New York Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
New York Film Critics winners: Dec. 14, 2009
 

The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
 

Best Film – The Hurt Locker
Best Foreign Language Film – Summer Hours
Best Non-fiction Film – Of Time and the City
Best First Feature – Hunger, director Steve McQueen
Best Animated Film – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Actress – Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia
Best Actor – George Clooney for Up In The Air and Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique for Precious
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
Best Screenplay – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche for In the Loop
Best Cinematography – Christian Berger for The White Ribbon
Special Award – Andrew [...]

Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Mo’Nique, Christoph Waltz: New York Film Critics Awards 2009

Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia

THE HURT LOCKER Tops 2009 New York Film Critics Awards
Although there is still quite a bit of room for surprises, the acting categories have four clear favorites following the New York critics‘ announcements: George Clooney for Up in the Air (the NY critics added Fantastic Mr. Fox — but not The Men Who Stare at Goats — to their citation), Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (but not for It’s Complicated), Mo’Nique for Precious, and Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds.
All four have won awards elsewhere, e.g., National Board of Review (Clooney), the Washington critics (Clooney, Mo’Nique, Waltz), the Boston critics (Streep, Mo’Nique, Waltz), the New York Film Critics Online (Streep, Mo’Nique, Waltz), the Los Angeles [...]

THE HURT LOCKER Tops 2009 New York Film Critics Awards

Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker was the New York Film Critics Circle’s unsurprising choice for best picture of 2009. Yesterday, the Iraq War drama about a US bomb squad unit won top honors in Boston and Los Angeles as well.
Now, is it a front runner for the Oscars? Not necessarily — unless it wins the Screen Actors Guild’s best ensemble award early next year. For now, both Up in the Air and Precious remain serious contenders. And by February, Avatar may have become a favorite as well.
It’s curious to remember that a year ago The Hurt Locker didn’t even get a Spirit Award nomination for best picture. Back then, long before [...]

2008 New York Film Critics Winners

There were no major surprises in the list of the New York Film Critics Circle’s 2008 winners — unless you count last year’s Romanian abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days being chosen this year’s best foreign film. (Last year, the New York critics’ picked the German drama The Lives of Others — released in Los Angeles in 2006 — as their top foreign film; the previous year, their choice was the French underground drama Army of Shadows, a 1969 release in its country of origin.)
Milk was voted best film, Sean Penn (above) was the best actor for his performance as slain gay leader Harvey Milk, and Josh Brolin was chosen best supporting actor for the same film. [...]

New York Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: Dec. 10, 2008
 

Best Picture: Milk directed by Gus Van Sant
Runners-up: Rachel Getting Married; Happy-Go-Lucky and Slumdog Millionaire (tie)

Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu
Runners-up: A Christmas Tale; The Class

Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Runners-up: Ballast; Reprise

Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by James Marsh
Runners-up: Waltz with Bashir; Trouble the Water

Best Animated Film: WALL-E directed by Andrew Stanton
Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir

Best Director: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runners-up: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Runners-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler; Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino

Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runners-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River; Kate Winslet, [...]

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