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The New York Film Critics Circle has announced its awards for the year: Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky" Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, "Rachel Getting Married" Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire" Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, "Milk" Best Animated Film: "WALL-E" Best Director: Mike Leigh, "Happy-Go-Lucky"...
The New York Film Critics Circle has announced its awards for the year:
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, “Rachel Getting Married”
Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Best Animated Film: “WALL-E”
Best Director: Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, “Frozen River”
Best Foreign Film: “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
Best Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Best Documentary: “Man on Wire”
Best Picture: “Milk”
Nice to see Brolin get a nod — I think he’s the best part of an amazingly strong cast in “Milk.” But the praise for “Frozen River” continues to mystify me; in a year heavy with portraits of poverty, it’s the only one that seems cliché-ridden and near exploitative. Still waiting on gossip regarding in-fighting during the voting, always a highlight.
The LA Film Critics Association went another way, picking “WALL-E” for picture of the year, the first time the award’s been given to an animated feature. They also gave lead actor/actress to Penn and Hawkins, and “Man on Wire” continues to inexorably trample its way toward a doc awards sweep.
[Photo: "Milk," Focus Features, 2008]
Tags: LAFCA, Milk, NYFCC, WALL-E+ 2008 Awards (NYFCC.com)
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