NYFCC to Celebrate 90th Anniversary; Annual Awards Ceremony Scheduled
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- Published on Friday, 03 May 2024 11:09
- Written by A&E Contributing Editor
The New York Film Critics Circle announced that it will hold its annual Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at TAO Downtown, in New York City, and will also celebrate its 90th Anniversary in 2025.
The upcoming year will also mark the 90th anniversary of the Circle, and a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC. David Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC and Stephen Garrett will continue as the group's General Manager.
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This past year's awards ceremony, also held at TAO Downtown, was a triumphant and celebratory evening. Highlights from the ceremony included Martin Scorsese and his cast members accepting the award for Best Picture for Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone accepting the award for Best Actress for Killers, Christopher Nolan accepting the award for Best Director for Oppenheimer, Paul Dano presenting the award to Justine Triet for Best International Film for Anatomy of a Fall, Steve Buscemi presenting the award for Best First Film to Celine Song for Past Lives, and Richard Jenkins presenting the award for Best Supporting Actress to Da'Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers.
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"This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can't wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner," said NYFCC Chair David Sims. "NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we'll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January."
The Circle will also continue working with programmers at The Paris Theater for the "NYFCC @ The Paris" series, in which members of the Circle present favorite titles, oftentimes with filmmaker conversations afterward. Recent screenings of After Hours, Moonstruck, and Michael Almereyda's modern-day Hamlet—with the director and star Ethan Hawke in attendance—have seen enthusiastic, packed houses.
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The NYCC will also continue awarding cash prizes and gala tickets to graduate and undergraduate students pursuing film criticism and journalism from schools in the surrounding New York metropolitan area. NYFCC member Keith Uhlich will continue spearheading this effort.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the country, and among the most prestigious. The NYFCC's membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web's most respected online publications.
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Every year the organization meets to vote on awards for the calendar year's films, among the first of the major groups to pronounce its winners. Oftentimes the NYFCC's selections pave a path for Awards Season, while other times their picks stand proudly independent from other organizations. The group's awards dinner in early January is also considered a kick-off to a new year of glamorous events in New York City.