MOONLIGHT WINS FOUR DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS

Whether or not its dominance with the critics is going to extend into the upcoming industry awards remains to be seen, but Barry Jenkins' Moonlight keeps winning big awards in big numbers this season. The Denver Film Critics Society, whose nominations can be viewed here, has chosen the drama for four awards for the best in film last year. Check it all out below:

Best Picture

Moonlight

Best Director

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Actress

Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Best Actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis (Fences)

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Best Original Screenplay

Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Barry Jenkins - based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's In Midnight Boys Look Blue (Moonlight)

Best Visual Effects

Doctor Strange

Best Score

Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

Best Original Song

'Drive It Like You Stole It' (Sing Street)

Best Animated Film

Zootopia

Best Documentary

O.J.: Made in America

Best Foreign Language Film

Toni Erdmann

Best Comedy

Deadpool

Best Science Fiction / Horror Film

Arrival

SILENCE MAKES SOME NOISE WITH DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY

See? Some people like it! Martin Scorsese's Silence irrefutably deserves better than it's getting from voters in an awards season whose mad rush to declare with haste above all else has prevented some of 2016's latest-breaking films from claiming nominations for year-end awards. The Denver Film Critics Society is here to remedy things for this most brilliant film, which takes its rightful place alongside fellow Best Picture nominees such as Arrival and Moonlight. Now this is Denver, so you know these have been announced, whether knowingly or not, in order of preference. Winners will be revealed next Monday, the 16th of January.

Best Picture

Manchester by the Sea

La La Land

Moonlight

Arrival

Silence

Best Director

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

Martin Scorsese (Silence)

Best Actress

Ruth Negga (Loving)

Annette Bening (20th Century Women)

Amy Adams (Arrival)

Natalie Portman (Jackie)

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Best Actor

Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)

Denzel Washington (Fences)

Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)

Adam Driver (Paterson)

Tom Hanks (Sully)

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis (Fences)

Naomie Harris (Moonlight)

Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)

Nicole Kidman (Lion)

Best Supporting Actor

Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals)

Timothy Spall (Denial)

John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)

Best Original Screenplay

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

Guy Hibbert (Eye in the Sky)

Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Eric Heisserer (Arrival)

Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls)

Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)

Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures)

Best Visual Effects

Arrival

Rogue One

Doctor Strange

The Jungle Book

A Monster Calls

Best Score

Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)

Mica Levi (Jackie)

Nicholas Britell (Moonlight)

Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer (Hidden Figures)

Johann Johannsson (Arrival)

Best Original Song

'Drive It Like You Stole It' (Sing Street)

'Audition (The Fools Who Dream)' (La La Land)

'City of Stars' (La La Land)

'Runnin'' (Hidden Figures)

'Can't Stop The Feeling' (Trolls)

Best Animated Film

Moana

The Red Turtle

Zootopia

Kubo and the Two Strings

Finding Dory

Best Documentary

O.J.: Made in America

13th

Weiner

I Am Not Your Negro

Gleason

Best Foreign Language Film

Elle

Neruda

The Salesman

The Handmaiden

Toni Erdmann

Best Comedy

Hail, Caesar!

Deadpool

The Nice Guys

Don't Think Twice

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Best Science Fiction / Horror Film

Arrival

Rogue One

10 Cloverfield Lane

The Witch

Doctor Strange

SPOTLIGHT WINS DENVER CRITICS' BEST PICTURE AWARD

The Denver Film Critics Society gave us a few clues - as it always does - regarding which films it was set to award today, when it announced its nominations in apparently ranked order! Save a few categories which would make more sense if reversed (both now and then, but who cares), things turned out roughly as expected. Spotlight wins Best Picture, though otherwise only Original Screenplay; only Mad Max: Fury Road joins it in claiming two awards total, as the critics in Denver spread the wealth. Check it out:

Best Picture

Spotlight

Best Director

George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Best Actress

Brie Larson (Room)

Best Supporting Actor

Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

Best Supporting Actress

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)

Best Original Screenplay

Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)

Best Visual Effects

Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Score

Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)

Best Song

Andrew Cedar, Justin Franks, Charlie Puth and Cameron Thomaz - 'See You Again' (Furious 7)

Best Animated Film

Inside Out

Best Documentary

The Look of Silence

Best Foreign Language Film

Son of Saul

Best Comedy

What We Do in the Shadows

Best Science Fiction / Horror Film

The Martian

DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY NOMINATIONS - CAROL TAKES ANOTHER HIT

I'm just about ready to slap someone. The Denver Film Critics Society announced their award nominees; Carol features in just one category. They saw the film. They could've at least acknowledged it where deserved. Instead, The Revenant does bloody well, while at least Mad Max: Fury Road leads the nomination count, though expect Spotlight to win, as per fucking usual. We'll find out what does win on the 11th of January. I'm going to pose what I believe to be a fairly convincing theory, and not a unique one for this season (or any other, in fact): these nominations were posted in ranked order. They make sense that way, right? Check this shitshow out:

Best Picture
1. Room
2. Spotlight
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Inside Out
5. The Revenant

Best Director
1. George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2. Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
3. Ridley Scott (The Martian)
4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant)
5. Lenny Abrahamson (Room)

Best Actor
1. Matt Damon (The Martian)
2. Bryan Cranston (Trumbo)
3. Will Smith (Concussion)
4. Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
5. Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)

Best Actress
1. Brie Larson (Room)
2. Cate Blanchett (Carol)
3. Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
4. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
5. Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Tom Hardy (The Revenant)
2. Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
3. Michael Shannon (99 Homes)
4. Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation)
5. Sylvester Stallone (Creed)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina)
2. Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
3. Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy)
4. Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight)
5. Rachel McAdams (Spotlight)

Best Original Screenplay
1. Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out)
2. Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
3. Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)
4. Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight)
5. Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)

Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Emma Donoghue (Room)
2. Nick Hornby (Brooklyn)
3. Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (The Big Short)
4. Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs)
5. Drew Goddard (The Martian)

Best Visual Effects
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. The Walk
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Ex Machina
5. The Martian

Best Score
1. Ennio Morricone (The Hateful Eight)
2. John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
3. Bryce Dessner, Carsten Nicolai and Sakamoto Ryuichi (The Revenant)
4. Howard Shore (Spotlight)
5. Tom Holkenborg (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Best Original Song
1. Cameron Thomaz - 'See You Again' (Furious 7)
2. Sam Smith - 'Writing's on the Wall' (Spectre)
3. Stefani Germanotta - ''Til It Happens to You' (The Hunting Ground)
4. Tim Wheeler - 'Feels Like Summer' (Shaun the Sheep Movie)
5. Sumi Jo - 'Simple Song #3' (Youth)

Best Animated Film
1. Inside Out
2. Anomalisa
3. The Peanuts Movie
4. Shaun the Sheep Movie
5. The Good Dinosaur

Best Documentary
1. Listen to Me Marlon
2. Cartel Land
3. Amy
4. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
5. The Look of Silence

Best Foreign Language Film
1. Son of Saul
2. The Fencer
3. The Assassin
4. Taxi
5. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Best Comedy
1. Joy
2. What We Do in the Shadows
3. The Big Short
4. Trainwreck
5. Inside Out

Best Science Fiction / Horror Film
1. Ex Machina
2. The Martian
3. It Follows
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. Mad Max: Fury Road