Detroit Film Critics Society

The Detroit Film Critics Society is a film critic organization based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 2007, and comprises a group of over twenty film critics. To become a member, the critic must have reviewed at least twelve films a year in an established publication, with no more than two different critics per publication admitted. It presents annual awards at the end of the year, for the best films of the preceding year.^[1]

Categories edit

2007 edit

Best Film edit

No Country for Old Men

Best Director edit

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men

Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sean Penn – Into the Wild
Jason Reitman – Juno
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor edit

George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton

Mathieu Amalric – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly as Jean-Dominique Bauby
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
Emile Hirsch – Into the Wild as Christopher McCandless / Alexander Supertramp
Tommy Lee Jones – No Country for Old Men Sheriff Ed Tom Bell

Best Actress edit

Elliot Page – Juno as Juno MacGuff

Amy Adams – Enchanted as Princess Giselle
Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson
Marion Cotillard – La Vie en rose as Édith Piaf
Laura Linney – The Savages as Wendy Savage

2008 edit

Best Film edit

Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director edit

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor edit

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson

Josh Brolin – W. as George W. Bush
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road as Frank Wheeler
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk

Best Actress edit

Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline "Poppy" Cross
Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy
Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Best Supporting Actor edit

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker

Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
James Franco – Pineapple Express as Saul Silver
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky as Scott
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road as John Givings, Jr.

Best Supporting Actress edit

Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam / Cassidy

Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James
Elizabeth Banks – W. as Laura Bush
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married as Rachel Buchman

Best Cast edit

Frost/Nixon

Best Newcomer edit

Martin McDonagh – In Bruges

Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married as Rachel Buchman
Rebecca Hall – Frost/Nixon and Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Caroline Cushing and Vicky
Danny McBride – Pineapple Express as Red
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik
Catinca Untaru – The Fall as Alexandria

2009 edit

Best Film edit

Up

Best Director edit

Pete Docter – Up

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Marc Webb – (500) Days of Summer

Best Actor edit

Colin Firth – A Single Man George Falconer

George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
Matt Damon – The Informant! as Mark Whitacre
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer as Tom Hansen
Sam Rockwell – Moon as Sam Bell

Best Actress edit

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones

Alison Lohman – Drag Me to Hell as Christine Brown
Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Melor
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Best Supporting Actor edit

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
Woody Harrelson – Zombieland as Tallahassee
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey

Best Supporting Actress edit

Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston

Marion Cotillard – Nine as Luisa Contini
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds as Shosanna Dreyfuss

Best Ensemble edit

The Hangover

Breakthrough Performance edit

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones

Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles
Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Mellor
Chris Pine – Star Trek as James T. Kirk
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

2010 edit

Best Film edit

Best Director edit

Danny Boyle – 127 Hours

David Fincher – The Social Network
Debra Granik – Winter's Bone
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Edgar Wright – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Best Actor edit

Colin Firth – The King's Speech as George VI

Jeff Bridges – True Grit as Reuben "Rooster" Cogburn
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network as Mark Zuckerberg
James Franco – 127 Hours as Aron Ralston
Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine as Dean Pereira

Best Actress edit

Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly

Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole as Becca Corbett
Carey Mulligan – Never Let Me Go as Kathy H
Natalie Portman – Black Swan as Nina Sayers
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine as Cynthia "Cindy" Heller

Best Supporting Actor edit

Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dickie Eklund

Andrew Garfield – The Social Network as Eduardo Saverin
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone as Teardop Dolly
Sam Rockwell – Conviction as Kenny Waters
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right as Paul Hatfield
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech as Lionel Logue

Best Supporting Actress edit

Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming

Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech as Queen Elizabeth
Greta Gerwig – Greenberg as Florence Marr
Melissa Leo – The Fighter as Alice Eklund
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom as Janine "Smurf" Cody

Best Ensemble edit

Winter's Bone

Breakthrough Performance edit

Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly

Andrew Garfield – The Social Network and Never Let Me Go as Eduardo Saverin and Tommy
Greta Gerwig – Greenberg as Florence Marr
Chloë Grace Moretz – Kick-Ass and Let Me In as Hit-Girl and Abby
Mia Wasikowska – The Kids Are All Right as Joni Allgood

2011 edit

Best Film edit

The Artist^[2]

Best Director edit

Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist^[2]

Best Actor edit

Michael Fassbender – Shame as Brandon Sullivan^[2]

George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King
Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin
Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter as Curtis LaForche

Best Actress edit

Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe^[2]

Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clark
Felicity Jones – Like Crazy as Anna Maria Gardner
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
Charlize Theron – Young Adult as Mavis Gary

Best Supporting Actor edit

Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields^[2]

Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier
Albert Brooks – Drive as Bernie Rose
Ryan Gosling – Crazy, Stupid, Love as Jacob Palmer
Patton Oswalt – Young Adult as Matt Freehauf

Best Supporting Actress edit

Carey Mulligan – Shame as Sissy Sullivan^[2]

Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter as Samantha LaForche
Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus as Volumnia
Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson

Best Ensemble edit

Carnage^[2]

Breakthrough Performance edit

Jessica Chastain – The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life as Celia Foote, Samantha LaForche, and Mrs. O’Brien^[2]

Felicity Jones – Like Crazy as Anna Maria Gardner
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price
Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene as Martha
Shailene Woodley – The Descendants as Alexandra King

Best Screenplay edit

Moneyball – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin^[2]

Best Documentary Film edit

Tabloid^[2]

2012 edit

Best Film edit

Silver Linings Playbook

Best Director edit

David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actor edit

Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln

Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrick "Pat" Solatano, Jr.
John Hawkes – The Sessions as Mark O'Brien
Bill Murray – Hyde Park on Hudson as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master as Freddie Quell

Best Actress edit

Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell

Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty as Maya
Greta Gerwig – Damsels in Distress as Violet
Naomi Watts – The Impossible as Maria Bennett
Michelle Williams – Take This Waltz as Margot

Best Supporting Actor edit

Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.

Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master as Lancaster Dodd
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln as Thaddeus Stevens
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike as Dallas
Ewan McGregor – The Impossible as Henry Bennett
Ezra Miller – The Perks of Being a Wallflower as Patrick

Best Supporting Actress edit

Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine

Amy Adams – The Master as Peggy Dodd
Ann Dowd – Compliance as Sandra
Sally Field – Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
Helen Hunt – The Sessions as Cheryl Cohen-Greene

Best Ensemble edit

Lincoln

Breakthrough Performance edit

Zoe Kazan – Ruby Sparks

Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Craig Zobel – Compliance

Best Screenplay edit

Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell

The Cabin in the Woods – Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Lincoln – Tony Kushner
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley

Best Documentary Film edit

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

2013 edit

Best Film edit

Her^[3]

Best Director edit

Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
Spike Jonze – Her
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor edit

Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof

Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips as Captain Richard Phillips
Robert Redford – All Is Lost as Our Man

Best Actress edit

Brie Larson – Short Term 12 as Grace

Amy Adams – American Hustle as Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly (based on Evelyn Knight)
Julie Delpy – Before Midnight as Céline
Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour as Adèle
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet Weston

Best Supporting Actor edit

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse
James Franco – Spring Breakers as Alien
Matthew McConaughey – Mud as Mud
Stanley Tucci – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Caesar Flickerman

Best Supporting Actress edit

Scarlett Johansson – Her as Samantha (voice)

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld (based on Cynthia Marie Weinberg)
Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County as Barbara Weston-Fordham
June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate Grant

Best Ensemble edit

American Hustle

Breakthrough Performance edit

Brie Larson – Short Term 12 (actress)

Lake Bell – In a World (actress, screenplay, director)
Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station (screenplay, director)
Destin Cretton – Short Term 12 (screenplay, director)
Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station (actor)

Best Screenplay edit

Spike Jonze – Her

Destin Cretton – Short Term 12
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight
David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer – American Hustle
Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Documentary Film edit

Stories We Tell

2014 edit

Best Film edit

Boyhood^[4]

Best Director edit

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Jonathan Glazer – Under the Skin
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman

Best Actor edit

Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
Brendan Gleeson – Calvary as Father James
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler as Louis "Lou" Bloom
Tom Hardy – Locke as Ivan Locke
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress edit

Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne

Essie Davis – The Babadook as Amelia
Scarlett Johansson – Under the Skin as The Female
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor edit

J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice as Lt. Det. Christian "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
Edward Norton – Birdman as Mike Shiner
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz

Best Supporting Actress edit

Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans

Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
Rene Russo – Nightcrawler as Nina Romina
Emma Stone – Birdman as Sam Thomson
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer as Deputy-Minister Mason

Best Ensemble edit

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (TIE)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (TIE)
Guardians of the Galaxy (TIE)

Boyhood
Into the Woods

Breakthrough Performance edit

Damien Chazelle – Whiplash (director, screenplay)

Jennifer Kent – The Babadook (director, screenplay)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle, Beyond the Lights (actress)
Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy (actor)
Dan Stevens – The Guest (actor)

Best Screenplay edit

Richard Linklater – Boyhood

Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó – Birdman
John Michael McDonagh – Calvary

Best Documentary edit

Citizenfour

Finding Vivian Maier
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Keep On Keepin’ On
Life Itself

2015 edit

Best Film edit

Spotlight

Best Director edit

George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actor edit

Michael Caine – Youth as Fred Ballinger

Christopher Abbott – James White as James White
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant as Hugh Glass
Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs as Steve Jobs
Tom Hardy – Legend as Ronnie and Reggie Kray

Best Actress edit

Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey

Cate Blanchett – Carol as Carol Aird
Brie Larson – Room as Joy 'Ma' Newsome
Jennifer Lawrence – Joy as Joy Mangano
Bel Powley – The Diary of a Teenage Girl as Minnie Goetze

Best Supporting Actor edit

Liev Schreiber – Spotlight as Martin Baron

Paul Dano – Love & Mercy as Brian Wilson
Benicio del Toro – Sicario as Alejandro Gillick
Oscar Isaac – Ex Machina as Nathan Bateman
Jacob Tremblay – Room as Jack Newsome

Best Supporting Actress edit

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener

Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight as Daisy Domergue
Cynthia Nixon – James White as Gail White
Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria as Valentine
Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina as Ava

Best Ensemble edit

Spotlight

Breakthrough Performance edit

Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl and Ex Machina

Sean Baker – Tangerine (director, screenplay)
Emory Cohen – Brooklyn (actor)
Bel Powley – The Diary of a Teenage Girl (actress)
Jacob Tremblay – Room (actor)

Best Screenplay edit

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight

Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley – Inside Out
Nick Hornby – Brooklyn
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph – The Big Short
Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight

Best Documentary edit

Amy

2016 edit

Best Film edit

La La Land

Best Director edit

Damien Chazelle – La La Land

Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
David Mackenzie – Hell or High Water
Denzel Washington – Fences

Best Actor edit

Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea as Lee Chandler

Joel Edgerton – Loving as Richard Loving
Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge as Desmond T. Doss
Ryan Gosling – La La Land as Sebastian Wilder
Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson

Best Actress edit

Emma Stone – La La Land as Mia Dolan

Amy Adams – Arrival as Dr. Louise Banks
Annette Bening – 20th Century Women as Dorothea Fields
Rebecca Hall – Christine as Christine Chubbuck
Ruth Negga – Loving as Mildred Loving
Natalie Portman – Jackie as Jacqueline Kennedy

Best Supporting Actor edit

Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water as Marcus Hamilton

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight as Juan
Alden Ehrenreich – Hail, Caesar! as Hobie Doyle
Ralph Fiennes – A Bigger Splash as Harry Hawkes
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea as Patrick Chandler

Best Supporting Actress edit

Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson (TIE)
Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women as Abbie (TIE)

Elle Fanning – 20th Century Women as Julie
Felicity Jones – A Monster Calls as Lizzie O'Malley
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea as Randi Chandler

Best Ensemble edit

20th Century Women

Breakthrough Performance edit

Kelly Fremon Craig – The Edge of Seventeen (director, screenplay)

Mahershala Ali – Moonlight, Hidden Figures (actor)
Lucas Hedges – Manchester by the Sea (actor)
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight (director, screenplay)
Trevante Rhodes – Moonlight (actor)
Trey Edward Shults – Krisha (director, screenplay)

Best Screenplay edit

Damien Chazelle – La La Land

Eric Heisserer – Arrival
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water

Best Documentary edit

O.J.: Made in America

2017 edit

Best Film edit

The Florida Project^[5]

Best Director edit

Sean Baker – The Florida Project

Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out

Best Actor edit

James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
Robert Pattinson – Good Time as Constantine "Connie" Nikas

Best Actress edit

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes

Jessica Chastain – Molly's Game as Molly Bloom
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson

Best Supporting Actor edit

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks

Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water as Giles
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Jason Dixon
Patrick Stewart – Logan as Charles Xavier
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name as Mr. Perlman

Best Supporting Actress edit

Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden

Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip as Dina
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick as Beth Gardner
Melissa Leo – Novitiate as Rev. Mother Marie St. Clair
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson

Best Ensemble edit

The Post

The Big Sick
Lady Bird
Mudbound
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Breakthrough Performance edit

Jordan Peele – Get Out (writer, director)

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name (actor)
Gal Gadot – Wonder Woman (actress)
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip (actress)
Caleb Landry Jones – American Made, The Florida Project, Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (actor)

Best Screenplay edit

Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer – The Post
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Taylor Sheridan – Wind River

Best Documentary edit

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Best Animated Film edit

The Lego Batman Movie

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Cars 3
Coco
Loving Vincent

Best Use of Music edit

Baby Driver

2018 edit

Source: ^[6]

Best Film edit

Eighth Grade

Best Director edit

Adam McKay – Vice

Best Actor edit

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Reverend Ernst Toller

Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine
Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
John David Washington – BlacKkKlansman as Detective Ron Stallworth

Best Actress edit

Toni Collette – Hereditary as Annie Graham

Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade as Kayla Day
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel

Best Supporting Actor edit

Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade as Mark Day

Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley
Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
Jesse Plemons – Game Night as Gary Kingsbury

Best Supporting Actress edit

Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers

Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace as Tom
Emma Stone — The Favourite as Abigail Hill
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

Best Ensemble edit

Vice

Breakthrough Performance edit

Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade (writer/director)

Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs – Blindspotting (writers/actors)
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade (actress)
Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born (actress)
Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You (writer/director)

Best Screenplay edit

Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book (TIE)
Adam McKay – Vice (TIE)

Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara – The Favourite
Paul Schrader – First Reformed

Best Documentary edit

Three Identical Strangers

Best Animated Film edit

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Use of Music edit

A Star Is Born

2019 edit

Source: ^[7]

Best Film edit

Parasite

Best Director edit

Martin Scorsese – The Irishman

Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
Bong Joon-ho – Parasite
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit

Best Actor edit

Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber

Robert De Niro – The Irishman as Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran
Robert Pattinson – The Lighthouse as Ephraim Winslow
Joaquin Phoenix – Joker as Arthur Fleck / Joker
Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems as Howard Ratner

Best Actress edit

Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber

Julianne Moore – Gloria Bell as Gloria Bell
Lupita Nyong'o – Us as Adelaide Wilson / Red
Charlize Theron – Bombshell as Megyn Kelly
Renée Zellweger – Judy as Judy Garland

Best Supporting Actor edit

Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino

Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse as Thomas Wake
Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as Fred Rogers
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Cliff Booth
Sam Rockwell – Richard Jewell as Watson Bryant
Wesley Snipes – Dolemite Is My Name as D'Urville Martin

Best Supporting Actress edit

Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw

Kathy Bates – Richard Jewell as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit as Rosie Betzler
Anna Paquin – The Irishman as Peggy Sheeran
Florence Pugh – Little Women as Amy March

Best Ensemble edit

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Breakthrough Performance edit

Florence Pugh – Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Little Women (actress)

Ana de Armas – Knives Out, The Informer, Yesterday (actress)
Jessie Buckley – Wild Rose, Judy (actress)
Kaitlyn Dever – Booksmart, Them That Follow (actress)
Aisling Franciosi – The Nightingale (actress)
Paul Walter Hauser – Richard Jewell, Late Night, Beats (actor)
Lulu Wang – The Farewell (writer/director/producer)
Olivia Wilde – Booksmart (director)

Best Screenplay edit

Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story

Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won – Parasite
Robert Eggers and Max Eggers – The Lighthouse
Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Steven Zaillian – The Irishman

Best Documentary edit

Apollo 11

Amazing Grace
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
Knock Down the House
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Best Animated Film edit

Toy Story 4

Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus

Best Use of Music edit

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020 edit

Best Film edit

Nomadland^[8]

Best Director edit

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Regina King – One Night in Miami...
Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor edit

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal as Ruben Stone
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Levee Green
Anthony Hopkins – The Father as Anthony
Steven Yeun – Minari as Jacob Yi

Best Actress edit

Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern

Jessie Buckley – I'm Thinking of Ending Things as Young Woman
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman as Martha Weiss
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman as Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas

Best Supporting Actor edit

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton

Christopher Abbott – Possessor as Colin Tate
Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 as Abbie Hoffman
Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... as Sam Cooke
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal as Joe

Best Supporting Actress edit

Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari as Soon-ja

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm as Tutar Sagdiyev
Ellen Burstyn – Pieces of a Woman as Elizabeth Weiss
Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy as Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance
Olivia Colman – The Father as Anne

Best Ensemble edit

Minari

Breakthrough Performance edit

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (actress)

Jasmine Batchelor – The Surrogate (actress)
Radha Blank – The 40-Year-Old Version (actress/writer/director/producer)
Orion Lee – First Cow (actor)
Wunmi Mosaku – His House (actress)

Best Adapted Screenplay edit

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Kemp Powers – One Night in Miami...
Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond – First Cow
Ruben Santiago-Hudson – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Best Original Screenplay edit

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
Shaka King and Will Berson – Judas and the Black Messiah
Darius Marder and Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Documentary edit

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Best Animated Film edit

Soul

Best Use of Music edit

Sound of Metal

2021 edit

Best Film edit

Cyrano^[9]

Best Director edit

Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick... BOOM!

Best Actor edit

Peter Dinklage – Cyrano as Cyrano de Bergerac

Nicolas Cage – Pig as Robin "Rob" Feld
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick... BOOM! as Jonathan Larson
Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter as William Tell
Will Smith – King Richard as Richard Williams

Best Actress edit

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker

Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza as Alana Kane
Jennifer Hudson – Respect as Aretha Franklin
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
Kristen Stewart – Spencer as Princess Diana

Best Supporting Actor edit

Jon Bernthal – King Richard as Rick Macci

Troy Kotsur – CODA as Frank Rossi
Jared Leto – House of Gucci as Paolo Gucci
Ray Liotta – The Many Saints of Newark as Aldo "Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti / Salvatore "Sally" Moltisanti
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon

Best Supporting Actress edit

Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita

Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog as Rose Gordon
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard as Oracene "Brandy" Price
Rita Moreno – West Side Story as Valentina
Diana Rigg – Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins

Best Ensemble edit

The French Dispatch

Breakthrough Performance edit

Woody Norman – C'mon C'mon (actor) (TIE)
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby (writer/director) (TIE)

Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza (actress)
Emilia Jones – CODA (actress)
Agathe Rousselle – Titane (actress)

Best Adapted Screenplay edit

Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay edit

Adam McKay – Don't Look Up

Pedro Almodóvar – Parallel Mothers
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch
Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin – The Harder They Fall

Best Documentary edit

Flee (TIE)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (TIE)

Best Animated Film edit

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Use of Music edit

Last Night in Soho

References edit

^ "About Us". Detroit Film Critics Society. from the original on July 30, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Detroit Film Critics Society announces awards nominees; 'Take Shelter' leads with six nods". MLive.com. 12 December 2011. from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
^ Lodge, Guy (2013-12-13). "Detroit critics name 'Her' the year's best, hand Brie Larson two awards". UPROXX. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
^ Long, Tom. "Detroit Film Critics Society flips for 'Boyhood'". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
^ Detroit Film Critics Society honors 'Florida Project' - Associated Press News
^ The Detroit News (December 3, 2018). "Detroit critics name 'Eighth Grade' year's best film". The Detroit News. from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
^ "Detroit Film Critics Society 2018 Winners". Awardsdaily. 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
^ Anderson, Erik (2021-03-08). "Detroit Film Critics winners: 'Nomadland' is top film, 'Minari,' Delroy Lindo also score". AwardsWatch. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
^ "Detroit Film Critics Announce 2021 Noms - CinemaNerdz". cinemanerdz.com. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

External links edit

Serba, John (December 9, 2009). "My nominees for Detroit Film Critics Society movie awards". The Grand Rapids Press. Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retrieved December 28, 2009.

[1] "About Us". Detroit Film Critics Society. from the original on July 30, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2014.

[det-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Detroit Film Critics Society announces awards nominees; 'Take Shelter' leads with six nods". MLive.com. 12 December 2011. from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2016.

[3] Lodge, Guy (2013-12-13). "Detroit critics name 'Her' the year's best, hand Brie Larson two awards". UPROXX. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

[4] Long, Tom. "Detroit Film Critics Society flips for 'Boyhood'". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

[5] Detroit Film Critics Society honors 'Florida Project' - Associated Press News

[6] The Detroit News (December 3, 2018). "Detroit critics name 'Eighth Grade' year's best film". The Detroit News. from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 16, 2024.

[7] "Detroit Film Critics Society 2018 Winners". Awardsdaily. 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

[8] Anderson, Erik (2021-03-08). "Detroit Film Critics winners: 'Nomadland' is top film, 'Minari,' Delroy Lindo also score". AwardsWatch. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

[9] "Detroit Film Critics Announce 2021 Noms - CinemaNerdz". cinemanerdz.com. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-11.

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