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The National Board of Review said Wednesday it will hold its annual awards-season gala next year on January 8 in New York City. That will be one day after the New York Film Critics Circle set its gala honoring the year’s best in movies. The NBR, which chose eventual Oscar Best Picture winner Green Book as its best…

The New York Film Critics Circle’s annual awards dinner unspooled in warmly dignified fashion, to the mild disappointment of any awards-circuit regular who witnessed last year’s riotously funny, 25-minute hijacking by Tiffany Haddish or other high drama from ceremonies past. Thankfully, from a stagecraft standpoint…

The New York Film Critics Circle has named Netflix/Participant Media’s Roma the best film of the year as well its director Alfonso Cuarón. Voting took place over the course of a near five hour period, outstripping last year’s 3 1/2 hour voting length. It’s a major breakthrough for the streaming title which is in a…

The New York Film Critics Circle, among the early smoke signalers during the ramping up movie awards season, is set to vote its best of 2018 movies November 29. The group led by IndieWire chief film critic Eric Kohn will hold its annual gala awards dinner January 7 at Tao Downtown, always one of the more lively stops…

The surprises at the annual New York Film Critics Circle dinner bash aren’t in the awards; they were announced last month. The appeal of this gathering – which in its raffishness is something like the Golden Globes but with noses tilted slightly upward – lies in how the honored artists will behave when addressing some…

After 3 1/2 hours of deliberation, the New York Film Critics Circle selected Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird as its best picture. In addition, the pic took best actress for Saoirse Ronan’s turn as a Sacramento high school senior looking to escape the confines of her northern California hometown. In sum, it marked another big…

Most of the long evening at which the New York Film Critics Circle members handed out their 82nd annual awards Tuesday night proffered the usual praise and gratitude mandatory at such affairs, with a few exceptional grace notes sprinkled in to class up the occasion. Casey Affleck, on the other hand, came prepared to…

After nearly 4 1/2 of voting where it looked like either Amazon’s Manchester by the Sea or A24’s Moonlight was going to take best picture based on their traction, the New York Film Critics Circle gave best film to Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. The Lionsgate/Summit movie also received 12 Critics’ Choice nominations…

The New York Film Critics Circle, whose annual awards are among the early Oscar-season bellwethers, will vote for this year’s awards on December 1, the group said today. It comprises critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web. Last year, it named the Weinstein Company’s Carol its Best…

Accepting his Best Director nod  for Carol from the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday night, Todd Haynes recalled arriving as a boy in New York from Los Angeles in 1970. “This award has a very special meaning for me, coming as it does from this most seminal city,” he told the audience of film critics, producers…

Weinstein Co.’s Carol came up as the big winner at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards this morning earning best film, best director for Todd Haynes, best screenplay for Phyllis Nagy’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and best cinematography for Edward Lachman’s visuals. The groundswell comes on the heels…

Just weeks after New York’s tabloids began reducing coverage of entertainment news in the country’s culture capital, the New York Film Critics Circle announced the addition of six new names to its roster. The list includes writers for websites that hold increasing sway with Hollywood studios reaching audiences once…