The Austin Film Critics Association announced their nominees for the best of 2016 earlier today!  So, let’s see what my fellow Texans selected:

Best Film:

• Arrival
• The Handmaiden
• La La Land
• Manchester by the Sea
• Moonlight

Best Director:

• Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
• Damien Chazelle, La La Land
• Denis Villeneuve, Arrival
• Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
• Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden

Best Actor:

• Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
• Colin Farrell, The Lobster
• Denzel Washington, Fences
• Joel Edgerton, Loving
• Ryan Gosling, La La Land

Best Actress:

• Amy Adams, Arrival
• Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
• Isabelle Huppert, Elle
• Natalie Portman, Jackie
• Ruth Negga, Loving

Best Supporting Actor:

• Ben Foster, Hell or High Water
• Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
• Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
• Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals
• Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight

Best Supporting Actress:

• Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
• Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
• Min-hee Kim, The Handmaiden
• Naomie Harris, Moonlight
• Viola Davis, Fences

Best Original Screenplay:

• Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
• Damien Chazelle, La La Land
• Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
• Mike Mills, 20th Century Women
• Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou, The Lobster

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Eric Heisserer, Arrival
• Luke Davies, Lion
• Park Chan-wook, Jeong Seo-kyeong, The Handmaiden
• Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
• Whit Stillman, Love & Friendship

Best Cinematography:

• Bradford Young, Arrival
• Chung Chung-hoon, The Handmaiden
• James Laxton, Moonlight
• Linus Sandgren, La La Land
• Stéphane Fontaine, Jackie

Best Score:

• Cliff Martinez, The Neon Demon
• Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arrival
• Justin Hurwitz, La La Land
• Mica Levi, Jackie
• Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Hell or High Water

Best Foreign-Language Film:

• The Brand New Testament
• Elle
• The Handmaiden
• Things to Come
• Toni Erdmann

Best Documentary:

• 13th
• I Am Not Your Negro
• O.J.: Made in America
• Tower
• Weiner

Best Animated Film:

• Kubo & The Two Strings
• Moana
• The Little Prince
• Tower
• Zootopia

Best First Film:

• The Birth of a Nation
• The Edge of Seventeen
• Krisha
• Swiss Army Man
• The Witch

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award:

• Anya Taylor Joy, The Witch
• Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
• Keith Maitland, Tower
• Sasha Lane, American Honey
• Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight

Best Austin Film:

• Loving (dir. Jeff Nichols)
• Midnight Special (dir. Jeff Nichols)
• Slash (dir. Clay Liford)
• Tower (dir. Keith Maitland)
• Transpecos (dir. Greg Kwedar)