New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Hurt Locker Is Tops
By Russ Fischer/Dec. 14, 2009 1:00 pm EST
The Golden Globes nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, and those always get a lot of press, but this is an interesting set of choices that should change some of the Oscar odds.
I love seeing Steve McQueen and Hunger lauded in the First Feature category, though I don’t like seeing A Simple Man miss the list altogether. And it has seemed like a lock ever since Cannes, but how can Christoph Waltz not win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Inglourious Basterds after taking one critic association award after another?
Meanwhile, before I get to the full list of NYFCC awards, I want to push Slant’s ‘Top 25 of 2009’ list. I noticed it when Roger Ebert mentioned it over Twitter, and it’s a great list. It’s not necessarily the list I would choose, but that’s what I love about year-end lists. I don’t need to see my own option ratified over and over; I’d much rather see something that suggests I should pay more attention to films that didn’t make my own list. Check it out when you have a minute, and queue up every film on it that you missed this year.
Without further ado, the NYFCC awards:
Best Film – The Hurt Locker
Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Screenplay – In the Loop
Best Actress – Meryl Streep for Julie & 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 Inglourious Basterds
Best Cinematography – Christian Berger for The White Ribbon
Best Animated Film – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Non-fiction Film – Of Time and the City
Best Foreign Language Film – Summer Hours
Best First Feature – Hunger, director Steve McQueen
Special Award – To Andrew Sarris for his contribution to film criticism
