'Hurt Locker' and Bigelow Top New York Critics List as Well

‘Hurt Locker’ and Bigelow Top New York Critics List as Well

December 14, 2009

By Brad Brevet

Yesterday there was a little confusion when some people thought the New York Film Critics Circle had chosen Avatar as thier winner for the year’s best film. In fact that was the New York Film Critics Online and not the long-standing NYC critics. Today, they have weighed in and awarded The Hurt Locker yet another Best Picture win as well as director Kathryn Bigelow. In my opinion this now makes Bigelow the front-runner for Best Director, but I’m still not convinced the film itself will take the top prize.

Christoph Waltz continues his domination in the Best Supporting Actor category and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox gets an animated win. Is it possible for Fox to take the top prize from Pixar’s Up? I would love to see it happen, but not so sure it will.

I am not a fan of Meryl Streep winning Best Actress for Julie and Julia, not because she’s bad in the film (in fact she and Stanley Tucci are the only things good about the film), but because there are more deserving females this year.

I just watched The White Ribbon and while I can’t argue with Christian Berger’s win for Cinematography I actually think it’s more for making a beautifully shot black-and-white film than for actually having the best cinematography. However, while watching the film I was trying to think of other films that deserved it any more than White Ribbon and after doing so I can’t say you would get any argument out of me, no matter how beautiful Dion Beebe’s work in Nine may be or even Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker. Right now I would add Robert Richardson’s work in Inglourious Basterds to that list and I am undecided on a fifth.

The full list of winners from the New York Film Critics Circle are directly below.

Best Picture