The news you’ve all been waiting for, the first out of the box major awards announcement in this early Oscar season, the New York Film Critics’ Circle award winners, announced ‘over’ Twitter. While Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells seems to be in the midst of an apoplectic meltdown over the NYFCC’s choice for Best Picture, the rest of the Oscar prediction crowd tweets a more sanguine reaction to this morning’s awards announcement.
Here, then, without further ado, the New York Film Critics awards …
Best Picture: The Artist
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)
Best Screenplay: Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball)
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Best Foreign-Language Film: A Separation
Best Actor: Brad Pitt (Moneyball, The Tree of Life)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life, The Help and Take Shelter)
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks (Drive)
Best Nonfiction Film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Best First Feature: Margin Call
Meanwhile on the indie side of things, New York-wise, the 2011 Gotham awards were announced last evening …
21st Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Winners
Best Feature (tie)
Beginners
The Tree of Life
Best Documentary
Better This World
Best Ensemble Performance
Beginners
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mary Page Keller, Keegan Boos
Breakthrough Director
Dee Rees, Pariah
Breakthrough Actor
Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Scenes of a Crime
Second Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award
Girlfriend
Justin Lerner, director-producer
And, finally, for today, the announcement of the Independent Spirit Award nominees, the left coast equivalent of the Gotham awards.
First up, though, a highlight reel of February 2011’s Indie Spirit Awards ceremony (see video below), and then on to 2012’s nominees, about which IndieWire’s Peter Knegt weighs in, listing what he considers to be the 10 biggest surprises that emerged from 2012’s indie nominee list …
Here, then, the full list of the 2012 Independent Spirit Award nominees:
Best Feature
The Artist
Beginners
The Descendants
Drive
50/50
Take Shelter
Best Director
Mike Mills, Beginners
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Male Lead
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Ryan Gosling, Drive
Woody Harrelson, Rampart
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Female Lead
Lauren Ambrose, Think of Me
Rachel Harris, Natural Selection
Adepero Oduye, Pariah
Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Best Supporting Male
Albert Brooks, Drive
John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
John C. Reilly, Cedar Rapids
Corey Stoll, Midnight in Paris
Best Supporting Female
Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
Anjelica Huston, 50/50
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Harmony Santana,
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Screenplay
The Artist
Beginners
The Descendants
Footnote
Win Win
Best First Screenplay
Another Earth
Cedar Rapids
50/50
Margin Call
Terri
Best Cinematography
The Artist
Bellflower
The Dynamiter
Midnight in Paris
The Off Hours
Best International Film
The Kid with a Bike
Melancholia
A Separation
Shame
Tyrannosaur
Best Documentary
An African Election
Bll Cunningham New York
The Interrupters
We Were Here
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
Robert Altman Award
Margin Call
John Cassavetes Award
Bellflower
Circumstance
The Dynamiter
Hello Lonesome
Pariah
Piaget Producers Award
Chad Burris, Mosquito y Mari
Sophia Lynn, Take Shelter
Josh Bond, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Someone to Watch Award
Simon Arthur, Silver Tongues
Mark Jackson, Without
Nicholas Ozeki, Mamitas
Truer Than Fiction Award
Bombay Beach
Hell and Back Again
Where Soldiers Come From
