Why were critics so uncritical of Toy Story 4's retreading?
Yes, people are still giving out prizes. We don’t say this facetiously since we haven’t even given out ours yet (still cramming in screenings!) but both the Team Experience Awards (voted on by our whole team sans me -- they don’t let me vote!) and the Film Bitch Awards (yours truly's own long-running prizes) are coming in the next week or two. But until the guild awards start en masse this week (whilst Academy members vote on the Oscar nominations) here are the five latest industry or critics groups to announce. We only wish that there was more variety since Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, Adam Driver, Brad Pitt, Apollo 11, and Toy Story 4 continual to dominate their categories with stampede like force. The only category where the groups disagreed en masse (this week at least) was Best Actress; Ronan, Nyong'o, Zellweger, and Johansson all picked up another prize. And Best Supporting Actress was dominated by Florence Pugh in this week's roundup which is a bit different than earlier in the critics awards season where it was always Dern vs Lopez.
The latest prizes after the jump...
AACTA
(Australian Academy of Cinema and Television)
AACTA has two separate award lineups -- confusing we know! The first, which we already covered, is exclusively for celebrating Australian film. That’s what they should be doing with their time being an Australian Academy of film and given that any industry outside of Hollywood needs the celebrating! The second, their international prizes, is, as far as we can tell, just them being into Oscar predicting and publicity since it’s only the headline categories and similar to all the other American-focused critics lists out there.
Best Picture Parasite
Best Director Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Lead Actress Saoirse Ronan - Little Women
Best Lead Actor Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actress Margot Robbie - Bombshell
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Screenplay JoJo Rabbit
COFCA
(Columbus Film Critics Association)
Best Picture Parasite (ru: Knives Out)
Best Director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite (ru: Sam Mendes, 1917)
Best Animated Film Toy Story 4 (ru: I Lost My Body)
Best Documentary Apollo 11 (ru: American Factory)
Best Foreign Film Parasite (ru: Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Most Overlooked Film (The Last Black Man in San Francisco (ru: Ready or Not)
Best Lead Actress Lupita Nyong’o - Us (ru Florence Pugh, MidSommar)
Best Lead Actor Adam Driver - Marriage Story (ru Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems)
Best Supporting Actress Florence Pugh - Little Women (ru Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit)
Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe - The Lighthouse (ru Joe Pesci - The Irishman)
Breakthrough Artist Florence Pugh (3 films) (ru: Joe Talbot, Last Black Man in...)
Body of Work: Adam Driver (all 4 films) (ru: Florence Pugh - 3 films)
Best Adapted Screenplay Little Women (ru Jojo Rabbit)
Best Original Screenplay Parasite (ru Knives Out)
Best Cinematography 1917 (ru The Lighthouse)
Best Score Us (ru 1917)
NCFCA
(North Carolina Film Critics Association)
Best Picture Parasite
Best Director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Best Animated Film Toy Story 4
Best Documentary Apollo 11
Best Foreign Film Parasite
Best Lead Actress Lupita Nyong’o - Us
Best Lead Actor Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actress Florence Pugh - Little Women
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Adapted Screenplay Little Women
Best Original Screenplay Parasite
Best Cinematography 1917
Best Music Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Visual FX Avengers Endgame
Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award (which recognizes a person or film connected to North Carolina): Peanut Butter Falcon
HFCS
(Houston Film Critics Society)
They’re now in their 13th year with 40 members. And get this, at their awards ceremony they actually had performances of all six of their Original Song nominees. That’s fun.
Best Picture Parasite
Best Director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
Best Animated Film Toy Story 4
Best Documentary Apollo 11
Best Foreign Film Parasite
Best Lead Actress Renee Zellweger - Judy
Best Lead Actor Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actress Zhao Shuzhen - The Farewell
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Screenplay Knives Out
Best Cinematography 1917
Best Score 1917
Best Original Song “Glasgow” Wild Rose
Best Visual FX 1917
Stunt Coordination John Wick 3 Parabellum
Movie Poster Art Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Texas Independent Film Award Bull
Texas Independent Film Visionary Tim Tsai -Seadrift
Lifetime Achievement Roger Corman
Outstanding Achievement Award Trey Edward Shults
GWNYFCA
(Greater Western New York Film Critics Association)
This group was formed just one awards cycle ago (If Beale Street… took their best picture prize) and represents a dozen critics in the Buffalo/Rochester area of New York.
Best Picture Marriage Story
Best Film in a Foreign Language Parasite (South Korea)
Best Animated Film Toy Story 4
Best Documentary Apollo 11
Best Director Bong Joon-ho - Parasite
Best Lead Actress Scarlett Johansson - Marriage Story
Best Lead Actor Adam Driver - Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actress Florence Pugh - Little Women
Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci - The Irishman
Best Adapted Screenplay Steven Zaillian - The Irishman
Best Original Screenplay Noah Baumbach - Marriage Story
Best Cinematography Claire Mathon - Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Best Editing Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie - Uncut Gems
Best Score Randy Newman - Marriage Story
Breakthrough Director Olivia Wilde - Booksmart
Breakthrough Performance Zhao Shuzhen - The Farewell