New York Film Critics Circle winners announced; Roma Named Best Film
The New York Film Critics Circle voted today at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for its 2018 awards winners. The awards will be handed out during the annual ceremony on Monday, January 7, 2019 at Tao Downtown.
Roma took home the prizes for Best Film and Best Cinematography, with Alfonso Cuarón also winning for Best Director. Regina Hall was selected as Best Actress for her role Support the Girls. Ethan Hawke was chosen as Best Actor for First Reformed. Special Awards were given to David Schwartz, who is stepping down as Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image after 33 years, and to the Kino Classics Box Set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers. Full list of winners below.
“Our membership expanded this year and so did the sheer volume of great movies worth voting on,” said Eric Kohn, 2018 returning NYFCC Chairman and film critic for IndieWire. “We’re so thrilled to spread the love with these terrific films and performances, all of which deliver fresh, exciting visions of the world. From the poetic heights of Roma to the haunting paranoia of First Reformed and the mind-bending visual sophistication of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, every single winner this year features a complex, unpredictable vision. Conventionality is for conventional awards shows. Our January dinner will certainly not fall into that category.”
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest and most prestigious in the country. The circle’s membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web’s most respected online publications. Every year the organization meets in New York to vote on awards for the calendar year's films.
The Circle's awards are often seen as shaping the Oscar race. The Circle's awards are also viewed — perhaps more accurately — as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures.
Best Film:
Roma
Best Director:
Alfonso Cuarón / Roma
Best Screenplay:
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Best Actress:
Regina Hall / Support the Girls
Best Actor:
Ethan Hawke / First Reformed
Best Supporting Actress:
Regina King / If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Supporting Actor:
Richard E. Grant / Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Foreign Language Film:
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Best Cinematography:
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
Best Nonfiction Film:
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
Best First Film:
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Best Animated Film:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
Special Awards:
David Schwartz, stepping down as Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image after 33 years.
Kino Classics Box Set “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers”
A full list of voting members is below:
Eric Kohn (CHAIR)
IndieWire
Alison Willmore (VICE CHAIR)
Buzzfeed
Marshall Fine (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance
MEMBERS:
Sam Adams
Slate
John Anderson
Freelance
Melissa Anderson
FourFrames
Michael Atkinson
The Village Voice
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication
Kameron Austin Collins
Vanity Fair
Bilge Ebiri
The Village Voice
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
David Ehrlich
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
IndieWire
David Fear
Rolling Stone
Graham Fuller
Culture Trip
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
Steven Greydanus
The National Catholic Register
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
Jordan Hoffman
The Guardian
Caryn James
BBC
Stuart Klawans
The Nation
Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair
Tomris Laffly
Time Out New York
Violet Lucca
Film Comment
Joe Morgenstern
The Wall Street Journal
Sheila O’Malley
Rogerebert.com
Nick Pinkerton
Freelance
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
Rex Reed
New York Observer
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
Alan Scherstuhl
The Village Voice
Matt Zoller Seitz
Rogerebert.com
David Sims
The Atlantic
Matt Singer
ScreenCrush
Kyle Smith
National Review
Dana Stevens
Slate
Sara Stewart
New York Post
Amy Taubin
Artforum
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Keith Uhlich
Freelance
Elizabeth Weitzman
The Wrap
Stephen Whitty
The Star-Ledger
Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
Emily Yoshida
New York Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Time Magazine
