Detroit Film Critics Society


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 per publication admitted. It presents annual awards at the end of the year, for the best films of the preceding year.

Categories

Best Film

No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen and Ethan CoenNo Country for Old Men
George ClooneyMichael Clayton as Michael Clayton
Ellen PageJuno as Juno MacGuff
Javier BardemNo Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
Tilda SwintonMichael Clayton as Karen Crowder
Juno
Diablo CodyJuno

Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire
Danny BoyleSlumdog Millionaire
Mickey RourkeThe Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
Kate WinsletRevolutionary Road as April Wheeler
Heath LedgerThe Dark Knight as The Joker
Marisa TomeiThe Wrestler as Pam / Cassidy
Frost/Nixon
Martin McDonaghIn Bruges

Best Film

Up
Pete DocterUp
Colin FirthA Single Man George Falconer
Gabourey SidibePrecious as Claireece "Precious" Jones
Christoph WaltzInglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
Mo'NiquePrecious as Mary Lee Johnston
The Hangover
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones

Best Film

Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Colin Firth – The King's Speech as George VI
Jennifer LawrenceWinter's Bone as Ree Dolly
Christian BaleThe Fighter as Dickie Eklund
Amy Adams – The Fighter as Charlene Fleming
Winter's Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone as Ree Dolly

Best Film

The Artist
Michel HazanaviciusThe Artist
Michael FassbenderShame as Brandon Sullivan
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe
Christopher PlummerBeginners as Hal Fields
Carey Mulligan – Shame as Sissy Sullivan
Carnage
Jessica Chastain – The Help, Take Shelter and The Tree of Life as Celia Foote, Samantha LaForche, and Mrs. O’Brien
MoneyballSteven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
Tabloid

Best Film

Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln as Abraham Lincoln
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook as Tiffany Maxwell
Robert De NiroSilver Linings Playbook as Patrizio "Pat" Solitano, Sr.
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables as Fantine
Lincoln
Zoe KazanRuby Sparks
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Best Film

Her
Alfonso CuarónGravity
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof
Brie LarsonShort Term 12 as Grace
Jared LetoDallas Buyers Club as Rayon
Scarlett JohanssonHer as Samantha
American Hustle
Brie Larson – Short Term 12
Spike Jonze – Her
Stories We Tell

Best Film

Boyhood
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Michael KeatonBirdman as Riggan Thomson
Rosamund PikeGone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher
Patricia ArquetteBoyhood as Olivia Evans
Birdman or

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Guardians of the Galaxy
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Citizenfour

Best Film

Spotlight
George Miller
Michael CaineYouth as Fred Ballinger
Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn as Eilis Lacey
Liev SchreiberSpotlight as Martin Baron
Alicia VikanderThe Danish Girl as Gerda Wegener
Spotlight
Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl and Ex Machina
Tom McCarthy and Josh SingerSpotlight
Amy

Best Film

La La Land
Damien Chazelle – La La Land
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

Greta Gerwig – 20th Century Women as Abbie
20th Century Women
Kelly Fremon CraigThe Edge of Seventeen
Damien Chazelle – La La Land

Best Film

The Florida Project
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau
Frances McDormandThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes
Willem DafoeThe Florida Project as Bobby Hicks
Allison JanneyI, Tonya as LaVona Golden
The Post
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The Lego Batman Movie
Baby Driver

Best Film

Eighth Grade
Adam McKay – Vice
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Reverend Ernst Toller
Toni ColletteHereditary as Annie Graham
Josh HamiltonEighth Grade as Mark Day
Regina KingIf Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
Vice
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick VallelongaGreen Book

Adam McKay – Vice
Three Identical Strangers

A Star Is Born

Best Film

Parasite
Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
Adam DriverMarriage Story as Charlie Barber
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story as Nicole Barber
Joe PesciThe Irishman as Russell Bufalino
Laura Dern – Marriage Story as Nora Fanshaw
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Florence Pugh – Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Little Women
Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story
Apollo 11
Toy Story 4
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood