Friday, 21 December 2012

BLACK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES



Best Film
1.        Zero Dark Thirty
2.        Argo
3.        Django Unchained
4.        Beasts of the Southern Wild
5.        Lincoln
6.        Flight
7.        Life of Pi
8.        Skyfall
9.        Silver Linings Playbook
10.     Middle of Nowhere
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Best Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)
Best Ensemble
Lincoln
Best Animated Film
Rise of the Guardians
Best Documentary
The Central Park Five
Best Foreign Language Film
The Intouchables
Rising Star
Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Special Mention
Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere)
Pioneer
William Packer (Think Like a Man)

Good news again for Zero Dark Thirty, which performs very well indeed. Anne Hathaway keeps winning, even when the groups to award her don't appear to share a similar love for her film, and Lincoln is still underwhelming, with Chris Terrio advancing further ahead in the Adapted Screenplay race. Rise of the Guardians seems to be much more popular with the African-American critics (this group is an off-shoot of the AAFCA), while both the AAFCA and the BFCC have recognised Middle of Nowhere in a way that the NAACP shamefully failed to do. The Central Park Five may not be apparently on the radar of most critics' groups; those which have been honouring it, though, have done so with wins, rather than nominations or runner-up citations.

2 comments:

  1. Three films here are on my own list (ZERO, LINCOLN, LIFE OF PI) but obviously several others are critically-praised and wildly popular.

    -Sam Juliano

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    1. It's a much better Top 10 than their cousins' list, the AAFCA. Seeing Pi on Monday. 'Cited!

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