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The first Awards body of the season announced today. The New York Film Critics Circle. Here is what they chose and my reactions :
FILM Zero Dark Thirty
DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty
Haven't seen it yet but happy for Bigelow. The Hurt Locker is the best war movie and can't wait for the follow up. Winning Best Pic 3 years ago was the only time my favorite movie of the year won.ACTRESS Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Surprise, surprise. I like that this opens up the already very open Best Actress field. Weisz was excellent in The Deep Blue Sea, and judging from my twitter feed has many fans. But come on Emmanuelle Riva is the best thing at the movies this year bar none.
ACTOR Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
Lets hope this is not the start of a sweep. It would be very boring if Day Lewis just keeps wining. Although it looks inevitable. He was great in Lincoln, and understated and funny and totally uncanny so I'm not complaining.
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SUPPORTING ACTRESS Sally Field, Lincoln
Wowza. Another surprise although smaller. I was totally in the contingent that Anne Hathaway was going to sweep for Les Miserables. I like that they threw a wrench in that narrative. Sally was over the top I think in Lincoln. I get that she was playing crazy but I can't figure out if I like the performance or not. Her crazy to DDL's understatement I don't think entirely jelled. Obviously NYFCC doesn't agree with me.
SUPPORTING ACTOR Matthew McConaughey for Bernie and Magic Mike
My fave award. McConaughey deserves it for his landmark year and great turn in Magic Mike. Haven't seen Bernie. I hope this fires up his Oscar campaign and he gets noticed. I'm predicting him.
ANIMATED FILM Frankenweenie
Haven't seen it. Haven't seen any animated movies. I know.
DOCUMENTARY The Central Park Five
No comment, again haven't seen it.
FOREIGN FILM Amour
I'm OK with Amour sweeping a la A Separation last year. It's fantastic. First Haneke movie that I love. I can't shake it 2 months after seeing it. Masterpiece.
FIRST FILM David France for How to Survive a Plague
SCREENPLAY Tony Kushner, Lincoln
They liked Lincoln. They really liked Lincoln.
CINEMATOGRAPHY Greig Fraser for Zero Dark Thirty
And they liked Zero Dark Thirty. 3 awards each.
2 comments:
i liked Zero Dark Thirty. Thought it was far better than hurt locker, but still not perfect to me. riveting as all get out though. frankenweenie was pretty great, and paranorman was great in another way. Rachel w for deep blue sea is a bit surprising, because i keep forgetting I've seen that movie. though the performances were good, it was slow and completely stagnant to me.
I should see more animated movies. Agree with you that Deep Blue Sea was very slow and depressing.
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