Get Out Wins Austin Critics Top Prize

Jordan Peele's Get Out leads the Austin Film Critics Association awards for 2018, with three big wins

Austin's reputation as a film town friendly to cinema was proven again today as the Austin Film Critics Association announced that social horror Get Out has won its best film award, while director Jordan Peele won the prize for best first film and best original screenplay.

That's not the only genre film that took the association's honors. Guillermo del Toro's fantastical allegory The Shape of Water leads the list of top 10 films (a ranking collated from members' own lists, separate to voting process for the best film category). In further good news for del Toro, he also won best director.

However, he was not the only multi-time winner. Timothée Chalamet took not only the best actor award for his role in Call Me by Your Name, but also takes the Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award, named after the late co-founder of the AFCA.

Now here's the full list of winners:

1) The Shape of Water
2) Call Me by Your Name
3) Lady Bird
4) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
5) The Florida Project
6) Dunkirk
7) Get Out
8) I, Tonya
9) The Big Sick
10) Logan

Best Film: Get Out (D: Jordan Peele)

Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Best Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name

Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Best Score: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water

Best Foreign-Language Film: Okja (D: Bong Joon-ho)

Best Documentary: Faces Places (D: Agnès Varda and JR)

Best Animated Film: Coco (D: Lee Unkrich)

Best First Film: Get Out (D: Jordan Peele)

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name, Lady Bird, Hostiles

Austin Film Award: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (D: Macon Blair)

Special Honorary Award: To The Shape of Water’s Doug Jones and War for the Planet of the Apes’ Andy Serkis for their exemplary body and motion-capture performances, respectively

Special Honorary Award: To honor Harry Dean Stanton, for his body of work

The AFCA represents film critics and reviewers for Austin print and online publications, TV, and radio. All 37 members vote in all categories. Chronicle reviewers Marjorie Baumgarten, Kimberley Jones, Josh Kupecki, Marc Savlov, and Richard Whittaker are all members.