The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - ENSEMBLE CAST

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Julien Faddoul

5. Support the Girls

4. Life and Nothing More

3. If Beale Street Could Talk

2. Widows

1. The Death of Stalin

Runner Up: Private Life

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - FILM EDITING

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5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Roderick Jaynes

4. Suspiria

Walter Fasano

3. Incredibles 2

Stephen Schaffer

2. Widows

Joe Walker

1. If Beale Street Could Talk

Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders

Runner Up: Support the Girls – Karen Skloss

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - COSTUME DESIGN

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5. Widows

Jenny Eagan

4. Crazy Rich Asians

Mary E. Vogt

3. Paddington 2

Lindy Hemming

2. If Beale Street Could Talk

Caroline Eselin

1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Mary Zophres

Runner Up: Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - PRODUCTION DESIGN

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5. First Man

Nathan Crowley

4. If Beale Street Could Talk

Mark Friedberg

3. Roma

Eugenio Caballero

2. Paddington 2

Gary Williamson

1. Isle of Dogs

Paul Harrod, Adam Stockhausen

Runner Up: Black Panther – Hannah Beachler

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - CINEMATOGRAPHY

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Julien Faddoul

5. Suspiria

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

4. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Bruno Delbonnel

3. Roma

Alfonso Cuarón

2. Cold War

Lukasz Zal

1. If Beale Street Could Talk

James Laxton

Runner Up: The Favourite – Robbie Ryan

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

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Julien Faddoul

5. Widows – Gillian Flynn, Steve McQueen

For an engrossing panorama. Criticisms of didacticism are certainly apt, but at least the film brings up questions that most are too moderate to tackle.

4. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

For a violent, fairly bleak and mostly riveting kind of compendium on their moral sensibilities – that the harshness and misfortunes of life are often meaningless, and that those who suffer are chosen inadvertently. The Gal Who Got Rattled especially belongs amongst their greatest works.

3. If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins

For attempting something very difficult in adapting Baldwin but making it his own. He deals beautifully with the vulnerability and pride of youth and the banality of evil.

2. Leave No Trace – Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini

For an emotionally engrossing, gorgeously well-rounded father-daughter drama of a not-particularly-unfamiliar kind. They eschew politicking at every opportunity, wisely focusing instead on human connections.

1. The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin

For a bold, extremely dark comedy that brilliantly encapsulates the power struggle that occurred in the Soviet Union during the time and the callow, infantile reasons for the those involved to stay on top.

Runner Up: Burning – Oh Jung-Mi, Lee Chang-Dong

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The 2018 Cinema Touch Awards - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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5. Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham

For a poignant, tartly observant account of middle school anxiety with a tender managing of its characters.

4. Bodied – Alex Larsen, Joseph Kahn

For an exceptional, refreshingly unfettered and unpretentious sports comedy that exhibits a rare valuation for the English language. They use counterculture dissection as a discourse for exploring themes of microaggression, gentrification, insincere liberalism and general racism.

3. Support the Girls – Andrew Bujalski

For an acute, coolly identifiable exemplification on present-day American scruples and conduct in the workplace.

2. Private Life – Tamara Jenkins

For a witty and refreshingly un-sentimentalized account of current-day concerns and desires. She brazenly explores the ebbing of families when obstacles become foundational principles, with characters that never feel like mere plot elements.

1. First Reformed – Paul Schrader

For an intense and solemn treatment on the interdependent politics of today’s great environmental challenges. It could’ve so easily gone way over the top (and very nearly does). He’s simply one of American cinema’s greatest authors.

Runner Up: Life and Nothing More – Antonio Méndez Esparza

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