New York Film Academy (NYFA) Alum Sam McKnight Shoots Hype Hair Cover

Sam McKnight, alum of both the AFA Filmmaking and 1-Year Photography conservatory at New York Film Academy (NYFA), recently had his work featured on the cover of Hype Hair magazine, where he shot multiple Grammy Award-nominated artist Marsha Ambrosius.

Sam McKnight

McKnight is a self-described military brat who served in the United States Army for six years, after being medically retired due to a leg injury. “I believe the Military really teaches core values of life,” McKnight tells NYFA. “I learned how to be disciplined, and how to have a great work ethic. The military is culturally diverse so I was able to learn how to interact with different groups of people.”

These skills came in handy when McKnight first attended the AFA in Filmmaking program at NYFA’s Los Angeles campus. His original passion was in music, and early on McKnight found himself visualizing ideas and images to put to the music his father was always listening to while they traveled together.

McKnight soon found himself engrossed in still photography as well as filmmaking. “I learned in Filmmaking that lighting is the key for everything,” says McKnight. “After getting a grasp on film, I really wanted to understand the composition of photography. Learning the subject in front of me and what was behind that subject was appealing.”

Sam McKnight

McKnight has found success in both photography and filmmaking, and found that the diversity he encountered in the Armed Forces also existed in the art world. “I learned teamwork is the key. Never give up and find other strategies to get the job done. NYFA really gave me foundation about what the film industry is and how it works. Being on a culturally diverse campus is a great help in learning how to interact and work with different people.”

The NYFA community is not only diverse but alumni often find themselves brought together by their work. The music videos McKnight found himself involved with were overseen by none other Akila Robinson, who attended the 12-Week Evening Digital Filmmaking workshop at NYFA’s New York campus in 2010.

New York Film Academy congratulates Filmmaking and Photography alum Sam McKnight on his Hype Hair cover and looks forward to his continued success in both mediums!

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Students Reach Out to the Community to Make a Difference

In Spring 2018, a select group of New York Film Academy (NYFA) Documentary students volunteered to create a video honoring the 65th Anniversary of Family Service Agency (FSA) in Burbank. FSA is a privately-funded mental health service provider that specializes in “treating the mental and emotional well-being of children, adults and families suffering silently through Counseling, Preventing, Educating and Advocating since 1953”. 

The NYFA team, consisting of Drama del Rosario, Gustav Gibrand, and Asem Nurlanova, started production in April 2018 and were in active production throughout May and June. They participated in the annual 5K Carewalk (shooting and interviewing participants) and then interviewed Executive Director Laurie Bleick, Operational Director Christine Ramos, Clinical Director George Holbrook, and Director of School Based Counseling Services Ginny Goodwin. 

Because FSA is privately funded by many community sponsors, the filmmakers were granted unique access to several local schools and locations key to the services provided by the organization. In July 2018, the students, along with NYFA alum, Eva Maria Bukovinsky, also interviewed Brian Miller, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network to talk to him about his service on the Board of Directors for FSA. 

Bukovinszky then got to work editing the project. The resulting film was screened at the October 5, 2018 gala celebrating FSA’s 65 years of service, and now serves to explain their services on the About page of their website.

After the team handed over the final project for FSA, another crew gathered together in September 2018 to begin working on the annual Community Film Project with NYFA instructor Denise Hamilton. The students chose to work with David and Margaret Youth and Family Services, a non-profit that “empowers children, youth, and families through culturally diverse services that foster emotional, educational, spiritual, and identity development.” 

The crew pitched three ideas and allowed the organization to choose what suited their needs. They chose Drama del Rosario’s concept and this helped form the crew: Drama del Rosario, producer; Lucia Flores, director & editor; Faisal Aldakheel, director of photography and Asem Nurlanova, sound. 

“When we pitched our idea, we wanted to have a good balance of technical information and very human characters,” says del Rosario. “David and Margaret wanted to target youth who might be interested in signing up for the program, so we didn’t want some boring brochure-turned-video. We wanted something that would make them say, ‘Hey, that looks fun! That looks useful!’”

Production, including on location B-roll and interviews in LaVerne, California, about 40 miles east of campus (in Los Angeles traffic this is tantamount to taking a “road trip”), took about a week. After that, production included further research, writing and gathering of archival footage. 

The result was screened on January 26, 2019 in NYFA’s private screening room and the organization was thrilled!

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(from left to right). Asem Nurlanova, Chia Flores, Drama del Rosario, Faisal Aldakheel; from Margaret & David, Marissa Scholefield and Maggie Bohlman; NYFA instructor, Denise Hamilton

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Musical Theatre Alum Pierre Marais Tours Nation with ‘Aladdin’

South African actor and New York Film Academy (NYFA) Musical Theatre alum Pierre Marais has been cast in the national tour of the hit Disney Broadway musical Aladdin. Marais is the understudy for the titular role, the loveable street rat that first hit the screens in the House of Mouse’s 1992 animated classic.

The Cape Town-born actor graduated from NYFA’s Two-Year Musical Theatre Conservatory in 2012, and has been working steadily in theatre ever since. He has starred in Rock of Ages, directed by Tony nominee Kristin Hanggi, as well as West Side Story and Saturday Night Fever in Connecticut. Critics also praised his 2018 performance in the national tour of A Chorus Line, saying “Pierre Marais plays Paul with a bittersweet wistfulness; his acting commands one of the most powerful scenes in a show famous for its music and dance.

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Marais credits his parents, both trapeze artists who met in the circus, with instilling him with a love of performing. “They were both huge inspirations for me growing up,” he said in an interview with HuffPost. “I spent a lot of time watching them train and training beside them. Learning trampoline, sword fighting, tumbling and how to hit the same mark every time were all reasons why I was able to start with stunts at a young age.”

He began doing stunt work at age 16 with Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, and racked up a number of film credits in South Africa like The Wake of Death 2 alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme and The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior. Yet despite his success, he knew that if he wanted to have a long-term career, he needed to come to America. “I knew that to sustain that kind of career, I would eventually have to move to the USA, where there is just simply more work.”

He credits his time at NYFA with helping him meet the right people to succeed in New York’s vibrant theatre world, saying “This honestly came as a result of living and studying in New York City….Most of the connections I made at college were in the theatre world.”

The New York Film Academy congratulates Pierre Marais on his continued success and looks forward to seeing his future roles!

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Documentary MFA Alum Sasha-Gay Lewis Screens At Filmwochenende Würzburg

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Documentary MFA Alum Sasha-Gay Lewis was honored when her MFA Thesis film was included on the program of the International Film Weekend, held annually in Würzburg, Germany.

Filmwochenende Würzburg was started in 1974 with just 12 films and 1,000 visitors. This year, the 45th edition of the International Film Weekend – Würzburg was the most visited with more than 10,000 film fans visiting the traditional festival. Held from January 24 – January 27, 2019, the festival screened 82 films over four venues.

Sasha-Gay Lewis The Incursion

The aim of the festival is to showcase international films that have not yet found their way to distributors. Added to this is the opportunity for cinephiles to meet the makers behind the productions and to discuss their films with them. 

Lewis is a Jamaican documentary filmmaker, producer, editor and writer, as well as a trained journalist and award-winning writer/producer for radio. She has written, produced, and directed several short narratives and docs in Jamaica, California, and Belize. She enrolled in New York Film Academy’s MFA Documentary Filmmaking program in Fall 2014.

The Incursion, her documentary short, follows the residents of Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica as they seek justice after a government raid in 2010 that resulted in the death of over 150 residents.

Sasha-Gay Lewis The Incursion

In addition to Filmwochenende Würzburg, the film was named Honorable Mention at the 2017 DOC LA Film Festival, was an Official Selection at the 2017 Pembroke Taparelli Arts & Film Festival, won an Award of Recognition at the Impact DOCS Awards, and won Best Documentary Short at the LA Film and Script Film Festival.

In its 45-year history, this year is the first year Filmwochenende Würzburg have screened a film from Jamaica. Additionally, Lewis is the second black director to be invited to the festival; the first was filmmaker Spike Lee.  The Incursion had a full house for both days of its screening. packed cinema on both days.

The New York Film Academy congratulates MFA Documentary alum Sasha-Gay Lewis on the success of The Incursion and looks forward to following her career and future accomplishments! 


SAUDI FILM ASSOCIATE PRODUCED BY NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) DOCUMENTARY STUDENT AYA HAMDAN WINS JURY AWARD AT SUNDANCE

Proving that documentary skills come in handy in the fiction world as well, New York Film Academy (NYFA) Documentary student Aya Hamdan associate produced Dunya’s Day, a satirical short film tackling class privilege that has premiered and won at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film is notable for its all-female, Saudi cast, who give layered, complex performances that have generated a lot of buzz. During Sundance, Dunya’s Day was awarded the Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction.

Saudi filmmaker Raed Alsemari wrote and directed the film, which tells the story of Dunya, a Saudi woman struggling to throw the perfect graduation party after she’s been abandoned by her domestic help. The film already has the honor of being the first Saudi film to have its premiere in Saudi Arabia, with an IMAX screening at the Vox Cinema at Riyadh Park organized by the General Culture Authority, represented by the Saudi Film Council.

Hamdan is a current student of NYFA’s Documentary Filmmaking 1-year conservatory in New York City — after having previously attended NYFA’s 1-week Filmmaking workshop — where she is being prepared by professional, distinguished faculty members for the practical challenges, opportunities, and realities that arise when creating documentary films.

The Documentary staff and faculty have been incredibly supportive of Hamdan as she’s worked on Dunya’s Day. She tells NYFA, “I want to thank Andrea, Tracie, Joao, Claudia, and Maxine for all of their support.”

Hamdan is working on several documentary shorts as part of her curriculum, including a social issue film and a thesis film that she will shoot in her home country, the Kingdom of Bahrain. She also plans on working with Alsemari on his next film, possibly a feature set in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Aya Hamdan

Dunya’s Day stars Sara Balghonaim, Rahaf Bazian, and Ayah Bazian. Hamdan served as the films associate producer; the crew also includes Sarah Elnawasrah as producer, Oliver Theurillat as director of photography, and Tamara Kalo as production designer. The film’s director, Raed Alsemari, is already earning a lot of praise from his peers.

“He has the creativity and drive to positively influence the perception of Arab women in the media,” Hamdan says of writer/director Raed Alsemari. She adds, “I am truly thankful and proud to be part of this journey. I love this film and what it represents not only for Saudi Arabian cinema but for cinema across the Middle East. I can’t wait for it to be shared with a wider audience; it touches on a universal topic that anyone can relate to, but through the stories of the fierce women of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.”

The first screening of Dunya’s Day at Sundance is Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at Prospector Square Theater.

The New York Film Academy congratulates Documentary Filmmaking student Aya Hamdan on the Sundance premiere of and Jury Award prize for Dunya’s Day and looks forward to following her work as she completes her studies!

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Broadcast Journalism Update – January 28, 2019

There are many reasons to become a journalist. A number of them involve idealism, and the belief that journalists play an essential role in society. Still, for me, a key factor was that journalism is exciting. No, you aren’t flying off on a helicopter into the sunset every day. Yet everyday there is the possibility that you might. 

What is guaranteed is that every day you are going to meet people with important stories to tell. Some of those stories are happy. Others are sad. But they are stories that society needs to hear. And you are the storyteller…

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One of my favorite storytellers is New York Film Academy (NYFA) Broadcast Journalism grad Bryanna Reynolds. She lives and works in Australia, and recently she reflected on her career and opportunities:

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So what do you do after covering “the red carpet”? For Bryanna, it was onto the Australian Open tennis tournament…

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Our students come from everywhere—across the United States, and around the world. We’ve been fortunate to have a number of students from Brazil. One of them is Livia Fernanda. During a cold New York City winter, it’s nice to think of warmer places. But if you take a closer look at the map behind Livia, I think some of those places are a bit too hot! 34 C translates into a toasty 93 F…

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Last week we were back in the studio for the 2019 season of NYFA News, our own in-house news magazine. (We use the same type of green-screen effect that Livia does. Only instead of a weather map, we insert banks of TV monitors.) 

That’s student Nicole Abebe anchoring the show. Nicole was born in Nigeria, but came to NYFA via London. And while this was her first time as a presenter, she looked and sounded like an experienced pro.

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BJ Update January 28 2019

If you want to get an idea of just how exciting that day was, take a look at a short video NYFA instructor Evgenia Vlasova put together. I think it really captures how TV is a collaborative effort—a real “team sport.”

MARRIED FILMMAKERS & NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) MFA ALUMNI SELECTED FOR BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Zi Xiang and José Val Bal, two MFA Filmmaking alumni who met at New York Film Academy (NYFA) and married, are heading to the Berlin International Film Festival with their feature film, A Dog Barking At the Moon. Xiang directed the film, while Val Bal shot and produced it.

The wife and husband team met while attending NYFA at its New York City campus; eventually, both had moved to Los Angeles to complete their MFA Filmmaking studies, and graduated only months apart. The couple moved to Spain and have worked together on documentaries, webseries, and films ever since.

Xiang originally hails from Beijing, China, and is primarily a screenwriter and director after having worked as a camera assistant, DIT, and teaching assistant. She has also published a collection of poems, The Dogteeth of Postmodernism. According to NYFA Dean of Academic Advising, Mike Civille, PhD, “Xiang had a very strong vision for her work in the MFA Filmmaking program. She made a surreal film about performance, filmmaking, and art … She was determined through the development, production, and Post process, and never wavered in her focus on what she wanted.”

Val Bal, born José Valero Ballesteros, in Spain, began his career as an independent photographer. His work has been published in Glamour and Lonely Planet. “I was always impressed by his work,” says Nick Sivakumaran, Val Bal’s senior directing instructor at NYFA. “He studied directing, but it was very evident that he was a talented cinematographer. José is a born visual storyteller, and I can’t wait to hear more of their success.”

Their film, A Dog Barking At the Moon, is a rare co-production between China and Spain. It tells the story of pregnant writer Huang Xiaoyu, who finds herself trapped between her homosexual father and her mother, brainwashed by a cult. Xiang directed the film in June of last year while four months pregnant with her second daughter.

In addition to being produced by Xiang and Val Bal, the film’s executive producer is Qiu Yan and line producer is Guo Yifei. The score was composed by Juan Escudero and the cast includes Naren Hua, Nan Ji, Wu Renyuan, Zhang Yinyue, Jiang Bing, Ming Xing, Thomas Fiquet, Li Fuzhu, Wang Xilu, and Chen Zhenyuan.

The Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, was founded in 1951 and is one of the “Big Three” cinema festivals, along with the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. “The Berlinale is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world,” says Crickett Rumley, NYFA Festivals Advisor and Liaison, “so premiering a feature there is a filmmaker’s dream come true! I’m delighted to see that José and Zi have parlayed their development at the New York Film Academy into this stunning achievement.”

A Dog Barking At the Moon is an Official Selection of Panorama, one of Berlinale’s seven categories. The subset of films showcased in Panorama are new and noteworthy independent and arthouse films that deal with “controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles” that are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBTQIA+ issues.

All films selected to be part of Panorama are eligible for both the Panorama Audience Award, which has the largest voting jury of the festival, and the Teddy Award, which has grown into becoming one of the most important LGBTQIA+ film awards in cinema.

The New York Film Academy congratulates MFA Filmmaking alumni Zi Xiang and José Val Bal on their tremendous achievement and wishes them the best of luck at Berlin and beyond!

UPDATE (1/29/19): Berlinale is underway and NYFA alumni Zi Xiang and José Val Bal already have good news to share: they’ve been nominated for the festival’s GWFF Best First Feature Award, a high honor indeed! Congratulations!

MARRIED FILMMAKERS & NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) MFA ALUMNI SELECTED FOR BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Zi Xiang and José Val Bal, two MFA Filmmaking alumni who met at New York Film Academy (NYFA) and married, are heading to the Berlin International Film Festival with their feature film, A Dog Barking At the Moon. Xiang directed the film, while Val Bal shot and produced it.

The wife and husband team met while attending NYFA at its New York city campus; eventually, both had moved to Los Angeles to complete their MFA Filmmaking studies, and graduated only months apart. The couple moved to Spain and have worked together on documentaries, webseries, and films ever since.

Xiang originally hails from Beijing, China, and is primarily a screenwriter and director after having worked as a camera assistant, DIT, and teaching assistant. She has also published a collection of poems, The Dogteeth of Postmodernism. According to NYFA Dean of Academic Advising, Mike Civille, PhD, “Xiang had a very strong vision for her work in the MFA Filmmaking program. She made a surreal film about performance, filmmaking, and art … She was determined through the development, production, and Post process, and never wavered in her focus on what she wanted.”

Val Bal, born José Valero Ballesteros, in Spain, began his career as an independent photographer. His work has been published in Glamour and Lonely Planet. “I was always impressed by his work,” says Nick Sivakumaran, Val Bal’s senior directing instructor at NYFA. “He studied directing, but it was very evident that he was a talented cinematographer. José is a born visual storyteller, and I can’t wait to hear more of their success.”

 

 

 

 

 

Their film, A Dog Barking At the Moon, is a rare co-production between China and Spain. It tells the story of pregnant writer Huang Xiaoyu, who finds herself trapped between her homosexual father and her mother, brainwashed by a cult. Xiang directed the film in June of last year while four months pregnant with her second daughter.

In addition to being produced by Xiang and Val Bal, the film’s executive producer is Qiu Yan and line producer is Guo Yifei. The score was composed by Juan Escudero and the cast includes Naren Hua, Nan Ji, Wu Renyuan, Zhang Yinyue, Jiang Bing, Ming Xing, Thomas Fiquet, Li Fuzhu, Wang Xilu, and Chen Zhenyuan.

Zi Xiang, directing A Dog Barking At the Moon

The Berlin International Film Festival, or Berlinale, was founded in 1951 and is one of the “Big Three” cinema festivals, along with the Venice Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. “The Berlinale is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world,” says Crickett Rumley, NYFA Festivals Advisor and Liaison, “so premiering a feature there is a filmmaker’s dream come true! I’m delighted to see that José and Zi have parlayed their development at the New York Film Academy into this stunning achievement.”

A Dog Barking At the Moon is an Official Selection of Panorama, one of Berlinale’s seven categories. The subset of films showcased in Panorama are new and noteworthy independent and arthouse films that deal with “controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles” that are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBTQIA+ issues.

José Val Bal, shooting A Dog Barking At the Moon

All films selected to be part of Panorama are eligible for both the Panorama Audience Award, which has the largest voting jury of the festival, and the Teddy Award, which has grown into becoming one of the most important LGBTQIA+ film awards in cinema.

The New York Film Academy congratulates MFA Filmmaking alumni Zi Xiang and José Val Bal on their tremendous achievement and wishes them the best of luck at Berlin and beyond!

UPDATE (1/29/19): Berlinale is underway and NYFA alumni Zi Xiang and José Val Bal already have good news to share: they’ve been nominated for the festival’s GWFF Best First Feature Award, a high honor indeed! Congratulations!

Please note: NYFA does not represent that these are typical or guaranteed career outcomes. The success of our graduates in any chosen professional pathway depends on multiple factors, and the achievements of NYFA alumni are the result of their hard work, perseverance, talent and circumstances.

NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY (NYFA) CELEBRATES ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR NYFA COMMUNITY

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees of the 91st annual Academy Awards early Tuesday morning. Two of the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature feature work by New York Film Academy (NYFA) faculty members, while another two nominees have been guest speakers for NYFA students.

The 2019 Oscars ceremony will air live on ABC on Sunday, February 24. Notably, the ceremony may go without a host for the first time in years. In general, most of the nominees aren’t too surprising, mirroring similar lists to the BAFTAs and Golden Globes.


Two of the five Best Documentary Feature nominees are RBG and Free Solo. RBG, the wildly popular documentary from CNN Films profiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also picked up an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. The film was shot by director of photography and NYFA Documentary cinematography instructor Claudia Raschke, and directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen.

Raschke has worked on four other films previously nominated for Academy Awards, as well as Peabody, DuPont, and National Board of Review Award winners. Her oeuvre includes acclaimed documentaries as varied as My Architect, about Louis Kahn, Mad Hot Ballroom, which focuses on a New York dance program, and Particle Fever, which tracks the experiments of the Large Hadron Collider that ultimately discovered the Higgs boson (aka the “God particle”).

Free Solo is the critically-acclaimed and visually arresting National Geographic Films documentary following rock climber Alex Honnold as he makes a record-breaking attempt to scale El Capitan without the aid of ropes. The film’s editor, NYFA Documentary editing instructor Bob Eisenhardt, ACE, has edited over 60 films — mostly feature documentaries — including Everything is Copy (HBO), Jerusalem (IMAX), and Sundance Audience Award-winner Meru, directed by Free Solo directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.

Eisenhardt was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Academy Award for Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, and is a three-time Emmy winner and recipient of the coveted “Eddie” aka American Cinema Editors Award. Another two films Eisenhardt edited have previously been nominated for Oscars: The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey and No End In Sight.

Andrea Swift, Chair of NYFA’s Documentary Filmmaking department, is delighted to have such esteemed artists teaching as part of the school’s faculty. When Free Solo and RBG were first shortlisted for this year’s Academy Awards, Swift told NYFA, “For documentary masters like Claudia and Bob to work closely with the students on their films day in and day out — it just doesn’t get any better.”

In addition to the two Best Documentary Feature nominees, two previous NYFA guest speakers also picked up nods in acting categories. Adam Driver, who spoke with NYFA students in New York City last spring, was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his work in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman.

Glenn Close, who has been a guest speaker for New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus, was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Wife — a role which recently earned her a Golden Globe. Accepting the Golden Globe after a surprising win, Close said in an impassioned speech, “Women — we’re nurturers — and that’s what’s expected of us… but we have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, ‘I can do that’ and ‘I should be allowed to do that.’”

Additionally, NYFA alum Francesco Panzieri worked as a VFX artist on Avengers: Infinity War, which has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects. Panzieri, who attended the 1-Year 3D Animation & VFX program at NYFA in 2008, has worked as a visual effects artist on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and HBO’s Westworld.

The New York Film Academy congratulates this year’s nominees for the Academy Award and looks forward to seeing the winners announced next month!

Here is a full list of the 2019 Academy Award nominees:

Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice

Directing
BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee
Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay

Original Screenplay
The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed, Paul Schrader
Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Vice, Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins
A Star Is Born, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters

Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale, Vice
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Actress in a Leading Role
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Glenn Close, The Wife
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, Vice
Marina de Tavira, Roma
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Actor in a Supporting Role
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice

Best Documentary Feature
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG

Documentary Short
Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.

Foreign Language Film
Capernaum, Lebanon
Cold War, Poland
Never Look Away, Germany
Roma, Mexico
Shoplifters, Japan

Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Animated Short Film
Animal Behavior
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

Live Action Short
Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin

Original Score
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns

Original Song
“All the Stars,” Black Panther
“I’ll Fight,” RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins Returns
“Shallow,” A Star Is Born
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Cinematography
Cold War, Lukasz Zal
The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel
Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique

Film Editing
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Vice

Production Design
Black Panther
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Roma

Costume Design
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Queen of Scots

Sound Mixing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
Roma
A Star Is Born

Sound Editing
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
A Quiet Place
Roma

Makeup and Hairstyle
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Vice

Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story