San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2018

The 23rd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 10, 2018.

Best Film
Leave No Trace
 * The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 * The Favourite
 * Green Book
 * A Quiet Place

Best Director
Debra Granik – Leave No Trace
 * Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
 * Peter Farrelly – Green Book
 * John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
 * Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

Best Male Actor
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
 * Christian Bale – Vice
 * Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased
 * Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
 * John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers

Best Female Actor
Glenn Close – The Wife
 * Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
 * Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born
 * Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
 * Carey Mulligan – Wildlife

Best Male Supporting Actor
Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy (TIE)

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (TIE)
 * Mahershala Ali – Green Book
 * Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
 * Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born

Best Female Supporting Actor
Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased
 * Nina Arianda – Stan & Ollie
 * Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 * Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
 * Alia Shawkat – Blaze

Best Comedic Performance
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2
 * Awkwafina – Crazy Rich Asians
 * Jason Bateman – Game Night
 * Jesse Plemons – Game Night
 * Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2

Best Original Screenplay
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
 * Wes Anderson – Isle of Dogs
 * Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods – A Quiet Place
 * Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 * Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book

Best Adapted Screenplay
Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury, and David Schneider – The Death of Stalin
 * Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased
 * Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Leave No Trace
 * Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
 * David Lowery – The Old Man & the Gun

Best Animated Film
Isle of Dogs
 * Have a Nice Day
 * Incredibles 2
 * Ralph Breaks the Internet
 * Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary
Three Identical Strangers
 * Free Solo
 * Love, Gilda
 * RBG
 * Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Best Foreign Language Film
Shoplifters
 * Capernaum
 * Cold War
 * The Guilty
 * Roma

Best Cinematography
Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TIE)

Joshua James Richards – The Rider (TIE)
 * Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
 * Alexander Dynan – First Reformed
 * Magnus Nordenhof Jønck – Lean on Pete

Best Costume Design
Sandy Powell – The Favourite (TIE)

Lindy Hemming – Paddington 2 (TIE)
 * Guy Speranza – Stan & Ollie
 * Mary E. Vogt – Crazy Rich Asians
 * Mary Zophres – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Editing
Jamie Gross and Dave Egan – Game Night
 * Roderick Jaynes – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 * Yorgos Mavropsaridis – The Favourite
 * Christopher Tellefsen – A Quiet Place
 * Patrick J. Don Vito – Green Book

Best Production Design
Fiona Crombie – The Favourite
 * Hannah Beachler – Black Panther
 * Tim Galvin – Green Book
 * John Paul Kelly – Stan & Ollie
 * Adam Stockhausen – Ready Player One

Best Visual Effects
Ready Player One
 * Black Panther
 * Christopher Robin
 * Isle of Dogs
 * Paddington 2

Best Use of Music in a Film
Bad Times at the El Royale
 * Blaze
 * Bohemian Rhapsody
 * Green Book
 * A Star Is Born

Best Breakout Artist
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
 * Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
 * Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
 * Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
 * Charlie Plummer – Lean on Pete

Best Ensemble
Game Night
 * The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
 * Boy Erased
 * The Favourite
 * Green Book

Best Body of Work
John C. Reilly for Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Sisters Brothers, and Stan & Ollie