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NYFCC Honors Leigh, Penn, Hawkins, Brolin, Cruz

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12:40 pm Update: The New York Film Critics Circle has just handed its Best Actor prize to Milk's Sean Penn, its Best Foreign Film award to Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days , and its Best Documentary award to James Marsh's Man on Wire.

11:45 am Update: The New York Film Critics Circle has just handed its Best Supporting Actress award to Vicky Cristina Barcelona's Penelope Cruz, who took the same honor yesterday from the L.A. Film Critics Association. And Frozen River director Courtney Hunt won for Best First Film.

11:25 am Update: Oh, my God -- Happy Go Lucky's Mike Leigh has just been named Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. What is this? Are the New York crickets going to give HGL their Best Picture prize also? It's a fine, well-made film as far as it goes, but c'mon...it's not some drop-dead masterwork teeming with visual splendor. It's just a lively, well-honed thing about a woman who drives people crazy with her happy vibes.

Previously: The New York Film Critics Circle began voting around 9:45 am, and they'e given Sally Hawkins their Best Actress award for her performance in Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky, and Milk's Josh Brolin has won for Best Supporting Actor. And WALL*E, of course, for Best Animated Film.

Hawkins won the same award yesterday from the L.A. Film Critics Association, and Brolin was nominated in the Best Supporting Male category yesterday morning by the BFCA.

I'm okay with Hawkins' win, but at the same time not quite overjoyed. As I've said several times, I admire Hawkins talent and pizazz but loathed her HGL character. On top of which Kate Winslet's Revolutionary Road performance has gotten blanked, blanked and blanked again. Why is this happening? And what about poor Kristin Scott Thomas? Something's really and truly not right here. Meryl Streep, Melissa Leo, Anne Hathaway and Kate Beckinsale have also been elbowed aside.

It's interesting that the BFCA didn't even nominate Hawkins. No accounting for taste in either camp.

10:35 am Update: Rachel Getting Married screenwriter Jenny Lumet has taken the Best Screenplay award, and Slumdog Mllionaire's dp Anthony Dod Mantle has won for Best Cinematography.

Incidentally, in 1956 the New York Film Critics Circle gave its Best Picture prize to....wait for it....Around the World in Eighty Days. It was bad enough that the Academy gave this nothing film its Best Picture Oscar, but the NYFCC? A major historical embrassment.

And in 1938 the NYFCC gave its Best Picture award to King Vidor's The Citadel. Until this moment I'd never even heard of this film, much less seen it on DVD. Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, etc..

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 10, 2008 at 8:06 AM

comment #1

actionman says ...

This is awesome. She gave the best performance by an actress this year. Love this film and loved her work. Now Eddie Marsan needs to take supporting actor. Or Bill Irwin. Then I'll be super-pumped.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 8:25 AM

comment #2

actionman says ...

And Jenny Lumet wins for best screenplay. This is also fantastic.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 8:27 AM

comment #3

K. Bowen says ...

Hawkins is fine, good, etc. But the role didn't exactly call for a wide emotional range.

I"m thrilled for the Lumet win. The script moves so easily from angst to humor. It has wit and erudition (How many scripts lately contain wisecracks about Hannibal?). Each character has his or her own voice.

Maybe if she were a tattoo-ed ex-stripper who wrote every character in blogspeak then everyone would pay more attention to her.

Posted by K. Bowen at December 10, 2008 9:03 AM

comment #4

EDouglas says ...

Kind of surprised that Anne Hathaway is being spurned by both groups despite so many critics loving Rachel Getting Married... personally I thought Hathaway was the only good thing about the movie.

Posted by EDouglas at December 10, 2008 9:06 AM

comment #5

Katey says ...

It's an embarrassment of riches in the Best Actress category this year, and I have to assume Winslet will get her due at some point (she's at the top of my ballot for NYFCO, at least).

Great news on Lumet. That's one of the few really great movies of the year that gets a lot of its strength from the screenplay.

Posted by Katey at December 10, 2008 9:15 AM

comment #6

actionman says ...

Wow, Mike Leigh just won best director. NOBDOY saw that coming. F'ing-A-awesome.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 9:25 AM

comment #7

K. Bowen says ...

Well, at least they're going out on a limb.

Posted by K. Bowen at December 10, 2008 9:26 AM

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raygo says ...

Didn't the NYFCC give Cameron Diaz the Best Actress award for There's Something about Mary? Truly an off the wall choice if ever there was one. I liked it.

Posted by raygo at December 10, 2008 9:37 AM

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actionman says ...

"It's just a lively, well-honed thing about a woman who drives people crazy with her happy vibes."

I will certainly agree that the film is "lively" but Happy-Go-Lucky is SO much more than this, Wells. This is the sort of description that I'd expect from a dismissive, ape-minded, middle-brow moviegoer. Not from you, though. You have shown fantastic cinematic taste; please don't start a take-down job on this pefect, layered, and deeply felt little film.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 9:38 AM

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actionman says ...

And I am gonna predict that they give Synecdoche, NY their best picture award...

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 9:39 AM

comment #11

actionman says ...

Also, and unrelated to the posted topic, but Denby put Defiance has his #1 film of the year. Quite interesting.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 9:43 AM

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p.Vice says ...

What drop-dead masterwork teeming with visual splendor did you have in mind?

Posted by p.Vice at December 10, 2008 9:54 AM

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K. Bowen says ...

We are kinda short on those this year.

Don't they reveal these as they gain the necessary consensus?

If so, does that mean that with the unusual number of Best Actress contenders this year, enough critics walked in with their hearts set on Sally Hawkins to make that the earliest award?

Interesting.

Posted by K. Bowen at December 10, 2008 10:00 AM

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Chase Kahn says ...

The Brolin love for 'Milk' is quite amusing -- it's not even HIS best performance this year...

Posted by Chase Kahn at December 10, 2008 10:01 AM

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btwnproductions says ...

Don't get the Brolin love either, not that he's bad in the film. It somehow smacks of honoring Dan White.

Posted by btwnproductions at December 10, 2008 10:17 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

I'm not crazy about the Penn sweep, I wish Rourke had taken this one. Good for Penelope and Sally though, those films came out a minute ago and need the help I think.

Posted by BurmaShave at December 10, 2008 10:23 AM

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raygo says ...

The love Brolin seems to be rewarding his amazing run, in the easiest way possible. Don't see a problem with that.

Posted by raygo at December 10, 2008 10:37 AM

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lipranzer says ...

I've seen THE CITADEL, Jeff. It's not bad, but it's kind of stately. Not one of King Vidor's best, and hard to believe the NYFC chose this over THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, GRAND ILLUSION, PYGMALION, or YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.

Posted by lipranzer at December 10, 2008 10:44 AM

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