Gonna be a weird season for a weird year, where several critics groups keep their original timelines, but the Oscar stretches out to April, with many other awards follow suit in adjusting their own schedules.
Anyway, here are the awards from the first major critics group this year, New York Film Critics Circle.
NYFCC
Best Film: First Cow
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers
Best Foreign Language Film: Bacurau
Best Non-Fiction Film: Time
Best First Film: The 40-Year-Old Version
Best Cinematography: Shabier Kirchner, Small Axe (all films)
Special Awards:
* Kino Lorber, for their creation of Kino Marquee, a virtual cinema distribution service that was designed to help support movie theaters, not destroy them.
* Spike Lee for inspiring the New York community with his short film “New York New York” and for advocating for a better society through cinema.