Sunday December 03, 2017
NY and LA Film Critics Weigh In (For a Change)
Armie Hammer (foreground), and Chalamet, in “Call Me By My Name”
In the last few days, on the heels of the National Board of Review, both the NY and the LA Film Critics Associations announced their winners for the year. Both bodies, I believe, get together in person and duke it out. I don't know why they don't film it. Best short feature, yo.
Anyway, here they are:
| Category | LA Film Critics | NY Film Critics |
| Picture | “Call Me By Your Name” | “Lady Bird” |
| Director | Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me By Your Name,” Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” (tie) | Sean Baker, “The Florida Project” |
| Actor | Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name” | Timothee Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name” |
| Actress | Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water” | Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird” |
| Supporting Actress | Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird” | Tiffany Haddish, “Girls Trip” |
| Supporting Actor | Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project” | Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project” |
| Screenplay | Jordan Peele, “Get Out” | Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread” |
| Cinematography | Dan Lautsen, “The Shape of Water” | Rachel Morrison, “Mudbound” |
| Editing | Lee Smith, “Dunkirk | |
| Best Documentary | ”Faces Places“ | ”Faces Places“ |
| Foreign Language | ”BPM“ and ”Loveless“ | ”BPM“ |
| Animated Feature | ”The Breadwinner“ | ”Coco“ |
Not tons of agreement. Just on the dudes, the doc and the foreigners. Really looking forward to ”BPM,“ AKA ”120 battements par minute,“ which is about love during the AIDS crisis. French, bien sur.
Interesting that in NY, where they gave picture and actress to ”Lady Bird,“ the film's surest bet, Laurie Metcalf in supporting, went to Tiffany Haddish in ”Girls Trip.“ I'm all for awarding outright comedies but this doesn't feel like the year. Particularly with Holly Hunter in ”The Big Sick“ hanging in the wings.
”Call Me By Your Name“ and ”The Shape of Water" open in Seattle later this month.
Baseball's Active Leaders, 2023
What Trump Said When About COVID
Recent Reviews
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
The Cagneys
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Something to Sing About (1937)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
A Lion Is In the Streets (1953)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Shake Hands With the Devil (1959)