"No Country" wins NYFCC...
Yet AGAIN we're having server issues on the Variety blog, so here I am at old faithful.
"No Country for Old Men" just grabbed FOUR awards from the New York Film Critics Circle: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay. "There Will Be Blood" picked up two, for Best Actor and Best Cinematorgaphy. And these two brutal, cold films have lept to the forefront of everyone's frontrunner lists as a result.
There's nothing else to be said of the NYFCC other than Amy Ryan is scorching the earth. It's kind of a shock that she beat out Cate Blanchett in Gotham, but there we are.
The BFCA nominees will be announced tomorrow and then we can REALLY sit up and take note, as they seem hell bent on predicting Oscar year in and year out.
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Hi Kris,
Just to follow up my comment on your redcarpetdistrict site (since it may get lost as it was an old entry I was posting on)...
I was trying to think of why I like the design of this much more than rcd and came up with this site being "clean" and rcd being "cluttered". Guess you can't help it though since it's a huge site with a gazillion links and ads that need to be accommodated.
Anyway just thought I'd mention it (and was as much praising how great this site looks as much as bashing rcd).
Posted by: adaml![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.incontention.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| December 10, 2007 10:49 AM
Well I appreciate the kind words about IC. I like RCD because it[s a breath of fresh air to go elsehwere and have different graphics to mess with, but it's also on a different agenda. It's tied in to the Award Central page, which is vital, and is part aand parcel of variety's entire awards coverage concept. Therefore, there was going to be a lot of widgets linking to other aspects of the site, etc.
Posted by: Kristopher Tapley![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.incontention.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| December 10, 2007 11:06 AM
Kris,
Do you think films like Atonement, Michael Clayton, Sweeney Todd, and American Gangster might find more love from the Academy, then they have received from the critics groups so far??
Posted by: Paddy![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.incontention.com/nav-commenters.gif)
| December 10, 2007 11:33 AM
Kris, No Country actually took 4, you forgot Directing.
I thought Schnabel would take this in NY.
Whatever wins Best Picture, I'm thinking The Coens are locked pretty well now for Best Director(s), especially if they're facing newbies like Joe Wright and Jason Reitman, or outsiders like Schnabel. PTA may wind up being the only competition, and I can't forsee Blood actually winning any Oscars other than Day-Lewis and techs.
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| December 10, 2007 11:54 AM
Paddy - Yes, I think those films are the sort that do not need critical love to push into contention.
Thanks for the note lazarus.
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| December 10, 2007 02:48 PM