NYFCC: Lady Gaga, Benedict Cumberbatch Take Acting Honors

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Published on Saturday, 04 December 2021 07:37
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The New York Film Critics Circle voted today at Film at Lincoln Center for their 2021 awards winners. The awards will be handed out during their annual ceremony on Monday, January 10, 2022, at Tao Downtown. 



Drive My Car was awarded Best Film and Jane Campion was named Best Director for The Power of The Dog. Lady Gaga was selected as Best Actress for House of Gucci. Benedict Cumberbatch was chosen as Best Actor for The Power of the Dog.

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Special Awards were given to Maya Cade for the creation of the Black Film Archive, to Diane Weyermann, posthumously, for supporting daring and impactful filmmaking at Sundance and Participant and to Marshall Fine for his years of service as NYFCC's General Manager and decades on the NY film scene. Full list of winners below. 

"As a group, we're thrilled to recognize such a grand range of terrific films and extraordinary performers. We're especially happy about the international reach of our awards—particularly following a year and a half in which we've all felt so isolated at times. This is a truly special group of winners, a harbinger of the world of cinema coming back to life," stated NYFCC Chair Stephanie Zacharek of TIME Magazine. 

Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest and most prestigious critics group in the country. The circle's membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web's most respected online publications. Every year the organization meets to vote on awards for the calendar year's films.

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The Circle's awards are often seen as shaping the Oscar race. The Circle's awards are also viewed — perhaps more accurately — as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures.

Best Film: 
Drive My Car

Best Director:
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Best Screenplay:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza 

Best Actress:
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci

Best Actor:
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress:
Kathryn Hunter, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Supporting Actor:
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Worst Person In The World

Best Cinematography:
Janusz Kamiński, West Side Story

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Best Nonfiction Film:
Flee

Best First Film:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Best Animated Film:
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Special Awards:
Maya Cade for the creation of the Black Film Archive; to Diane Weyermann, posthumously, for supporting daring and impactful filmmaking at Sundance and Participant; and to Marshall Fine for his years of service as NYFCC's General Manager and decades on the NY film scene. 

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NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE OFFICERS:

Stephanie Zacharek (CHAIR)
Time Magazine

Jordan Hoffman (VICE CHAIR)
Freelance

Stephen Garrett (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance

A FULL LIST OF CURRENT NYFCC VOTING MEMBERS INCLUDE: 

Sam Adams
Slate

John Anderson
America Magazine

Melissa Anderson
4Columns

Michael Atkinson
Freelance

Jason Bailey
The Playlist

Richard Brody
The New Yorker

Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication

Kameron Austin Collins
Rolling Stone

Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine

David Ehrlich
IndieWire

Kate Erbland
IndieWire

David Fear
Rolling Stone

Graham Fuller
Freelance

Owen Gleiberman
Variety

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly

Steven D. Greydanus
The National Catholic Register

Rafer Guzman
Newsday

Jordan Hoffman (VICE CHAIR)
Freelance

Caryn James
BBC

Eric Kohn
IndieWire

Tomris Laffly
Freelance

Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair

Violet Lucca
Freelance

Joe Morgenstern
The Wall Street Journal

Sheila O'Malley
Rogerebert.com

Nick Pinkerton
Freelance

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

Rex Reed
New York Observer

David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter

Joshua Rothkopf
Entertainment Weekly 

Matt Zoller Seitz
Rogerebert.com

David Sims
The Atlantic

Matt Singer
ScreenCrush

Kyle Smith
National Review

Dana Stevens
Slate

Sara Stewart
New York Post

Amy Taubin
Artforum

Peter Travers
ABC

Keith Uhlich
Freelance

Elizabeth Weitzman
The Wrap

Stephen Whitty
Freelance

Alissa Wilkinson
Vox

Alison Willmore
New York Magazine

Stephanie Zacharek (CHAIR)
Time Magazine

Esther Zuckerman
Thrillist

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