NY Film Critics Circle Awards: The Irishman, Nyong’o, Banderas
Posted on December 5, 2019 at 9:13 am
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Best Film: The Irishman
Best Director: Benny and Josh Safdie – Uncut Gems
Best Actor: Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory
Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o – Us
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci – The Irishman
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern – Marriage Story and Little Women
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Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood
Best Cinematography: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite
Best Documentary: Honeyland
Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body
Best First Film: Atlantics
Special Awards: Randy Newman, Indie Collect
National Board of Review Awards: The Irishman, Sandler, Zellweger
Posted on December 4, 2019 at 8:27 am
The National Board of Review’s 2019 awards:
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Best Film: THE IRISHMAN
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Best Actor: Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS
Best Actress: Renée Zellweger, JUDY
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates, RICHARD JEWELL
Best Original Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, UNCUT GEMS
Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, THE IRISHMAN
Breakthrough Performance: Paul Walter Hauser, RICHARD JEWELL
Best Directorial Debut: Melina Matsoukas, QUEEN & SLIM
Best Animated Feature: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
Best Foreign Language Film: PARASITE
Best Documentary: MAIDEN
Best Ensemble: KNIVES OUT
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Roger Deakins, 1917
NBR Icon Award: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: FOR SAMA
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: JUST MERCY
Top Films (in alphabetical order)
“1917”
“Dolemite is My Name”
“Ford v Ferrari”
“Jojo Rabbit”
“Knives Out”
“Marriage Story”
“Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”
“Richard Jewell”
“Uncut Gems”
“Waves”
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
“Atlantics”
“Invisible Life”
“Pain and Glory”
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
“Transit”
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
“American Factory”
“Apollo 11”
“The Black Godfather”
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”
“Wrestle”
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Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
“The Farewell”
“Give Me Liberty”
“A Hidden Life”
“Judy”
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”
“Midsommar”
The Nightingale”
“The Peanut Butter Falcon”
“The Souvenir”
“Wild Rose”
Spirit Awards 2019: If Beale Street Could Talk, Glenn Close, Roma
Posted on February 24, 2019 at 8:00 am
Copyright Annapurna 2018For me, the most significant and enjoyable movie awards of the year are the Spirit Awards (formerly Independent Spirit). I was thrilled that my favorite film of 2018, “If Beale Street Could Talk” was selected for Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress.
Here are the awards:
Best Feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (WINNER)
Best Director
Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (WINNER)
Best First Feature
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED
Best Female Lead
Glenn Close, THE WIFE
Best Supporting Female Actor
Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Best Supporting Male Actor
Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Best Cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, SUSPIRIA
Best Screenplay
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
Best First Screenplay
Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE
Best Editing
Joe Bini, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
Best Documentary
WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?
Best International Film
ROMA (Mexico)
The Truer Than Fiction Award
Bing Liu, MINDING THE GAP
Producers Award
Shrihari Sathe
The Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto, SÓCRATES
The Bonnie Award
Debra Granik
Robert Altman Award
SUSPIRIA
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Casting Directors: Avy Kaufman, Stella Savino
Ensemble Cast: Malgosia Bela, Ingrid Caven, Lutz Ebersdorf, Elena Fokina, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Dakota Johnson, Gala Moody, Chloë Grace Moretz, Renée Soutendijk, Tilda Swinton, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler
Copyright STX FilmsThe Golden Raspberry Awards, known as the Razzies, announced their winners Saturday, awarding the best of the worst in film. As usual, the Razzies tend to go for the obvious and repetitive, and sometimes blame the performers when it isn’t their fault. This year they got rather political. And there’s a bit of a surprise here with Melissa McCarthy being called out for two terrible movies, when tomorrow night she’s up for an Oscar for an excellent one.
Worst picture: Holmes and Watson
Runners-up:
“Gotti”
“The Happytime Murders”
“Robin Hood”
“Winchester”
Worst director: Etan Cohen, “Holmes & Watson”
Runners-up:
Kevin Connolly, “Gotti”
James Foley, “Fifty Shades Freed”
Brian Henson, “The Happytime Murders”
The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter), “Winchester”
Worst actress: Melissa McCarthy, “The Happytime Murders”and “Life of the Party”
Runners-up:
Jennifer Garner, “Peppermint”
Amber Heard, “London Fields”
Helen Mirren, “Winchester”
Amanda Seyfried, “The Clapper”
Worst actor: Donald J. Trump (as himself), “Death of a Nation” and “Fahrenheit 11/9”
Runners-up:
Johnny Depp, “Sherlock Gnomes”
Will Ferrell, “Holmes & Watson”
John Travolta, “Gotti”
Bruce Willis, “Death Wish”
Worst screen couple: “Donald J. Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness,” “Death of a Nation” and “Fahrenheit 11/9”
Runners-up:
“Any two actors or puppets,” “Happytime Murders”
“Johnny Depp and his fast-fading film career,” “Sherlock Gnomes”
“Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters),” “Holmes & Watson”
“Kelly Preston and John Travolta (getting ‘Battlefield Earth’-type reviews!),” “Gotti”
Worst screenplay: “Fifty Shades Freed”
Runners-up:
“Death of a Nation”
“Gotti”
“The Happytime Murders”
“Winchester”
Worst remake, ripoff or sequel: “Holmes & Watson”
“Death of a Nation”
“Death Wish”
“The Meg” (ripoff of “Jaws”)
“Robin Hood”
I am proud to be a member of the Online Film Critics and very proud of our awards for 2019.
BEST PICTURE
Roma
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Toni Collette – Hereditary
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Schrader – First Reformed
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST EDITING
Eddie Hamilton – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
BEST DEBUT FEATURE
Ari Aster – Hereditary
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Roma
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Annihilation – Best Visual Effects
Black Panther – Best Costume Design
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Best Stunt Coordination
A Quiet Place – Best Sound Design
A Star Is Born – Best Original Songs
ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY’S BEST OF THE YEAR
1. Roma
2. BlacKkKlansman
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. First Reformed
5. The Favourite
6. You Were Never Really Here
7. Annihilation
8. Eighth Grade
9. Hereditary
10. A Star Is Born
11. Suspiria
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Roger Deakins
Spike Lee
Rita Moreno
Robert Redford
Agnès Varda
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Director Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther’s distinctive critical and box office appeal
The city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018’s most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, “Sorry to Bother You” and “Blindspotting.”
