best Director
 * 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2022-Everything Everywhere All At Once
 * Best Director
 * 2017 – The Shape of Water
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2006 – Pan's Labyrinth
 * Best Foreign Film
 * 2006 – Pan's Labyrinth
 * Best Film
 * 2017 – Get Out
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2017 – Get Out
 * Best First Film
 * 2017 – Get Out
 * Best Austin Film
 * 2005 – Sin City
 * 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Quentin Tarantino)
 * Best Animated Film
 * 2005 – Sin City
 * Best Film
 * 2009 – The Hurt Locker
 * 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
 * Best Film
 * 2012 – Zero Dark Thirty
 * 2013 – Her
 * Best Film
 * 2005 – Crash
 * Best Director
 * 2005 – Crash
 * Best First Film
 * 2006 – Brick
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2012 – Looper
 * Best Original Screenplay
 * 2009 – Inglourious Basterds
 * Best Austin Film
 * 2007 – Grindhouse (Shared with Robert Rodriguez)

Actors
3 awards Brie Larson 2 awards Timothée Chalamet Jessica Chastain Colin Firth Anne Hathaway Allison Janney Elliot Page Christoph Waltz
 * Best Actress
 * 2013 – Short Term 12
 * 2015 – Room
 * Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
 * 2013 – Short Term 12
 * 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
 * Best Supporting Actress
 * 2011 – Take Shelter
 * Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award
 * 2011 – for her work in The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life
 * Best Actor
 * 2009 – A Single Man
 * 2010 – The King's Speech
 * Best Actress
 * 2008 – Rachel Getting Married
 * Best Supporting Actress
 * 2017 – Les Misérables
 * Best Supporting Actress
 * 2007 – Juno
 * 2017 – I, Tonya
 * Best Actress
 * 2006 – Hard Candy
 * 2007 – Juno
 * Best Supporting Actor
 * 2008 – Inglourious Basterds
 * 2012 – Django Unchained

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) Kill Bill (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)