AGA 2019 WINNERS :

Actresses Guild Awards (AGA) 2019 Winners…

(NOTE – These are my Fictional , Imaginary award show and not a real award show.

P. S. – Just for fun) 

– Life Time Achievement Award :Ellen Burstyn✔️

– Bette Davis Award for Dramatic Arts (for excellence in Drama) : Glenn Close ✔️

– Elizabeth Taylor Icon Award for
Acting + Glamor (Best Dressed, Fashionista)
: Saoirse Ronan✔️

– Agnès Varda Life Time Achievement Award (Director /Writer) : Claire Denis ✔️

– Carol Burnett Life Time Achievement Award in Television : Jessica Lange ✔️

– Producer of The Year : Megan Ellison✔️ (Vice, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Sisters Brothers, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs)

# BEST PICTURE :

Presented by the AGA Board President – Annette Benning…

 

“We are alone. No matter what they tell you, we women are always alone.”

 

‘Roma‘ still courtesy of Netflix.

(L to R) Marco Graf as Pepe, Daniela Demesa as Sofi, Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, Marina De Tavira as Sofia, Diego Cortina Autrey as Toño, Carlos Peralta Jacobson as Paco in Roma, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

* Roma (Netflix) ✔️
* A Star Is Born (Warner Bros.)
* The Favorite (Fox Searchlight)
* Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight)
* Colette (Bleecker Street)
* If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
* Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
* Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
* On the Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
* Widows (20th Century Fox)

# BEST INDEPENDENT FILM :
Presented by Isabelle Huppert…“The Rider” (SONY PICTURES CLASSICS)

* Leave No Trace
* Hereditary
* The Rider ✔️
* Lean on Pete
* We The Animals
* You Were Never Really Here
* The Hate U Give
* Eighth Grade
* Support The Girls
* Suspiria

# BEST DIRECTOR : Presented by Kristen Wiig & Tilda Swinton…Roma director Alfonso Cuarón on set with star Yalitza Aparicio.

* Alfonso Cuarón : Roma ✔️
* Chloe Zhao : The Rider
* Bradley Cooper : A Star Is Born
* Debra Granik : Leave No Trace
* Lynne Ramsay : You Were Never Really Here
* Pawel Pawlikowski : Cold War
* Yorgos Lanthimos : The Favourite

# BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR :
Presented by Emma Watson…

Debra Granik (Bleecker Street)

* Chloe Zhao : The Rider
* Debra Granik : Leave No Trace ✔️
* Lynne Ramsay : You Were Never Really Here
* Marielle Heller : Can You Ever Forgive Me?
* Tamara Jenkins : Private Life
* Nadine Labaki : Capernaum
* Karyn Kusama : Destroyer
* Claire Denis : High Life
* Jennifer Kent : The Nightingale
* Josie Rourke : Mary Queen of Scots *Mimi Leder : On the Basis of Sex

#

 

Best Director

• Lee Chang-dong – Burning (Runner Up)
• Josephine Decker – Madeline’s Madeline
• Lucrecia Martel – Zama 
• Alice Rohrwacher – Happy As Lazzaro
• Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
• Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
• Hirozake Kore-eda – Shoplifters

 

# BEST DEBUT DIRECTORIAL / SCREENWRITER :
Presented by Ava Duverney…In “A Star Is Born,” Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga fuse their considerable talents to depict the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

* Bradley Cooper : A Star Is Born (Warner Bros.) ✔️
* John Krasinski : A Quiet Place
* Josie Rourke : Mary Queen Of Scots (Focus Features)
* Bo Burnham : Eighth Grade
* Ari Aster : Hereditary
* Boots Riley : Sorry to Bother You
* Jonah Hill : Mid90’s
* Paul Dano : Wildlife
* Joel Edgerton : Boy Erased (Focus Features)

# BEST VETERAN DIRECTOR : Presented by Octavia Spencer…Mike Leigh and actor David Moorst on the ‘PETERLOO’ set.

* Mike Leigh : Peterloo ✔️
* Julian Schnabel : At Eternity’s Gate
* Jacques Audiard (English-language debut) : The Sisters Brothers
* Clint Eastwood : The Mule
* Claire Denis : High Life

# BEST TEEN MOVIE :
Presented by Emma Stone & Jennifer Lawrence…Elsie Fisher & Josh Hamilton in ‘Eighth Grade’

* Adventures in Public School
* Beautiful Boy
* Love Simon
* Boy Erased
* Ben Is Back
* Marry Shelley
* Eighth Grade ✔️
* White Boy Rick
* The Miseducation of Cameron Post
* Thoroughbreds
* The Hate U Give

# Hayao Miyazaki Award for BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM of the Year :
Presented by Zendaya & Hailee Steinfeld…  A scene from ‘Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse’

* Incredibles 2
* Wreck It Ralph 2 : Ralph Breaks The Internet
* Isle of Dogs ✔️
* Mirai
* Night is Short, Walk on Girl
* Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse✔️
* Liyana
* The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales… A scene from ‘Isle Of Dogs’.

# ANIMATION SHORT :
* Age of Sail ✔️

# ENSEMBLE :
Presented by Brie Larson… The cast of ‘Black Panther’

* Crazy Rich Asians
* Black Panther✔️
* Ocean’s 8
* The Favorite
* Suspiria
* Widows 
* Mary Poppins Returns

# ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY :
Presented by Greta Gerwig…Rachel Weisz in ‘The Favourite’ 

* Private Life : Tamara Jenkins
* What They Had : Elizabeth Chomko
* Roma : Alfonso Cuarón
* The Favorite : Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara✔️
* Eighth Grade : Bo Burnham
* Tully : Diablo Cody The Favourite

# ADAPTED SCREENPLAY :
Presented by… Whoopi GoldbergCan You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller, 2018)

* Leave No Trace : Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Peter Rock (based on the novel “My Abandonment” by)
* Can You Ever Forgive Me? : Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty ✔️
* You Were Never Really Here : Lynne Ramsay, Jonathan Ames (based on the book by)
* A Star Is Born : Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters
* Wildlife : Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Richard Ford (based on the book by)
* The Hate U Give : Audrey Wells (screenplay), Angie Thomas (novel)

Actresses Awards… 

 

 

# BEST ACTRESS DRAMA : Presented by Meryl Streep… The Wife (2017) dir. Björn Runge

* Glenn Close : The Wife ✔️
* Rosamund Pike : A Private War
* Julia Roberts : Ben Is Back
* Lady Gaga : A Star Is Born
* Viola Davis : Widows

The Wife on Blu-ray and DVD from Jan 28.

# BEST ACTRESS : INDIE
Presented by Chloe Zao…     Wildlife (2018) dir. Paul Dano

* Carey  Mulligan : Wildlife ✔️
* Nicole Kidman : Destroyer
* Toni Collette : Heriditary
* Kathryn Hahn : Private Life
* Regina Hall : Support the Girls
* Elsie Fisher : Eighth Grade

# BEST BRITISH/IRISH ACTRESS :
Presented by Olivia Wilde…

* Olivia Colman : The Favorite
* Rosamund Pike : A Private War ✔️
* Jessie Buckley : Beast
* Emily Blunt : Mary Poppins Returns
* Saoirse Ronan : Mary Queen of Scots
* Keira Knightley : Colette
* Carey Mulligan : Wildlife

# BEST ACTRESS : BIOPIC
Presented by Faye Dunaway & Louise Fletcher…Melissa McCarthy & Richard E. Grant in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’

* Melissa McCarthy : Can You Ever Forgive Me? ✔️
* Felicity Jones : On the Basis of Sex
* Rosamund Pike : A Private War
* Olivia Colman : The Favorite
* Saoirse Ronan : Mary Queen Of Scots
* Keira Knightley : Colette
* Shailene Woodley : Adrift

# BEST ACTRESS : PERIOD FILM
Presented by Catherine Deneuve…

* Saoirse Ronan : Mary Queen of Scots / The Seagull /On Chesil Beach ✔️
* Olivia Colman : The Favorite
* Keira Knightley : Colette
* Carey  Mulligan : Wildlife
* Rosamund Pike : A Private War
* Elle Fanning : Mary Shelley

 

# BEST ACTRESS : COMEDY
Presented by Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin… Olivia Colman in ‘The Favourite’

* Danielle Macdonald : Dumplin’
* Amy Schumer : I Feel Pretty
* Olivia Colman : The Favorite ✔️
* Charlize Theron : Tully
* Blake Lively : A Simple Favor
* Constance Wu : Crazy Rich Asians
* Juliette Binoche : Let the Sunshine In

 

 

# BEST ACTRESS : MUSICAL
Presented by Julie Andrews…* Emily Blunt : Mary Poppins Returns✔️

* Lily James : Mamamia: Here We Go Again
* Ensemble Cast of ‘Mamamia: Here We Go Again’
* Natalie Portman : Vox Lux

#a cover is not the book

 

# BEST ACTRESS : ROMANTIC FILM
Presented by Julia Roberts… Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga in ‘A Star Is Born’

* Amandla Stenberg : Where Hands Touch
* Rachel Weisz & Rachel McAdams : Disobedience
* Lady Gaga : A Star Is Born ✔️
* Rachel Weisz & Olivia Colman : The Favourite
* Emma Stone & Olivia Colman : The Favourite
* Jessie Buckley : Beast
* Joanna Kulig : Cold War
* Dakota Johnson : Fifty Shades Freed
* Lana Condor : To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
* Constance Wu : Crazy Rich Asians
* Joey King : The Kissing Booth
* Winona Ryder : Destination Wedding

# BEST FOREIGN ACTRESS :
Presented by Marion Cotillard…Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (NETFLIX) 

* Yalitza Aparicio : Roma ✔️
* Penelope Cruz : Everyone Knows
* Joanna Kulig : Cold War
* Eva Melander : Border
* Alba Rohrwacher : Happy as Lazzaro
* Juliette Binoche : Let the Sunshine In

# FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR (Min 10, max 15 Nominees) :
Presented by Natalie Portman & Sandra Bullock…‘Cold War’

* Roma (Mexico)
* Everyone Knows (Spain)
* Shoplifters (Japan)
* Village Rockstars (India)
* Dogman (Italy)
* Cold War (Poland) ✔️
* Custody (France)
* Girl (Belgium)
* Capernaum (Lebanon)
* The Guilty (Denmark)
* The Cakemaker (Israel)
* Happy as Lazzaro (Italy)
* Zama (Argentina)
* Burning (South Korea)
* Border (Sweden)

# ORIGINAL SONG :
Presented by Beyonce & Adele…

* “Requiem From A Private War” from ‘A Private War’

https://youtu.be/_Rh_0Ztl4QU
* “We Won’t Move” by Arlissa from “The Hate U Give”

https://youtu.be/Piun5i_E6-U
* “Here Comes the Change” by Kesha from “On the Basis of Sex”

https://youtu.be/FdKVqctO84A
* “Shallow” by Lady Gaga from ‘A STAR IS BORN’ ✔️

#a star is born

 

* “Suspirium” from SUSPIRIA

* “The Big Unknown” from WIDOWS

https://youtu.be/H4H9T3iFfWg
* “I’ll Fight” from RBG

*“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from MARY POPPINS RETURNSEverything is possible. Even the impossible.

* “Wrapped Up” by Sia from VOX LUX

* “Golden” from Border
Performed by Amanda Bergman
Music by Amanda Bergman

# BEST SCORE :
Presented by Emily Blunt…

* Jocelyn Pook : The Wife
* Anna Meredith : Eighth Grade
* Germaine Franco : Tag
* Marc Shaiman : Mary Poppins Returns ✔️
* Thom Yorke : Suspiria
* Max Richter : Mary Queen of Scots
* Alexander Desplat : Isle of Dogs

# DOCUMENTARY FILM (Awarding the Producers, Director, Actors) :
Presented by Cate Blanchett…

* RBG ✔️
* Free Solo
* Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
* Liyana
* Minding The Gap
* Shirkers
* Hale County This Morning, This Evening

# BEST ACTRESS : ACTION
Presented by Kate Beckinsale… Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie) , Brie Larson (CarolDanvers /Captain Marvel) , Scarlett Johansson (Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Danai Gurira (Okoye) , Karen Gillan (Nebula), Evangeline Lilly (Hope van Dyne/the Wasp) , and Pom Klementieff (Mantis).

* The Female Cast of ‘Avengers : Infinity War ‘ ✔️

* Jennifer Lawrence : Red Sparrow
* Lupita Nyong’o : Black Panther
* Dania Gurira : Black Panther
* Jennifer Garner : Peppermint
* Charlize Theron : Atomic Blonde
* Evangeline Lilly : Ant-Man and the Wasp
* Rebecca Ferguson : MI:Fallout

# BEST ACTRESS : FICTION /SCIFI / FANTASY /HORROR /THRILLER : Presented by Sigourney Weaver…* Emily Blunt : A Quiet Place ✔️

* Toni Collette : Heriditary ✔️

* Natalie Portman : Annihilation
* Sandra Bullock : Bird Box
* Jamie Lee Curtis : Halloween
* Claire Foy : The Girl in the Spider’s Web ; Unsane
* Andrea Riseborough : Mandy
* Dakota Johnson : Suspiria
* Rashida Jones : Zoe
* Chloë Grace Moretz : Suspiria
* Madeline Brewer : Cam

# SEE HER / Uplifting / Empowering Award : Presented by Viola Davis…Felicity Jones takes on the US legal system as Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

* Felicity Jones : On The Basis of Sex ✔️
* RBG ✔️
* Olivia Colman : The Favorite & The Crown (For her portrayal of 2 different Queens, her brillant acting, and the challenging roles)
* Claire Foy : First Man & The Crown & The Girl in the Spider’s Web & Unsane (For portraying different characters and for her brilliant performances)
* Saoirse Ronan : On Chesil Beach (For her portrayal of a newly wed who questions the things which matter the most and believes in herself)
* Amy Adams : Vice (For her fierce and unapologetic portrayal of Lynne Cheney former 2nd Lady and wife of Former VP Dick Cheney)
* Yalitza Aparcio : Roma (Her film debut, a teacher and now an actress for her groundbreaking performance of a Mexican maid in ‘Roma’ )

# BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS : Presented by Allison Janey & Laurie Metcalf…

* Regina King : If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna) ✔️

 

 *Rachel Weisz : The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) ✔️

* Amy Adams : Vice (Annapurna)

 

Do you think you’re coming

* Claire Foy : First Man (Universal)

*Emma Stone : The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)

 

* Nicole Kidman : Boy Erased (Focus Features)

 

Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I

* Margot Robbie : Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)

* Natalie Portman : Vox Lux (Killer Films)

 

* Marina de Tavira : ROMA (Netflix)

* Elizabeth Debicki : Widows (20th Century Fox)

* Tilda Swinton : Suspiria (Amazon Studios)

# BEST SUPPORTING WIFE :
Presented by Diane Wiest & Sissy Spacek…  Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney in ‘Vice’

* Amy Adams : Vice ✔️
* Claire Foy : First Man
* Glenn Close : The Wife
* Kiki Layne : If Beale Street Could Talk
* Kathryn Hahn : Private Life
* Emily Blunt : A Quiet Place
* Vera Farmiga : The Front Runner
* Holly Hunter (Elastic Girl) : The Incredibles 2
* Felicity Jones : On The Basis of Sex
* Rachel Weisz : The Mercy

Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, left, and Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney in a scene from “Vice.”

# BEST VOICE OVER (ANIMATION) PERFORMANCE :
Presented by Scarlett Johansson…

Elastigirl 

* Holly Hunter (Elastic Girl) : The Incredibles 2 ✔️
* Evan Rachel Wood (Yi Lin) : Flavors of Youth
* Victoria Grace (Mirai) : Mirai
* Sarah Silverman : Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet
* Hailee Steinfeld (Gwen Stacy) : Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

# BEST CRAFTSMAN AWARD :
(Costume Design /Production Design/ Makeup & Hairstyling)
Presented by Margot Robbie & Regina Hall… 

* Black Panther ✔️
* Bohemian Rhapsody
* Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindewald
* Mary Poppins Returns
* Vice
* Mary Queen Of Scots
* The Favorite
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Crazy Rich Asians

# COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR :
(The result is generated by the ‘all rounder committee’ which evaluates the nominees on the basis of their Movies, Social Media presence, TV/Talk show appearances, Humor)

Presented by Tina Fey & Amy Poehler…Awkwafina as Goh Peik in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

* Awkwafina ✔️
* Cardi b
* Tiffany Haddish
* Sandra Bullock
* Amy Schumer
* Olivia Colman
* Charlize Theron
* Emily Blunt
* Sandra Oh
* Sofia Vergara

 

# BEST VETERAN ACTRESS :
Presented by Frances McDormand…Emma Thompson in ‘The Children’s Act’

* Angelica Huston : Waiting for Anya!
* Blythe Danner : What They Had
* Juliette Binoche : Let the Sunshine In
* Emma Thompson : The Children’s Act ✔️
* Glenn Close : The Wife
* Judi Dench : Red Joan
* Michelle Pfeiffer : Where Is Kyra?
* Jamie Lee Curtis : Halloween
* Sissy Spacek : The Old Man & the Gun (Fox Searchlight)
* Dianne Wiest : The Mule
* Vanessa Redgrave : Georgetown
* Kathy Bates : On the Basis of Sex
* Catherine Keener : Sicario: Day of The Soldado

# BEST VILLIAN, Villainous/ Negative role : Presented by Angelina Jolie…

 

* Rachel Weisz & Emma Stone : The Favorite
* Bonnie Aarons : The Nun ✔️
* Hannah John-Kamen : Ant-Man and the Wasp
* Gina Rodriguez : Annihilation
* Michelle Yeoh : Crazy Rich Asians

# BEST TEEN/ YOUTH PERFORMANCE 
(22 & below): Presented by Regina Hall…

* Amandla Stenberg : The Hate U Give ✔️
* Timothee Chalamet : Beautiful Boy
* Alex Wolff : Hereditary
* Lucas Hedges : Boy Erased ; Ben Is Back
* Julian Dennison : Deadpool 2
* Ed Oxenbould : Wildlife
* Charlie Plummer : Lean On Pete
* Brady Jandreau : The Rider
* Elsie Fisher : Eighth Grade
* Thomasin McKenzie : Leave No Trace
* Helena Howard : Madeline’s Madeline
* Ekaterina Samsonov : You Were Never Really Here
* Olivia Cooke : Thoroughbreds
* Anya Taylor-Joy : Thoroughbreds
* Sunny Suljic : Mid90s   * Owen Vaccaro :The House with a Clock in Its Walls

# YOUNG /CHILD ACTRESS : Presented by Drew Barrymore…

In “Eighth Grade,” the Elsie Fisher’s character Kayla struggles to navigate her middle school’s casual social Darwinism during the last week of the last year before high school.

* Millicent Simmonds : A Quiet Place
* Milly Shapiro : Hereditary
* Elsie Fisher : Eighth Grade ✔️

# RISING STAR /New Artist :
Presented by Issa Rae…Cynthia Erivo in Vera Wang.

* Yalitza Aparcio : Roma
* Lady Gaga : A Star Is Born
* Elsie Fisher : Eighth Grade
* Amandla Stenberg : The Hate U Give
* Kiki Layne : If Beale Street Could Talk
* Helena Howard : Madeline’s Madeline
* Cynthia Erivo : Bad Times at the El Royale ; Widows ✔️* Letitia Wright : Black Panther

# BEST DEPICTION OF GAY/LESBIAN /LGBTQ/ SOCIAL Movie : Presented by Ellen Page…

* Disobedience
* Girl
* My Days of Mercy
* Beautiful Boy
* Boy Erased ✔️
* Love Simon  * Ben Is Back
* Tell It to the Bees
* Wildlife
* The Miseducation of Cameron Post

# LONGEST MOVIE TITLE :
(A movie title with 4 or more words)

* A Star Is Born
* If Beale Street Could Talk
* The Other Side of the Wind
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot ✔️
* Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
* I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians ✔️
* The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales…
* Can You Ever Forgive Me?
* Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
* You Were Never Really Here
* The Old Man And The Gun
* Cities of Last Things
* Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Di qiu zui hou de ye wan)

# MOST ANTICIPATED FILM of 2019 :

* It : Chapter Two
* Avengers Endgame ✔️
* Toy Story 4
* Dark Phoenix
* Once Upon a Time in Hollywood *Captain Marvel

# BEST POSTER :

 

* A Star Is Born
* The Favorite
* Roma ✔️
* Beautiful Boy
* Ocean’s 8
* You Were Never Really Here
* We The Animals
* Suspiria

AGA 2019