After yesterday’s surprise with the Los Angeles Film Critics bestowing the title of Best Picture on WALL•E and naming The Dark Knight the runner-up I guess it would have been too much to expect the same from the New York Critics, but they have in turn gone a different route and awarded Happy-Go-Lucky a pair of high profile awards as well as giving Milk the three other top nods.
Winning Best Picture is Milk as well as sweeping the actor bids with Sean Penn winning for Best Actor and Josh Brolin for Best Supporting Actor. Happy-Go-Lucky takes Best Actress for Sally Hawkins’ performance and also Best Director kudos for Mike Leigh. Penelope Cruz takes the final top-line prize winning for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a personal favorite of mine.
The complete list can be found below and I will have the winners added to “The Contenders” shortly, I am scheduled to speak with Doubt star Viola Davis any minute now so it may take 20 minutes or so. Stay tuned, tomorrow morning brings us the Golden Globe nominees as things are about to really heat up.
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married)
Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin (Milk)
Best Animated Film: WALL•E
Best Director: Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Best First Film: Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)
Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk)
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Picture: Milk
