New York Film Critics Circle Voting Underway; Best Actor Adrien Brody For ‘The Brutalist’, Best Screenplay Sean Baker’s ‘Anora’ – Live Updates

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Refresh for more…Voting for this year’s New York Film Critics Circle is currently occurring — for at least the next four hours which is par for the course.

The first award announced at 6:50AM PST is Best Animated Feature for

Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow. Second award went to Kieran Culkin for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as an emotionally tortured young man in Jesse Eisenberg’s Searchlight drama, A Real Pain. Culkin won Best Lead Actor for a Drama Series at the 2023 Primetime Emmys for Succession.

In the Latvia-French-Belgian production Flow, Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Last year, the oldest critics group in the United States selected Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon from Martin Scorsese as best film. The group bestowed Best Director to Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.

While NYFCC winners often become Oscar nominees, and sometimes winners, when it comes to Best Picture, the group isn’t lockstep with the AMPAS voters: The last NYFCC Best Film to continue on and win Best Picture at the Oscars was 2011’s The Artist.

Last year the NYFCC winners who ultimately won Oscars included Nolan for Best Director, Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers, The Boy and the Heron for Best Animated Feature, and Hoyte Van Hoytema for Oppenheimer in Best Cinematography.

This is the 90th anniversary of NYFCC whose members include Indiewire’s David Ehlrich (2024 vice chair) and Kate Erbland, New York Magazine’s Alison Wilmore and Bilge Ebiri, The Atlantic’s David Sims (2024 chair), and Time’s Stephanie Zacharek.

The list of this year’s NYFCC winners is below. Keep checking back:

BEST FILM

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTOR

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

BEST ACTRESS

Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Carol Kane, Between Two Temples

BEST SCREENPLAY

Anora, Sean Baker

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

No Other Land from Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Flow

BEST FIRST FILM

Annie Baker’s Janet Planet

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

All We Imagine As Light from Payal Kapadia