A consensus among critics seems to be coalescing behind two films while a third continues to trend upward, and all three movies were the most cited by the National Society of Film Critics. Parasite, the year's best reviewed film and winner of several critics group awards in December, was named Best Film of 2019 by [...]
Wars of two kinds -- global and domestic -- dominated the 2019 Film Awards from the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association. Sam Mendes' so-called "one take" war movie 1917 (it's actually two simulated takes, not one single feature-length illusion) took home 4 awards including the two top honors: Best Film and Best Director (for Mendes). [...]
The Boston Society of Film Critics have always gone their own way. They've done it again in 2019, becoming the first critics group of the Awards Season to name Little Women the Best Film of the Year. Sure, regional bias may have played a part in the decision (i.e. Massachusetts critics award a Massachusetts story), but having seen [...]
Little Trudi Fraser thought that Rick Dalton's performance was the best acting she'd ever seen. The members of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle seemed to agree. Leonardo DiCaprio didn't take their Best Actor prize but his film nabbed top honors: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood was named Best Picture of 2019 by the Sooner state org [...]
Hey Bobby -- fuggedaboudit. When the motion picture nominees for the 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced, the gasps came more from who didn't make it in than who did. Leading the pack of snubs was Robert De Niro. He was denied a nomination in the Male Actor in a Leading Role cateogry [...]
There’s still no clear-cut front-runner in this year’s Awards Season race, but the Golden Globes seem to have clarified who the main contenders are…mostly. By and large, the motion picture nominees for the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards have fallen in line with this fall's Awards Season buzz as well as with some of the [...]
Netflix is really gaining steam, with The Irishman leading the way. The Critics Choice Awards (produced by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, whose membership is nationwide) unveiled the nominees for their 25th annual ceremony and Martin Scorsese's mob epic led the way, garnering nominations for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Robert De Niro), Supporting Actor (Al [...]
L.A. Film Critics may have just sealed Parasite's fate as a major Oscar player. Buzz has been building for the South Korean suspense thriller ever since the film won top honors at this summer's Cannes Film Festival. Now, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association -- right in the heart of Hollywood -- have given it [...]
The American Film Institute -- known to most as the organization that broadcast TV specials for the Top 100 Movie Lists at the turn of the century -- announced their 20th Annual AFI Awards, a Top 10 List for the year's best movies. It doesn't name a single film as Best of the Year; it [...]
Netflix and native New Yorkers were responsible for the best of filmmaking in 2019, according to the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle. For the second year in a row, the NYFCC has named Netflix's big epic Oscar contender as the year's Best Film. In 2018 that was Roma; for 2019, it's Martin Scorsese's The [...]