The 23rd San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 10, 2018.

Winners and nominees

Best Film Leave No Trace The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Favourite Green Book A Quiet Place

Best Director Debra Granik – Leave No Trace Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade Peter Farrelly – Green Book John Krasinski – A Quiet Place Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite

Best Male Actor Ethan Hawke – First Reformed Christian Bale – Vice Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased Viggo Mortensen – Green Book John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers

Best Female Actor Glenn Close – The Wife Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? Carey Mulligan – Wildlife

Best Male Supporting Actor Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy (TIE) Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (TIE) Mahershala Ali – Green Book Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born

Best Female Supporting Actor Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased Nina Arianda – Stan & Ollie Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace Alia Shawkat – Blaze

Best Comedic Performance Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 Awkwafina – Crazy Rich Asians Jason Bateman – Game Night Jesse Plemons – Game Night Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2

Best Original Screenplay Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade Wes Anderson – Isle of Dogs Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods – A Quiet Place Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book

Best Adapted Screenplay Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Fabien Nury, and David Schneider – The Death of Stalin Joel Edgerton – Boy Erased Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini – Leave No Trace Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me? David Lowery – The Old Man & the Gun

Best Animated Film Isle of Dogs Have a Nice Day Incredibles 2 Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Three Identical Strangers Free Solo Love, Gilda RBG Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Best Foreign Language Film Shoplifters Capernaum Cold War The Guilty Roma

Best Cinematography Bruno Delbonnel – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TIE) Joshua James Richards – The Rider (TIE) Alfonso Cuarón – Roma Alexander Dynan – First Reformed Magnus Nordenhof Jønck – Lean on Pete

Best Costume Design Sandy Powell – The Favourite (TIE) Lindy Hemming – Paddington 2 (TIE) Guy Speranza – Stan & Ollie Mary E. Vogt – Crazy Rich Asians Mary Zophres – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Editing Jamie Gross and Dave Egan – Game Night Roderick Jaynes – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Yorgos Mavropsaridis – The Favourite Christopher Tellefsen – A Quiet Place Patrick J. Don Vito – Green Book

Best Production Design Fiona Crombie – The Favourite Hannah Beachler – Black Panther Tim Galvin – Green Book John Paul Kelly – Stan & Ollie Adam Stockhausen – Ready Player One

Best Visual Effects Ready Player One Black Panther Christopher Robin Isle of Dogs Paddington 2

Best Use of Music in a Film Bad Times at the El Royale Blaze Bohemian Rhapsody Green Book A Star Is Born

Best Breakout Artist Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody Charlie Plummer – Lean on Pete

Best Ensemble Game Night The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Boy Erased The Favourite Green Book

Best Body of Work John C. Reilly for Ralph Breaks the Internet, The Sisters Brothers, and Stan & Ollie

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