Cate Blanchett's “Carol” tops New York Film Critics Circle winnersDecember 3, 2015 - 15:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Todd Haynes‘ lesbian drama “Carol” was named the best film of 2015 by the New York Film Critics Circle on Wednesday, December 2. The film also won awards for director Haynes, cinematographer Edward Lachman and screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, TheWrap reports. The victories provided a measure of vindication for the Weinstein Company’s subtle ’50s-set film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, which was shut out at Monday night’s Gotham Awards. At that show, it lost the best-picture award to Open Road’s “Spotlight.” The critics did give their Best Actor award to Michael Keaton, a member of the “Spotlight” ensemble. The Oscar campaign for Keaton is positioning him as a Best Supporting Actor candidate, rather than Best Actor. Saoirse Ronan was named best actress for Fox Searchlight’s “Brooklyn.” Kristen Stewart claimed Best Supporting Actress for the drama “Clouds of Sils Maria,” a role which made her the first American actress to win France’s top acting prize, the Cesar, also for supporting actress. Mark Rylance took Best Supporting Actor for his role as a Russian spy in “Bridge of Spies.” Pixar’s “Inside Out” was named Best Animated Film. “Timbuktu,” an Oscar nominee last year, was named Best Foreign Language Film, while this year’s foreign-Oscar frontrunner, Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of Saul,” was named Best First Film. Special awards were given to film composer Ennio Morricone and, posthumously, to William Becker and Janus Films. The NYFCC currently consists of 35 critics for New York-based newspapers, magazines and websites. In the last 20 years, the group’s winner has gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar only four times: “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2004, “No Country for Old Men” in 2008, “The Hurt Locker” in 2009 and “The Artist” in 2012. Other recent NYFCC winners include “American Hustle,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Social Network,” “Milk,” “United 93” and last year’s winner, “Boyhood.” Four of last year’s winners in other categories, however, did go on to win the Oscar: supporting actor and actress J.K. Simmons and Patricia Arquette, documentary “Citizenfour” and foreign-language film “Ida.” The awards will be handed out at the NYFCC’s annual dinner on Jan. 4, 2016. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | OSCE vows support for Armenia “in all three directions of security” Achieving stable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan remains a priority of the OSCE, said Ian Borg. 151 detained as civil disobedience campaigns continue in Yerevan Citizens have been blocking streets in the Armenian capital, demanding Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation. France welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan meeting in Almaty France has welcomed the new round of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. IDBank issues 2nd tranche of dollar bonds of 2024 On May 13, 2024, IDBank placed registered coupon bonds under the abbreviation AMANLBB2PER9. |