The Detroit Film Critics Society is a film critic organization based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 2007, and comprises a group of over twenty film critics. To become a member, the critic must have reviewed at least twelve films a year in an established publication, with no more than two different critics per publication admitted. It presents annual awards at the end of the year, for the best films of the preceding year.[1]
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
Elliot Page – Juno as Juno MacGuff
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam / Cassidy
Colin Firth – A Single Man George Falconer
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones
Colin Firth – The King's Speech as George VI
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly
Christian Bale – The Fighter as Dickie Eklund
Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist[2]
Michael Fassbender – Shame as Brandon Sullivan[2]
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe[2]
Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields[2]
Carey Mulligan – Shame as Sissy Sullivan[2]
Jessica Chastain – The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life as Celia Foote, Samantha LaForche, and Mrs. O’Brien[2]
Moneyball – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin[2]
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof
Brie Larson – Short Term 12 as Grace
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon
Scarlett Johansson – Her as Samantha (voice)
Brie Larson – Short Term 12 (actress)
Michael Keaton – Birdman as Riggan Thomson
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (TIE)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (TIE)
Guardians of the Galaxy (TIE)
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash (director, screenplay)
George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
Michael Caine – Youth as Fred Ballinger
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Liev Schreiber – Spotlight as Martin Baron
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl and Ex Machina
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea as Lee Chandler
Emma Stone – La La Land as Mia Dolan
Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water as Marcus Hamilton
Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson (TIE)
Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women as Abbie (TIE)
Kelly Fremon Craig – The Edge of Seventeen (director, screenplay)
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks
Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden
Jordan Peele – Get Out (writer, director)
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Reverend Ernst Toller
Toni Collette – Hereditary as Annie Graham
Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade as Mark Day
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade (writer/director)
Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga – Green Book (TIE)
Adam McKay – Vice (TIE)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Adam Driver – Marriage Story as Charlie Barber
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber
Joe Pesci – The Irishman as Russell Bufalino
Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
Florence Pugh – Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Little Women (actress)
Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods as Paul
Frances McDormand – Nomadland as Fern
Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah as Fred Hampton
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari as Soon-ja
Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (actress)
Lin-Manuel Miranda – tick, tick... BOOM!
Peter Dinklage – Cyrano as Cyrano de Bergerac
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye as Tammy Faye Bakker
Jon Bernthal – King Richard as Rick Macci
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story as Anita
Woody Norman – C'mon C'mon (actor) (TIE)
Emma Seligman – Shiva Baby (writer/director) (TIE)
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog
Flee (TIE)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (TIE)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines