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Formation | 2005 |
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Purpose | Film critics |
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Founders | Cole Dabney Robert "Bobby" McCurdy |
Website | austinfilmcritics |
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from Austin, Texas, United States.
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.
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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2005 | Crash † | Paul Haggis |
2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
2009 | The Hurt Locker † | Kathryn Bigelow |
2010 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
2011 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
2016 | Moonlight † | Barry Jenkins |
2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
2019 | Parasite † | Bong Joon-ho |
2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
2022 | Everything Everywhere All At Once † | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
2023 | Oppenheimer † | Christopher Nolan |
2024 | Anora † | Sean Baker |
Year | Winner | Film |
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2005 | Paul Haggis | Crash |
2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men |
2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood |
2008 | Christopher Nolan | The Dark Knight |
2009 | Kathryn Bigelow † | The Hurt Locker |
2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson | The Master |
2013 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Gravity |
2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
2017 | Guillermo del Toro † | The Shape of Water |
2018 | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk |
2019 | Bong Joon-ho † | Parasite |
2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
2021 | Jane Campion † | The Power of the Dog |
2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert † | Everything Everywhere All At Once |
2023 | Christopher Nolan † | Oppenheimer |
2024 | Sean Baker † | Anora |
Year | Winner | Film | Role |
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2005 | Laura Linney | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
2006 | Rinko Kikuchi | Babel | Chieko Wataya |
2007 | Allison Janney | Juno | Bren MacGuff |
2008 | Taraji P. Henson | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Queenie |
2009 | Anna Kendrick | Up in the Air | Natalie Keener |
2010 | Hailee Steinfeld | True Grit | Mattie Ross |
2011 | Jessica Chastain | Take Shelter | Samantha LaForche |
2012 | Anne Hathaway † | Les Misérables | Fantine |
2013 | Lupita Nyong'o † | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey |
2014 | Patricia Arquette † | Boyhood | Olivia Evans |
2015 | Alicia Vikander | Ex Machina | Ava |
2016 | Viola Davis † | Fences | Rose Maxson |
2017 | Allison Janney † | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden |
2018 | Regina King † | If Beale Street Could Talk | Sharon Rivers |
2019 | Jennifer Lopez | Hustlers | Ramona Vega |
2020 | Youn Yuh-jung † | Minari | Soonja |
2021 | Kirsten Dunst | The Power of the Dog | Rose Gordon |
2022 | Stephanie Hsu | Everything Everywhere All At Once | Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki |
2023 | Da'Vine Joy Randolph † | The Holdovers | Mary Lamb |
2024 | Margaret Qualley | The Substance | Sue |
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Alfonso Cuarón
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Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
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