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Jan 6

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Lady Bird leads 2017 awards

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Sally Hawkins – 49 (The Shape of Water, Maudie)

  1. Saoirse Ronan – 44 (Lady Bird)
  2. Frances McDormand 24 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
  3. Cynthia Nixon – 24 (A Quiet Passion) [tie]

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Laurie Metcalf – 74 (Lady Bird)

  1. Lesley Manville – 36 (Phantom Thread)
  2. Allison Janney – 24 (I, Tonya)

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Daniel Kaluuya – 44 (Get Out)

  1. Daniel Day-Lewis – 34 (Phantom Thread)
  2. Timothée Chalamet — 24 (Call Me by Your Name)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*1. Willem Dafoe – 62 (The Florida Project)

  1. Michael Stuhlbarg – 25 (Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, The Post)
  2. Sam Rockwell – 23 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. Blade Runner 2049 – 40 (Roger Deakins)

  1. Dunkirk – 39 (Hoyte van Hoytema)
  2. The Florida Project – 36 (Alexis Zabe)

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1. Lady Bird – 50 (Greta Gerwig)

  1. Get Out – 49 (Jordan Peele)
  2. Phantom Thread – 31 (Paul Thomas Anderson)

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Lady Bird – 41

  1. Get Out – 39
  2. Phantom Thread – 28

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Greta Gerwig – 37 (Lady Bird)

  1. Jordan Peele – 36 (Get Out)
  2. Paul Thomas Anderson – 36 (Phantom Thread)  [tie]

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

*1. Graduation – 35 (Cristian Mungiu)

  1. Faces Places – 30 (Agnès Varda)
  2. BPM (Beats Per Minute) – 29 (Robin Campillo)

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

*1. Faces Places – 70 (Agnès Varda)

  1. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library – 34 (Frederick Wiseman)
  2. Dawson City: Frozen Time – 32 (Bill Morrison)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:  Good Luck, by Ben Russell

FILM HERITAGE AWARD:

  • “One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema, 1970-1991,” curated by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinématek.  Co-programmers Nellie Killian, BAMcinematek and Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking.
  • Special commendation to Dan Talbot for his pioneering work as an exhibitor and distributor, in bringing world-wide cinema to the United States.

SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting U.S. distribution: Spoor (Pokot), by Agnieska Holland.

This year’s National Society of Film Critics awards are dedicated to Richard Schickel, the legendary film critic and historian, author of 37 books and director of 37 documentaries, and a founding member of the Society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nov 7

Response to Disney blackout of L.A. Times

A STATEMENT FROM THE LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION, THE NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE, THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS AND THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS

Nov. 7, 2017 — The members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics jointly denounce the Walt Disney Company’s media blackout of the Los Angeles Times. Furthermore, all four critics’ organizations have voted to disqualify Disney’s films from year-end awards consideration until said blackout is publicly rescinded.

On Nov. 3, The Times published a statement that its writers and editors had been blocked from attending advance screenings of Disney films, in response to The Times’ news coverage of Disney’s business arrangements with the City of Anaheim. Disney’s actions, which include an indefinite ban on any interaction with The Times, are antithetical to the principles of a free press and set a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility toward journalists.

It is admittedly extraordinary for a critics’ group, let alone four critics’ groups, to take any action that might penalize film artists for decisions beyond their control. But Disney brought forth this action when it chose to punish The Times’ journalists rather than express its disagreement with a business story via ongoing public discussion. Disney’s response should gravely concern all who believe in the importance of a free press, artists included.

The New York Film Critics Circle will vote on its annual awards Thursday, Nov. 30; the Los Angeles Film Critics Association will vote Sunday, Dec. 3; the Boston Society of Film Critics will vote Sunday, Dec. 10; and the National Society of Film Critics will vote Saturday, Jan. 6.

Claudia Puig
President, Los Angeles Film Critics Association claudiapuig2@gmail.com

Eric Kohn
Chair, New York Film Critics Circle eric@indiewire.com

Tom Meek
President, Boston Society of Film Critics thom3@aol.com

Liz Weis
Executive Director, National Society of Film Critics NSFCmail@gmail.com

Oct 27

GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

The National Society of Film Critics has been advancing the cause of great filmmaking and criticism for half a century.

To celebrate, member critics have teamed up with curators from Boston to L.A. to choose from among the group’s fifty Best Pictures in order to present screenings with talks.

Presentations have included Blue Velvet, Stranger Than Paradise, There Will Be Blood, and Life is Sweet. The complete list of Best Pictures is provided below.

Here is a list of the events and venues:

March – Film Forum, New York City

May and June – the Music Box Theatre, Chicago

November/December – American Cinemateque, Los Angeles.

January 2017 – Brattle Theatre, Boston

BEST PICTURES:

  1. 1966 BLOW-UP
  2. 1967 PERSONA
  3. 1968 SHAME
  4. 1969 Z
  5. 1970 M*A*S*H
  6. 1971 CLAIRE’S KNEE
  7. 1972 THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
  8. 1973 DAY FOR NIGHT
  9. 1974 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
  10. 1975 NASHVILLE
  11. 1976 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN
  12. 1977 ANNIE HALL
  13. 1978 GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS
  14. 1979 BREAKING AWAY
  15. 1980 MELVIN AND HOWARD
  16. 1981 ATLANTIC CITY
  17. 1982 TOOTSIE
  18. 1983 NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS
  19. 1984 STRANGER THAN PARADISE
  20. 1985 RAN
  21. 1986 BLUE VELVET
  22. 1987 THE DEAD
  23. 1988 THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
  24. 1989 DRUGSTORE COWBOY
  25. 1990 GOODFELLAS
  26. 1991     LIFE IS SWEET
  27. 1992 UNFORGIVEN
  28. 1993 SCHINDLER’S LIST
  29. 1994 PULP FICTION
  30. 1995     BABE
  31. 1996 BREAKING THE WAVES
  32.  1997    L.A. CONFIDENTIAL
  1. 1998 OUT OF SIGHT
  2. 1999 TOPSY-TURVY and BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
  3. 2000 YI YI
  4. 2001 MULHOLLAND DRIVE
  5. 2002 THE PIANIST
  6. 2003 AMERICAN SPLENDOR
  7. 2004 MILLION DOLLAR BABY
  8. 2005 CAPOTE
  9. 2006 PAN’S LABYRINTH
  10. 2007 THERE WILL BE BLOOD
  11. 2008     WALTZ WITH BASHIR
  12. 2009 THE HURT LOCKER
  13. 2010 THE SOCIAL NETWORK
  14. 2011     MELANCHOLIA
  15. 2012     AMOUR
  16. 2013     INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
  17. 2014 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE
  18.  2015    SPOTLIGHT
  19.  2016  MOONLIGHT