The city-based group of about 50 print and online movie reviewers is often the first major group of critics to announce their top picks for the year. Their winners are chosen by ballot and on a category-by-category basis.
“The Brutalist”, which is three and a half hours long, was also cited for Adrien Brody’s lead performance. Meanwhile, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named actress of the year for “Hard Truths,” her reunion with British director Mike Leigh. She was previously nominated for an Oscar for her role in Lee’s “Secrets and Lies.”
The best director award went to Ramil Ross for his adaptation of the author. A 2019 novel by Colson Whitehead “Knuckle Boys.”
Complete list of NYFCC winners (continued)
- Movie: “The Brutalist” (A24)
- Director: Ramel Ross, “Knuckle Boys” (Amazon MGM Studios)
- actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalists” (A24)
- Actress: Marianne Jean Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (Bleecker Street)
- Supporting Actor: Karen Culkin, “A Real Pain” (Searchlight Pictures)
- Supporting Actress: Carol Kane, “Between the Temples” (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Screenplay: “Anora,” Sean Baker (Neon)
- International Film: “We Think of All as Light” (Jones Films/Sideshow)
- Non Fiction Film: “No other land” (not a current distributor)
- Animated film: “Flow” (Johns Films/Sideshow)
- Cinematography: “Knuckle Boys,” Jomo Free (Amazon MGM Studios)
- First movie: “Janet Planet,” Annie Baker (A24)
- Special Award: To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
The group selected as its best nonfiction film winner “No Other Land,” an Israeli-Palestinian collaboration directed by Basil Adra, Hamdan Bilal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szur. Longtime film critic Jay Hoberman It was recently named as the best film of the year. In Artforum, it is described as “a description of forced evictions in the occupied West Bank made mostly on amateur digital video” about “the fate of an agricultural area containing twenty Palestinian villages over two decades.” Ongoing legal battle”. The film is currently without distribution in North America.
The NYFCC also named Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine This Light” as the International Film of the Year. The Indian film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival last spring. Although films that win the award are often nominated for the International Feature Oscar, the jury responsible for selecting India’s submission to the Academy chose Kiran Rao’s “Lost Ladies” instead, so If Kapadia’s film is nominated for an Oscar, he will be chosen for it. Being in general categories.
“Anora,” which won the top prize — the Palme d’Or — at Cannes earlier this year, won writer-director Sean Baker’s NYFCC award for best screenplay. Baker was previously nominated for Best Director by New York Critics in 2017 for “The Florida Project.”
Karen Culkin He was named Best Supporting Actor for his role in “A Real Pain.” Carol Kane Nate Silver was nominated for Best Supporting Actress of the Year for the drama “Between the Temples.”
The award for best animated film went to “Flo” by Latvian director Gints Zalblodus. The best first film award went to “Janet Planet,” an A24 production directed by Annie Baker, and the best cinematography award went to Jomo Frey for his first-person perspective on “Knuckle Boys.”
The history of the NYFCC goes back nine decades.
The group began in 1935, less than a decade after the advent of the Academy Awards, and has often positioned itself as an antidote to the Oscars nominations and vice versa, the following year. Which films could be in the Oscar race?
“In Oscar competition, the group’s best picture track record speaks for itself: ‘Citizen Kane’ on ‘How Green Is My Valley’; ‘A Clockwork Orange’ on ‘The French Connection’; ‘Day’ on ‘The Sting’ For Night’; ‘Dances with Wolves’ on ‘Goodfellas'” says the organization. “Since 1935, the Academy Awards have awarded Best Picture to 43% of the NYFCC’s selections.”
It’s been more than a decade since the NYFCC’s choice for best picture of the year was matched by an Oscar selection — 2011’s “The Artist.” Since then, most of his picks have been nominated for at least a best picture Academy Award, including last year’s selection for Martin Scorsese’s “Colors of the Flower Moon.”
The group’s choices for acting awards can also be outside the mainstream, with some of their recent references going to Regina Hall, Best Actress of 2018 Ethan Hawke for “Support the Girls” Best actor in 2018 Best Supporting Actor Charles Melton in 2023 for “First Reformed” and “May December.” On the other hand, the NYFCC caused a stir in 1998 when they awarded their Best Actress award to Cameron Diaz for the gross-out comedy “There’s Something About Me.”
Their awards will be distributed in January.