African American Critics split their love between three films this year, giving out separate prizes for drama, comedy, and musical. They haven’t done this in the past. It’s an interesting change, but it also shows in their selections that those three films were also their general favorites as well, giving everything else only a single prize each.
Award Tallies
(4) American Fiction, The Color Purple
(3) Origin
(1) The After, The Holdovers, Io Capitano, Killers of the Flower Moon, Rustin, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Stamped from the Beginning, A Thousand and One
The Awards
Best Drama
Origin
Best Comedy
American Fiction
Best Musical
The Color Purple
Best Animated Film
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Director
Ava DuVernay – Origin
Best Actor
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Best Actress
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Origin
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Best Supporting Actress
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Screenplay
American Fiction
Best Music
The Color Purple
Best International Feature
Io Capitano
Best Documentary
Stamped from the Beginning
Best Independent
A Thousand and One
Best Short Film
The After
Emerging Filmmaker
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Breakout Performance
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Ensemble
The Color Purple
Top Ten
- American Fiction
- Origin
- The Color Purple
- Oppenheimer
- Past Lives
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Poor Things
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Barbie
African American Film Critics Association Data
First Awards: 2003 (21)
