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The longest-acting movie awards voting committee got it done in about 3½ hours this year, with the New York Film Critics Circle finally naming Focus Features’ Tár as Best film of 2022. The movie, which reps filmmaker Todd Fields return to the camera in 16 years also saw its star Cate Blanchett win Best Actress. The NYFCC is known for bestowing wins to indie movies and the org can take as long as five hours to deliberate on the day they announce wins. Whatever film the group names as Best Picture doesn’t always translate to an Oscar Best Picture win; the last title to do so was 2011’s The Artist. That’s not to say their winners aren’t in the Oscar mix. Last year , the NYFCC named Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car its Best Film, with the pic going on to win Best International Feature Film at the Oscars . Jane Campion last year received Best Director for The Power of the Dog , and went on to win Best Director at the Oscars . Among the NYCC’s previous Best Pics … [Read more...] about New York Film Critics Circle Names ‘Tár’ As Best Film; Cate Blanchett & Colin Farrell Take Lead Acting Prize: Winners List

That old time religion takes another hit in The Starling Girl , an effective if somewhat overdrawn account of an obedient 17-year-old girl in a fundamentalist society who is lured astray by a local former pastor. Everything about Laurel Parmet ’s feature directorial debut has been fastidiously tended to in this well-carpentered drama that will appeal to young female audiences who will be both fascinated with and appalled by the rigid strictures and male-dominated activities that, according to the film, define the lives of the women in such fundamentalist communities. Having made several short films up to now in addition to playing Eliza Scanlen in the HBO series Sharp Objects and Beth March in Greta Gerwig’s film of Little Women , Parmet shows dramatic confidence as she sets up a story that serves as a reminder of how dominant religion-based societies are in significant swaths of American life. Quietly but firmly, the film makes clear its disapproval of such narrow and … [Read more...] about ‘The Starling Girl’ Sundance Review: A Teen Defies Her Fundamentalist Society In Director Laurel Parmet’s Feature Debut

The Oscar nominations revealed Tuesday did not include any female directors, extending a trend across this season’s awards landscape. It means the modest streak of women winning the Directing Oscar will end at two, after back-to-back wins the past two years with Jane Campion ( The Power of the Dog ) in 2022 and Chloé Zhao ( Nomadland ) in 2021. This morning, the names called were Martin McDonagh ( The Banshees of Inisherin ), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ( Everything Everywhere All at Once ), Steven Spielberg ( The Fabelmans ), Todd Field ( Tár ) and Ruben Östlund ( Triangle of Sadness ). Earlier this season, the mostly apples-to-apples Directors Guild also went with McDonagh, Kwan & Scheinert, Field and Spielberg, but had Top Gun: Maverick ‘s Joseph Kosinski rounding out its five. The DGA did nominate four women for First-Time Feature Film award: Alice Diop ( Saint Omer ), Audrey Diwan ( Happening ), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic ( Murina ) … [Read more...] about Female Directors Shut Out Of This Year’s Oscar Nominations