Austin Film Critics Association

The Austin Film Critics Association (abbr .: AFCA ) is an organization of film critics from the US Austin , in the state of Texas . It has presented an annual film prize, the Austin Film Critics Association Award , since 2005 . A special award is given to films that were either shot in Austin or by a director who is from Austin or the surrounding area.

history

The Austin Film Critics Association was founded in 2005 by film critics Cole Dabney and Robert "Bobby" McCurdy. Today (as of 2013) it has 25 members. The group named the Breakthrough Artist Award after Bobby McCurdy, who died in 2010 while training in naval aviation training.

Awards

Awards
year	Best movie	Best director	Best Actor	Best main actress	Best supporting actor	The best supporting actress
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2005	LA crash	Paul Haggis L.A. Crash	Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote	Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line	William Hurt A History of Violence	Laura Linney The octopus and the whale
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2006	Flight 93	Alfonso Cuarón Children of Men	Leonardo DiCaprio Departed - Among enemies	Ellen Page Hard Candy	Jack Nicholson Departed - Among Enemies	Rinko Kikuchi Babel
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2007	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
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2008	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight	Sean Penn Milk	Anne Hathaway Rachel's wedding	Heath Ledger The Dark Knight	Taraji P. Henson The Strange Case of Benjamin Button
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2009	Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker	Colin Firth A Single Man	Mélanie Laurent Inglourious Basterds	Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds	Anna Kendrick Up in the Air
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2010	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky Black Swan	Colin Firth The King's Speech	Natalie Portman Black Swan	Christian Bale The Fighter	Hailee Steinfeld True Grit
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2011	Hugo Cabret	Nicolas Winding Refn Drive	Michael Shannon Take Shelter - A storm is brewing	Tilda Swinton We Need to Talk about Kevin	Albert Brooks Drive	Jessica Chastain Take Shelter - A storm is brewing
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Paul Thomas Anderson The Master	Joaquin Phoenix The Master	Jennifer Lawrence Silver Linings	Christoph Waltz Django Unchained	Anne Hathaway Les Misérables
Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2013	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

Multiple award winners

Films with multiple awards

• 5 awards:
  • There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay
  • The Dark Knight (2008): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Black Swan (2010): Best Picture, 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
• 3 awards:
  • Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker - (2009): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography
  • Inglourious Basterds - (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
  • The Master - (2012): Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
• 2 awards:
  • LA Crash (2005): Best Picture, Best Director
  • Hustle & Flow (2005): Breakthrough Artist Award, Best First Work
  • Sin City (2005): Best Animated Film, Austin Film Award
  • Rachel's Wedding (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 in the Air (2009): - Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Me & Orson Welles (2009): Breakthrough Artist Award , Austin Film Award
  • Drive - (2011): Best Director, Best Supporting Actor
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild - (2012): Best Debut, Breakthrough Artist Award

Prize winners with two or more awards

• 3 awards:
  • Robert Rodriguez - Best Austin Picture: Sin City (2005), Grindhouse (2007); Best Animated Film: Sin City (2005)
  • Richard Linklater - Best Austin Film: A Scanner Darkly (2006), Me & Orson Welles (2009), Bernie (2012)

• 2 awards:
  • Screenwriters / 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)
  • Performers
    • Anne Hathaway - Best Actress: Rachel's Wedding (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), Best Breakthrough Take Shelter , The Help , An Open Account & The Tree of Life (2011)

Top 10 Movies of the Decade (2000s)

1. Forget Me Not! (2004)
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
3. The Lord of the Rings (film trilogy) (2001-2003)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
6. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
8. The Incredibles (2004)
9. Children of Men (2006)
10. Memento (2000) and Departed (2006)

Web links

• Austin Film Critics Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Critics ( Memento from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2010/12/28/today_we_say_fa.html/
3. ↑ 2009 Awards . Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved on December 8, 2011.