by Nathaniel R
Our friends to the north in Toronto gave their biggest prize to a film of the south, Sean Baker's The Florida Project. In their supporting categories they stuck with the clear critical frontrunners Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) and Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) both of whom are probably locking up Oscar nominations in their categories if not the win yet. Toronto's full awards plus the venerable Boston Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Online are after the jump...
TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Picture: The Florida Project
Director: Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
Actress: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Screenplay: Get Out
First Feature: Get Out
Animated Feature: The Breadwinner
Documentary: Faces Places
Foreign Film: The Square
Best Canadian Film: The three finalists are Hello Destroyer, Werewolf and Wexford Plaza. The winner will be announced on January 9th at their gala. The winner receives a $100,000 case prize.
Emerging Artist: TBA at the gala but the winner receives a $5,000 prize
Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award Montreal-based Inuk filmmaker Isabella Weetaluktuk will also be honored at the gala with $50,000 worth of services from Technicolor.
I'm still not sure that The Florida Project is going to score a Best Picture nomination... in a field of 10 it probably would but the recent balloting has suggested that 7-9 will be most common in the new voting.
BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
Picture Phantom Thread
Director Paul Thomas Anderson Phantom Thread
Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Actress Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Supporting Actress Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Screenplay Greta Gerwig Lady Bird
Cinematography: Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Documentary: Dawson City Frozen in Time
Foreign Film: The Square
Animated Film: Coco
Editing David Lowery, A Ghost Story
New Filmmaker Jordan Peele, Get Out
Ensemble: The Meyerowitz Stories
Original Score: Jonny Greenwood The Phantom Thread
What I said about The Florida Project above also perhaps applies to Phantom Thread which has proven more attractive to precursors than we ever expected it would when it seemed like the studio was all but hiding it. What's more having talked to people who've seen it (I've somehow missed it to date) it sounds NOTHING like the dull trailer (which is a relief). Is this the year December releases roar back to favor spoiling our excitement these past ten years that October and November are the place to be for Oscar releases? (We maintain that December releases are anti-moviegoers so critics shouldn't root for them since those movies don't actually get around to people until well into the new year and people really ought to be able to have their own opinions about films before Oscar voters chime in)
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE
Picture [TIE] The Florida Project and Mudbound
Director: Dee Rees, Mudbound
Actor: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Actress: Margot Robbie, I Tonya
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, I Tonya
Screenplay: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Breakthrough Performer: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Debut Director: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Ensemble Cast: Mudbound
Documentary: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Foreign Language Film: In the Fade (Germany)
Animated Film: Coco
Cinematography: Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water
Use of Music: Steven Price and Kristen Lane, Baby Driver
Top Ten Films (alpha order): Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, The Florida Project, Get Out, I Tonya, Lady bird, Mudbound, Phantom Thread, The Post, and Shape of Water
It NYFCO were higher profile this would be a really good get for both Mudbound and I Tonya. It's a good thing I don't belong to NYFCO since I might have had an aneuryism being in that room today hearing people pass over so many grand performances and films to honor I Tonya in not one but THREE places. What a world.
Other Regional Critics Prizes
• San Francisco Film Critics released their nominations. Some surprises including Annette Bening in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool and some cool tech shout outs to things that haven't been discussed much like the cinematography of The Florida Project
• Boston Online Film Critics Association (not to be confused with the decades old Boston Society of Film Critics) honored Get Out in abundance
• Detroit Film Critics Society gave the big prizes to The Florida Project but threw a couple to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri as well