Skandies 2018

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RULES: Participants divvied up 100 points among ten "nominees" in each category, with a maximum of 30 points for any given selection and a minimum of 5 points. Results are expressed as points/votes.

Best Screenplay

Rank Name Movie Points/Votes
1 Armando Iannucci and David Schneider and Ian Martin The Death of Stalin 240 / 15
2 Tamara Jenkins Private Life 198 / 16
3 Lee Chang-dong and Oh Jung-mi Burning 189 / 17
4 Paul Schrader First Reformed 184 / 16
5 Joel Coen & Ethan Coen The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 181 / 19
6 Andrew Bujalski Support the Girls 176 / 15
7 Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara The Favourite 157 / 15
8 Mark Perez Game Night 127 / 13
9 Cory Finley Thoroughbreds 86 / 9
10 Boots Riley Sorry to Bother You 80 / 9
11 Bo Burnham Eighth Grade 65 / 7
12 Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 60 / 6
13 Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini Leave No Trace 59 / 7
14 Lars von Trier The House That Jack Built 56 / 5
15 Spike Lee et al. BlacKkKlansman 51 / 5
16 Valeska Grisebach Western 46 / 5
17 Alice Rohrwacher Happy as Lazzaro 45 / 5
18 Wes Anderson Isle of Dogs 40 / 5
19 Ted Fendt Classical Period 40 / 3
20 Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk 39 / 6
21 Pawel Pawlikowski and Janusz Glowacki Cold War 38 / 5
22 Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs Blindspotting 36 / 5
23 Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty Can You Ever Forgive Me? 36 / 4
24 Kore-eda Hirokazu Shoplifters 32 / 4
25 Daniel Warth & Miles Barstead Dim the Fluorescents 32 / 3
  Bruno Dumont Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc 32 / 3
27 Hong Sang-soo Claire's Camera 27 / 3
28 David Lowery The Old Man & the Gun 25 / 3
29 Hong Sang-soo The Day After 25 / 2
30 Alex Ross Perry and Tom McCarthy and Allison Schroeder Christopher Robin 25 / 1
31 Justin Benson The Endless 24 / 3
32 Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn Widows 22 / 3
33 Paul King and Simon Farnaby Paddington 2 21 / 2
34 Alex Ross Perry Golden Exits 20 / 2
  Claire Denis & Christine Angot Let the Sunshine In 20 / 2
36 Alex Garland Annihilation 19 / 3
37 Lucas Belvaux & Jérôme Leroy This Is Our Land 19 / 2
38 Matthew Newton Who We Are Now 18 / 3
39 Andrew Haigh Lean On Pete 17 / 2
40 Serge Bozon Mrs. Hyde 16 / 2
41 Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Sachiko Tanaka Before We Vanish 15 / 2
42 Lucrecia Martel Zama 15 / 1
43 Travis Wilkerson Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? 13 / 2
44 Victor Levin Destination Wedding 13 / 1
45 Luke Del Tredici Arizona 12 / 1
  Peter Hedges Ben Is Back 12 / 1
47 Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain The Sisters Brothers 11 / 2
48 Bart Layton American Animals 10 / 1
  Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely Avengers | Infinity War 10 / 1
  David Zellner & Nathan Zellner Damsel 10 / 1
  Fellipe Barbosa and Lucas Paraizo and Kirill Mikhanovsky Gabriel and the Mountain 10 / 1
  Ari Aster Hereditary 10 / 1
  Brad Bird Incredibles 2 10 / 1
  Corneliu Porumboiu Infinite Football 10 / 1
  [no writer credited] John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection 10 / 1
  Hélene Cattet & Bruno Forzani Let the Corpses Tan 10 / 1
  Philippe Garrel et al. Lover for a Day 10 / 1
  Ricky D'Ambrose Notes on an Appearance 10 / 1
  Jean Paul Civeyrac A Paris Education 10 / 1
  Alfonso Cuarón Roma 10 / 1
  Kore-eda Hirokazu The Third Murder 10 / 1
  Brady Corbet Vox Lux 10 / 1
63 John Krasinski and Bryan Woods and Scott Beck A Quiet Place 9 / 1
  Alan Rudolph Ray Meets Helen 9 / 1
65 F.J. Ossang 9 Fingers 8 / 1
  Jesse Andrews Every Day 8 / 1
  Rungano Nyoni I Am Not a Witch 8 / 1
  Nick Schenk The Mule 8 / 1
  Leigh Whannell Upgrade 8 / 1
  Annemarie Jacir Wajib 8 / 1
71 Isa Mazzei Cam 7 / 1
  Alexey German, Jr. and Yulia Tupikina Dovlatov 7 / 1
  Chloé Zhao The Rider 7 / 1
  Bradley Cooper and Eric Roth and Will Fetters A Star Is Born 7 / 1
75 Patrick Wang A Bread Factory 6 / 1
  Lynne Ramsay You Were Never Really Here 6 / 1
77 Tony Gilroy Beirut 5 / 1
  Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole Black Panther 5 / 1
  Ethan Hawke and Sybil Rosen Blaze 5 / 1
  Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas Good Manners 5 / 1
  Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn Mandy 5 / 1
  David Magee Mary Poppins Returns 5 / 1