This is one tiny slice of awards season I rather like, this after ten wasted years on the sit. When the NYFCC announce their winners they do so in mostly real time. I do recall someone once on Indiewire getting their news before the website updated, but mostly we all just watch the site. Perhaps we really need to get lives, eh? Anyway, their website is all set up and ready for action.
Time for a quick round of our seasonal game. Up to three guesses and they have to be bizarre. I still don’t know how Damien Bona got Wall-E for Best Picture for LAFCA right because that was a No Guts, No Glory for all time. Mine would be that The Dark Knight wins Best Picture and Director but I already have that as my official prediction. And now it doesn’t seem so outlandish anymore. Still–
Best Picture: Frozen River
Best Director: Courtney Hunt
Best Actor: Benicio Del Toro for Che
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Best Supporting Actor – Bill Irwin
Best Supporting Actress – Evan Rachel Wood
Best Picture – Frost/Nixon
The Wrestler for Best Picture
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy for Actress
Michael Shannon, for Best Supporting Actor
Best Picture: The Wrestler
Best Actress: Melissa Leo
Best Director: Ron Howard
Best Actress – Michelle Williams
Best Supporting Actress – Rosemarie deWitt
Best Screenplay – Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins just won Best Actress and Best Screenplay went to Jenny Lumet for Rachel Getting Married.
SALLY HAWKINS won best actress!
JENNY LUMET (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED) won best screenplay!
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Best Screenplay: Rachel Getting Married
Best Foreign Film: Let The Right One In
Best Picture – Rachel getting married
Best Director – Darren Aronofsky
Best Actor – Richard Jenkins
My NGNG is The Visitor for Best Picture and Waltz with Bashir (instead of Wall-E) for Animated.
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Supporting Actor: Rosmarie DeWitt
Best Picture: Rachel Getting Married
Yay Sally Hawkins! I’m so thrilled. I don’t know if it’s NGNG since they already posted two winners, so I feel like I’m cheating, but I’m going with Mike Leigh for Director.
Best Picture: Rachel Getting Married
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWiit or Debra Winger
Sorry to burst someones bubble, but the awards are already starting to be announced on the NYFCC website. I won`t say names, but best actress and screenplay were announced. They aren`t going for conventional.
OmarS – I would disagree with you, for the NYFCC, I would say that these awards so far are very much up their alley….
Very happy for Ms. Hawkins. I hope they go with Kate W. for supporting. Best Pic will go to either The Dark Knight or Milk (or in light of below, Slumdog?).
slumdog for cinematography!
…It appears I should have read the other posts.
Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire (This could bode well for a Best Pic win)
Another undeserved win for Sally Hawkins.
Wow, that’s a great surprise.
Looks like they’re spreading the love around.
I still think best pic’s going to come out of left field. My NGNG is Waltz with Bashir – because that would just be crazy.
JR, c´mon: Sally Hawkins delivered the best female performance of the year!
GO ON SALLY HAWKINS DO YOUR FANS PROUD ONLY PESSIMISTIC WRIST SLASHERS DONT LIKE YOUR PERFORMANCE.
I’ll disagree Dominik, I haven’t seen many contendors yet but she’s already my #7:
1. Melissa Leo-Frozen River
2. Rebecca Hall-Vicky Christina Barcelona
3. Nicole Kidman-Australia
4. Julianne Moore-Blindness
5. Angelina Jolie-Changeling
6. Frances McDormand-Burn After Reading
7. Sally Hawkins-Happy Go Lucky
Admirable spoken, Fergus!
Frances McDormand over Hawkins? Frances McDormand is not even remotely close to my list. Glad you enjoyed her, though.
I agree that Rebecca Hall was revelatory in “VCB.” I wish she’d get more recognition as well.
I can see Hawkins winning a bunch of critics prizes, but I don’t see her winning an oscar….
Josh Brolin win Supporting for “Milk”
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin for MILK
Best Actor – Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder & Iron Man)
@ Bing: Nice to see Rebecca Hall on your list. It´s pretty unfair she gets barely any attention for it- the same for Bardem, by the way.
But Angelina Jolie? I don´t like performances that scream “Gimme the Oscar!”
And I spare all of us a word about Nicole Kidman, enough said.
Brolin…nice!
Is Joker just too out there of a character for some of these groups?
Josh Brolin wins supporting actor.
Josh Brolin gets best supporting actor!!
I realize not predicting Wall-E isn’t so far off as they went with Persepolis over Ratatouille and Triplets over Finding Nemo.
Oh dear, I´m too late to deliver news…
Gregoire: is that a prediction? It’s not up on the site.
@ Dorothy: I bet Downey Jr. was not a prediction, but a joke.
Bing147,
You didn’t even get Frances McDormand’s best performance of the year on your list. Her turn in Burn After Reading was just Raising Arizona redux. Now if you want to make a case for her work in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the most underrated movie of the year, I’m all ears…
Cruel, Dominik, but funny
Anthony Dod Mantle gets his due for capturing some of the most bustling locales in Mumbai! Way to go!
WALL-E FOR ANIMATED!!!!
Not surprised by Brolin for Milk….if you recall many uppity New York Film Critics weren’t thrilled with TDK.
Wall-E wins best animated film.
WALL-E Best Animated Film
Brolin was good in Milk, but so was Franco. And I’m just not sure anyone not named Sean Penn in that movie had a substantial enough role to deserve recognition.
Wall-E…SHOCKING!
WALL-E!!!
Fingers crossed for Penn…but they might go with del Toro or Langella, methinks.
Wall-E wins Animated.
Wall*E – in the animated category – where it belongs.
These are mostly gutsy, with one wishful thinking pick (that first one)
BEST FOREIGN FILM: “The Flight Of The Red Balloon”
BEST SCREENPLAY: “The Dark Knight”
BEST ACTOR: Benicio Del Toro, “Che”
Best Picture: Wall-E
Best Director: David Fincher
Best Screenplay: Rachel Getting Married
THANK YOU DOMINIK. PEOPLE NEED TO REALISE THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY DIDNT LIKE THE CHARACTER THE PERFORMANCE WAS BAD. THATS WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DOING.
@ Dorothy: But don´t get me wrong: I really really like Downey Jr. a lot, but if they don´t give him a damn nomination for his brilliant performance in “Zodiac” they should NOT nominate him for a movie like “Tropic Thunder”!
They already gave out screenplay to Jenny Lumet for Rachel Getting Married.
Best Pic: Wall-E, Curious Case (it needs some love, and don’t we all?), or The Wrestler…I am getting weird vibes…
Supp. Actress: Winslet, Reader
Director: Fincher, CCB
Meh. Slumdog was great. It was essentially a live-action Wall-E set in Mumbai. If you really think about it…..so a win for one is a win for both on a platform of happy-go-lucky endings…happy endings will be embraced this year in the spirit of Obama.
Picture: Milk
Actor: Clint Eastwood
Actress: Kate Winslet
People need to catch up.
I know that Poppy could be cloying, but I really enjoyed her. And I agree Fergus, it’s about the skill the actor brings to the role. For instance, Brando’s characters in “Last Tango in Paris” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” were grade-A a-holes, but it’s all about Brando’s considerable talent in bringing them to glorious life.
People need to realise that Hawkins IS a serious contnder. Just because you didnt like her doesnt mean she wont win the GLobe, and if she continues to be the critics darling we have a situation like last year on our hands. Globe winner for Comedy/Musical, then BAFTA, then Oscar.
Slumdog Millionaire was a film that brought a smile to my face, not Happy-Go-Lucky.
I’d be shocked if Cruz doesn’t get supporting, by the way.
SALLY HAWKINS!!!!
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin
And Ledger fans go nuts…
I’d like to see Debra Winger’s name…
@ Dorothy: Would be shocking if the award Kate Winslet instead of Penelope?
I’d love that Dominik. I’d really love that. So not shocking but rather thrilling
Let’s have Martin Sheen for Best Actor.
I would be happy for Mickey Rourke.
He lost National Board to Clint, he lost LA for Sean Penn… now it´s his time!
Best Supporting needs a shake up. Rosemarie DeWitt?
Mike Leigh!!!! YES!!!
Mike Leigh for Director.
Meh.
WTF LEIGH?
BP will come out of nowhere, it seems.
Woo!! I’m thrilled with Mike Leigh for director. And not just because I picked him at 9:30.
I admit I still haven’t seen a few real contenders like Benjamin Button and Frozen River, but from what I did see, Happy-Go-Lucky was my favorite movie of the year.
Mike Leigh and Sally Hawkins?
I’m really enjoying this =]
Bravo Penélope!!!!!
Who can stop her?
No one really. Kate or Viola perhaps – but unlikely
Goofy picks:
Best Picture: Waltz with Bashir
Best Actor: Ben Kingsley, Elegy
Kate Winslet is coming up empty all over the place.
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