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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
