Phoenix Critics Circle Names ‘The Favourite’ As Best Picture

The Phoenix Critics Circle announced their winners Friday with The Favourite taking the top prize of Best Picture.

Other winners include Roma‘s Alfonso Cuaron who won for Best Director. The Lee Israel pic Can You Ever Forgive Me? took home two acting honors: Melissa McCarthy for Best Actress and Richard E. Grant for Best Supporting Actor. Ethan Hawke won Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed while Regina King continues her Best Supporting Actress winning streak for Barry Jenkins’s stirring adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.

The Favourite‘s Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara also won for Best Screenplay while Sony’s eye-popping Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which was recently released in theaters continues to impress winning Best Animated Film and Best Movie Based on a Comic Book or Graphic Novel.

Read the complete list of winners below.

BEST PICTURE
The Favourite

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

BEST ACTOR
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

BEST ACTRESS
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST SCREENPLAY
Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara, The Favourite

BEST SCORE
Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Roma