A Ghost Story

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = A Ghost Story | image = A Ghost Story poster.jpeg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = David Lowery | producer = {{Plainlist| * Toby Halbrooks * James M. Johnston * Adam Donaghey }} | writer = David Lowery | starring = {{Plainlist| * Casey Affleck * Rooney Mara * Will Oldham * Liz Cardenas Franke * Sonia Acevedo * Rob Zabrecky }}<!--PER POSTER BILLING BLOCK--> | music = Daniel Hart | cinematography = Andrew Droz Palermo | editing = David Lowery | studio = {{Plainlist| * Sailor Bear * Zero Trans Fat Productions * Ideaman Studios * Scared Sheetless }} | distributor = A24 | released = {{Film date|2017|1|22|Sundance|2017|7|7|United States}} | runtime = 92 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/AVF352126 |title=A Ghost Story (12A)|publisher=British Board of Film Classification|access-date=July 7, 2017}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> | country = United States | language = {{Plain list| * English * Spanish }} | budget = $100,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/07/535968071/grief-hangs-around-at-home-in-a-ghost-story|title=Grief Hangs Around At Home In 'A Ghost Story'|publisher=NPR|date=July 7, 2017|work=All Things Considered|first=Bob|last=Mondello}}</ref> | gross = $2 million<ref name="NUM">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1409320449/|title=A Ghost Story (2017)|work=Box Office Mojo|publisher=BoxOffice Mojo|access-date=September 27, 2017}}</ref> }} '''''A Ghost Story''''' is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed by David Lowery and starring Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, and Will Oldham. It is about a man who becomes a ghost and remains in the house he shared with his wife.

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, and was released by A24 in the United States on July 7, 2017. It received acclaim from critics.

==Plot== A woman (credited as "M") mentions to her musician husband (credited as "C") that as a child, she moved residences frequently and took to hiding little notes wherever she lived. C is resistant to M's desire to move, creating tension within their relationship. When he finally accepts, they hear a loud bang while asleep, the source of which they are unable to identify.

Shortly afterwards, C is killed in a car accident nearby. At the hospital, M covers his body with a sheet before departing. C awakens as a ghost, invisible to the living. Still covered with the sheet, he wanders through the hospital. A door of light opens in front of him, but he makes no attempt to approach it and it closes.

C walks home and sees Linda, his landlady, drop off a pie. M arrives and eats the pie until she vomits. Unable to communicate with her, C watches M grieve before proceeding with her life. In the house next door, he sees another ghost covered by a flower-print sheet who says that it is waiting for someone, though it does not remember who.

Upon discovering that M is dating another man, C jealously creates disturbances inside the house. Books fall from a shelf, and M finds one lying open at the story "A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf, which tells of a ghostly couple whose love lingers beyond death. Later, M listens to one of C's songs and recalls the first time he played it for her. She moves away, but first writes a note and hides it in a gap between some molding, which she paints over. C picks at the paint but is unable to reach the note.

Later, a Spanish-speaking single mother moves into the house with her young son and daughter. C watches them eat, play the piano and celebrate Christmas. The children begin to sense his presence and become frightened. One night, he knocks a framed photo of the family off the piano and smashes dishes in the kitchen. The family moves out and the ghost continues scraping at the paint.

At a party thrown by the next occupants, a woman says she has stopped working on her novel and a man responds by claiming all creative pursuits are pointless, as the universe will eventually end. The partygoers notice the lights flicker.

The house is abandoned and becomes derelict. C's efforts to retrieve the note are interrupted by a bulldozer crashing through a wall. The house next door is also torn down; the flower-print ghost, while standing amongst the ruins, says "I don’t think they’re coming" and disappears from beneath its sheet. A skyscraper is built where the house was; once it is finished, C views a futuristic cityscape from the balcony before jumping off the ledge.

The celestial sphere rotates in reverse, and C finds himself in a field in the 19th century with a man who is driving stakes into the ground. The man's wife and three daughters arrive in a covered wagon, and the family prepares to build a house. The youngest daughter writes a note and hides it under a rock while humming the tune of C's song. Native Americans attack and kill the family, and C watches the girl's corpse decay.

Back in the house, which is empty except for the piano, C sees himself and M enter and look around. His life in the house repeats itself; he witnesses their last argument, and upon hearing his past self finally give in, he sits down heavily at the piano, creating the bang that had earlier startled the couple. Later, C watches his earlier ghost-self watch M leave the house for the last time. He finally retrieves the note and, upon reading it, disappears, his empty sheet collapsing to the floor.

==Cast== <!-- in the same order as the film's credits (which are in order of appearance) --> {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * Casey Affleck as C * Rooney Mara as M * Kenneisha Thompson as Doctor * Liz Cardenas Franke as Linda * Barlow Jacobs as Gentleman Caller * Sonia Acevedo as Maria * Carlos Bermudez as Carlos * Yasmina Gutierrez as Yasmina * Kesha Sebert as Spirit Girl * Jared Kopf as Magician * Will Oldham as Prognosticator * Brea Grant as Clara * Augustine Frizzell as Clara's Wife Who is Writing a Book * Jonny Mars as Oversharing Man * Rob Zabrecky as Pioneer Man * Sara Tomerlin as Pioneer Woman * Margot Tomerlin as Pioneer Child * Sylvie Tomerlin as Pioneer Child * Savanna Walsh as Pioneer Child {{div col end}}

==Production==

===Development=== David Lowery had wanted to make a film featuring a man in a rudimentary ghost costume "for a while", telling Comingsoon.net: "I just loved that image. I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity."<ref name="comingsoonghost">{{cite web|last1=Lesnick|first1=Silas|title=CS Interview: David Lowery Has A Ghost Story Worth Telling|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/865237-david-lowery-a-ghost-story#/slide/1|website=ComingSoon.net|publisher=CraveOnline Media|access-date=July 7, 2017|date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> When he and his wife got in an argument about moving back to Texas, he began to write down the argument "thinking about my own attachment to physical spaces." After he thought to combine this with the idea about the ghost costume, he came up with the basic concept for the movie fairly quickly<ref name="comingsoonghost"/> and began to write the screenplay in the spring of 2016. Lowery also used the film to work through what he termed "An existential crisis" brought on by reading an article about the possibility of a catastrophic earthquake, saying: "I was not feeling optimistic about the future of mankind. I felt the world was on its way to ending. The film became my way of dealing with those issues."<ref name="Crisis">{{cite web|last1=Clarke|first1=Cath|title=David Lowery on why he made A Ghost Story: 'I was freaking out, having an existential crisis'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/09/a-ghost-story-interview-david-lowery-casey-affleck-rooney-mara-pie|website=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media|access-date=September 6, 2017|date=August 9, 2017}}</ref> The film's atypical 1.33:1 aspect ratio was chosen by Lowery partially because he thought it was thematically appropriate: "It’s about someone basically trapped in a box for eternity, and I felt the claustrophobia of that situation could be amplified by the boxiness of the aspect ratio."<ref name=ghostcostume>{{cite web|last1=Lee|first1=Ashley|title='A Ghost Story': David Lowery on Directing Casey Affleck Under a Sheet and Adding That Kesha Cameo|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-ghost-story-david-lowery-directing-casey-affleck-under-a-sheet-adding-kesha-cameo-1019245|work=The Hollywood Reporter|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=July 10, 2017|date=July 7, 2017}}</ref>

The ghost costume that was ultimately designed for the film ended up being more complicated than Lowery had anticipated. At first, the filmmakers attempted to simply use a normal bed sheet, but they found that even a king-sized sheet does not fully cover an adult male.<ref name=ghostcostume/> The final costume required Affleck to wear certain other garments beneath the fabric to achieve the desired look,<ref name=ghostcostume/> and the filmmakers found they had to resort to some "puppeteering" to keep the eyes in place.<ref name=ghostcostume/> Beyond the practical constraints of the costume, Lowery also found that it impeded Affleck's ability to act, noting: "every unique physical trait as a human being was pronounced and exaggerated by this sheet over his head." This did not give Lowery the results he wanted, and he eventually solved the problem by reducing the amount Affleck moved, so "it became a matter of patience and posture and moving very specifically, slowly and rigidly."<ref name=ghostcostume/>

===Filming=== Principal photography began in June 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2016/12/|title=A Ghost Movie and a Marathon|website=Road Dog Productions|first=David|last=Lowery|date=December 12, 2016|access-date=September 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104214712/http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/2016/12/|archive-date=2017-11-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/sundance-wish-list-films-2017-1201746567/3/|title=Sundance Wish List: 53 Films We Hope Will Head to Park City in 2017|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|author=IndieWire Staff|date=November 15, 2016|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> The majority of the film takes place within a single house, which was chosen by Lowery because it closely resembled the first house he lived in with his wife.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Stefansky|first1=Emma|title=A Ghost Story: How Sheet-Covered Casey Affleck Became Summer's Most Haunting Hero|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/a-ghost-story-casey-affleck-rooney-mara-david-lowrey-interview|website=Vanity Fair|publisher=Condé Nast|access-date=July 7, 2017|date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> As the house was about to be demolished, the film crew was allowed to use it for free.<ref name="Ghostmeme">{{cite web|last1=Ryan|first1=Mike|title=Please, The Director Begs You, Do Not Make A Meme Out Of 'A Ghost Story'|url=http://uproxx.com/movies/a-ghost-story-david-lowery/2/|website=Uproxx|access-date=July 7, 2017|date=July 6, 2017}}</ref> Some shots of the ghost, specifically those done during pickups or reshoots, do not feature Affleck, instead replacing him with the film's art director, David Pink, who was found to have a similar build.<ref name="Pickups">{{cite web|last1=Zuckerman|first1=Esther|title=David Lowery had to stop himself from giving up on his Sundance hit A Ghost Story|url=https://www.avclub.com/david-lowery-had-to-stop-himself-from-giving-up-on-his-1798264341|website=The A.V. Club|publisher=The Onion|access-date=September 6, 2017|date=July 11, 2017}}</ref>

As the filmmakers did not know how the final product would turn out,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/a-ghost-story-david-lowery-interview-making-of-rooney-mara-casey-affleck-sundance-2017-1201774735/3/|title=Making 'A Ghost Story': How David Lowery Exorcised His Demons To Make The Best Film Of Sundance 2017|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=David|last=Ehrlich|date=January 27, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-a-ghost-story-david-lowery-casey-affleck-rooney-mara-20170706-story.html|title=Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck and David Lowery keep some secrets with 'A Ghost Story'|website=Los Angeles Times|first=Mark|last=Olsen|date=July 6, 2017|access-date=July 7, 2017}}</ref> the film was shot in secret and not officially announced until November 2016, at which point it was confirmed that Mara and Affleck were the leads.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thefilmstage.com/news/casey-affleck-and-rooney-mara-secretly-shot-a-new-feature-with-david-lowery-this-summer/|title=Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara Secretly Shot a New Feature With David Lowery This Summer|website=The Film Stage|first=Jordan|last=Raup|date=November 22, 2016|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/rooney-mara-casey-affleck-secret-new-film-david-lowery-aint-them-bodies-saints-1201749014/|title=Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck Shot A Secret New Film With David Lowery|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=Vikram|last=Murthi|date=November 22, 2016|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> It was later revealed that Kesha would appear in the film in a cameo role.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/kesha-made-a-surprise-appearance-in-a-sundance-film-about-gh|title=Kesha Made A Surprise Cameo In A Sundance Movie About Ghosts And Love|website=BuzzFeed|first=Keely|last=Flaherty|date=January 26, 2017|access-date=January 28, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/07/05/kesha-a-ghost-story-david-lowery/103220176/|title=Everything you need to know about Kesha's surprise 'Ghost Story' cameo|website=USA Today|publisher=Gannett Company|first=Patrick|last=Ryan|date=July 5, 2017|access-date=July 7, 2017}}</ref>

===Music=== Daniel Hart composed the score for the film, as he had for all of Lowery's previous features and one short film. A soundtrack of the score was released by Milan Records on July 7, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmmusicreporter.com/2017/05/03/a-ghost-story-soundtrack-details/|title='A Ghost Story' Soundtrack Details|website=Film Music Reporter|author=filmusicreporter|date=May 3, 2017|access-date=September 6, 2017}}</ref>

==Release== Prior to the film's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/competition-and-next-films-announced-for-2017-festival|title=2017 Sundance Film Festival: Competition And Next Lineup Announced|website=Sundance Film Festival|publisher=The Sundance Institute|date=November 29, 2016|access-date=November 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Ghost Story |url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/a-ghost-story |url-status=dead |access-date=December 17, 2016 |website=Sundance Film Festival |publisher=The Sundance Institute |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707045553/http://www.sundance.org/projects/a-ghost-story }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Printable Film Guide |url=http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF17_FilmGuide_Web_Dec12.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220174451/http://www.sundance.org/pdf/film-guide/SFF17_FilmGuide_Web_Dec12.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-20 |access-date=December 13, 2016 |website=Sundance Film Festival |publisher=The Sundance Institute}}</ref> A24 acquired its worldwide distribution rights.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/sundance-casey-afflecks-a-ghost-story-sells-to-a24-exclusive-1201955134/|title=Sundance: Casey Affleck's 'A Ghost Story' Sells to A24 (EXCLUSIVE)|website=Variety|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=Ramin|last=Seetoodeh|date=January 8, 2017|access-date=January 8, 2017}}</ref> The company released the film in the United States on July 7, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/a-ghost-story-trailer-casey-affleck-is-stuck-under-a-white-sheet-eyeholes-989278|title='A Ghost Story' Trailer: Casey Affleck Is Stuck Under a White Sheet With Eyeholes|website=The Hollywood Reporter|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|first=Ashley|last=Lee|date=March 28, 2017|access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref>

==Reception== ===Box office=== The film earned $104,030 from four theaters during its opening weekend (an average per-location gross of $26,008), finishing in 26th place at the American box office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/07/casey-affleck-rooney-mara-debut-a-ghost-story-city-of-ghosts-specialty-box-office-1202125693/|title=Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara Scare Up Robust Debut For 'A Ghost Story' – Specialty Box Office|website=Deadline Hollywood|date=July 9, 2017|first=Brian|last=Brooks|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref> By the end of its theatrical run, it had grossed $1,596,371 domestically and $355,312 internationally, for a worldwide total of just under $2{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="NUM"/>

===Critical response=== {{RT data|prose|''A Ghost Story'' deftly manages its ambitious themes through an inventive, artful, and ultimately poignant exploration of love and loss.}}<ref name=rt>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|title=A Ghost Story|type=m|id=a_ghost_story|access-date={{RT data|access date}}}}{{RT data|edit}}</ref> {{MC film|84|46}}<ref name=mc>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/a-ghost-story|title=''A Ghost Story''|website=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref>

Peter Debruge of ''Variety'' gave the film a positive review, writing: "While Lowery's actual method of delivery may not be scary, it's sure to haunt those who open themselves up to the experience."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/a-ghost-story-review-1201963220/|title=Sundance Film Review: Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in 'A Ghost Story'|website=Variety|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=Peter|last=Debruge|date=January 22, 2017|access-date=May 14, 2017}}</ref> David Rooney of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' also gave the film a positive review, writing: "A poetic meditation on time, memory and spiritual connection that is utterly true to its title."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/a-ghost-story-review-965994|title='A Ghost Story': Film Review|website=The Hollywood Reporter|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|first=David|last=Rooney|date=January 22, 2017|access-date=May 14, 2017}}</ref> Eric Kohn of ''IndieWire'' gave the film an "A" rating, calling it "an extraordinary mood piece that amounts to [Lowery's] best movie yet."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/a-ghost-story-review-rooney-mara-casey-affleck-sundance-2017-1201770434/|title='A Ghost Story' Review: Casey Affleck Stars in David Lowry's Drama|website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=Eric |last=Kohn|date=January 22, 2017|access-date=July 23, 2017}}</ref> Gary Thompson of the ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' gave the film two and a half stars out of four and wrote: "The movie is trippy and almost willfully opaque—all I can say for sure is I left ''A Ghost Story'' feeling full."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Gary|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/gary_thompson/casey-affleck-gives-a-really-sheety-performance-in-a-ghost-story-20170718.html|title=Casey Affleck gives a really sheety performance in 'A Ghost Story'|publisher=Philadelphia Media Network|date=July 19, 2017|access-date=June 26, 2018}}</ref>

Richard Brody, writing for ''The New Yorker'', included ''A Ghost Story'' in his list of the 27 best films of the decade.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-twenty-seven-best-movies-of-the-decade|title=The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade|last=Brody|first=Richard|magazine=The New Yorker|date=26 November 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-28}}</ref>

===Accolades=== On September 9, 2017, the film won three awards at the 43rd Deauville American Film Festival: the Revelation Prize, the Critics Prize and the Jury Prize; additionally, David Lowery was nominated for the Grand Special Prize.<ref name="menashe">{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/global/deauville-american-film-festival-winners-1202553058/|title='A Ghost Story,' 'Menashe,' 'The Rider' Win Prizes at 43rd Deauville American Film Festival|last=Keslassy|first=Elsa|date=September 9, 2017|website=Variety|publisher=Penske Business Media|access-date=December 15, 2017}}</ref> On October 14, the film won two awards at the Sitges Film Festival: Best Photography and the Carnet Jove Jury Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/noticies?id=1003486|title=The fantastic fable 'Jupiter's Moon' wins Sitges 2017|publisher=Sitges Film Festival|access-date=December 15, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216091258/https://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/noticies?id=1003486|archive-date=December 16, 2017}}</ref> At the Fantasia Film Festival, the film won the Camera Lucida Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/245019/fantasia-2017-comes-close-winners-categories-announced/|title=Fantasia 2017 Comes to a Close: Winners For All Categories Announced|website=Dread Central|access-date=December 15, 2017|first=Jonathan|last=Barkan|date=August 3, 2017}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="width:99%;" ! scope="col" style="width:23%;" | Award ! scope="col"| Date of ceremony ! scope="col"| Category ! scope="col"| Recipient(s) and nominee(s) ! scope="col"| Result ! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref(s)|Reference(s)}} |- | Boston Society of Film Critics | December 10, 2017 | Best Film Editing | rowspan="6" | David Lowery | {{won}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/boston-society-film-critics-2017-winners-list-full-1066067|title='Phantom Thread' Named Best Film by Boston Society of Film Critics|work=The Hollywood Reporter|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|date=December 10, 2017|access-date=December 10, 2017|first=Hilary|last=Lewis}}</ref> |- | rowspan="4"| Deauville Film Festival | rowspan="4"| September 9, 2017 | Revelation Prize | {{won}} | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"| <ref name="menashe"/> |- | Critics Prize | {{won}} |- | Jury Prize | {{won}} |- | Grand Special Prize | {{nom}} |- | Fantasia Film Festival | August 3, 2017 | Camera Lucida Award | {{won}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/06/13/fantasia-2017-lineup-announcement/ |title=A Ghost Story, Mohawk, and Larry Cohen doc to screen at Fantasia Film Festival |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Time|first=Clark |last=Collis |date=June 13, 2017 |access-date=January 13, 2018}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2"| Georgia Film Critics Association | rowspan="2"| January 12, 2018 | Best Film | ''A Ghost Story'' | {{nom}} | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiafilmcritics.org/p/2017-awards.html|title=2017 Awards|publisher=Georgia Film Critics Association|access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" | Best Original Song | rowspan="2" | "I Get Overwhelmed" | {{nom}} |- | rowspan="2"| Houston Film Critics Society | rowspan="2"| January 6, 2018 | {{nom}} | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies/article/The-Shape-of-Water-inundates-Houston-critics-12423977.php|title='The Shape of Water' inundates Houston critics' film awards nominations|date=December 12, 2017|work=Houston Chronicle|access-date=December 12, 2017|first=Cary|last=Darling|publisher=Hearst Newspapers}}</ref> |- | Texas Independent Film Award | rowspan="4" | ''A Ghost Story'' | {{won}} |- | Independent Spirit Awards | March 3, 2018 | John Cassavetes Award | {{nom}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/11/2018-independent-spirit-award-nominations-1201899835/ |title=2018 Independent Spirit Award Nominations |website=IndieWire|publisher=Penske Business Media |first=Zack |last=Sharf |date=November 21, 2017 |access-date=November 21, 2017}}</ref> |- | National Board of Review | January 4, 2018 | Top Ten Independent Films | {{won}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/11/wonder-woman-gal-gadot-get-out-national-board-of-review-2017-winners-1202215818/|title=National Board Of Review Winners: 'The Post' Comes Up Strong With Best Pic, Best Actress Meryl Streep, Best Actor Tom Hanks|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Business Media|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|date=November 28, 2017|access-date=November 28, 2017}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite news | last=Buckley | first=Cara | title='The Post' Lands Top National Board of Review Prizes | work=The New York Times | date=November 28, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/movies/national-board-of-review-the-post-tom-hanks-meryl-streep.html | access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref> |- | Online Film Critics Society | December 28, 2017 | Best Picture | {{nom}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://ofcs.org/online-film-critics-society-2017-award-nominees/|title=Online Film Critics Society 2017 Award Nominees|publisher=Online Film Critics Society|date=December 18, 2017|access-date=December 18, 2017|author=Governing Committee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220092048/http://ofcs.org/online-film-critics-society-2017-award-nominees/|archive-date=December 20, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><br><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/12/online-film-critics-society-awards-2017-movies-get-out-1202233341/ |title='Get Out' Named Best Picture By Online Film Critics Society |first=Patrick |last=Hipes |website=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Business Media |date=December 28, 2017 |access-date=December 28, 2017}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2"| Sitges Film Festival | rowspan="2"| October 14, 2017 | Best Cinematography | Andrew Droz Palermo | {{won}} | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://geekwithanafro.com/sitges-review-a-ghost-story/ |title=Sitges 2017 Review: A Ghost Story will not scare you, but make you cry |work=Geek with an Afro |first=Rafael |last=Motamayor |date=October 19, 2017 |access-date=January 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113093139/http://geekwithanafro.com/sitges-review-a-ghost-story/ |archive-date=2018-01-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |- | Carnet Jove Jury Award | rowspan="2" | David Lowery | {{won}} |- | Sundance Film Festival | January 22, 2018 | Audience Award | {{nom}} | style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/a-ghost-story-sundance-review |title=Eerie, Existential A Ghost Story Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen |first=Richard |last=Lawson |work=Vanity Fair|publisher=Condé Nast |date=January 25, 2017 |access-date=January 13, 2018}}</ref> |- |}

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==External links== * {{Rotten Tomatoes|m/a_ghost_story}} * {{Metacritic film}} * {{IMDb title|6265828}} * {{Mojo title|aghoststory}} * {{official website|https://aghost.store/}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805103914/https://aghost.store/ |date=2020-08-05 }}

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