Best Film: First Cow
Best Director: Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland”
Best Actor: Delroy Lindo for “Da 5 Bloods”
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman for “Da 5 Bloods”
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Best First Film: The 40-Year-Old Version
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman for “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”
Best Cinematography: Small Axe
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers
Best Foreign Language Film: Bacurau
Best Non-Fiction Film: Time
Special Award: Spike Lee for inspiring the New York community with his short film “New York New York” and for advocating for a better society through cinema.
Special Award: Kino Lorber, for their creation of Kino Marquee, a virtual cinema distribution service that was designed to help support movie theaters, not destroy them.
Wow missed this party. Some good picks there.
Wow – the critics really like First Cow. I had to turn it off after 20 mintues. Couldn’t get into it at all.
I gave it a about an hour, then gave up. Stories are supposed to have conflict.
In my view, the second half is much better.
I just don’t think I can get there. Maybe if it gets Oscar noms I’ll force myself!
I gave it a about an hour, then gave up. Stories are supposed to have conflict.
I agree. I attempted three times and gave up.
The second half is the best part – it starts out slow.
So slow. And the mood too… I was like; “I just can’t do this”.
Not sure the NYFCC gives us much indication about the Best Picture Oscar race. Only 4 times this century has the New York Critics winner of Best Picture gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar. The last time was The Artist 8 years ago.
> The last time was The Artist 8 years ago.
What a waste.
But, as I said just above, only 5/17 times since The Return of the King (inclusive) has the BP winner not won at least one NYFCC award. (And only 2/17 times has it not won either one of those or a LAFCA award.) That’s the real clue we’ve been handed here… (There might be even better ones, of course, that I’m not yet aware of.)
so, I was not insane to say that Da 5 Bloods could really come back, and that Bakalova IS in the conversation 😉
Just back from watching “Wonder Woman 1984”. I hope it sweeps the Razzies (Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Sequel, Onscreen Duo). It is THAT bad.
It can’t possibly be more boring than Miss Juneteenth or Hillbilly Elegy.
oh, it is HILARIOUSLY BAD. Pascal and Wiig should be locks for at least the Razzie noms… I think Pascal is taking it.
The moment I couldn’t just take it anymore was when they ripped off Adagio in D Minor, by John Murphy, from “Sunshine”, in a key scene of empowerment.
This alone doesn’t mean Bakalova is close to a nomination or a possible winner, especially as the track she’s on seems comparable to Haddish. And people weren’t saying that Da 5 Bloods can’t get nominated (for example the previous time you brought that up, I criticized your argument even though all this time I was predicting Lindo, Boseman and the screenplay to get nominations) but that your claims of it as something comparable to BlacKkKlansman are perhaps a little too optimistic
Zeitgeist is everything. Both films – Borat and Da 5 Bloods – are clearly anti-Trump… just think about it… will that be enough to secure the nominations of Bakalova and Da 5 Bloods in several categories? I don’t know, I can’t know. I wish the best for Bakalova, because her performance is unique, daring and could have easily been a career-ender. She deserves to win, for all those circumstances.
On Spike Lee… have you noticed how HUGE his year has been? David Byrne’s American Utopia and Da 5 Bloods received raves, and NYFCC just gave him a special award for his short film New York, New York, to be added to the wins by Lindo and Boseman. Still a long way to go, before Oscars, but first steps by Lee and Bakalova have just been made.
Even if it will turn out to be divisive, WW1984 is not getting anywhere near Razzie consideration, it has solid reviews.
I am going to be harsh, but it seems that WB is investing a TON of money promoting it… I wonder if that has something to do with this 87% fresh in RT… because the movie is a compendium of some of the most terrible moments in superhero movies from the last 30 years, with elements directly taken from X-Men: Apocalypse, Batman Forever and it goes to even making WW as a bigger Mary Sue than Rey from Star Wars.
Wonder Woman swinging as Spidey? Got it!
The Mad Max/Indy Jones chase… with that ending… LOOOOLLLLL
Hollywood’s stance: ” So you have a problem with the fact women directors are not given a fair chance in the industry? No worry, we’ll ask a woman to direct the cash-grabbers from now on.¨”
While I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s bad. The first WW wasn’t anything special either sorry not sorry. But I find it hard to believe it’d be as bad or worse/less entertaining than JL or BvS.
it is.
Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) for Actress!!
Actress: Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
Wow, fantastic choice!
I wanted Paul Ricci to win supporting actor. He needs to get nominated
Me too. Paul Raci is amazing in Sound of Metal. At least he won in Boston.
I’m so glad that Wolfwalkers won for best animated film it was such a stunning movie!
Woohoo! I love First Cow. Of course, it is not an Oscar movie, but still…
Awesome choice for Lindo
agreed.
About the acting winners: the only time that just one of the four NYFCC acting winner was Oscar nominated was in 1998, and in no year have none of the winners been nominated. I know that this is an unusual year but does this mean that we should take at least Lindo and Boseman more seriously again?
Double-nominating Boseman would be a really Globes thing to do.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Boseman and James Corden in the same line up.
Pretty sure Lindo will have some strong legs leading up to the awards. Boseman as supporting is a little bit of a challenge for me because his chances seem stronger in lead.
I see Netflix going all out to put him in lead, but then again, they’ll be pushing for Delroy Lindo too. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Yes Boseman’s role while crucial was really small. Lindo is a great choice for Best Actor. I suspect that Boseman and Hopkins will be the 2 main contenders come Oscar night.
I see your point and I agree in terms of evaluating the Oscar prospects, but I’m really much more excited about the two female categories here.
Terrific choices. First Cow slaying and I’m here for it. Since major awards groups will most likely pass on the brilliance of such a gem of a film, it feels good at least seeing it recognized from critics groups.
And Maria Bakalova? Hell yeah! Rooting for her this season so badly.
Best Film: First Cow
Called it!
And the award for Best Mooovie goes to…
Not sure how much of a bellweather the NYFC are. Looking at the last decade, there have certainly been some choices that have gone on to win Oscar nods or prizes, but a whole lot that haven’t, so it’s a pretty mixed signal looking at it through rudimentary eyes. And as others have said, this elongated season will make these early awards in isolation, anyway, less meaningful. But a pattern of some of the players repeating will be helpful. But AMPAS is always a law unto itself.
They might as well go all NBR and give best picture to the Prom
Probably not good for Mank and Ma Rainey (which could have won for acting, at least) and the others snubbed here. Only 5 of the last 17 Oscar BP winners have won zero NYFCC awards. (And, given the specifics of 2020, it should perhaps have been easier to win one this year for a top Oscar contender – thinner field and all that.) Clearly, this is never anything close to a death blow, but add in LA, which is coming up shortly, and the number goes down to 2 in 17 years (Green Book and Crash), which is a bit more serious. (Under 12% exceptions.)
I would say this (un)officially makes Nomadland the stats favorite, for now. Late entries might have something to say about that, of course, given the extended eligibility period (which was obviously not the case in previous years).
Although it is early, i do think Mank will do well at the Oscars; especially in below line categories. and Ma Rainey will win at least 1 acting Oscar; i’m unsure whether it can win both actor and actress. Nomadland may well win the big 2, but these two netlfix movies will do very well.
Of course, the stat only speaks to a movies’s chances of winning Best Picture (and, besides, 88% is far from unbeatable), so this doesn’t tell us much about their chances of coming close or not. 🙂 I, too, still think they’ll both do really well.
I reckon you will come into your own again this season Claudiu as we try (i lean on the word try) to make sense of the race; given the variables = the collapse of movie theatre industry, the long season and the turbulence that the world in general is in, and how that will affect voting habits/choices of various guilds. It is going to be a crapshoot = methinks! – but i will pay close attention to your numbers. 🙂
That’s what the stats and precursors are for: to reflect all of those changes in their results (which hopefully they will still do in a legible manner, even with the weird schedule and delays and everything) and give us the numbers that, if interpreted right (which, of course, is the always tricky part), should lead to the right answer to the question of who will win… 🙂 And, of course, who is likely to come close.
This is an interesting stat. Thank you. I will send you my positive review of Ma Rainey sometime soon. I thought a supporting actor was especially good.
Wow, so you’ve seen it – nice! Looking forward to seeing it myself.
Wolfwalkers for animated
Cinematography goes to Small Axe (all films)!
Very inspired choice, and really makes one think about how these films are “made for the small screen”.
Is it just me or do the critics awards seem kinda boring this year. Picture or director or both seem like they will go to nomadland almost everywhere and while I’m sure it deserves it (I haven’t seen it yet) it makes following the season much less interesting! At least they seem to be going a variety of places in acting awards!
I have a hunch that Nomadland won’t be taking Picture here.
Yeah I would say that is very likely but it’s getting either picture or director everywhere and the other seems to be a token (here, look we gave this to not nomadland) award… Or they do just give Nomadland both.
I’m with you.
Special Award: Spike Lee for the short New York New York
Spike Lee had an amazing year… he could be nominated for Picture, Documentary and Short…
Da 5 Bloods
David Byrne’s American Utopia
New York, New York
… if he manages to earn these three nominations, I’d consider he would be taking home Best Director – like, really
I’m not sure if the latter two are eligible, concert documentaries aren’t eligible and the short I think was probably not presented through the proper channels to actually be eligible, and even if it is, it’s a 2 or 3 minute montage of the city, I feel like Documentary Short usually nominates stuff that’s less focused on just archival footage being presented (except for that one nominee a few years ago)
No surprises there.
If only there was a better defense about all the elevation of Lindo for playing a MAGA supporter than “Christoph Waltz literally won for playing a nazi”…convenient when people mention that and leave out that he didn’t win in the 30s or 40s, but many years later…
Can you imagine if Christoph Waltz won for playing a nazi in the 30s or 40s? That’s what this Lindo business will look like years from now.
Before you @ me because I triggered you and we must all love Lindo’s work and Spike Lee, et al. for deciding to create this character, I know this is an unpopular opinion, but it is mine, and you’re not going to convince me otherwise.
I haven’t even seen the film yet, and you can of course dislike it if you wish, but to dislike an actor’s performance because you dislike their character seems to be a very inside-out approach to film appreciation.
I like the film, and Lindo is good in the role, but I have a problem rewarding characters at this point in time who portray something that is arguably damaging to U.S. democracy. I am not alone in this either.
Like I said, an unpopular opinion, but one that is just as valid as any other that I think deserves some consideration.
You’re rewarding the actor, not the character. Very important to keep that distinction.
But doesn’t that reward have an impact on how society views it? I can’t divorce that from it, perhaps because I am still reeling from the abuse of the last four years.
Does rewarding Heath Ledger cast The Joker in a positive light? Does rewarding Anthony Hopkins support cannibalism?
This isn’t an endorsement of the character.
They are both fictitious characters. MAGA is a real thing.
There are serial killers in the real world. Do you honestly think giving an Oscar to Anthony Hopkins is harmful because it supports serial killers?
I think if serial killers were running rampant and threatening the livelihood of a country during the time someone was up for a nomination for portraying one, the latter should be taken under consideration.
I think you’re super wrong about this.
Why?
I understand your arguments Jim, but don’t agree in principle as art is not fiction and performance is not reality. It would mean never reward books or plays or musicals or paintings or any other form of artistic expression if the subject was representative of political views or reality deemed distasteful. Lindo isn’t even Trump here. Personally i don’t like characters like Monique in Precious or Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men, but i recognise they are portrayals. I prefer voting for triumphant performances that uplift me.
Lindo blows everyone else in that cast off the screen – so visceral is his performance and I am sure it is one of the 5 best male leads this year. If he doesn’t make the line up it may be due to your reasons, but i reckon it will be due to Da 5 Bloods being released 10 months before, and it is a bit of a mess in parts. And Netflix has a swathe of movies to get behind.
I agree with most of what you said, but you’re missing the biggest sticking point for me, which I just explained to Alex in this thread: it is about the timing of the performance.
timing now in December? or next March when they vote for Oscar? big difference. Different bloke in the white house
Timing now, but timing in March depending on what happens between now and then. If Trump leaves and we avoid a catastrophic blow to our democracy, then by all means, support Lindo. But if he succeeds and plunges us into a dictatorship, go for someone else.
I don’t want to overstep, but I think that you’re way too stressed about this. I’m not American, but follow politics and also American politics very closely, and I would put Trump’s chance of succeeding and plunging America into a dictatorship at about 0 per cent.
You can tell me I’m over stressed after your own government targets two aspects of your life directly, and you live to tell the tale.
I’m not sharing what those aspects are bc you’re complete strangers that do not need to know the details of my life.
I’ve had my fair share of my own government targeting multiple aspects of my life directly. I know all about far right authoritarian governments. I was just trying to say that I don’t think there’s any real chance of Trump staying in power after January.
I would be inclined to agree with you if many didn’t say the same thing re: his chances of being installed back in 2016.
Idk man, at this point, all results are certified, and the electors have voted. The courts have thrown out all his challenges. He has no constitutional route left to challenge the election. The only thing left for him would be to seize the power by force, by getting the military to support him and agree to shoot the citizens, which, frankly, is just not going to happen.
Agree, but again, I don’t trust him/them.
Wondering if this comment aged well for you after the insurrection…
I think it did. Of course, the scenes were appalling, shocking even. Yet there was never a serious threat of a successful coup or something similar. Apart from the shocking security failure (how is the Capitol so unprotected??), what we’ve seen was just a bunch of crazies being crazy, and then eventually being shut down by state forces. Trump’s conduct is unforgivable of course (and he should be impeached for it), but what we’ve seen is exactly what I believed would happen: the institutional barriers defending the democratic system against the efforts of the outgoing president.
Yes, but as I recall, you thought I was overreacting.
I thought you were overreacting to the possibility of Donald Trump remaining in power after January 20. Right now, as things stand, it may even be possible that he resigns before that. I don’t think I was wrong – but the most important thing is that now we know it will definitely be over in max 2 weeks.
He is not going to resign, and from the looks of it will not be removed via the 25th Amendment either, but hopefully he will be impeached and removed before 1/20 because we cannot trust a word he says, and the U.S. is not safe with him in office.
I wish you could vote in America, aroncido.
Let’s work on way for you to get a ballot in 2022.
You’re too kind, Ryan.
But it looks like I won’t even be able to vote in the country I currently live in in time for the next general election, so I might need to fix that first 😀
I respect that is your position – but it wouldn’t be mine if i was an AMPAS voter. But also i am not an American. There’s always a myriad of factors affecting which box gets ticked on an Oscar ballot.
*art is fiction
Because the job of art and the job of films is to transmit truths about the world we live in. And the world has all sorts of people in it, and there are important truths that could be revealed through art about these people. This is the case even when it makes us uncomfortable. The best art challenges, confronts, reveals. And the job of awards bodies is to recognise the best art. We can’t just run around making films only about people we ‘approve’ of, and then hand out phony awards for such efforts. That would be, in my humble view, hell.
I think it’s more harmful to fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Does Ralph Fiennes’ performance in Schindler’s List endorse Nazism? Christoph Waltz? Does giving Javier Bardem an Oscar for No Country for Old Men mean the Academy actively promotes sociopaths and murderers? What about Joaquin Phoenix in Joker? Kathy Bates in Misery? Gene Hackman in Unforgiven? Movies have always and WILL always portray individuals with messed-up worldviews; not as an endorsement, but as a reflection of reality. We don’t have to like them, but movies – the great empathy-generating machines – do have a way of making us understand. Your argument makes no sense.
To say my argument makes no sense is both insensitive and missing my point entirely. I already responded re: fictitious characters and I’m not sure why multiple people are comparing MAGA supporters to serial killers to make their points.
Because serial killers are worse than Trump supporters. And your argument about fictional characters doesn’t seem functional because Lindo also plays a fictional character. Thus the point is what they represent, and serial killers and Nazis are among the most obvious examples of bad people and thus completely reasonable counterarguments to your point
It’s the symbol of Trump’s policies that gets me and what rewarding a performance of a person wearing that symbol says. Serial killers do not have a universal symbol/policy or policies that they stand behind, so the analogy doesn’t work for me.
Because if you and logic were a married couple, you would now be divorced and living in different cities.
So I’m legitimately just trying to understand your point here, can you explain why you have an issue rewarding someone for playing a character who has damaging views? You’ve already accepted in other responses that endorsing the role is not an endorsement of the views so I am just trying to understand your point because it isn’t really coming across.
Thank you for trying to understand. I was able to get someone else to get where I was coming from earlier today, so let me try revisiting what I said to them:
The use of MAGA is a symbol of Trump’s policies (in real life, and it would follow then, also on screen), there is no other way of interpreting it. His policies have been harmful to the U.S. and mostly go against everything it stands for (these are facts, they are not opinions). I have an issue with awards groups rewarding someone who portrayed a character who stood by his policies because of what is happening in society post-election: MAGA supporters and Trump calling Biden’s win “illegitimate” and Trump refusing to concede going so far as to say he will not leave in January. It is extremely dangerous, the kind of thing we see in nations on the brink of dictatorships, and I do believe that by giving it more publicity, it adds fuel to that fire.
Now, had Trump and his supporters just accepted the loss OR (as with Christoph Waltz and Forest Whitaker) the film came out 30-40 years later, I would have no problem with Lindo getting the recognition. I just think it is somewhat irresponsible to not weigh in what is happening in society right now.
Awards bodies rarely nominate/award someone for merit alone, it often if political, why should this be any different?
is it the messenger you are shooting? Rather than the author of the message? Repudiate Spike Lee for the characterisation if you object to it. However I also think you would get a lot of pushback on that too, with Spike Lee’s politics pretty clear.
Not at all. My issue has nothing to do with Spike Lee and everything to do with the timing of the film, as I have said numerous times.
” I just think it is somewhat irresponsible to not weigh in what is happening in society right now.”
Spike Lee agrees with you, Jim.
One out of every 5 Black men voted for Trump.
None of us is happy about that, but Spike Lee refuses to ignore reality.
When I say “right now”, I don’t mean within the past four years, but right now: today.
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What a completely insensitive response.
He was reminding the room, Jim, about how a vile character can still win an Oscar for an actor.
Thanks for that, I was like “Uhhh”… but in any case, again TLKOS portrayed Idi Amin, as he was in life (to my knowledge) 35 years later. It isn’t really a comparison to MAGA which is contemporary.
> If only there was a better defense about all the elevation of Lindo for playing a MAGA supporter than “Christoph Waltz literally won for playing a nazi
Maybe, JUST maybe, it’s because he gave a terrific performance playing a very broken, haunted, and complicated individual.
Because him playing a Trump supporter doesn’t mean that the movie or the actor supports Trump in any way
Who knows? Maybe Spike Lee really IS a huge Trump supporter!
Of course not, and I didn’t say that it did.
But aren’t those the things that are being awarded? Even here it’s expressed as the entity being awarded is “Delroy Lindo for Da 5 Bloods” rather than the character’s name, thus I don’t see why Lindo or the movie should be punished for using a character they disagree with to express a point or for portraying that character
Is it a punishment NOT to be nominated and/or win?
Perhaps not punishment (that was probably too strong a word) but at least it’s an act of penalizing, it’s saying: “You’re good but you lose points for this and thus you can never actually be deserving”
I don’t think what I am suggesting has to comment at all on the actor or their portrayal. But instead to take it into consideration, e.g., “OK guys, we’re either giving this to Lindo or someone else, well, maybe not Lindo unfortunately because the MAGA supporters want to reverse the results of a free/fair election and their leader is essentially engaged in an attempted coup through his actions.”
But you’re still saying “maybe not Lindo” because of these things
Right, maybe NOW is not the best of times to reward a performance like this. MAYBE go for something else, equally deserving.
Also, it’s not like this is the first time that Spike Lee has had uncomfortable imagery in his films to present how horrible those images are, from what I’ve understood is the use of blackface in Bamboozled (I’ve never seen it so this is just based on what I’ve heard about it) or for example the imagery from The Birth of a Nation in BlacKkKlansman. I’m curious about whether you had a problem with these elements as well
Birth of a Nation is a disgraceful film, and I won’t go near it out of principle.
Black Face was used in Tropic Thunder (Robert Downey Jr), and I thought it was inappropriate. But it didn’t fly in the face of current events the way the MAGA hat does.
I was trying to point that by saying “maybe not Lindo” you’re saying that the problem is with Lindo, just as in your longer explanation with this: “I have an issue with awards groups rewarding someone who portrayed a
character who stood by his policies because of what is happening in
society post-election”
It all comes back to the actor and the movie, even if you don’t want it to. I understand that you Americans are extremely uncomfortable with the situation and that things like this can hurt but presenting that discomfort by not awarding someone and making an emphasis of “this problem is with the character and not the actor or the movie” is incredibly difficult.
I’d also ask, what if it wouldn’t have been a literal MAGA hat but rather something that’s an obvious placeholder for it? Would that have helped, that it would have been less of a literal representation of these things?
Probably, yes.
> I don’t see why Lindo or the movie should be punished for using a character they disagree with to express a point or for portraying that character
This is what we refer to in the industry as “common sense.”
The movie also shows the “Trump supporter” going literally insane, and getting multiple people killed because of his lack of judgment.
I’d have loved a Chaplin win for The great dictator, honestly.
Are you saying that a hypothetical documentary about the 2020 presidential campaign should not win awards because of the preponderance of MAGA hats on display? It should not be made (and be awards-worthy) until decades later?
One might say it’s…triggering.
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good stuff!
Ew, David.
luv it!
Nope. But does such a documentary exist?
Perhaps… https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=2020-u.s.-presidential-election&ref_=fn_kw_kw_3
Director: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
She’s shaping up to be a generational talent. I have massive fears that the more right wing culture warrior crowd will begin pestering her to make on the record hot takes about China which frankly is an utterly no-win situation for her.
To be fair, one doesn’t need to be right wing to be appalled by China’s human rights record but Zhao should continue to make the films she wants to make.
But a Chinese national speaking out runs the risk of having family members back home put in prison, that’s the no-win part.
That’s why it’s up to the rest of us.
Yeah, good perspective on that.
China is NOT North Korea. Been there a few times, even dated a person mamed Zhao. Americans don’t understand Asia of today. I love travelling there, but nobody can give me a good reason why I should travel to a dangerous country like USA. A country that does not even care for its own citizens. In Asia I am safe.
As expected, but nevertheless nice.
This could (not necessarily will) be a season where she wins literally every BD award from the critics’ phase all the way up until the Oscars. Some years are like that.
Kind of like Linklater’s run a few years back until DGA/Oscar slapped him down (and his career never recovering I might add)
I´d be surprised if Linklater does care that much about the Oscars.
He should have won for Before Midnight. He’ll probably NEVER top that script.
I love the whole trilogy, it´s just amazing to follow these characters over such a long time span. I hope there will be a fourth film in 2022 (every nine years so far, if I´m correct).
To be fair, he has been sort of hit-and-miss reception-wise even before that.
True, but the Before films got him nominations, and Bernie was tremendous
It’s almost time for a new Before film anyway.
I wouldn’t say that Linklater’s career “never recovered” so much as he was never really interesting in the Hollywood awards scene to begin with.
I liked his Sunrise trilogy and I loved Me and Orson Welles. I couldn’t stand Boyhood !
Everybody Wants Some!! was after Boyhood, though, and that’s really good
I still maintain that Glen Powell’s performance was award-worthy.
Also I feel like he’s definitely got more left in him, even if he made 2 slightly disappointing (but I would argue not as bad as people say they are) films… Appolo 10.5 looks great, I look forward to merrily we roll along being done in 20 years and I’m sure he’ll have other projects in the meantime!
I’m so hyped already for Merrily We Roll Along (it’s a top 2 Sondheim score for me along with Sunday in the Park with George), and to know that I have to wait 20 years is incredibly frustrating
Last Flag Flying was the mother of missed opportunities.
Yeah it was disappointing I agree but it still wasn’t a bad move at all! In fact there was a lot to like about it!
“His career never recovering…”
Definitely, especially when you consider he followed it with one of the best movies of his career (Everybody Wants Some!!), the underrated Last Flag Flying and Where You’d Go Bernadette (both with all-star casts), a new animated Netflix film based on his childhood in Houston (using the rotoscoping method from Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly) and began production on a 20-year-in-the-making adaptation of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. Definitely never recovered from making one of the best films of the 21st century.
Last Flag and Bernadette lost boatloads of money though.
Interesting compromise by the NYFCC to not shaft Lindo in the year of Boseman.
I don’t think Bozeman will get nominated for Da 5 Bloods over Ma Rainey’s Big Black Bottom but I agree.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a double nod (Supporting Actor is really weak this year).
It’s certainly possible; however, I’m currently predicting Leslie Odom, Jr., Frank Langella, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Straithairn, and Bill Murray, with Paul Raci being a possible alternate.
Only one from Chicago 7 gets in, and I wouldn’t be shocked if it’s Rylance.
I expect Langella, Rylance, and Cohen to all get various noms over the course of the season.
so far, I have Boseman for a double nomination
See Chicago and Florida critics nods.
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Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods)
Nice twist.
Da 5 Bloods is showing some staying power.
Now that Spike finally broke through with a win, his prestige projects will get much more of a look.
American Utopia will clean up large at the Emmys. Spike’s work was superlative on that project.
mmm… only Emmy or did it qualify for Oscar as well?
What a mostly boring list of winners! (Happy for Lindo anyway, because he deserves at least a nomination). I am glad that the Oscar is just in April and films that will be relesead until February will be allowed to compete, so, something good and really exciting in terms of filmaking can really happen. And I think the Academy is rooting for it too, because no way people, in a pandemic year, will watch a virtual cerimony with these kind of contenders. In the end, I think the Guilds and the Academy will go to a really different path, with more acessible and populist choices – Mank, Chicago, Tenet, Personal History of David Copperfield, and these names that are popping up at the female acting categories will be like Toni Colette in Hereditary and Ethan Hawke in First Reformed for example. Supporting Actress, I think that besides Seyfried, none of the others will get at least a nomination. (I can see a category with Colman, Seyfried, Close, Ronan and Burstyn). What an overrated film is “First Cow”. I don’t really understand all this acclaim from Critics.This is not a case of a slow paced film. This is a case of a boring and almost non story film. If this is what we can call “best” in a year, the year is going really bad tough.
You downvoted me for that? Ok, get a life lol
I didn’t. It was not me.
Too much negativity on this website anyway. This proves that. Someone else was fast to downvote a comment not linked to him/her. I have better things to do.
All the best.
First Cow has a lot better story than one of them superhero movies out there. Well, that is not saying much, because Marvel stuff are maybe only 20% full (Parasite being 100%). First Cow is not only about the story.
“Not only about the story”. You really should explain me this. So, if a film is not only about the story, what is the main purpose? If you have to justify a film too much, this is not a good sign.
Visuals in general… some great sound design (rainy scenes in particular), acting!!! and them micro expressions on actors’ faces, their chemistry… And cinematography reminded me of The Piano (the difficulty!!!) in a good way, production design that easily beats most westerns… First Cow will be studied. Avengers will not be studied.
I have only seen it once. After second viewing I can say more. I am drunk now. But I have been dreaming about the movie already.
Women direct better than men in 2020. Accept it!
First Cow will be forgotten.(or it already has been since nobody saw it when it was in teathers). Avengers will not – not matter what you say. And First Cow will never be studied because there is nothing there inside.
Avengers didn’t come out this year.
Everybody knows that. This year can not be forgotten.
It seems disingenuous to point out the tremendous success of women filmmakers THIS year to a film made LAST year.
I talk about Oscar year, as this is an awards website. Always. The Silence of the Lambs had a great run in 1991. Oooh, it was actually supposed to come out in 1990 (even end credits say state that year). We call it 1991 still.
First Cow would still be in a completely different Oscar year than Avengers: Endgame.
Yes, of course. I never said they were up against each other.
And yet you made comparisons to films made this year with films made last year. I’m not sure of your reasoning.
I replied to Jhonny (not you!) who mentioned many movies from different years. I also mentioned Parasite from last year, but you didn’t say anything about that.
I am done with you. I hate bullies.
You said woman direct better than men in 2020 – which is looking more and more likely to be true – and yet make comparisons to movies that have no relevancy to that point. You also said you were drunk, which might honestly explain all of this. I just don’t see a lot of consistency.
Marvel’s story is a long game. Remember, from Iron Man to Spiderman Far from home (that one, being the epilogue), it’s the same story going on, being seen from different perspectives, and building up to the Infinity War/Endgame diptic.
Yet it is all so very pointless.
Agree completely about First Cow .First why was the movie two hours !. Maybe an hour and a half . Some critics compared it to McCabe& Mrs. Miller . Give me a break ! McCabe is a great film . Maybe First Cow should . be on a double with Poor Cow .
Non-Fiction: Time
One would have thought that it wouldn’t have taken that long to get to that conclusion
It took Time. (sorry)
Before the next announcement of each category the NY critics watch the movie that won the previous category.
They want to see what the hype is all about.
Now that’s just cynical.
They always go slow, but aren’t they going even slower than usual this time around?
Also, I know absolutely nothing about this year’s Foreign Language Film slate, but for anyone with a better understanding, is Bacurau the type that just starts winning and never stops, or is it the type that gets buzz early and then is not even nominated for the Oscar?
Bacurau would be an interesting choice for the Oscars since it’s a horror film. I’m all for it.
Let’s put it this way, I don’t think it’s very Academy-friendly. It’s pretty violent, it’s more of a genre movie than anything else (I’d even emphasize from what Ryan said that it’s tonally and narratively more like a b-horror/western/action movie combination than the “elevated horror” movies that people have been praising in recent years) and it’s in my opinion quite sparse for the Academy’s tastes. It would be a wonderful choice but feels more like The Handmaiden than Ida. But then again, the other major contender seems to be a comedy about Mads Mikkelsen trying to never stop being drunk so who knows
“a comedy about Mads Mikkelsen trying to never stop being drunk so who knows”
relatable.
Actually, if I’m not mistaken Bacurau is not eligible anyway. It was eligible for selection a year ago but Brazil went with Invisible Life instead.
Formerly The Weinstein Awards, NYFCC is now The A24 awards (what a surprise… who would imagine that the NY Film Critics would have such a strong goodwill for the major independent companies in town?!). 4th time in 5 years in a row that A24 wins either Picture or Director. The exception… 2018, but they handled both Screenplay and Actor to A24.
Really? So A24 is a NYC-based company.
I honestly haven’t been much attention to critic predictions so far…is there a chance Flanigan will get an Oscar nom? I hope so…she deserves it.
She’s 2/2 so far with the critics… But I still doubt it.
Best Actress is so competitive. But she’s moving up. She feels to me like Hawke in First Reformed.
First Cow and Nomadland for pic and director. My favs, so deserved.
Will Chadwick Boseman be the first dead person to receive two nominations at the globes, sag and oscar?
I sincerely doubt he’s going to get double nominated.
The Chicago and Florida critics nods (so far) are going there.
Maria Bakalova is actually an amazing choice, bravo!
(Jesus will be thrilled!)
(our Jesus, to specify…)
called it long time ago. But no merit… Sacha Baron Cohen was the first to campaign for her… I just remembered that NYFC wouldn’t shy out of giving her the win, as they did with Cameron Díaz or Haddish
Yes, actually it’s not a surprise that the Critics groups feel attracted by a guerilla kind of performance like hers. I’m still sceptical about the Academy following and giving her a deserved nomination, but there is hope!