Austin Film Critics Association
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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.
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 Bobby McCurdy starting in 2010. McCurdy died on December 19, 2010 while training to become a Naval aviator.[3]
Awards
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:
- 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 and 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 - (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), Grindhouse (2007); Best Animated Film: Sin City (2005)
- Richard Linklater - Best Austin Film: A Scanner Darkly (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2009), Bernie (2012)
- 2 awards:
- Writers/Directors
- Alfonso Cuaron: - 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 Miserables (2012)
- Christoph Waltz: - Best Supporting Actor: Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012)
- Colin Firth: - Best Actor: A Single Man (2009), The King's Speech (2010)
- Ellen Page - Best Actress: Hard Candy (2006), Juno (2007)
- Jessica Chastain : - Best Supporting Actress Take Shelter (2011), Breakthrough Artist Award Take Shelter, The Help, The Debt & The Tree of Life (2011)
- Writers/Directors
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)
- (tie) Memento (2000), The Departed (2006)[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.