Lisa Cholodenko Articles
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE SOCIAL NETWORK: New York Film Critics’ Mainstream Choices
Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right The New York Film Critics Circle have chosen their 2010 winners. [List of New York Film Critics winners.] My predictions — Another Year, David Fincher, Lesley Manville, Jesse Eisenberg, Carlos, Toy Story 3, Jacki Weaver, Niels Arestrup — were mostly way off the mark. This year, the New York critics opted for accessible, U.S.-made mainstream fare: [...]
New York Film Critics Winners 2010: THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Annette Bening, Colin Firth, CARLOS
Jesse Eisenberg, Brenda Song, The Social Network THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE SOCIAL NETWORK: New York Film Critics’ Mainstream Choices Best Film: The Social Network Best Foreign Language Film: Carlos Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network Best Actress: Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Best Actor: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter Best Supporting Actor: Mark [...]
National Board of Review 2010 Winners: Last-Minute Predictions
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s The Social Network The 2010 National Board of Review award winners will be announced in a few hours. Below are a few strong possibilities in the top categories, based on what’s hot this year and on NBR winners of the last ten years. When it comes to their choice of Best Film, NBR voters usually opt for mainstream [...]
WINTER’S BONE Leads Spirit Awards 2011 Nominations; THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Runner-Up
Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (top); Michelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine (upper middle); John Cameron Mitchell, director of Rabbit Hole (lower middle); Ronald Bronstein in Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie’s Daddy Longlegs (bottom) Winter’s Bone, in which an Ozark Mountain teenager hunts down her drug-dealing father, topped the 2011 Spirit Award nominations announced earlier today. Directed by Debra Granik, who also [...]