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Florida Film Critics Circle Winners

Posted by Ryan Adams On December - 18 - 2008

Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Supp. Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supp. Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Foreign Language: Let The Right One In
Animated Feature: Wall*E
Documentary: Man On Wire
Breakout: Martin McDonagh, writer/director of “In Bruges”
Golden Orange: Dick Morris/Sarasota Film Society

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    28 Responses for "Florida Film Critics Circle Winners"

    1. Matt Neglia December 18th, 2008 at 4:06 pm 1

      While Slumdog Millionaire is my favorite film of the year (Just barely beating the Dark Knight) I kinda wish the critics would mix it up a little and give more to Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. I mean could you imagine on Oscar night Benjamin Button having wins for adapted screenplay, music, art direction. The Dark Knight having awards for Supporting Actor, sound mixing and editing. And Slumdog Millionaire picking up best editing, cinematography and Director for Boyle. Then come the best picture announcement! I’d be bugging out! And even though I don’t mind all the Slumdog Love, I just wish there was more to keep me on the edge of my seat

    2. Emma December 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm 2

      Bung.

    3. Paul Outlaw December 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm 3

      @ Matt

      How about Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay?
      ;-)

    4. el_barto December 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm 4

      @ Matt
      I was wondering the same thing… but i was thinking… what if at the moment they anounce Best Pic… suddenly they say…………. MILK

    5. SY December 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm 5

      Choo Choo… that’s the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ train making a pit stop in Florida.

    6. Charlie December 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm 6

      A SAG nod and a critic win….Melissa Leo is having a good day!

      If anyone wants to hear her reaction to the nod here it is

      http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/files/2008/12/audio-melissa-l.html

    7. Matt Neglia December 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm 7

      Best Actor is prob going to go to Mickey Rourke…because in all honesty I don’t think he’s ever going to give us another performance like this ever again…while from Sean Penn, I do expect him to deliver big again in the future. Plus the guy already has an oscar to his credit and is still facing backlash from members of the academy due to his publicity stints. Best Actress is tough to call right now but if I had to go with anything it’d be Anne Hathaway for Rachel getting Married, ditto for the original screenplay too! And for best supporting actress I defiantly see them either giving it to Marisa Tomei to match up with Rourke’s award plus to relieve her of all the backlash she has been receiving since she won the award for My Cousin Vinny which many believe she didn’t deserve. The Wrestler will also win best original song too probably. Though Milk is one of my favorite films of the year I expect it to be nominated in 6 categories and lose all (Sorry Gus). And Frost/Nixon and Doubt will walk away empty handed as well. That’s my oscar night right there….though best picture is still waaay to tough to call even with all the slumdog love going around. I mean lets not forget when Sideways and Brokeback Mountain won all the critics awards…….and then the rest is all history.

    8. Matt Neglia December 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm 8

      @ el barto
      Not gonna lie but Milk winning (even though it is terrific) will shock the hell out of me. To me it is between Slumdog Millionaire, Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and The Dark Knight. Dark Knight represents the type of movie that Gladiator and Titanic was. Curious case Of Benjamin Button is that type of Forest Gump winner. And Slumdog is what Little Miss Sunshine and Juno were before it…only difference is that it is better, which really works well in its favor. Oh and I forgot to mention Best Animated Film is going to go to Bolt!!! No just kidding…Wall E of course. Best Doc and foreign film i don’t want to guess right now because the academy always tends to throw a couple of left field nominees in there that sometimes we’ve never even heard of and they end up winning!

    9. Mark December 18th, 2008 at 4:47 pm 9

      Another win for Ms. Tomei. Hopefullly, her SAG no-show will not hurt her chances for a nomination from AMPAS. Ms. Adams, equipped with a GG and SAG nod is really gunning for that possible OSCAR nom though. Ms. Tomei on the other hand has already racked up 4 critics awards this week.
      This is really killing me.

    10. Phil December 18th, 2008 at 4:54 pm 10

      In Bruges!!!!

    11. Nick December 18th, 2008 at 4:55 pm 11

      If best animated feature goes to Bolt, I will seriously laugh my ass off.

      But, no. Hand-holding robots are better.

      And I wouldn’t read too much into this bit of news. It’s Florida. For all we know, the critics down there are probably old people or republicans. ;)

    12. elim December 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm 12

      hm? Tomei has 4 critic awards. Adams has none but two nominations for Globes and SAG. If Adams gets the Oscar nomination over Tomei, that is just wrong. I think Tomei has a great chance to win the Oscar now.

    13. Pablo December 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pm 13

      Good for Florida. Wonderful choices.

    14. Hans December 18th, 2008 at 5:37 pm 14

      Heh, leave it to my homeland to give out an award called “The Golden Orange.”

    15. Evan December 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm 15

      Wally Pfister is on a roll.

      Yes!

    16. Brian Adams December 18th, 2008 at 6:57 pm 16

      Guys I loved Tomei in The Wrestler even though i wasn’t crazy about the film, (I had ridiculously high expectations, big fan of Aranofsky, Requiem, fountain, both perfect) but four critic awards means nothing to the Academy.
      How many did Amy Ryan have last year again? 4002?
      They will choose who they will choose and as much as some people may feel that she didn’t deserve the backlash for My Cousin Vinny I bet they feel she deserves two Oscars less.
      Which female actors have accomplished this in the past 3 decades? Streep, living legend. Weist, Allen roles. and Swanky who just happened to give two totally devastating performances in 5 years…

      I seriously don’t want to be bursting bubbles here I love Tomei to death and my God can the woman work a good pole ;) but they are going to give it to Cruz (yet another supporting female for Allen) or Winslet who will win for the lesser of two nominated performances (which happens) simply because she is more due than a ten month pregnant woman.

    17. Faux December 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm 17

      Do you believe REALLY Tomei has a chance to win? I don’t think so. I think the award for My Coussin Vinny it’s enough for her and for them. Do you think really Tomei could have 2 Oscars? It’s hard to believe it.
      Certainly, this week is being very good for Tomei’s hopes, but SAG snub hurts so much. Don’t forget this kind of critics awards are no significant for AMPAS members (Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, and now Florida). In the other hand, Davis won 6 (St. Louis, Houston, Dallas-FW, AWFJ, Black Reel and breakthrough (?) at NBR), and Cruz -who I still consider the frontrunner, won the most important awards until now (NBR, LA, NYFCC and also NYFCO, Boston and South Eastern).
      I still think it’s a battle Cruz vs Davis, and probably vs Winslet (who recently won in Chicago).
      If Cruz wins Globes and SAG, folks, I think it’s over. Overrated? I don’t think so, after seeing Volver and Elegy. And also, can you see the traction of the couple Bardem-Cruz (like “Brangelina”) for Oscar night? Do you imagine the set where Bardem give the Oscar to his girlfriend? (hahahaha)

    18. Pierre de Plume December 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm 18

      simply because [Kate Winslet] is more due than a ten month pregnant woman.

      That’s not only funny, Brian Adams, it’s true.

      During the Oscarcast, I’ll have to keep cold washcloths nearby to use whenever the camera cuts to Cruz and Bardem together.

    19. David December 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm 19

      Sasha must be over the moon and under the Frozen River for this Melissa Leo citation! weeeeeeeeeee!

    20. Mark P December 18th, 2008 at 11:48 pm 20

      I haven’t been keeping track of all of these critics’ awards….but has Ledger won every supporting award there is? I think he’s the constant amidst all of the different picks.

    21. mileshigh December 19th, 2008 at 12:02 am 21

      The Florida Film Critics Circle awarded ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ over ‘Milk,’ which didn’t get anything. Not a single award.

      They clearly must be homophobic! ;)

    22. Fat Tony December 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am 22

      I look forward to all the comments there will likely be from the usual suspects about the homophobic state of Florida and how they failed to do their civic duty and give Milk even a single award…I wonder how many times these fools will fail to get their way before they realise that their paranoia and bitterness makes precisely zilch difference except to make themselves look like idiots…

    23. Brian December 19th, 2008 at 1:19 am 23

      imho, slumdog is overhyped to the extreme
      nearly dozed off a number of times
      no best picture winner should be a snooze-fest like this flick
      seriously, the hype surrounding this movie is lost on me.
      Didn’t really give a rat’s a– what happened to the characters.

      Go Wall-E!
      Go TDK!

    24. Mark December 19th, 2008 at 1:42 am 24

      Ms. Cruz, Ms. Davis and Ms. Winslet are nomination locks for Best Supporting Actress from AMPAS. Some people are saying that Lena Olin has a terrific scene towards the end part of The Reader wherein she had to do a lot of heavyweight emotional lifting. Very brief but very indelible and sticks with you even after the last frame is over.
      If that is the case, then I think this would remind me of Ms. Redgrave’s heartfelt soliloquy in the end of Atonement.

    25. Jack December 19th, 2008 at 1:54 am 25

      You guys have got to be kidding me. As a gay man, Fat Tony’s (and MilesHigh if he wasn’t being sarcastic) comments are kind of insulting to me. To label someone homophobic just because they didn’t choose your preference is stooping to the same levels as those are actual gay bashers. I liked ‘Milk’, but I’ve seen better films this year, including ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. If voting gay is a necessity for anyone who’s gay-friendly, than shouldn’t ‘Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild’ be considered for Best Adapted Screenplay?

      I know, this counter argument has been brought many, many times since Crashgate, but it still irritates me.

    26. carbinekid December 19th, 2008 at 2:07 am 26

      Anyone seen Let The Right One In. Check it out. Youll be stuck on it. Its been cleaning up in the foreign film department.

      Dont be vampirophobic and go see it. You wont be sorry.

      Thanx Florida

    27. Fat Tony December 19th, 2008 at 2:46 am 27

      I apologise if you felt insulted, Jack; it was probably unhelpful of me to inject sarcasm into the argument (especially when I hate others being sarcastic!) but I WAS being sarcastic, and I’m 99% sure that MilesHigh was as well; I was reacting against the (well-intended and undoubtedly sincere but, IMO, really misguided, not to mention irritatingly persistent) attempt by certain users of this site to paint certain critics groups as homophobic simply because they choose to honour another film over an equally-highly-touted gay-themed contender…

      Clearly this is not the first year that this issue has been discussed, and I admit that Brokeback’s defeat by Crash was a scandal, but the argument should never have gotten off the ground again this year, particularly since this is NOT the same situation whereby a film (BBM) is acclaimed and awarded by 95% of the industry and critics but not the Academy; the race this year seems wide open and the awards are being spread around (though with a clear preference for Slumdog); I shouldn’t even have to point this out, but people will like what they like, for whatever reasons, whether or not they state those reasons out loud and whether or not they are honest about it- but when Milk gets hailed by critics in SF but not in FL, I don’t see how that amounts to a basis for accusations of homophobia; it’s a theory, sure, but even if we’re right, what use is it to spit the dummy and cry “OPPRESSION” when we have no evidence? At least with Brokeback there was the rest of the industry and critics to back us up; this year, it’s just sour grapes…

      Those type of bitter and baseless comments have been appearing on the site for a couple of days now, and when I noticed that Milk was absent from the latest list of honours, I decided to launch a pre-emptive strike in an attempt to deflect the criticism that I expected would be coming from the same voices that cried “HOMOPHOBIA!” apparently because Milk wasn’t winning (or being nominated for) everything under the sun…

      I am a bisexual man, and I would love for bozos (I’m being polite now!) like Borgnine and Curtis to get their heads out of their holes and watch the gay cowboy movie, but we aint gonna get what we want by foolishly and recklessly accusing the likes of Roger Ebert of being scared of homosexuality on screen just because he happened to be more deeply affected by (and more admiring of) Crash…In no way do I want to pour water on the efforts of homosexually-inclined people everywhere to gain acceptance and ‘a fair go’, but I believe that certain users of this site are firing blanks and missing the target completely…

      I agree 100% that “To label someone homophobic just because they didn’t choose your preference is stooping to the same levels as those are actual gay bashers”; that’s what I was reacting against and trying to point out; clearly I was going about it the wrong way, and sarcasm is not my strong point!

      Again, sorry for not being clear and unequivocal about my position; I hope I have made myself a bit clearer!

    28. richard crawford December 19th, 2008 at 8:44 am 28

      brokeback and crash: neither were very good.

      Brokeback WAS a great short story…

      Slumdog: the best thing about it is the dancing at the end. otherwise it’s not good either.


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