Rotten Tomatoes Doles Out the 20th Annual Golden Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes has announced the winners of their 20th Golden Tomato Awards, and the annual celebration of the best critically reviewed movies and TV is bigger than ever! However, this year, fans get to make their own choices and voting is open now!

Not only has Rotten Tomatoes added more categories than in any previous year – 34, up from 18 last year – for the first time ever, they’re giving fans the chance name their own Golden Tomato winners with two new Fans’ Choice Awards. Voting is now open and closes on Thursday, January 24 with the winners being announced on Friday, January 25.

Netflix’s Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, was the biggest winner in the Golden Tomato film categories for 2018, with three awards: Best-Reviewed Limited Release, Foreign-Language Film, and Spanish-Language film. The other big winners for Film were Black Panther winning Best-Reviewed Wide Release, Comic Book/Graphic Novel Movie (The Incredibles won in 2004 as the first animated superhero movie); A Star Is Born for Best-Reviewed Directorial Debut, Musical/Music Movie; and Paddington 2 for Best-Reviewed U.K. Movie, Kids and Family Movie (Paddington won Best Kids & Family in 2015).

Of course with any awards ceremony, Horror gets little love. The crowd favorite A Quiet Place is mentioned as best in its genre. But achievements like Suspiria and Hereditary are fully ignored.

In the TV categories, the second season of Donald Glover’s acclaimed series Atlanta was awarded Best-Reviewed Returning TV Show; the series won Best-Reviewed New Show and Best-Reviewed TV Comedy in 2016. While this year’s Best-Reviewed TV Comedy was Barry, starring Bill Hader.

The Golden Tomato Awards are determined by the Tomatometer score for movies and TV shows in a category and rank by Adjusted Score, which uses a weighted formula that accounts for the variation in the number of reviews when comparing the movies or shows. To qualify in a category, a movie needed to have been released in American theaters in 2018 (beyond just a festival release) and have at least 40 reviews; TV seasons or TV movies needed to have premiered in 2018 and have a minimum of 20 critics, five from Top Critics.

This year’s awards include seven inaugural awards for Directorial Debut, Western, Comedy Specials, TV Horror, Superhero TV Show, TV Thriller, Mystery and Suspense. We also kick off voting in our first-ever fan-voted categories today: Favorite Movie and Favorite TV Show. Over the next two weeks, fans will be able to vote for one Certified Fresh film and one Certified Fresh TV series, limited series, or miniseries. We’ll close voting on Thursday January 24 and announce the winners of the two inaugural Fans’ Choice Golden Tomato Awards on Friday January 25. Will the peoples’ choices line up with the critics’? Watch this space.

Check out all the winners of the Golden Tomato Awards 2018 here, as well as below:

BEST MOVIES/TV

Best Movie 2018 > Wide Release – Black Panther
Best Movie 2018 > Limited Release – Roma
Best Movie 2018 > Directorial Debut – A Star Is Born
Best Movie 2018 > Spanish-Language – Roma
Best Movie 2018 > Australia – Sweet Country
Best Movie 2018 > United Kingdom – Paddington 2
Best New TV Show – Homecoming: Season 1
Best Returning TV Show – Atlanta: Robbin’

MOVIES BY GENRE

Best Action/Adventure Movie 2018 – Mission Impossible: Fallout
Best Animated Movie 2018 – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Comedy 2018 – Eighth Grade
Best Comic Book/Graphic Novel Movie 2018 – Black Panther
Best Documentary 2018 – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Drama 2018 – Blackkklansman
Best Foreign-Language Movie 2018 – Roma
Best Horror Movie 2018 – A Quiet Place
Best Kids & Family Movie 2018 – Paddington 2
Best Musical/Music Movie 2018 – A Star Is Born
Best Romance Movie 2018 – Crazy Rich Asians
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie 2018 – Sorry to Bother You
Best Thriller 2018 – Widows
Best Western 2018 – The Rider

TV BY GENRE

Best TV Comedy 2018 – Barry: Season 1
Best Comedy Special 2018 – Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Best Docuseries 2018 – America to Me: Season 1
Best TV Drama 2018 – Cobra Kai: Season 1
Best TV Horror 2018 – The Terror: Season 1
Best Miniseries, Limited Series & Anthology TV Show 2018 – Sharp Objects: Miniseries
Best TV Sci-Fi/Fantasy 2018 – Doctor Who: Season 11
Best Superhero TV Show 2018 – Daredevil: Season 3
Best TV Thriller, Mystery & Suspense 2018 – Homecoming: Season 1
Best TV Movie 2018 – The Tale