Monday, December 10, 2007
Film Awards Watch: NYFCC and LAFCA
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 8:54 PM
The two most important film critics awards -- next to the all-important, king-making Southeastern Film Critics Association awards, of course (which will be announced next week) -- are probably the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which have just announced their honors for 2007. The New York awards play out like this:
BEST FILM: No Country for Old Men
BEST DIRECTORS: Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie (Away From Her)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
BEST SCREENPLAY: Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: No End in Sight
BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Lives of Others
BEST ANIMATED FILM: Persepolis
BEST FIRST FILM: Sarah Polley (Away from Her)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Sidney Lumet
SPECIAL CRITICS' AWARD: Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep)
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced its awards Sunday. LAFCA generally marches to the beat of different drummers, and its awards usually aren’t seen as obvious Academy Award predictors. It deserves special praise this year for recognizing the screenplay of The Savages. (It also always gets props in my book for giving top honors to the most awesome movie ever made, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, in 1985.)
BEST PICTURE: There Will Be Blood
DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
ACTRESS: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
SCREENPLAY: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
DOCUMENTARY/ NON-FICTION FILM: No End in Sight
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood
ANIMATION (tie): Ratatouille and Persepolis
MUSIC: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
NEW GENERATION: Sarah Polley, Away from Her
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Sidney Lumet
Next up, the once laughable, now prestigious Golden Globe Awards, to be announced Thursday.
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Wow, looks like I'm gonna have to put Gone Baby Gone on the old Netflix queue and see what I missed. The NY and LA critics awards are definitely the ones that I see as having the most validity, though the Oscars are worth a pre-recorded & fast-forwarded gander for the pomp. The Golden Globes are prestigious? Surely there's sarcasm in that there remark. Maybe so for studio PR hacks. In much agreement regarding LA critics & Brazil - they really championed that great film when someone needed to. I would have never had the opportunity have my dad drive me to the Cobb Galleria theater so I could watch it (along with maybe 4 other lucky folks) if not for their vote. Still waiting for someone to make Battle for Brazil into a great HBO movie.
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I think the Golden Globes have risen in popularity partly because ALL awards have risen in popularity (and prevalence). I do think they're a nice complement to the Oscars -- which ain't saying too much. "Gone Baby Gone" was slightly underrated, although its glitches are rather obvious as Curt pointed out in his spot-on review. And you really should see it on the big screen; it's still playing all over Atlanta...
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