The first major critics group weighs in on the 2024 Oscar season starting today with the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, and they selected Killers of the Flower Moon as Best Film of the 2024 Oscar season. The film’s star Lily Gladstone picked up a win for Best Actress.
Other multiple honorees included Oppenheimer (Director, Cinematography) and May December (Screenplay, Supporting Actor).
Here are this year’s recipients:
- Best Film – Killers of the Flower Moon
- Best Director – Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
- Best Actor – Franz Rogowski, Passages
- Best Actress – Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Best Supporting Actor – Charles Melton, May December
- Best Supporting Actress – Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
- Best Screenplay – Samy Burch, May December
- Best First Film – Past Lives
- Best Foreign Language Film – Anatomy of a Fall
- Best Animated Film – The Boy and the Heron
- Best Non-Fiction Film – Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
- Best Cinematography – Oppenheimer
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It’s kind of like Dune but without the special effects or unrealistic Sci-Fi elements, but with dialogue and characters and heart and a willingness to really “go there”
Your cinema must have turned its air conditioning too high.
It’s a cold film, and I didn’t respond to it well.
Why?
LMAO! I’m in utter state of shock. Gonna check if Jeff Wells is OK on HE cause I’m not.
Nope!
It’s gonna sweep Script, Actress, Director and Picture
That may be true, but passing over that and passing over The Favourite (they picked Regina Hall over Colman, who was a big critics’ favourite that year!) makes me feel like they’re not huge Lanthimos fans. Could be wrong though.
But it only got even remotely discussed in that one category (I don’t think the comedy actor nomination at the Globes proves much), mostly because it was perceived as a “weak field” in original screenplay. Of course it was well-reviewed but still I think pitching Poor Things is easier than pitching The Lobster was back in the day (also, who knows how highly that film ranked in screenplay that year)
It even got a Golden Globe nomination!!
The Lobster wasn’t that esoteric of a choice though, it got an Oscar nomination!
But considering that The Lobster was never an obvious choice, what you’re mostly saying is that they didn’t award The Favourite
They never gave any award to a Lanthimos film, so I kinda expect a shutout.