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New York Film Critics Online Names ’12 Years’ Best Picture!

’12 Years A Slave’

2013/12/08 at 8:01pm

New York Film Critics Online Names ’12 Years’ Best Picture!

12.8.2013 | By Jack Rico |

New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) held its fourteenth annual awards meeting on December 8, 2013 in Lincoln Center’s Furman Gallery. Founded in 2000, NYFCO is our country’s most prestigious group of internet critics. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave won three awards, including an extremely close Best Picture race with the Coen Brothers Inside Llewyn Davis; Best Actor went to Chiwetel Ejiofor and Best Supporting Actress to Lupita Nyong’o. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity picked up two awards, with Cuarón winning Best Director and Emmanuelle Lubezki picking up Best Cinematography. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color also won two awards: Best Foreign Language Film and Breakthrough Performance for its star, Adèle Exarchopoulos. Read More

New York Film Critics Online chooses ‘The Artist’ Best Pic

By Jack Rico

2011/12/11 at 12:00am

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New York Film Critics Online chooses ‘The Artist’ Best Pic

12.11.2011 | By Jack Rico |

The digital film organization that I am a member of, the NYFCO (New York Film Critics Online), voted today for the best of the best in film for 2011.

There were some surprises for me, in particular, the animated category. I voted for Rango as the best, but the rest of my collegues felt strongly for Spielberg’s Tintin. I agree that on a visual, Tintin is extraordinary, but as a whole movie, the film dragged to point of boredom. Rango was intellectual, funny, unique, and had very adult themes.

Also interesting was Michael Shannon for ‘Take Shelter’ in the Best Actor category. He wasn’t a favorite, but nevertheless, I’m happy he took the award as opposed to undeserved Clooney. Shannon is one hell of an actor. He was excellent in Revolutionary Road and was the best part of The Runaways. He should’ve been nominated for Best Supporting actor at the Oscars in 2010.

So many more deserved and surprising moments such as Melissa McCarthy for ‘Bridesmaids’ over Octavia Spencer from ‘The Help’ in the Supporting Actress category. Read on and enjoy the beauty that is film criticism during award season.

BEST FILM
“The Artist”

TOP PICTURES OF 2011 (alphabetical)
“The Artist” (The Weinstein Company)
“The Descendants” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
“Drive” (Film District)
“The Help” (Walt Disney Pictures)
“Hugo” (Paramount Pictures)
“Melancholia” (Magnolia Pictures)
“Midnight in Paris” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Take Shelter” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“The Tree of Life” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
“War Horse” (Dreamworks Pictures)

DIRECTOR
Michael Hazanavicius for “The Artist”

ACTOR
Michael Shannon for “Take Shelter”

ACTRESS
Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Albert Brooks for “Drive”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Melissa McCarthy for “Bridesmaids”

CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Tree of Life” – Emmanuel Lubezki

SCREENPLAY
“The Descendants” – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
“A Separation”

DOCUMENTARY
“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

ANIMATED FEATURE
“The Adventures of Tin Tin”

USE OF MUSIC
“The Artist” – Ludovic Bource

BREAKOUT PERFORMER
Jessica Chastain for “The Tree of Life, “The Help,”The Debt,” “Take Shelter”

DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
Joe Cornish for “Attack the Block”

ENSEMBLE CAST
“Bridesmaids”