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Critics’ Choice Awards winners in full: Olivia Colman and Christian Bale among British winners as Roma takes home best picture

Thandie Newton and Ben Whishaw took home TV awards

Monday 14 January 2019 10:14 GMT

Christian Bale accepts the Best Actor award for 'Vice' at Critics Choice Awards (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Christian Bale, Olivia Colman and Thandie Newton were among the British winners at the Critics’ Choice Awards.

Handed out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the awards honour the best in film and television and are considered an accurate indicator of the Oscars.

Bale was the night’s big winner, picking up both the best actor and best actor in a comedy prizes for his role as Dick Chaney in political biopic Vice.

Accepting the award, Bale said: ”I guess time sort of allows it to be considered a comedy, but it’s really a tragedy.”

The actor has won the equivalent comedy award at the Golden Globes and compared Cheney to Satan during his acceptance speech.

The Favourite‘s Colman won the best actress in a comedy prize, beating fellow British performer Emily Blunt, who was nominated for Mary Poppins Returns.

However, Colman lost the best overall actress award to joint winner Glenn Close and Lady Gaga, for their roles in The Wife and A Star is Born respectively.

On the TV side, Thandi Newton took home the best supporting actress in a drama series award for her portrayal of the robot Maeve in HBO’s science-fiction series Westworld.

Ben Whishaw picked up the best supporting actor gong in a limited series or movie made for television for A Very English Scandal.

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The 15 best films of 2018

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The 15 best films of 2018

15. Shoplifters

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters could be the year’s most disarming film. On first glance, the clan at its centre are just like any other, but their impulsive decision to take in a missing girl begins a series of rug-pulls you wouldn’t expect from a film such as this. A complex heartbreaker, albeit one that starts out looking like the more modest family dramas Kore-eda is known for.

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The 15 best films of 2018

14. Game Night

“We knew there was a bad version of this movie that could exist,” said Game Night’s co-director John Francis Daley (the kid from Freaks and Geeks). This certainly isn’t it. Starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams as a competitive married couple who mistake an actual kidnapping for a particularly immersive role play game, Game Night is snappy, witty and fully committed to its brilliant, tonally unsettling conceit.

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13. Isle of Dogs

Any Wes Anderson film is likely to be offbeat, fastidiously stylish and shot through with the auteur's understated drollery. Isle of Dogs is no different. A stop-motion story of abandoned canines taking on a corrupt human government, it's set in a futuristic Japan and deals with some pretty heavy themes (fascism, ethnic cleansing). Funny and full of heart.

The 15 best films of 2018

12. They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson’s First World War documentary is a remarkable step-forward for historical filmmaking. The Lord of the Rings director breathes new life into black and white archive footage from the Imperial War Museum, digitally restoring and smoothing the grainy source material before adding colour and sound. The result is a stunning cinematic experience that vividly brings the past into the present. By using the voices of veteran British soldiers interviewed about their experiences in the trenches, Jackson also includes a fascinating narrative that’s both gripping and informative. A wonderfully apt way to mark the centenary of the Great War.

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11. First Reformed

Nobody knew if Paul Schrader still had it in him to make a film as angry or as barbed as First Reformed. There is the same raw power here as found in his earlier features about tormented loners. Cinephiles will delight in the (sometimes a little self-conscious) references to Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky, but you can’t help but relish the intensity and intelligence in Ethan Hawke’s performance as the tormented, guilt-ridden priest.

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10. Black Panther

There were two Marvel films released this year, one of which – Avengers Infinity War – was an over-crowded, if ambitious, sequel. The other was a landmark film – not just for Marvel, but for cinema. Black Panther was fit to bursting with selling points, all combining to deliver the studio’s best film: Michael B Jordan’s standout villain, scene-stealing performances from Danai Guria and Letitia Wright, plus the direction of Creed’s Ryan Coogler who proved an inspired appointment. Wakanda forever, indeed.

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9. Cold War

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, shot in the sleekest black and white, is an effortlessly stylish and romantic drama set in a period of political convulsion. It offers everything from Polish folk music to the sultriest Birth of the Cool-style jazz. Pawlikowski includes moments of reckless hedonism alongside scenes of exile and imprisonment. Best of all, the film has a truly wonderful performance from Joanna Kulig as Zula, the free-spirited young folk singer turned femme fatale.

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8. A Star Is Born

There are no two ways about it: Bradley Cooper's rock star Jackson Mane inviting Ally – a small-town waitress played by Lady Gaga – onto stage to sing her song in front of thousands of his fans is movie magic. Regardless of your stance on the film's back half and pretty maudlin ending, A Star is Born is an old-fashioned success story with an intensity that brings up the hairs on the back of your neck.

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The 15 best films of 2018

7. The Rider

Director Chloé Zhao took a gamble casting a real-life family in this modern-day western about a cowboy named Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau). It pays off – this an authentic portrait of contemporary rodeo life in South Dakota. From her amateur cast she somehow coaxes performances more memorable than most pros manage in their entire careers. As moving as it is bold, The Rider also offers an all-too-rare female perspective on masculinity.

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6. Leave No Trace

Eight years after Winter’s Bone made a star of Jennifer Lawrence, Leave No Trace – director Debra Granik’s first feature film since then – should rightly make a star of Thomasin McKenzie too. Based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rook, Leave No Trace is virtually a two-hander between McKenzie and Ben Foster. They play a PTSD-suffering war veteran and his daughter, who live in the forests of Oregon, fending for themselves. Even when the two are arrested and placed in government housing, the film refuses to be anything other than understated and is all the more beguiling for it.

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5. The Shape of Water

Loneliness can sometimes feel like your soul has been chained to the bottom of the ocean, at other times it can feel like you’re speaking a language no one else understands. Guillermo del Toro beautifully illustrates both these nuances in his Oscar-winning fantasy romance, in which a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) unexpectedly falls for a strange aquatic creature (Doug Jones), the only one who sees her as she truly wants to be seen. Theirs is a love so mystical, so overwhelming, that it can only be communicated through the language of dreams.

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4. Lady Bird

Lady Bird will always be close to our hearts. There are times when it feels less like a film, more like a hand tracing delicately through memories, of what it felt like to grow up, to say goodbye, and to find one's own place in the universe. Greta Gerwig’s story of a teenager, played by Saoirse Ronan, desperate to escape her hometown and seek the intellectual haven of the East Coast colleges (“where the culture is”, she argues) may be specific in its layout, but it is universal in its emotions.

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3. You Were Never Really Here

Whenever Lynne Ramsey attaches her name to a film, you know to expect something special. You Were Never Really Here marks a career-high for the British auteur, who manages to condense the violent story of a former military man searching for a stolen girl into a viciously edited 90-minute thriller. Joaquin Phoenix makes for the perfect enigmatic leading man, while Jonny Greenwood’s mechanical, piercing score adds to the decidedly eerie atmosphere.

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2. Phantom Thread

Should Phantom Thread really be Daniel Day-Lewis’s final film, then the actor can retire knowing that Reynolds Woodcock ranks among his greatest roles. Day-Lewis plays the egomaniacal fashion designer with a childish whimsy, but there's also a spectral quality to him that looms in every scene. Lesley Manville’s deliciously funny Cyril and Vicky Krieps’s superbly sharp Alma offer two cunning counters to Reynolds’s growing appetite for self-destruction, making for some wonderfully heated confrontations. Paul Thomas Anderson’s direction allows each character to blossom on screen, in a film that makes for a masterful study of poisonous relationships.

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1. Roma

Loosely based on his own childhood, Alfonso Cuaron's follow-up to the Oscar-winning Gravity is a gorgeous piece of film-making, a quiet paean to the women who raised him. It's a neorealist masterpiece, shot in 65mm black and white, and built from detailed vignettes of domestic life in early 1970s Mexico City, a time there of great social unrest. Savour every scene: the camera takes it all in, as we follow a young Mixtec woman named Cleo (wonderful newcomer Yalitza Aparicio) who looks after a well-to-do family she comes to think of as her own. It's about love, grief and resilience: it will slay you.

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Other British nominees included Claire Foy, who was up for supporting actress for her role in First Man. She also accepted the #SeeHer award in recognition of her contribution to women in film on the night.

”I accept this award as an encouragement to myself to be brave enough to face and see myself, and by doing, hopefully, I can understand and see others, and ultimately I can help others to see themselves,” she said.

The night’s biggest winner was Alfonso Cuaron’s semi-biographical Roma, which was named best picture.

It won ahead of Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, First Man, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk, Mary Poppins Returns, A Star Is Born and Vice.

See the full list of winners below:

Best Young Actor/actress – Elsie Fisher

Best Supporting Actor Movie – Mahershala Ali

Best Supporting Actress Movie – Regina King

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie – A Quiet Place

Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series – Ben Whishaw (A Very English Scandal)

Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series – Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects)

Best Actress in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series – DRAW Amy Adams (Sharp Objects) and Patricia Arquette (Escape At Dannemora)

Best Actor in a Movie Made for Television or Limited Series – Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)

Best Movie Made for TV – Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Alex Borstein (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Henry Winkler (Barry)

Best Actress in a Comedy Series – Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs Maisel)

Best Actor in a Comedy Series – Bill Hader (Barry)

Best Comedy Series – The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Thandie Newton (Westworld)

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – Noah Emmerich (The Americans)

Best Actress in a Drama Series – Sandra Oh (Killing Eve)

Best Actor in a Drama Series – Matthew Rhys (The Americans)

Best Drama Series – The Americans

Best Score – Justin Hurwitz (First Man)

Best Song – Shallow (A Star Is Born)

Best Foreign-Language Film – Roma

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie – A Quiet Place

Best Actress in a Comedy – Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

Best Actor in a Comedy – Christian Bale (Vice)

Best Comedy – Crazy Rich Asians

Best Action Movie – Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Best Animated Feature – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Visual Effects – Black Panther

Best Cinematography – Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)

Best Adapted Screenplay – Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Original Screenplay – Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Director – Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)

Best Acting Ensemble – The Favourite

Best Actress – DRAW Glenn Close (The Wife) and Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)

Best Actor – Christian Bale (Vice)

Best Picture – Roma

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