'Hurt Locker' and Bigelow Top New York Critics List as Well
The Fox beats the old man for Best Animated feature
Yesterday there was a little confusion when some people thought the New York Film Critics Circle had chosen Avatar as thier winner for the year's best film. In fact that was the New York Film Critics Online and not the long-standing NYC critics. Today, they have weighed in and awarded The Hurt Locker yet another Best Picture win as well as director Kathryn Bigelow. In my opinion this now makes Bigelow the front-runner for Best Director, but I'm still not convinced the film itself will take the top prize.
Christoph Waltz continues his domination in the Best Supporting Actor category and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox gets an animated win. Is it possible for Fox to take the top prize from Pixar's Up? I would love to see it happen, but not so sure it will.
I am not a fan of Meryl Streep winning Best Actress for Julie and Julia, not because she's bad in the film (in fact she and Stanley Tucci are the only things good about the film), but because there are more deserving females this year.
I just watched The White Ribbon and while I can't argue with Christian Berger's win for Cinematography I actually think it's more for making a beautifully shot black-and-white film than for actually having the best cinematography. However, while watching the film I was trying to think of other films that deserved it any more than White Ribbon and after doing so I can't say you would get any argument out of me, no matter how beautiful Dion Beebe's work in Nine may be or even Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker. Right now I would add Robert Richardson's work in Inglourious Basterds to that list and I am undecided on a fifth.
The full list of winners from the New York Film Critics Circle are directly below.
Best Picture
- The Hurt Locker
Best Director
- Katheryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Screenplay
- In The Loop
Best Actress
- Meryl Streep for Julie and Julia
Best Actor
- George Clooney for Up In The Air and Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Supporting Actress
- Mo'Nique for Precious
Best Supporting Actor
- Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds
Best Cinematographer
- Christian Berger for The White Ribbon
Best Animated Film
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
- Of Time and The City
Best Foreign Film
- Summer Hours
Best First Film
- Steve McQueen, Hunger
Special
- Andrew Sarris
Remember, you can stay up to date with all the year end award lists in my "The Contenders" section right here.
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This should be a fun awards season to follow, if only to see if The Hurt Locker's momentum can carry through to the Oscars in March, or if Up in the Air, Precious, or Avatar will sneak up and take Best Picture.
I'm sure she did fine, but I am also opposed to Meryl Streep winning Best Actress, as my choice would be Carey Mulligan. It's also awesome to see Waltz and Fantastic Mr. Fox both getting some love. I really want Basterds to win Screenplay, but In the Loop keeps winning. Would they be in the same category at the Oscars, or would Loop be adapted screenplay?
I kinda wish The Hurt Locker wouldn't win everything right now, and just win a few, and Bigelow at least get director at the Oscars. It's my favorite movie of the year but the "regular as clockwork backlash" will get on my nerves as always, since it's always about being a sore loser for the film you're routing for rather then the films actual quality. Course, if Avatar ends up winning Picture…oih lol, so there's a slight limit of me not practicing what I preach haha. Sure, let Avatar win the technical awards and be nominated for Picture, but it's story and characters will be too stale that it winning Picture will be embarrassing, again IMO of course.
But oh well, as long as Bigelow wins director I'll be happy.
Bigelow is definitely looking like the frontrunner now. She's a lock for a Globe nomination tomorrow, I bet.
Brad how long is it going to take you to bump Waltz up to #1 infront of Tucci, lovely bones is nowhere to be seen and either is Tucci
@Arjuna: I am seeing Lovely Bones very, very soon and once I have I will be doing a full update. My guess is by Thursday afternoon I will have a complete update for all the topline categories.
Almost seems like the supporting Oscars winners are already determined, the same two are winning everything.
In the history of the animated feature Oscar, the animated film nominee that has also garnered a screenplay nomination has always gone on to win the award. Up is pretty much a lock to be an Orig. Screenplay nominee so it definitely has the inside track to the Oscar.
However, this may play out. If UP gets that Best Picture nomination (which I think it will), then that might be considered a "win" in itself. Then, the animated feature oscar will be up for grabs between Coraline, Frog, and Fox. In this scenario, animation will be honored like never before wherein UP got broke free and got a Best Picture nomination, and another animated film takes the animated oscar.
@junjun: My intuition tells me that Up will be nominated for Best Picture and win Best Animated Film.
Let the Meryl Streep domination start! She will take it all the way to the OSCARS. Coming from Adaptation, Prada, Doubt, she deserved to win this year! That's all!
Michael Haneke said at a NY Film Festival Q&A that it was not shot in black and white, but color, then changed. He also did much computer work on the film that I would never have guessed. It's been manipulated far more than I would've guessed. I'd love to see what production notes on that say, if anything.