Austin Film Critics Association

Austin Film Critics Association
Formation 2005
Purpose Film critics
Location
Founders
 Cole Dabney
Robert “Bobby” McCurdy
Website austinfilmcritics.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 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 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

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. ↑ http://www.austinfilmcritics.org/critics
  2. ↑ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20008171,00.html
  3. ↑ http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/outandabout/entries/2010/12/28/today_we_say_fa.html/
  4. ↑ "2009 Awards". Austin Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2011.


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