"The Irishman" takes NYFCC

Another day, another prize for The Irishman. Following its NBR win, the Martin Scorsese epic takes the much more prestigious top prize from the New York Film Critics Circle. This is Scorsese’s second movie to win the NYFCC. The first was Goodfellas (1990). 

Here are the winners and a few comments...

Best Picture: The Irishman

Solidifying it’s place as a frontrunner for Oscar glory… though the race is far from sewn up.

Best Director: Benny and Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems continues a surprisingly robust awards season run. Still early stages but you know...

Best Actor: Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory

This is a major get for Antonio given how much of a bloodbath Best Actor is in the Oscar race. If he can also secure a Globe nomination soon he’ll be positioned very well for his first Oscar nomination.

Best Actress: Lupita Nyong'o, Us

We recently rescreened this huge hit and whaddyaknow. Her inventive performance is even more breathtaking the second time. Totally inspired and thorough character work. 

Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Tarantino won this prize once before for Pulp Fiction.

Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci, The Irishman

The NYFCC tends to have terrific taste in this category. 

Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern, Marriage Story and Little Women

It is a bit strange to group these two as a package deal Little Women isn’t particular special as Dern performances go. 

Best Animated Film: I Lost My Body

We recently began predicting this for an Oscar nomination so it’s nice to see it picking up a major prize since an Oscar field of just big studio sequels would be very disheartening. 

Best Cinematography: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

An interesting choice here. I’ll confess for the first half of Portrait, I wasn’t particular impressed with the cinematography which has a kind of stagey flat quality but the longer the film goes on the more perfect the aesthetic reveals itself to be. 

Best First Film: Atlantics

Female directed films scoring pretty well with NYFCC this year between Portrait, Atlantics, Little Women and Honeyland.

Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite

Looking like a sweeper in this category everywhere

Best Nonfiction Film: Honeyland

Special Award 1: Indie Collect

Special Award 2: Randy Newman

MORE SOON. What do you think of the New York Film Critics Circle choices this time around? 

Comments

[JF]

If Daniel Day Lewis did what Renee did in Judy no one would even question a fourth Best Actor win.

[Me]

Oh Alfred, ju ok?

[bonobo]

Suzanne (the real one or not), maybe I misunderstood Jesus’ post, but I still think that you don’t need any knowledge on the rhythms and subtleties of a particular language for being blown away by a performance. Even if obviously that could “boost a performance with extra nuances”. I’m sorry if my comment sounds “quite moronic” to you, but I cannot do anything else about that.

[NATHANIEL R]

Jesus -- yes, i will add his other wins when i update the chart this weekend.

[Peggy Sue]

Fantastic points JF. Everyone and Nathaniel please take note.