New York Film Critics Awards Articles

Darren Aronofsky, Vincent Cassel, Black Swan At ew.com, Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote a thoughtful piece about the New York Film Critics Circle’s Monday night awards ceremony — in the words of The Village Voice’s Michael Atkinson, "even more of a train wreck than usual." Two trains collided at the ceremony, NYFCC chairman and evening host Armond White and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, who took to [...]

Darren Aronofsky (front), Matthew Libatique on the set of Black Swan Roger Friedman reports at showbiz411.com that the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) awards ceremony held Monday evening was anything but dull. In attendance were the likes of Michelle Williams, Colin Firth, Melissa Leo, Tom Hooper, Kerry Washington, Mark Ruffalo, Annette Bening, Lisa Cholodenko, Stanley Tucci, Warren Beatty, and Paul Schrader. Some of the [...]

Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg, Patrick Maple, The Social Network Even though New York and Los Angeles critics represent a large percentage of the National Society of Film Critics’ voters, only five times in the last 35 years (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975) have all three major US critics groups agreed on their Best Film winner. The first time [...]

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: [...]