Austin Film Critics Association
The Austin Film Critics Association (abbr.: AFCA ) is an organization of film critics from the U.S. Austin, in the state of Texas. It awards since the 2005 annual Film Award, the Austin Film Critics Association Award. A special award will be given to films that were either filmed in Austin or coming from a director who comes from Austin or surrounding area.
History
The Austin Film Critics Association was founded by the film critics Cole Dabney and Robert " Bobby" McCurdy 2005. She has now (as of 2013) 25 members The group called the Breakthrough Artist Award by Bobby McCurdy, who died during training in the Naval Air Training 2010.
Awards
Multiple winners
Movies with multiple awards
- 5 Awards: There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Screenplay
- The Dark Knight ( 2008): Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay
- Black Swan (2010): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography
- 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
- The Hurt Locker - (2009): Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography
- Inglourious Basterds - (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
- The Master - (2012 ): Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography
- L.A. Crash ( 2005): Best Film, Best Director
- Sin City (2005): Best Animated Film, Austin Film Award
- The Departed (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 and Orson Welles (2009): Breakthrough Artist Award, Austin Film Award
- Drive - (2011): Best Director, Best Supporting Actor
- Beasts of the Southern Wild - (2012 ): Best first book, Breakthrough Artist Award
Prize winners with two or more awards
- 3 Awards: Robert Rodriguez - Best Austin Film: Sin City (2005 ) Grindhouse (2007); Best Animated Movie: Sin City (2005)
- Richard Linklater - Best Austin Film: A Scanner Darkly (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2009), Bernie (2012 )
- 2 Awards: Writers / Directors Alfonso Cuaron: - 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 )
- Anne Hathaway - Best Actress: Rachel Getting Married (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, The Debt & The Tree of Life (2011)