Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma has been the consensus choice by most critics groups throughout the awards season, and that trend was rubber-stamped when Roma was named Best Picture at the 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.

The Mexico-set drama also won Best Director and Cinematography for Cuarón, plus Best Foreign Language Film.

It’s that Foreign Language which makes it an intriguing Oscar contender. Roma faces an uphill climb to win the top prize at next month’s Academy Awards — no non-English film has ever won Best Picture — so this victory helps give it a boost in the pursuit to make history.

Major winners across the other top film categories provided few shocks or upsets, reflecting consensus views that have emerged over the course of this Oscar race.

If there was one, however, the unexpected came in the Best Actress category with a tie: Lady Gaga won for A Star Is Born, and shared it with Glenn Close for The Wife. Close seems to be trending so it was the Gaga tie that brought gasps, especially as that left out the other Actress Oscar contender Olivia Colman from The Favourite. She had to settle for Best Actress in the Comedy category.

The dark satire about the court of Queen Anne — co-starring Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone — also had to settle for just one of the top awards. Despite leading all films with 14 nominations, The Favourite only managed to pull off one major win: Best Ensemble. If critics are that polarized over it, you can bet Academy voters will be, too.

Other pleasant surprises came in the tech categories where Black Panther won three: Production Design, Costume, and Visual Effects.

Meanwhile, Christian Bale won both Best Actor prizes for Vice, including the top all-inclusive category as well as Comedy. With his win last week at the Golden Globes, Bale’s looking like he’ll be tough to beat at the Academy Awards. If he wins the Screen Actors Guild honor, you can safely start placing bets.

The 24th Annual Critics Choice Awards (chosen by the Broadcast Critics Film Association, a nationwide group of TV and Radio critics) was broadcast live Sunday night January 13, 2019, on the CW.

WINNERS OF
THE 24th ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS
Best in Film for 2018

BEST PICTURE
WINNER: Roma

– Black Panther
– BlacKkKlansman
– The Favourite
– First Man
– Green Book
– If Beale Street Could Talk
– Mary Poppins Returns
– A Star Is Born
– Vice

BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

– Damien Chazelle, First Man
– Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
– Peter Farrelly, Green Book
– Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
– Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
– Adam McKay, Vice

BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Christian Bale, Vice

– Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
– Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
– Ryan Gosling, First Man
– Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
– Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
– Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: (tie) Glenn Close, The Wife ; Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born

– Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
– Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
– Toni Collette, Hereditary
– Olivia Colman, The Favourite
– Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Mahershala Ali, Green Book

– Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
– Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
– Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born
– Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
– Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

– Amy Adams, Vice
– Claire Foy, First Man
– Nicole Kidman, Boy Erased
– Emma Stone, The Favourite
– Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
WINNER: Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade

– Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
– Ed Oxenbould, Wildlife
– Millicent Simmonds, A Quiet Place
– Amandla Stenberg, The Hate U Give
– Sunny Suljic, mid90s

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
WINNER: The Favourite

– Black Panther
– Crazy Rich Asians
– Vice
– Widows

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: First Reformed, Paul Schrader

– Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham
– Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
– The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
– Vice, Adam McKay
– Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly
– A Quiet Place, Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins

– Black Panther, Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole
– Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
– A Star Is Born, Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters
– First Man, Josh Singer
– BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón

– If Beale Street Could Talk, James Laxton
– A Star Is Born, Matthew Libatique
– Black Panther, Rachel Morrison
– The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
– First Man, Linus Sandgren

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Black Panther, Hannah Beachler, Jay Hart

– Roma, Eugenio Caballero, Barbara Enriquez
– Crazy Rich Asians, Nelson Coates, Andrew Baseman
– The Favourite, Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
– First Man, Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
– Mary Poppins Returns, John Myhre, Gordon Sim

BEST EDITING
WINNER: First Man, Tom Cross

– A Star Is Born, Jay Cassidy
– Vice, Hank Corwin
– Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough
– The Favourite, Yorgos Mavropsaridis
– Widows, Joe Walker

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Black Panther, Ruth Carter

– Mary Queen of Scots, Alexandra Byrne
– Bohemian Rhapsody, Julian Day
– The Favourite, Sandy Powell
– Mary Poppins Returns, Sandy Powell

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
WINNER: Vice

– Black Panther
– Bohemian Rhapsody
– The Favourite
– Mary Queen of Scots
– Suspiria

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Black Panther

– Avengers: Infinity War
– First Man
– Mary Poppins Returns
– Mission: Impossible – Fallout
– Ready Player One

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

– The Grinch
– Incredibles 2
– Isle of Dogs
– Mirai
– Ralph Breaks the Internet

BEST ACTION MOVIE
WINNER: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

– Avengers: Infinity War
– Black Panther
– Deadpool 2
– Ready Player One
– Widows

BEST COMEDY
WINNER: Crazy Rich Asians

– Deadpool 2
– The Death of Stalin
– The Favourite
– Game Night
– Sorry to Bother You

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
WINNER: Christian Bale, Vice

– Jason Bateman, Game Night
– Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
– John C. Reilly, Stan & Ollie
– Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool 2
– Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
WINNER: Olivia Colman, The Favourite

– Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
– Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
– Rachel McAdams, Game Night
– Charlize Theron, Tully
– Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
WINNER: A Quiet Place

– Annihilation
– Halloween
– Hereditary
– Suspiria

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER: Roma

– Burning
– Capernaum
– Cold War
– Shoplifters

BEST SONG
WINNER: “Shallow” – A Star Is Born

– “All the Stars” – Black Panther
– “Girl in the Movies” – Dumplin’
– “I’ll Fight” – RBG
– “The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
– “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” – Mary Poppins Returns

BEST SCORE
WINNER: First Man, Justin Hurwitz

– Green Book, Kris Bowers
– If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Britell
– Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
– Black Panther, Ludwig Göransson
– Mary Poppins Returns, Marc Shaiman

Click on links below for other Critics Group Awards and Guild Nominees that have been announced so far for the 2018 / 19 season:

Directors Guild of America Nominees
Writers Guild of America Nominees
Golden Globe Winners
National Society of Film Critics
Producers Guild of America Nominees
Boston Society of Film Critics
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Screen Actors Guild Nominees
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Toronto Film Critics Association
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle
Chicago Film Critics Association
AFI Film Awards
Detroit Film Critics Society
Atlanta Film Critics Circle
New York Film Critics Circle
The National Board of Review