The Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington DC film critics groups all announced their year end awards this weekend, as did the New York Film Critics Online and the American Film Institute. If you are interested in any of these awards for their own sake, for what they mean for the Oscar race, or simply as pointers toward what movies might be worth your time, the easiest place to find lists of all the winners is Oscarwatch.
The different groups differed considerably on what the best picture of the last year was, but there's a lot of agreement among the critics, so far, as to the best lead performances - Forest Whitaker (for The Last King of Scotland) and Helen Mirren (for The Queen) won a lot of awards today. There was also was a good deal agreement over the best foreign film of '06, with Pan's Labyrinth (from Mexico) winning several honors.
The next few days will continue the awards season, with the New York Film Critics Circle announcing their winners tomorrow, and the Golden Globe nominees being announced later in the week.
Posted by armand at December 10, 2006 09:40 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Movies | MoviesThe New York Film Critics Circle handed out their prizes today, and they joined the all the organizations that announced winners yesterday in honoring Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren with the lead acting prizes.
The race for Best Film is still unclear though. This group, like the Washington DC group, decided to honor United 93 with that prize.
Posted by: Armand at December 11, 2006 04:43 PM | PERMALINK