NBR and NYFCC Contest Winners
For the NBR contest, the high score this year belongs to Roberto Moreno, who scored 11 out of a possible 19 points. Meanwhile, we have three co-winners for our NYFCC predictions contest — each got 4/9 categories correct: Tom Kane Bill Nelson Donald Sheldon Congratulations to all of our winners! Please email us to claim your prize!
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Predictions Friday: Critics and Oscar Voters Aren’t the Same – Vive La Différence
As the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics awards came down over the past 48 hours, it was a good reminder of the differences between film critics and Oscar voters. Up until COVID ended film and awards as we know them, the awards came so fast and furiously, with voting mostly done at the beginning of January. But this year, as it was a year ago, we'll have one more month to think things through before the final ballots are filled out. This is how the industry sees film critics: https://youtu.be/4ld9EP5yAX4 And when it comes to...
‘Drive My Car’ Takes Top Honors at 2021 NYFCC
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car received top honors at the 2021 New York Film Critics Circle as their annual awards were announced today. Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog received the most recognitions (three) including director, actor, and supporting actor. Lady Gaga received Best Actress for her performance in House of Gucci. Here is your full list of winners for the 2021 NYFCC. Best Film - Drive My Car Best Director - Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog Best Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog Best Actress - Lady Gaga, House of Gucci Best Supporting Actor - Kodi...
Licorice Pizza Tops NBR’s List of Best of 2021
Best Film: LICORICE PIZZA Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, LICORICE PIZZA Best Actor: Will Smith, KING RICHARD Best Actress: Rachel Zegler, WEST SIDE STORY Best Supporting Actor: Ciarán Hinds, BELFAST Best Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis, KING RICHARD Best Original Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, A HERO Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH Breakthrough Performance: Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman, LICORICE PIZZA Best Directorial Debut: Michael Sarnoski, PIG Best Animated Feature: ENCANTO Best Foreign Language Film: A HERO Best Documentary: SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Best Ensemble: THE HARDER THEY FALL Outstanding Achievement in...
Spielberg’s Masterful West Side Story Takes Us There
If you are lucky, you get to live through the era of Steven Spielberg, a restless, imaginative artist who has been making movies almost as long as I’ve been alive. Like the handful of great directors still making movies from the 1970s, Spielberg knows that you can’t simply make the same movie over and over again and last over 40 years. You have to challenge yourself, try something new, even if that something new is considered a “failure.” To be really great, I mean in the pantheon, you have to be able to use different muscles. Spielberg has made everything...
Reframe: The Piano
Has there ever been a more transgressive director than Jane Campion? Whether you are talking about Sweetie, An Angel At My Table, Holy Smoke, In The Cut, or both seasons of her brilliant series Top of the Lake, no other filmmaker alive delivers such complex characters (particularly female characters) as does Campion. Everyone is flawed, motivations are never simple, and her characters are not there to be loved, but to be seen. Hell, even Bright Star is transgressive in that it is a Jane Campion film that is NOT all that transgressive (although still fantastic). Such is the case with...
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Predictions Fridayby Sasha Stone
Predictions Friday: Critics and Oscar Voters Aren’t the Same – Vive La Différence
As the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics awards came down over the past 48 hours,...
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Good as Gold: The Critics Are the Middle Child of Oscar Season
Last week, Sasha covered the looming critics phase of Oscar season. This is the midsection - some would argue the...
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Oscar Podcast: West Side Story Drops
We got together for a podcast on this day. Ryan Adams, Clarence Moye, Mark Johnson, and Michael Grei and I...
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