In my second year as a member of the NSFC, we met this morning at Elinor Bunim in Lincoln Center and voted on this year’s films. These things can be pretty grueling – and today was no different – just so many rounds of voting and tallying, with critics in New York, and zooming in from Los Angeles, and other places. Our chairman, Justin Chang, 2024 Pulitzer Price winner! – kept us on track, and did an amazing job wrangling all the votes in. It was good to see friends! I could have Zoomed in but decided to go so I could sit next to Farran and gossip in between voting rounds. It’s a numbers game. And unlike the NYFCC, the NSFC releases the runners-up, as well as the point spread on all of these. You can see how close these races were. We vote with numbered ballots, with stacked values and then tally it up. It can go long if we don’t have a winner in the first round. I also love that we award best experimental film – fun! – as well as a special citation for a film still awaiting U.S. distribution. There are also the Film Heritage Awards, which we give out every year, to individuals or organizations doing good work we want to acknowledge. This year we gave out three. <\/p>\n
BEST PICTURE<\/strong> BEST DIRECTOR<\/strong> BEST ACTRESS<\/strong> BEST ACTOR<\/strong> BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS<\/strong> BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR<\/strong> BEST SCREENPLAY<\/strong> BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE<\/strong> BEST NONFICTION FILM<\/strong> BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<\/strong> SPECIAL CITATION FOR A FILM AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION<\/strong> BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM<\/strong> FILM HERITAGE AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n To Save and Project: The MoMa International Festival of Film Preservation<\/strong>, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations.<\/p>\n IndieCollect<\/strong>, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.<\/p>\n Scott Eyman<\/strong>, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with \u201cCharlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided,\u201d a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.<\/p>\n I’ve reviewed and\/or written about a couple of these. In my second year as a member of the NSFC, we met this morning at Elinor Bunim in Lincoln Center and voted on this year’s films. These things can be pretty grueling – and today was no different – just … Continue reading
\n\u201cNickel Boys\u201d (47 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: \u201cAnora,\u201d \u201cAll We Imagine as Light\u201d (34 points)<\/p>\n
\nPayal Kapadia, \u201cAll We Imagine as Light\u201d (49 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: RaMell Ross, \u201cNickel Boys\u201d (42 points), Sean Baker, \u201cAnora\u201d (33 points)<\/p>\n
\nMarianne Jean-Baptiste, \u201cHard Truths\u201d (79 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: Mikey Madison, \u201cAnora\u201d (35 points), Ilinca Manolache, \u201cDo Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World\u201d (32 points)<\/p>\n
\nColman Domingo, \u201cSing Sing\u201d (60 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: Adrien Brody, \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d (51 points), Ralph Fiennes, \u201cConclave\u201d (45 points)<\/p>\n
\nMichele Austin, \u201cHard Truths\u201d (55 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up (tie)L Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, \u201cNickel Boys,\u201d and Natasha Lyonne, \u201cHis Three Daughters\u201d (39 points)<\/p>\n
\nKieran Culkin, \u201cA Real Pain\u201d (52 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: (tie) Guy Pearce, \u201cThe Brutalist,\u201d and Edward Norton, \u201cA Complete Unknown \u201c(50 points); Adam Pearson, \u201cA Different Man\u201d (41 points)<\/p>\n
\nJesse Eisenberg, \u201cA Real Pain\u201d (47 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: Radu Jude, \u201cDo Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World\u201d (46 points), Sean Baker, \u201cAnora\u201d (45 points)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAll We Imagine as Light\u201d (44 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: \u201cDo Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World\u201d (41 points), \u201cThe Seed of the Sacred Fig\u201d (28 points)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNo Other Land\u201d (70 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: \u201cDahomey\u201d (50 points), \u201cSoundtrack to a Coup d\u2019Etat\u201d (24 points)<\/p>\n
\nJomo Fray, \u201cNickel Boys\u201d (80 points)<\/strong>
\nRunners-up: Lol Crawley, \u201cThe Brutalist\u201d (38 points), Jarin Blaschke, \u201cNosferatu\u201d (21 points)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNo Other Land\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe Ballad of Suzanne C\u00e9saire\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAll We Imagine as Light<\/a><\/em>
\nNo Other Land<\/a><\/em>
\nDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World<\/a><\/em>
\nAnd some of these I wrote about in my 2024 Film Roundup on Liberties<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"