The Detroit Film Critics Society announced their nominees for the best of 2018 today and what can I say other than I absolutely love them?

Seriously, Josh Hamilton and Jesse Plemons for Best Supporting Actor?  How can you not love that?  That said, the DFCS is not one of the more influential critical groups so I wouldn’t put down any money on either Plemons or Hamilton picking up an Oscar nomination just yet.  Still, both of them deserve the consideration and I love the fact that the DFCS is willing to go against the conventional wisdom when it comes to who they nominate.  I mean, really, this is what the critics need to be doing during awards season.  I mean, we all know that A Star is Born and Green Book are going to pick up nominations regardless.  We need the critics to remind the Academy that “hey, some of these guys were pretty good too!”

In fact, if there is a theme that can be found this early in the precursor season, it appears to be that the critics would like to make sure that the Academy doesn’t forget about First Reformed and Eighth Grade.

Here are the DFCS nominees.  Winners will be announced on Monday!

BEST PICTURE

• “A Quiet Place”
• “Eighth Grade”
• “First Reformed”
• “Green Book”
• “Roma”

BEST DIRECTOR

• Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
• Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
• Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”
• Adam McKay, “Vice”
• Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”

BEST ACTOR

• Christian Bale, “Vice”
• Bradley Cooper, “A Star Is Born”
• Ethan Hawke, “First Reformed”
• Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman”

BEST ACTRESS

• Toni Collette, “Hereditary”
• Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”
• Elsie Fisher, “Eighth Grade”
• Lady Gaga, “A Star Is Born”
• Melissa McCarthy, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”
• Sam Elliott, “A Star Is Born”
• Richard E. Grant, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
• Josh Hamilton, “Eighth Grade”
• Jesse Plemons, “Game Night”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams, “Vice”
• Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”
• Thomasin McKenzie, “Leave No Trace”
• Emma Stone, “The Favourite”
• Rachel Weiss, “The Favourite”

BEST ENSEMBLE

• “Crazy Rich Asians”
• “Eighth Grade”
• “The Favourite”
• “Roma”
• “Vice”

BREAKTHROUGH

• Bo Burnham, Writer/Director (“Eighth Grade”)
• Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, Writers/Actors (“Blindspotting”)
• Elsie Fisher, Actress (“Eighth Grade”)
• Lady Gaga, Actress (“A Star Is Born”)
• Boots Riley, Writer/Director (“Sorry to Bother You”)

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Bo Burnham, “Eighth Grade”
• Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara, “The Favourite”
• Adam McKay, “Vice”
• Paul Schrader, “First Reformed”
• Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, “Green Book”

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• “Free Solo”
• “RBG”
• “Three Identical Strangers”
• “Whitney”
• “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• “The Incredibles 2”
• “Isle of Dogs”
• “Ralph Breaks the Internet”
• “Smallfoot”
• “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

BEST USE OF MUSIC

• “A Star Is Born”
• “Bohemian Rhapsody”
• “Green Book”
• “Mandy”
• “Mary Poppins Returns”