Austin Film Critics Association

Austin Film Critics Association
Formation	2005
Purpose	Film critics
Location	Austin, Texas
Founders	Cole Dabney Robert “Bobby” McCurdy
Website	austinfilmcritics.org

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 exponentially in its first eight years, expanding from 3 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 Ellen Page Best Actress for her role in Hard Candy over Helen Mirren for her performance in The Queen, as Mirren had swept the category so far during awards 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]

Awards

Awards
Year	Best Film	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
2005 – 1st	Crash	Paul Haggis Crash	Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote	Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line	William Hurt A History of Violence	Laura Linney The Squid and the Whale
2006 – 2nd	United 93	Alfonso Cuarón Children of Men	Leonardo DiCaprio The Departed	Ellen Page Hard Candy	Jack Nicholson The Departed	Rinko Kikuchi Babel
2007 – 3rd	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood	Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood	Ellen Page Juno	Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men	Allison Janney Juno
2008 – 4th	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight	Sean Penn Milk	Anne Hathaway Rachel Getting Married	Heath Ledger The Dark Knight	Taraji P. Henson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009 – 5th	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker	Colin Firth A Single Man	Mélanie Laurent Inglourious Basterds	Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds	Anna Kendrick Up in the Air
2010 – 6th	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky Black Swan	Colin Firth The King's Speech	Natalie Portman Black Swan	Christian Bale The Fighter	Hailee Steinfeld True Grit
2011 – 7th	Hugo	Nicolas Winding Refn Drive	Michael Shannon Take Shelter	Tilda Swinton We Need to Talk About Kevin	Albert Brooks Drive	Jessica Chastain Take Shelter
2012 – 8th	Zero Dark Thirty	Paul Thomas Anderson The Master	Joaquin Phoenix The Master	Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings Playbook	Christoph Waltz Django Unchained	Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
2013 – 9th	Her	Alfonso Cuarón Gravity	Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave	Brie Larson Short Term 12	Jared Leto Dallas Buyers Club	Lupita Nyong'o 12 Years a Slave
2014 – 10th	Boyhood	Richard Linklater Boyhood	Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler	Rosamund Pike Gone Girl	J.K. Simmons Whiplash	Patricia Arquette Boyhood
2015 – 11th	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road	Michael Fassbender Steve Jobs	Brie Larson Room	Sylvester Stallone Creed	Alicia Vikander Ex Machina

Multiple award winners

Films with multiple awards

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
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, Best Austin 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
- Nightcrawler (2014): Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best First Film
- Room (2015): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
2 awards
- Crash (2005): Best Film, Best Director
- Hustle & Flow (2005): Breakthrough Artist Award, Best First Film
- Sin City (2005): Best Animated Film, Austin Film Award
- The Departed (2006): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
- Children of Men (2006): Best Director, Best Cinematography
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Best Foreign Film, Best Original Screenplay
- No Country for Old Men (2007): Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Up (2009): Best Original Score, Best Animated Film
- Up in the Air (2009): Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Me and Orson Welles (2009): Breakthrough Artist Award, Austin Film Award
- Drive (2011): Best Director, Best Supporting Actor
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Best First Film, Breakthrough Artist Award
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014): Best Cinematography, Best Score
- Gone Girl (2014): Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Ex Machina (2015): Best Supporting Actress, Best First Film
- Inside Out (2015): Best Original Screenplay, Best Animated Film
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Best Film, Best Director

People with 2 or more awards

3 awards
- Robert Rodriguez: Best Austin Film – Sin City (2005) and Grindhouse (2007) / Best Animated Film – Sin City (2005)
- Richard Linklater: Best Austin Film – A Scanner Darkly (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2009), and Bernie (2012)
2 awards
- Writers / Directors
  - Alfonso Cuarón: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay – Children of Men (2006)
  - Quentin Tarantino: Best Original Screenplay – Inglourious Basterds (2009) / Best Austin Film – Grindhouse (2007)
  - Rian Johnson: Best First Film – Brick (2005) / Best Original Screenplay – Looper (2012)
- Actors
  - Anne Hathaway: Best Actress – Rachel Getting Married (2008) / Best Supporting Actress – Les Misérables (2012)
  - Christoph Waltz: Best Supporting Actor – Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012)
  - Colin Firth: Best Actor – A Single Man (2009) and The King's Speech (2010)
  - Ellen Page: Best Actress – Hard Candy (2006) and Juno (2007)
  - Jessica Chastain: Best Supporting Actress – Take Shelter (2011) / Breakthrough Artist Award – The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life (2011)

Top 10 Films of the Decade (2000s)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Kill Bill (2003/4)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Incredibles (2004)
Children of Men (2006)
Memento (2000) / The Departed (2006) (TIE) ^[4]

References

↑ http://www.austinfilmcritics.org/critics
↑ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20008171,00.html
↑ http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2010/12/28/today_we_say_fa.html/
↑ "2009 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Retrieved 8 December 2011.

External links

Austin Film Critics Association official website

American Film Critic Associations

National	Broadcast Film Critics Association National Board of Review National Society of Film Critics

Northeast	Boston Society of Film Critics New York Film Critics Circle New York Film Critics Online Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Midwest	Chicago Film Critics Association Detroit Film Critics Society

South	Austin Film Critics Association Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Florida Film Critics Circle Houston Film Critics Society

West	Denver Film Critics Society Los Angeles Film Critics Association San Diego Film Critics Society San Francisco Film Critics Circle St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association

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