Austin Film Critics Association

The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) is an organization of film critics from Austin, Texas.

Each year, the AFCA votes on their end of year awards for films released in the same calendar year. A special award, the Austin Film Award, is given each year to the best film made in Austin or by an Austin-area director.

Awards

Awards
Year	Best Film	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress	Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
2005	Crash	Paul Haggis Crash	Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote	Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line	William Hurt A History of Violence	Laura Linney The Squid and the Whale
2006	United 93	Alfonso Cuaron Children of Men	Leonardo DiCaprio The Departed	Ellen Page Hard Candy	Jack Nicholson The Departed	Rinko Kikuchi Babel
2007	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood	Daniel Day Lewis There Will Be Blood	Ellen Page Juno	Javier Bardem No Country for Old Men	Allison Janney Juno
2008	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight	Sean Penn Milk	Anne Hathaway Rachel Getting Married	Heath Ledger The Dark Knight	Taraji P. Henson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker	Colin Firth A Single Man	Mélanie Laurent Inglourious Basterds	Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds	Anna Kendrick Up in the Air

Award ceremonies

• 2005 - 1st
• 2006 - 2nd
• 2007 - 3rd
• 2008 - 4th
• 2009 - 5th

Awards breakdown

Films with 2 or more

• 5 awards:
  • There Will Be Blood (2007): Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score
  • The Dark Knight (2008): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Screenplay - Adapted
• 4 awards:
  • Juno (2007): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Breakthrough Artist Award
• 3 awards:
  • The Hurt Locker - (2009): Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography
  • Inglourious Basterds - (2009): Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
• 2 awards:
  • Up in the Air (2009): - Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Me and Orson Welles (2009): Breakthrough Artist Award, Austin Film Award
  • No Country for Old Men (2007): Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
  • The Departed (2006): Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
  • Pan's Labyrinth (2006): Best Foreign Film, Best Original Screenplay
  • Children of Men (2006): Best Director, Best Cinematography
  • Crash (2005): Best Picture, Best Director
  • Hustle and Flow (2005): Breakthrough Artist Award, Best First Film
  • Sin City (2005): Best Animated Film, Austin Film Award

People with 2 or more

• 3 awards:
  • Robert Rodriguez - Best Austin Film: Sin City (2005), Grindhouse (2007); Best Animated Film: Sin City (2005)
• 2 awards:
  • Quentin Tarantino - Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds (2009), Best Austin Film: Grindhouse (2007)
  • Richard Linklater - Best Austin Film: A Scanner Darkly (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2009)
  • Ellen Page - Best Actress: Hard Candy (2006), Juno (2007)
  • Alfonso Cuaron: - Best Director, Best Original Screenplay: Children of Men (2006)

Top 10 Films of the Decade:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
3. The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
4. The Dark Knight (2008)
5. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
6. Kill Bill (2003/4)
7. No Country for Old Men (2007)
8. The Incredibles (2004)
9. Children of Men (2006)
10. (tie) Memento (2000), The Departed (2006)