The prizes literally never stop... NSFC, GLAAD, NAACP and more

As per usual we've fallen a bit behind in the awardage department so we're doing a massive post right now to catch up. Here are the latest critics groups to announce their awards as well as nominations from two civil rights organizations, GLAAD and the NAACP...

MCFCA
(Music City Film Critics Association)
This Nashville based critics group has been giving out awards since, well, just last year. 

Best Picture: 1917
Best Director: Sam Mendes, 1917
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Supporting Actress: Florence Pugh, Little Women
Best Young Actor: Roman Griffin Davis, Jojo Rabbit
Best Young Actress: Kyliegh Curran, Doctor Sleep
Best Ensemble: Knives Out
Best Screenplay: Parasite

Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
Best Comedy: Knives Out
Best Horror Film: Us
Best Documentary: Apollo 11
Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite
Best Music Film: Rocketman
Best Action Film: Avengers: Endgame

Best Sound: 1917
Best Cinematography: 1917
Best Editing: 1917
Best Production Design: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Original Score: Joker
Best Original Song: “I'm Gonna Love Me Again”, Rocketman
Jim Riley Award (honoring Nashville's Spirit: Wild Rose

GFCA
(Georgia Film Critics Association)
They were founded in 2011 and they went a little Florence Pugh crazy this year essentially handing her 3 prizes though Parasite and 1917 were also favored.

Best Picture: Parasite
Best Director: Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Best Actor: Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Best Supporting Actress: Florence Pugh, Little Women
Best Original Screenplay: Parasite
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Irishman
Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
Best Documentary: Apollo 11
Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite
Best Ensemble: Little Women
Best Cinematography: 1917
Best Production Design: 1917
Best Original Score: 1917
Best Original Song: “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”, Wild Rose
Breakthrough Award: Florence Pugh (Fighting With My Family, Little Women, Midsommar)
Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema: The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz)

I didn't much care for The Peanut Butter Falcon but as stated before in earlier regional critics posts, THIS IS THE KIND OF THING REGIONAL CRITICS GROUPS SHOULD ALL BE DOING. If you're not somehow a specific particular group, what is your reason for existing? 

AWFJ
(Alliance of Women Film Journalists)
Founded in 2006 they give out the normal prizes, plus female-only prizes... as well, as a few snarky "awards"... and to be honest this never sits well with us with any critics groups. Why downgrade in your awards when you can lift up? This is why our annual tradition of "cinematic shame" has shrunk to near non-existence now. It's not really fun to denigrate but it's challenging and exciting to name, describe and extoll the virtues of great art. 

Their big winners this year were Parasite and Little Women which both took up essentially four prizes. 

Film Parasite
Director Bong Joon Ho Parasite
Actress Lupita Nyong'o, Us
Actor Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Supporting Actress Florence Pugh, Little Women
Supporting Actor Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Original Screenplay Parasite
Adapted Screenplay Little Women
Ensemble Cast Little Women
Cinematography 1917
Editing The Irishman
Foreign Film Parasite
Animated Film I Lost My Body
Documentary Apollo 11

Woman Director Celine Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Woman Screenwriter Greta Gerwig
Animated Female Bo Peep (Annie Potts), Toy Story 4
Breakthrough Performance Florence Pugh (all three films)
Outstanding Achievement in Film Industry Ava DuVernay for creating ARRAY and championing women in film
Actress Defying Age and Ageism Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell
Bravest Performance Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale
Actress Most in Need of a New Agent, Anne Hathaway, The Hustle & Serenity
Most Egregious Lover's Age Difference Award The Public (Emilo Estevez 57 and Taylor Schilling 35)
Remake or Sequel That Shouldn't Have been Made Charlie's Angels
Hall of Shame Award HFPA for excluding women nominees in major Golden Globe categories

Waves director Trey Edward Shults with the two young stars Kelvin Harrison Jr and Taylor Russell

HCA
(Hollywood Critics Association)
They were founded in 2016 as the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society. They have wisely rebranded and we wish New York Film Critics Online would do the same. "Online" being a meaningless distinction now that all "print" is also online. One notable thing about this group is they've split their director prizes into male and female, just like acting prizes. They also love to double up on awards with multiple ties and Olivia Wilde wins two prizes this year, also. They were one of the only groups (maybe the only?) to recognize both young stars of Waves with prizes to Kelvin Harrison Jr and Taylor Russell

Film 1917
Male Director Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Female Director Olivia Wilde, Booksmart
Actress Lupita Nyong'o, Us
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Supporting Actress Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Supporting Actor Joe Pesci, The Irishman
Young Actor [TIE] Kaitlyn Dever - Booksmart and Noah Jupe - Honeyboy
Breakthrough Performance [TIE] Jessie Buckley - Wild Rose and Kelvin Harrison Jr - Waves
Original Screenplay Parasite
Adapted Screenplay Jojo Rabbit
Ensemble Cast Knives Out
Cinematography 1917
Editing 1917
Costume Design Rocketman
Hair and Makeup Bombshell
Visual Effects Avengers Endgame
Original Song "Glasgow" Wild Rose
Score Joker
Stunt Work John Wick 3 Parabellum

First Feature Honey Boy
Indie Film [TIE] The Farewell and Waves
Comedy Musical [TIE] Booksmart and Rocketman
Foreign Film Parasite
Animated Film Toy Story 4
Action/War Film 1917
Blockbuster Avengers Endgame
Documentary Apollo 11
Horror Film Us

Honorary Awards
Actor Anton Yelchin (Posthumously)
Filmmaker Bong Joon Ho
Artisan Ruth E Carter
Game Changer Paul Walter Hauser
Star on the Rise Taylor Russell
Newcomer Zack Gottsagen
Trailblazer Olivia Wilde

End of Decade Recipients
Actor of Decade Adam Driver
Actress of Decade Kristen Stewart

...and last but certainly not least among the critics prizes

NSFC
(National Society of Film Critics)
They were founded in 1966 and though they are essentially part of the "Holy Trinity" of American critics prizes (with NYFCC and LAFCA) the past few years they've been mostly drowned out due to the combo of 30+ new critics emerging in the past decade and their late announcements. "Late" being relative of course. They announce at a perfectly reasonable time but because everyone else is so early... 

Because they actually have a well maintained website and easy to read wins, we've just copied and pasted their whole awards this year complete with first and second runners up...

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Parasite – 44

1. Little Women – 27
2. Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood – 22

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Greta Gerwig (Little Women) – 39

1. Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) – 36
2. Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) – 31

BEST ACTRESS:

*1.  Mary Kay Place (Diane) – 40

1. Zhao Tao (Ash Is Purest White) – 28
2. Florence Pugh (Midsommar) – 25

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1.  Laura Dern (Marriage Story, Little Women) – 57

1. Florence Pugh (Little Women) – 44
2. Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) – 26

BEST ACTOR:

*1.  Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) – 69

1. Adam Driver (Marriage Story) – 43
2. Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems) – 41

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*1.  Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 64

1. Joe Pesci (The Irishman) – 30
2. Wesley Snipes (Dolemite Is My Name) and Song Kang Ho (Parasite) – 18  [TIE]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Atlantics) – 41

1. Robert Richardson (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 29
2. Yorick Le Saux (Little Women) – 22

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1.  Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won (Parasite) – 37

1. Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 34
2. Greta Gerwig (Little Women) – 33

BEST NONFICTION FILM:

*1.  Honeyland – 33

1. American Factory -28
2. Apollo 11 – 27

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

“Private Lives, Public Spaces” at the Museum of Modern Art:  Curated by Ron Magliozzi, this exhibit makes visible MOMA’s collection of over one hundred years of vernacular moving images, most of them home movies by the famous and the unknown. Shown on multiple screens in the lobbies of MoMA’s Titus theaters, they form a crazy quilt of personal and cultural history.

Rialto Pictures:  We honor Rialto Pictures, in its 22nd year, both for distributing 4K restorations of beloved classics like Kind Hearts and Coronets and for presenting neglected work by international masters, such as Federico Fellini’s The White Sheik, and, for the first time, the uncut version of Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli, with restored prints and upgraded subtitles.

SELECT NOMINATIONS FROM MAJOR GROUPS

GLAAD "Media Awards"
GLAAD is the official name now. It doesn't even technically stand for "Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation" anymore. They wanted to be inclusive of bisexual and transgender people so they've dropped the acronym as an official name. The group was founded in 1985 and began giving out their "Media Awards" in 1990. 

Outstanding Film – Wide Release
“Bombshell” (Lionsgate)
“Booksmart” (United Artists Releasing)
“Downton Abbey” (Focus Features)
“Judy” (Roadside Attractions)
“Rocketman” (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Film – Limited Release
“Adam” (Wolfe Releasing)
“Brittany Runs A Marathon”(Amazon Studios)
“End of the Century” (The Cinema Guild)
“The Heiresses” (1844 Entertainment)
“Kanarie” (Breaking Glass Pictures)
“Pain and Glory” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (NEON)
“Rafiki” (Film Movement)
“Socrates” (Breaking Glass Pictures)
“This Is Not Berlin” (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Outstanding Documentary
“5B” (RYOT Films)
“Gay Chorus Deep South” (MTV)
“Leitis in Waiting” (PBS)
“State of Pride” (YouTube)
“Wig” (HBO)

Uff... remember how great Euphoria was. Can't wait for season 2

Outstanding Drama Series
“Batwoman” (The CW)
“Billions” (Showtime)
“Euphoria” (HBO)
“Killing Eve” (AMC)
“The L Word: Generation Q”(Showtime)
“The Politician” (Netflix)
“Pose” (FX)
“Shadowhunters” (Freeform)
“Star Trek: Discovery” (CBS All Access)
“Supergirl” (The CW)

Outstanding Comedy Series
“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (NBC)
“Dear White People” (Netflix)
“Dickinson” (Apple TV+)
“One Day at a Time” (Netflix)
“The Other Two” (Comedy Central)
“Schitt’s Creek” (Pop)
“Sex Education” (Netflix)
“Superstore” (NBC)
“Vida” (Starz)
“Work in Progress” (Showtime)

Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series w/o a regular LGBTQ character)
“Love” Drunk History (Comedy Central)
“Murdered at a Bad Address” Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
“Spontaneous Combustion” Easy (Netflix)
“This Extraordinary Being” Watchmen (HBO)
“Two Doors Down” Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Netflix)

Outstanding TV Movie
“Deadwood: The Movie” (HBO)
“Let It Snow” (Netflix)
“Rent: Live” (FOX)
“Transparent: Musicale Finale” (Amazon)
“Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story” (Lifetime)

Outstanding Limited Series
“Mrs. Fletcher” (HBO)
“The Red Line” (CBS)
“Tales of the City” (Netflix)
“When They See Us” (Netflix)
“Years & Years” (HBO)

Outstanding Broadway Production
“Choir Boy,” by Tarell Alvin McCraney
“The Inheritance,” by Matthew Lopez
“Jagged Little Pill,” book by Diablo Cody, lyrics by Alanis Morissette, music by Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
“Slave Play,” by Jeremy O. Harris
“What the Constitution Means to Me,” by Heidi Schreck

GLAAD has lots more prizes (including journalism and reality tv and the lik) and you can see the full list of nominees here... 

NAACP "Image Awards" 
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This famous civil rights organization was founded in New York in 1909. Their "Image Awards" for the arts began in 1970.

Entertainer of the Year

• Angela Bassett
• Billy Porter
• Lizzo
• Regina King
• Tyler Perry

Outstanding Motion Picture

• “Dolemite is My Name” (Netflix)
• “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• “Us” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

• Chadwick Boseman – “21 Bridges” (STX Films)
• Daniel Kaluuya – “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• Eddie Murphy – “Dolemite is My Name” (Netflix)
• Michael B. Jordan – “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Winston Duke – “Us” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

• Alfre Woodard – “Clemency” (Neon)
• Cynthia Erivo – “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• Jodie Turner-Smith – “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• Lupita Nyong’o – “Us” (Universal Pictures)
• Naomie Harris – “Black and Blue” (Screen Gems/Sony Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Leaving Aldis Hodge out ot supporting actor when you only consider people of color and you've actually seen CLEMENCY? Unthinkable. What the hell? These must not be juried prizes since he's much less famous than all of these men.

• Jamie Foxx – “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Leslie Odom, Jr. – “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• Sterling K. Brown – “Waves” (A24)
• Tituss Burgess – “Dolemite Is My Name” (Netflix)
• Wesley Snipes – “Dolemite Is My Name” (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

• Da’Vine Joy Randolph – “Dolemite is My Name” (Netflix)
• Janelle Monáe – “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• Jennifer Lopez – “Hustlers” (STX Films)
• Marsai Martin – “Little” (Universal Pictures)
• Octavia Spencer – “Luce” (Neon)

Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in Motion Picture

• Cynthia Erivo – “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• Jodie Turner-Smith – “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• Marsai Martin – “Little” (Universal Pictures)
• Rob Morgan – “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Shahadi Wright Joseph – “Us” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture

• “Dolemite is My Name” (Netflix)
• “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• “Us” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

• “Clemency” (Neon)
• “Dolemite is My Name” (Netflix)
• “Luce” (Neon)
• “Queen & Slim” (Universal Pictures)
• “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” (Netflix)

Outstanding Documentary (Film)

• “Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool” (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
• “The Black Godfather” (Netflix)
• “The Apollo” (HBO)
• “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” (Magnolia Pictures)
• “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality” (HBO)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film)

• Chinonye Chukwu – “Clemency” (Neon)
• Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham – “Just Mercy” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Doug Atchison – “Brian Banks” (Bleeker Street and ShivHans)
• Jordan Peele – “Us” (Universal Pictures)
• Kasi Lemmons, Gregory Allen Howard – “Harriet” (Focus Features)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Film)

Mati Diop!!!

• Chiwetel Ejiofor – “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” (Netflix)
• Jordan Peele – “Us” (Universal Pictures)
• Kasi Lemmons – “Harriet” (Focus Features)
• Mati Diop – “Atlantics” (Les Films du Bal Presente en Co-Production avec Cinekap et Frakas Productions en Co-Production avec Arte France Cinema et Canal+ International for Netflix)
• Reginald Hudlin – “The Black Godfather” (Netflix)

They have a ton of other categories too for TV and more which you can see here. 

Comments

[Peggy Sue]

I really thought that the NSFC would go with Alfre but I couldn't be happier for Mary Kay (she gave a hilarious speech at the LAFCA's).

The Brad Pitt thing is amazing and a bit enfuriating. Where were you when Moneyball and The Tree of Life needed you?

[Mark]

AWFJ nominated Dolemite is My Name for Most Egregious Lover's Age Difference. That was so absurd. Eddie Murphy and Da’Vine Joy Randolph had a clear protege and protegee relationship in the film. I even looked up if their characters had a romance in real live but found nothing.

[Anna Oup]

Murtada and Nathaniel would fit in with the AWFJ going by the blurb. Maybe they haven’t reached your moment of epiphany you had with similar behaviour yet?

[NATHANIEL R]

Peggy Sue -- agreed. And why did all these critics group go "yeah, sure" about a supporting campaign? I wish people took awards more seriously. THEY GO IN THE HISTORY BOOKS!

Mark -- yeah... there doesnt' seem to be much discernment about what to be angry about.

Anna -- hmmm. Which films have i expended energy to denigrate in an official way this year?

[Morgan (the 1st)]

NAACP. These aren't embarrassing!

[Mike in Canada]

Love for every prize that arrives for Mary Kay Place and Laura Dern.

[Cash]

So much Lupita love! Is it going to come to fruition tomorrow? What are her chances? 50/50?

[Gio]

Brad Pitt.
I guess it's a declaration of love from his peers. I'm a bit surprised I wasn't aware of it, perhaps for my indifference towards his work. I was there for Too Young to Die, a made-for-tv drama about a girl who is influenced by her abusive lover to commit murder. Lewis and Pitt were Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk in a grittier, younger version. And that dynamic would continue in their next - and last collaboration, Kalifornia, when Lewis' character was again under the influence of her sociopath boyfriend, only she knew how to deflect that through humor. People don't talk about these two early 90's gems. They both have over-the-top qualities in tone and performances. Lewis practically guaranteed her casting as Danielle in Cape Fear by exhibiting a raw, rough around the edges, not carefully directed nor modulated performance in Too Young to Die. She's terrific, full of resources. I believe Scorsese saw how far he could take the restless, secretly depressed teenage daughter in his 90's classic. Over the years, Cape Fear has become a cultural reference (specially when the Simpsons' episode becomes one in and of itself), a movie whose most original, dangerous scene stars Lewis. One could call that a classic movie scene. Woody Harrelson is perfect as Mickey, but I could only imagine how Pitt's brand and preference for edgy characters around that time could have been applied to that character in Natural Born Killers. Starring Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis. Or maybe Fight club, starring Juliette Lewis and Brad Pitt.

Anyway, this performance of his in the Tarantino movie is a mellowed, toned-down version of his past psychopaths. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Tarantino found the inspiration for the character's cool attitude, surely a mutual decision. It's a character who is a Lead in the movie, has his own arc, the movie is seen from his point of view in many scenes, even the ones he shares with Di Caprio, apparently in the background, and he has the best scene in the movie and the most talked about scene in the movie. Not only that, but he makes it look easy. That's because it is. The character is even close to his public persona. It's as if we can be intimate with him, shirtless with him - the movie theater shivered in unison in my screening. We feel like the not-so-cool kid riding to school with the older, cool kid. He takes us on that ride. We root for him and applaud him when he unleashes his psychopath side. His pleasure is funny to see - we want to climax with him. So, I feel movie critics and other actors are feeling like they want to give Bard Pitt a big Thank You note."We have loved you all long", it's engraved on his Oscar. "PS. Screw Alan Alda!".

[thevoid99]

Any word on when the Razzies will make their big announcement?

[kin]

I wished NAACP will just rename as NAABP. Every year, I look to see if some deserved Asian nominees would show up. Sure, last year was pretty great (Crazy Rich Asians even got a movie nomination!), but the organization has shown time and again that they mostly care about Black people. Nothing wrong with that, but let's be more honest? Nothing for The Farewell seems less than reasonable.

[Robert G]

thevoid, the Razzies aren't going to announce until the day before the Oscar ceremony. They also apparently have a deal to broadcast the Razzies on TV this year.

[rosa moline]

MCFCA has been giving awards since 1917?

[brookesboy]

Oscar nominations were announced today, and sorry, but I got things to say. Here’s the good, the bad and the ugly.

THE BEST

Antonio Banderas nominated for Best Actor for Pain and Glory

Kathy Bates nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Richard Jewell

Cinematography nod for The Lighthouse

Editing and Production Design nods for Parasite

Original Screenplay nod for Knives Out

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood not nominated for Editing

THE WORST

11 nods for the truly odious Joker

Rocketman snubbed in Costume Design

Todd Phillips nominated for Best Director

Taron Egerton not nominated for Rocketman

Joker nominated for both Sound awards

Pedro Almodovar snubbed for Best Director