The 2018 Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) Nominations

By Matt Neglia 

The Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) have announced their nominations representing the best in film for 2018. The winners will be announced tomorrow.

Click below to see the nominations.

BEST PICTURE
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Ben Is Back
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Chappaquiddick
Crazy Rich Asians
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Man
First Reformed
Green Book
The Hate U Give
Hearts Beat Loud
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
The Long Dumb Road
Love, Simon
Madeline’s Madeline
Paddington 2
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
The Rider
Roma
Stan & Ollie
A Star Is Born
Suspiria
Tully
The Wife
You Were Never Really Here

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1945
Border
Capernaum
Cold War
The Guilty
Roma
A Sublime Life

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Andre the Giant
Dead Man's Line: The True Story of Tony Kiritsis
Free Solo
Itzhak
Minding the Gap
On Her Shoulders
RBG
Satan and Adam
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Andrew Bujalski, "Support the Girls"
Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
Diablo Cody, “Tully”
Joel & Ethan Coen, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, "The Favourite"
Hannah Fidell & Carson D. Mell, “The Long Dumb Road”
Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds”
Brett Haley and Marc Basch, “Hearts Beat Loud”
Peter Hedges, "Ben Is Back"
Tamara Jenkins, “Private Life”
Sam Levinson, "Assassination Nation"
Andrew Logan and Taylor Allen, “Chappaquiddick”
Andrew McCarten, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly, “Green Book”
Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski, “A Quiet Place”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ali Abbasi, John Ajvide Lindqvist, and Isabella Ekloff, “Border”
Jane Anderson, “The Wife”
Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain, “The Sisters Brothers”
Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, “Love, Simon”
Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, “Black Panther”
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, “Leave No Trace”
Alex Garland and Jeff VanderMeer, “Annihilation”
Andrew Haigh, “Lean on Pete”
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, “The Death of Stalin”
David Kajganich, “Suspiria”
Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Sebastián Lelio, “Disobedience”
Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters, “A Star Is Born”
Josh Singer, “First Man”
Audrey Wells, “The Hate U Give”

BEST DIRECTOR
Greg Berlanti, “Love, Simon"
Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
Damien Chazelle, “First Man”
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Ryan Coogler, “Black Panther”
Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
John Curran, “Chappaquiddick”
Josephine Decker, "Madeline’s Madeline"
Coralie Fargeat, “Revenge”
Peter Farrelly, “Green Book”
Hannah Fidell, “The Long Dumb Road”
Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds”
Alex Garland, “Annihilation”
Debra Granik, “Leave No Trace”
Luca Guadagnino, “Suspiria”
Andrew Haigh, “Lean on Pete”
Brett Haley, “Hearts Beat Loud”
Peter Hedges, "Ben Is Back"
John Krasinski, “A Quiet Place”
Nadine Labaki, “Capernaum”
Spike Lee, “BlacKkKlansman”
Christopher McQuarrie, "Mission: Impossible - Fallout"
Pawel Pawlikowski, "Cold War"
Lynne Ramsay, “You Were Never Really Here”
Björn Runge, “The Wife”
Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
Bryan Singer, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
George Tillman Jr., “The Hate U Give”
Chloe Zhao, “The Rider”

BEST ACTRESS
Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma”
Jessica Buckley, “Beast”
Glenn Close, “The Wife”
Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade”
Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, “Leave No Trace”
Regina Hall, “Support the Girls”
Helena Howard, “Madeline’s Madeline”
Dakota Johnson, "Suspiria"
Eva Melander, "Border"
Carey Mulligan, "Wildlife"
Michelle Pfeiffer, “Where is Kyra?”
Natalie Portman, “Annihilation”
Julia Roberts, "Ben Is Back"
Amandla Stenberg, “The Hate U Give”
Emma Stone, "The Favourite"
Charlize Theron, “Tully”
Rachel Weisz, “Disobedience”
Rachel Weisz, "The Favourite"
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “All About Nina”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt, “A Quiet Place”
Kayli Carter, “Private Life”
Kiersey Clemons, “Hearts Beat Loud”
Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Mackenzie Davis, “Tully”
Cynthia Erivo, “Bad Times at the El Royale”
Claire Foy, “First Man”
Danai Gurira, “Black Panther”
Rachel McAdams, “Disobedience”
Millicent Simmonds, “A Quiet Place”
Tilda Swinton, “Suspiria”

BEST ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
Christian Bale, "Vice"
Jakob Cedergren, “The Guilty”
John Cho, "Searching"
Jason Clarke, “Chappaquiddick”
Steve Coogan, “Stan & Ollie”
Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
Ben Foster, “Leave No Trace”
Ryan Gosling, “First Man”
Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
Brady Jandreau, “The Rider”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Jason Mantzoukas, “The Long Dumb Road”
Viggo Mortensen, “Green Book”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot”
Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
Charlie Plummer, “Lean on Pete”
Jonathan Pryce, “The Wife”
John C. Reilly, “The Sisters Brothers”
John C. Reilly, “Stan & Ollie”
Tony Revolori, “The Long Dumb Road”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Simon Russell Beale, “The Death of Stalin”
Steve Carell, "Vice"
Timothee Chalamet, “Beautiful Boy”
Adam Driver, "BlacKkKlansman"
Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”
Hugh Grant, “Paddington 2”
Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Josh Hamilton, “Eighth Grade”
Lucas Hedges, "Ben Is Back"
Ed Helms, “Chappaquiddick”
Jonah Hill, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” 
Russell Hornsby, “The Hate U Give”
Nicholas Hoult, "The Favourite"
Michael B. Jordan, “Black Panther”
Matthew McConaughey, “White Boy Rick”
Alessandro Nivola, “Disobedience”
Jesse Plemons, “Game Night”
Jonathan Pryce, "The Wife"
Christian Slater, “The Wife”

BEST VOCAL/MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Josh Brolin, “Avengers: Infinity War”
Bryan Cranston, “Isle of Dogs”
Tom Hiddleston, “Early Man”
Ben Whishaw, “Paddington 2”

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Bad Times at the El Royale
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Rich Asians
First Man
Hearts Beat Loud
Leave No Trace
Love, Simon
A Quiet Place
Thoroughbreds
The Wife

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Lorne Balfe, “Mission: Impossible - Fallout”
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury, “Annihilation”
Marco Beltrami, “A Quiet Place”
Nicholas Britell, "If Beale Street Could Talk" 
Carter Burwell, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Erik Friedlander, “Thoroughbreds”
Ludwig Göransson, “Black Panther”
Jonny Greenwood, “You Were Never Really Here”
Nathan Halpern, “The Rider”
Ian Hultquist, “Assassination Nation”
Justin Hurwitz, “First Man”
Jóhann Jóhannsson, “Mandy”
Dario Marianelli, "Paddington 2"
Philip Miller, “Where is Kyra?”
Jocelyn Pook, “The Wife”
Max Richter, “White Boy Rick”
Rob, “Revenge”
David Shire, “Love After Love”
Alan Silvestri, “Ready Player One”
Thom Yorke, “Suspiria”

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Zain Al Rafeea, “Capernaum” (actor)
Jessica Buckley, “Beast” (actress)
Coralie Fargeat, “Revenge” (writer / director)
Hannah Fidell, “The Long Dumb Road” (director / co-writer)
Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds” (writer / director)
Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade” (actress)
Brady Jandreau, “The Rider” (actor)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, “Leave No Trace” (actress)
Helena Howard, “Madeline’s Madeline” (actress)
Gustav Möller, “The Guilty” (director / co-writer)
Nick Robinson, “Love, Simon” (actor)
Evan Rosado, “We the Animals” (actor)
John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman” (actor)
Chloe Zhao, “The Rider” (writer / director)

ORIGINAL VISION
Isle of Dogs
A Quiet Place
Eighth Grade
The Long Dumb Road
Madeline’s Madeline
The Rider
​Sorry to Bother You

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