Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2019

American film awards

13th Houston Film Critics Society Awards

Date

January 2, 2020 (2020-01-02)

Location

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Presented by

Houston Film Critics Society

Website

houstonfilmcritics.com

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The 13th Houston Film Critics Society Awards were held on January 2, 2020, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in Texas.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on December 16, 2019.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Parasite 1917 The Farewell The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Knives Out Marriage Story Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Uncut Gems	Bong Joon-ho – Parasite Sam Mendes – 1917 Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Lulu Wang – The Farewell
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adam Driver – Marriage Story Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Eddie Murphy – Dolemite Is My Name Joaquin Phoenix – Joker Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems	Renée Zellweger – Judy Awkwafina – The Farewell Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story Lupita Nyong'o – Us Saoirse Ronan – Little Women Charlize Theron – Bombshell
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes Al Pacino – The Irishman Joe Pesci – The Irishman	Zhao Shu-zhen – The Farewell Kathy Bates – Richard Jewell Laura Dern – Marriage Story Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit Florence Pugh – Little Women Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Best Screenplay	Best Animated Feature
Knives Out – Rian Johnson The Farewell – Lulu Wang Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Toy Story 4 Frozen II How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Missing Link A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Best Documentary Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Apollo 11 American Factory The Biggest Little Farm For Sama Hail Satan? They Shall Not Grow Old	Parasite (South Korea) Atlantics (Senegal) Corpus Christi (Poland) Les Misérables (France) Monos (Colombia) Pain and Glory (Spain)
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
1917 – Thomas Newman Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir Little Women – Alexandre Desplat Marriage Story – Randy Newman Us – Michael Abels	"Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" – Wild Rose "Home to You" – The Aeronauts "I Punched Keanu Reeves" – Always Be My Maybe "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" – Rocketman "Into the Unknown" – Frozen II "Stand Up" – Harriet
Best Cinematography	Best Visual Effects
1917 – Roger Deakins The Irishman – Rodrigo Prieto Joker – Lawrence Sher Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Robert Richardson Parasite – Hong Kyung-pyo	1917 Ad Astra Avengers: Endgame Jumanji: The Next Level The Lion King Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Best Movie Poster Art	Best Stunt Coordination Team
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Birds of Passage John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum The Last Black Man in San Francisco Parasite Portrait of a Lady on Fire	John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Crawl Ford v Ferrari Furie Shadow
Texas Independent Film Award	Texas Independent Film Visionary
Bull Building the American Dream Nothing Stays the Same Seadrift Sleeping in Plastic The Story of the Saxon Bar	Tim Tsai – Seadrift
Lifetime Achievement Award	Outstanding Achievement Award
Roger Corman	Trey Edward Shults

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Films
7	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6	Marriage Story
6	Parasite
5	1917
	The Farewell
	The Irishman
4	Joker
3	Little Women
2	Bombshell
	Jojo Rabbit
	Knives Out
	Uncut Gems
	Us

The following films received multiple awards:

Awards	Films
3	1917
3	Parasite
2	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

References

^ "The Houston Film Critics Society Award Winners for 2019". Houston Film Critics Society. January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ Darling, Cary (January 3, 2020). "Houston Critics name 'Parasite' best film". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ "Flashback: To 'Parasite', With Much Love, HFCS". Houston Film Critics Society. February 11, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
^ "Houston Film Critics Society Nominees See 'Marriage Story', Tarantino's 9th Film in the Lead". Houston Film Critics Society. December 16, 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 16, 2019). "Houston Film Critics Society Nominations: 'Marriage Story', 'Once Upon a Time...' lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
^ Lindsey, Craig (December 16, 2019). "'Hollywood' steals the show in Houston Film Critics Society's picks for annual movie awards". CultureMap Houston. Retrieved January 5, 2020.