Saturday, August 2, 2025

2019 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • 1917 (Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall & Brian Oliver)
  • The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal & Emma Tillinger Koskoff)
  • Little Women (Amy Pascal, Denise Di Novi & Robin Swicord)
  • Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach & David Heyman)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh & Quentin Tarantino)
    (Honourable Mentions: Apollo 11, Ford v Ferrari, Joker, Knives Out, Pain and Glory)

Best Director

  • Greta Gerwig - Little Women
  • Bong Joon-ho - Parasite
  • Sam Mendes - 1917
  • Martin Scorsese - The Irishman
  • Quentin Tarantino - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
    (Honourable Mentions: Pedro Almodóvar - Pain and Glory, Noah Baumbach - Marriage Story, Robert Eggers - The Lighthouse, James Mangold - Ford v Ferrari, Todd Phillips - Joker)

Best Lead Actor

  • Antonio Banderas - Pain and Glory
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Taron Egerton - Rocketman
  • Eddie Murphy - Dolemite is My Name
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Joker
    (Honourable Mentions: Christian Bale - Ford v Ferrari, Daniel Craig - Knives Out, Robert De Niro - The Irishman, Adam Driver - Marriage Story, Adam Sandler - Uncut Gems)

Best Lead Actress

  • Cynthia Erivo - Harriet
  • Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
  • Saoirse Ronan - Little Women
  • Charlize Theron - Bombshell
  • Renée Zellweger - Judy
    (Honourable Mentions: Awkwafina - The Farewell, Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart, Helen Mirren - The Good Liar, Lupita Nyong'o - Us, Alfre Woodard - Clemency)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse
  • Tom Hanks - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  • Al Pacino - The Irishman
  • Joe Pesci - The Irishman
  • Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
    (Honourable Mentions: Sterling K. Brown - Waves, Anthony Hopkins - The Two Popes, Song Kang-ho - Parasite, Will Smith - Aladdin, Taika Waititi - Jojo Rabbit)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Annette Bening - The Report
  • Laura Dern - Marriage Story
  • Florence Pugh - Little Women
  • Margot Robbie - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Shuzhen Zhao - The Farewell
    (Honourable Mentions: Kathy Bates - Richard Jewell, Penélope Cruz - Pain and Glory, Nicole Kidman - Bombshell, Thomasin McKenzie - Jojo Rabbit, Taylor Russell - Waves)

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
  • Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
  • Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  • Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
    (Honourable Mentions: 1917, Booksmart, Ford v Ferrari, Parasite, Us)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster; based on the article "Can You Say... Hero?" by Tom Junod)
  • The Irishman (Steven Zaillian; based on the memoir "I Heard You Paint Horses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa" by Charles Brandt)
  • Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi; based on the novel "Caging Skies" by Christine Leunens)
  • Little Women (Greta Gerwig; based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott)
  • Toy Story 4 (Stephany Folsom, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Josh Cooley, Valerie LaPointe, Rashida Jones, Will McCormack & Martin Hynes; based on the characters created by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich)
  • The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten; based on the play "The Pope" by Anthony McCarten)
    (Honourable Mentions: Downton Abbey, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Joker, Jumanji: The Next Level)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • Avengers: Endgame [Sarah Finn] (Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson & Josh Brolin, et. al.)
  • The Irishman [Ellen Lewis] (Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Stephen Graham, Harvey Keitel, Jesse Plemons, Stephanie Kurtzuba & Anna Paquin, et. al.)
  • Knives Out [Mary Vernieu] (Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Lieberher & Christopher Plummer, et. al.)
  • Little Women [Kathy Driscoll & Francine Maisler] (Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton & Meryl Streep, et. al.)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood [Victoria Thomas] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Julia Butters, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry & Al Pacino, et. al.)
  • Toy Story 4 [Natalie Lyon & Kevin Reher] (Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Jordan Peele & Keegan-Michael Key, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: 1917, Downton Abbey, Marriage Story, Parasite)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Asher Angel - Shazam!
  • Julia Butters - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Roman Griffin Davis - Jojo Rabbit
  • Thomasin McKenzie - Jojo Rabbit
  • Jacob Tremblay - Good Boys
    (Honourable Mentions: Kyleigh Curran - Doctor Sleep, Shahadi Wright Joseph - Us, Noah Jupe - Honey Boy, Jaeden Lieberher - Knives Out, Archie Yates - Jojo Rabbit)

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Pain and Glory [Spain] (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Parasite [South Korea] (Bong Joon-ho)
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire [France] (Céline Sciamma)
  • Transit [Germany] (Christian Pentzold)
  • Weathering with You [Japan] (Makoto Shinkai)
    (Honourable Mentions: Atlantics, Beanpole, Corpus Christi, The Farewell, Les Misérables)

Best Documentary Feature

  • American Factory (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert & Jeff Reichert)
  • Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, Evan Krauss & Thomas Petersen)
  • Love, Antosha (Garret Price, Adam Gibbs & Drake Doremus)
  • One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman & Christopher Clements)
  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bodde & Jeff Rosen)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Biggest Little Farm, The Cave, For Sama, Fyre, Honeyland)

Best Original Score

  • 1917 (Thomas Newman)
  • Joker (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
  • Little Women (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Marriage Story (Randy Newman)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ad Astra - Max Richter, Avengers: Endgame - Alan Silvestri, Ford v Ferrari - Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - John Powell, Pain and Glory - Alberto Iglesias)

Best Original Song

  • "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" - Toy Story 4 (Randy Newman)
  • "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" - Rocketman (Elton John & Bernie Taupin)
  • "Into the Unknown" - Frozen II (Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
  • "Show Yourself" - Frozen II (Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez)
  • "Stand Up" - Harriet (Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo)
    (Honourable Mentions: "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" - Wild Rose, "A Glass of Soju" - Parasite, "Letter to My Godfather" - The Black Godfather, "Speechless" - Aladdin, "Swan Song" - Alita: Battle Angel)

Best Sound Editing

  • 1917 (Oliver Tarney)
  • Ad Astra (Gary Rydstrom & Brad Semenoff)
  • Ford v Ferrari (Donald Sylvester)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Wylie Stateman)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Matthew Wood & David Acord)
    (Honourable Mentions: Avengers: Endgame, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, John Wick - Chapter 3: Parabellum, Joker, Toy Story 4)

Best Sound Mixing

  • 1917 (Scott Millan, Mark Taylor & Stuart Wilson)
  • Avengers: Endgame (Tom Johnson, Juan Peralta & John Pritchett)
  • Ford v Ferrari (Paul Massey, David Giammarco & Steven A. Morrow)
  • How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Gary Rizzo, Scott R. Lewis & Shawn Murphy)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio & Stuart Wilson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ad Astra, The Irishman, Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Rocketman)

Best Animated Feature

  • How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold & Brad Lewis)
  • Klaus (Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh & Marisa Roman)
  • Missing Link (Chris Butler, Travis Knight & Arianne Sutner)
  • Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley, Jonas Rivera & Mark Nielsen)
  • Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai, Wakana Okamura & Kinue Itō)
    (Honourable Mentions: Abominable, The Angry Birds Movie 2, Frozen II, I Lost My Body, Spies in Disguise)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Jay Baruchel - How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World for voicing Hiccup
  • Kristen Bell - Frozen II for voicing Anna
  • Zach Galifianakis - Missing Link for voicing Mr. Link
  • Tom Hanks - Toy Story 4 for voicing Sheriff Woody
  • Tony Hale - Toy Story 4 for voicing Forky
    (Honourable Mentions: Hugh Jackman - Missing Link, Idina Menzel - Frozen II, Annie Potts - Toy Story 4, Jenny Slate - The Secret Life of Pets 2, Tenzing Norgay Trainor - Abominable)

Best Cinematography

  • 1917 (Roger Deakins)
  • The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto)
  • Joker (Lawrence Sher)
  • The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson)
    (Honourable Mentions: Ad Astra - Hoyte van Hoytema, Ford v Ferrari - Phedon Papamichael, A Hidden Life - Jörg Widmer, Parasite - Kyung-Pyo Hong, Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Claire Mathon)

Best Film Editing

  • 1917 (Lee Smith)
  • Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)
  • Ford v Ferrari (Michael McCusker & Andrew Buckland)
  • The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker)
  • Parasite (Yang Jin-mo)
    (Honourable Mentions: Avengers: Endgame - Jeffrey Ford & Matthew Schmidt, Joker - Jeff Groth, Little Women - Nick Huoy, Marriage Story - Jennifer Lame, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Fred Raskin)

Best Production Design

  • 1917 (Dennis Gassner & Lee Sandales)
  • How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Pierre-Olivier Vincent)
  • The Irishman (Bob Shaw & Regina Graves)
  • Little Women (Jess Gonchor & Claire Kaufman)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Barbara Ling & Nancy Haigh)
    (Honourable Mentions: Aladdin, Downton Abbey, Knives Out, Parasite, The Two Popes)

Best Costume Design

  • Aladdin (Michael Wilkinson)
  • Downton Abbey (Anna Robbins)
  • Little Women (Jacqueline Durran)
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Arianne Phillips)
  • Rocketman (Julian Day)
    (Honourable Mentions: Dolemite is My Name, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, The Two Popes)

Best Makeup and Hair

  • 1917 (Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis & Rebecca Cole)
  • Bombshell (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan & Vivian Baker)
  • Joker (Nicki Ledermann & Kay Georgiou)
  • Judy (Jeremy Woodhead)
  • Rocketman (Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou & Barrie Gower)
    (Honourable Mentions: Dolemite is My Name, Downton Abbey, Little Women, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood)

Best Visual Effects

  • Ad Astra (Allen Maris, Guillaume Rocheron, Jedidiah Smith & Anders Langlands)
  • Avengers: Endgame (Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken & Dan Sudick)
  • The Irishman (Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser & Stephane Grabli)
  • The Lion King (Robert Legato, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez & Elliot Newman)
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach & Dominic Tuohy)
    (Honourable Mentions: 1917, The Aeronauts, Alita: Battle Angel, Jumanji: The Next Level, Spider-Man: Far From Home)

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