http://www.nyfcc.com/

Results should be up around 2 PM EST.

Last year's winners:

Best Picture Sideways
Best Actor Paul Giamatti
Best Actress Imelda Staunton
Best Supporting Actor Clive Owen
Best Supporting Actress Virginia Madsen
Best Director Clint Eastwood
Best Screenplay Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Best Cinematographer Christopher Doyle for Hero
Best Foreign Film Bad Education
Best Non-Fiction Film Fahrenheit 9/11
Best Animated Film The Incredibles
Best First Film Maria Full of Grace
Special Award Milestone Films received a special award in honor of 15 years of restoring classic films.

Other years

http://www.nyfcc.com/awards_2003.html ROTK
http://www.nyfcc.com/awards_2002.html Far from Heaven
http://www.nyfcc.com/awards_2001.html Mullholland Drive
http://www.nyfcc.com/awards_2000.html Traffic

90's

http://www.nyfcc.com/award99.html

ROTK is the only "big" movie among the Best Film winners of recent years. I wonder if the trend of awarding indies would continue..

My bet: Good night, and good luck.

Of course, I also thought the LA critics would go for it, too

Just to piss off Loyal and Andaroo: Crash

My bet is either Capote or Good Night and Good Luck.

It's Brokeback again, lol... (and Ledger finally won over Hoffman)

from oscarwatch:


Best Picture, Brokeback Mountain
Best Director, Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee, director
Best Actor, Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress, Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line
Best Supporting Actor, William Hurt, A History of Violence
Best Supporting Actress, Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Animated Film, howl's Moving Castle
Best Screenplay, The Squid and the Whale
Best Documentary, Grizzly Man and White Diamond
Best Foreign Film, 2046
Best Cinematography, 2046
Best First Film, Capote

Looks like another sweep of critic awards in the making: Brokeback Mountain instead of Sideways.

Hoffman not winning here is surprising to me considering he played a legendary new yorker. They must really love Brokeback to give it its three top awards.

And William Hurt and Maria Bello are well and alive in each's respective race.

Did not expect a match among LAFCC and NYFCC, but this bodes very, very well for a Brokeback win.

Unless it turns out to be L.A. Confidential vs. Titanic all over again.

I think this Brokeback Mountain experience can teach us all a lesson: Rotten Tomatoes is good at measuring a broad, vague level of interest and appreciation, but looking any closer at the numbers is ridiculous. Brokeback Mountain didn't, as predicted, need 95% to be the SIDEWAYS/critics darling of the year.

The continued lack of any Constant Gardener anywhere continues to frustrate me, if not surprise.

Okay i think i found the right thread



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_ ... ics_awards


NEW YORK - The New York Film Critics Circle became the latest group to name the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain" as the year's top film, while the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures gave its best-picture award Monday to "Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's depiction of Edward R. Murrow's on-air battles against Sen. Joseph McCarthy.


Both groups selected Ang Lee as best director for "Brokeback Mountain," in which Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play cowboys who find forbidden, unexpected love in Wyoming during the summer of 1963.

"'Brokeback' was an old-fashioned romance that also fulfilled the group's impulse to be daring and original," said Gene Seymour, film critic for Newsday and president of the New York Film Critics Circle. "It combines the best of both these elements."

On Saturday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association also chose "Brokeback Mountain" as its top film of 2005. With Golden Globe Award nominations scheduled to be announced Tuesday morning, it's emerging as a front-runner among a wide variety of films that have received acclaim.

The New York critics gave best-actor honors to Ledger, while Reese Witherspoon was named best actress for her spirited portrayal of June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line."

"It seemed like such a daring departure from what he'd been known to do before," Seymour said of Ledger, whose previous films include the comedy "A Knight's Tale" and the skateboarding movie "Lords of Dogtown."

As for Witherspoon, he said, "Even in the Hollywood, commercial, popcorn genre she's worked in, she has extraordinary respect from a cross-section of critics here. She's very, very engaged in her character — she really knows what to do in front of a camera, always."

Two performers who underwent significant transformations for their roles received the top acting honors from the National Board of Review: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in "Capote," and Felicity Huffman as a preoperative transsexual in "Transamerica."

Even though "Good Night" takes place a half-century ago, the National Board of Review was struck by its relevance to the current state of journalism. David Strathairn stars as Murrow, the pioneering CBS newsman who criticized McCarthy for communist witch hunts of the 1950s. Clooney is the director and co-star.

"The press is very much on the tip of everybody's tongue — what they're reporting, how much they're reporting," said Annie Schulhof, National Board of Review president.

"I think it was an extraordinary film. Mr. Clooney really nailed it. He really understood the issues," Schulhof added. "It got people talking, and many times, that's what a good film does."

Two co-stars from the thriller "A History of Violence" received supporting-actor honors from the New York critics: William Hurt and Maria Bello.

The National Board of Review gave its supporting acting awards to Gyllenhaal for "Brokeback Mountain" and Gong Li for "Memoirs of a Geisha." "Mrs. Henderson Presents," about a wealthy widow who started a nude revue in 1930s London, received the ensemble acting award.

The National Board was the latest group to recognize Terrence Howard with a breakthrough-performance honor for his varied work in several films this year, including "Hustle & Flow," "Crash" and "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." He received similar honors over the weekend from the Los Angeles critics and the New York Film Critics Online.

Noah Baumbach won the original-screenplay honor for "The Squid and the Whale," his semi-autobiographical story about divorce in a literary Brooklyn family, and Stephen Gaghan won the adapted-screenplay award for "Syriana," his multilayered thriller about oil, power and manipulation in the Middle East. The New York critics also honored Baumbach for his screenplay.

"Syriana" also was among the National Board's list of the year's top 10 films. The rest, in alphabetical order: "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Crash," "A History of Violence," "Match Point," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Munich" and "Walk the Line."

The New York Film Critics Circle, founded in 1935, consists of about 30 reviewers who write for the city's daily newspapers and for New York-based weekly publications.

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, formed in 1909, is composed of film historians, students and educators.

I'm so happy for Hurt and Bello

Go Maria Bello! I haven't seen AHOV, but she was great in The Cooler, and I loved her on ER, so she deserves this.

Geeze, why the hell can't A History of Violence be on DVD NOW damnit! I want to see this soooo badly.

PEACE, Mike.

It's wonderful to see Violence pick up the pace, and I'm enthusiastic over the BBM support BA seems to be going back and forth between Witherspoon and Huffman... yay!! What an exciting year.

Go Reese and Maria Bello!

Another Screenplay nod for The Squid and the Whale and another lack of Joaquin Phoenix anywhere.

It works both ways. Brokeback Mountain didn't need 95% to be a critics darling and Walk the Line didn't need 90% to be considered a contendor.

The 75% line is pretty much the limit, everything over that is pretty fair game.

Yayayayayayaya! There's still hope for Hurt!

Looks to me like Oscars would have been a race between Cache and 2046 had 2046 not, you know, been released 2 years ago.

Squid and the Whale continues to grow. I would have thought this movie was a blip on the 600 movies/year run, but it seems to be keeping its box office legs and critical support up. Maybe a screenplay nom later this year?

Go Brokeback. I can't wait to see it. I am getting more and more excited the more I hear about it, if that's at all possible.

Unless you're Chocolat.

I always forget Chocolat.

I second that....

There's a good reason why as well.

Runner up and 3rd place information:

Picture: Brokeback Mountain, History of Violence (4 votes short), Good Night and Good Luck (distant third)

Director: Ang Lee, David Cronenberg (2 votes short), Steven Spielberg (distant third)

Screenplay: Squid and the Whale, Brokeback Mountain (distant 2nd), Munich

Cinematography: 2046, Good Night and Good Luck, The New World

Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Emmanuelle Devos (distant 2nd), Zhang Ziyi

Actor: Heath Ledger, Philip S Hoffman (2 votes short), Viggo Mortensen (5 votes short)

Supporting Actor: William Hurt, Mathieu Almaric, Terence Howard

Supporting Actress: Maria Bello, Gong Li (3 votes short), Diane Keaton (distant third)

Foreign Film: 2046, Cache, Look at Me (distant third)

Documentary: Grizzly Man, the Penguin movie, The Aristocrats

Animation: Howl's Castle, Wallace and Gromitt (one vote short), Corpse Bride

First Feature: Capote, Me and You and Everyone We Know (distant 2nd), Junebug