New York Film Critics Circle Awards Announce Winners...
December 17th, 2002
Todd Haynes' swept best film and best director honors on Monday at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards with his homage to the Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, "Far From Heaven".
The movie also won in the categories of best supporting actor (Dennis Quaid), best supporting actress (Patricia Clarkson) and cinematography (Edward Lachman).
Charlie Kaufman won best screenplay for "Adaptation," about a screenwriter who inserts himself in his script. If this is any indication of things to come in March, he'll perhaps become the hottest screenwriting in Hollywood. If not the hottest, then certainly the most daring and inventive. Looking at his recent success, he is well on his way to a marvelous run: "Adaptation" (2002), "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002), "Human Nature" (2002), and "Being John Malkovich" (1999).
Daniel Day-Lewis, who stars as Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York," won the best actor award.
Diane Lane was named best actress for playing a wealthy suburban housewife who has an affair with a younger man in "Unfaithful." Lane was the subject of a retrospective last week at New York's Lincoln Center.
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown," about the studio musicians who played on the biggest Motown hits of the 1960s, was the group's choice for best documentary. And the racy Mexican hit "Y Tu Mama Tambien" won for foreign language film.
Marshall Fine, the group's chairman and the national film correspondent for Gannett News Service, said the awards boost the chances for "Far From Heaven" as the art-house Academy Award contender, and they put Lane on the Academy's radar.
"That one was the biggest surprise to me. That wasn't a performance that I'd personally been fond of, but obviously it connected in some way," said Fine, who's also a film critic for The Journal News in Westchester County. "Everyone talks about that scene on the train where she remembers what she's done. That scene sort of tipped it for her."
The New York Film Critics Circle, composed of 35 New York-based newspaper and magazine writers, prides itself on honoring films that often differ from Oscar winners.
(source: AP)
The movie also won in the categories of best supporting actor (Dennis Quaid), best supporting actress (Patricia Clarkson) and cinematography (Edward Lachman).
Charlie Kaufman won best screenplay for "Adaptation," about a screenwriter who inserts himself in his script. If this is any indication of things to come in March, he'll perhaps become the hottest screenwriting in Hollywood. If not the hottest, then certainly the most daring and inventive. Looking at his recent success, he is well on his way to a marvelous run: "Adaptation" (2002), "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002), "Human Nature" (2002), and "Being John Malkovich" (1999).
Daniel Day-Lewis, who stars as Bill the Butcher in "Gangs of New York," won the best actor award.
Diane Lane was named best actress for playing a wealthy suburban housewife who has an affair with a younger man in "Unfaithful." Lane was the subject of a retrospective last week at New York's Lincoln Center.
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown," about the studio musicians who played on the biggest Motown hits of the 1960s, was the group's choice for best documentary. And the racy Mexican hit "Y Tu Mama Tambien" won for foreign language film.
Marshall Fine, the group's chairman and the national film correspondent for Gannett News Service, said the awards boost the chances for "Far From Heaven" as the art-house Academy Award contender, and they put Lane on the Academy's radar.
"That one was the biggest surprise to me. That wasn't a performance that I'd personally been fond of, but obviously it connected in some way," said Fine, who's also a film critic for The Journal News in Westchester County. "Everyone talks about that scene on the train where she remembers what she's done. That scene sort of tipped it for her."
The New York Film Critics Circle, composed of 35 New York-based newspaper and magazine writers, prides itself on honoring films that often differ from Oscar winners.
(source: AP)
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