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Austin Film Critics Association
Formation2005
PurposeFilm critics
Location
Founders
Cole Dabney
Robert “Bobby” McCurdy
Websiteaustinfilmcritics.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 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 History

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
2016 – 12th Moonlight Barry Jenkins
Moonlight 		Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea 		Isabelle Huppert
Elle 		Mahershala Ali
Moonlight 		Viola Davis
Fences

Multiple award winners

Films

Producers, Directors & Cinematographers

6 Awards

4 Awards

3 Awards

2 Awards

Actors

3 Awards

2 Awards

Top 10 Films of the Decade (2000s)

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

References

  1. ^ Austinfilmcritics.org
  2. ^ Entertainment Weekly
  3. ^ Austin360.com
  4. ^ "2009 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)


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