The New York Film Critics Circle announced their picks for the best films of 2008 today. Milk was named Best Film and Happy-Go-Lucky , which I haven't much about, won two awards. The awards season is starting to develop some patterns with Slumdog Millionaire , Frozen River , Wall - E , Man on ...

The NYFCC named ‘Milk’ best film of the year!! So excited for Sally Hawkins. Best Picture - Milk Best Director - Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Actor - Sean Penn (Milk) Best Actress - Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Supporting Actor - Josh Brolin (Milk) Best ...

Hey folks, Harry here... MILK is a great film, with a great performance by Sean Penn - and I can absolutely make a case for those being the best film and performance of the year. I really could, they're not necessarily my pick at this point, but while I like Josh Brolin's performance in MILK - ...

I'm not a big fan of live-blogging, but it does work occasionally, as NY Post critic-blogger Lou Lumenick demonstrates with his play-by-play reporting of the New York Film Critics's divisive voting this morning. Thus, Rachel Getting Married led the first two ballots and Milk pulled ahead ...

"My sense is that Milk wound up as the I-can-live-with-that compromise choice for [New York Film Critics Circle] voters blocking Slumdog Millionaire and voters blocking Rachel Getting Married." -- Twitter remark attributed to critic Mike D'Angelo....

Yesterday Hollywood was a buzz with news that the Los Angeles Film Critics had awarded WALL-E “Best Picture of the Year” , a first for an animated film. Today the New York Film Critics Circle announced their yearly award winners, and the list is just as shocking - Josh Brolin ( ...

The New York Film Critics Circle has announced its 2008 award winners and, no surprise, really, James Marsh's MAN ON WIRE was named Best Non-Fiction Film of the Year. A caveat, however for anyone thinking that this cements WIRE's chances...

The Los Angeles critics fall for a love story between two darling heterosexual robots in an animated futuristic fantasy, while the New York critics go for a visceral biopic about a lion of the gay rights community.

If these early major awards are any indication, the “Best Picture” category at the Oscars this year is going to be wide open. Today, the third major awards group, The New York Film Critics Circle, handed out their annual awards giving the top prize to the Sean Penn flick ...

The New York Film Critics Circle has named Gus Van Sant's Milk the Best Picture of 2008 in their annual awards, announced today. In addition to their highest honor, the Big Apple group named Sean Penn (as gay icon Harvey Milk ) and Josh Brolin (as his assassin Dan White) Best Actor and ...

Sean Penn in "Milk." (Focus Features) Independent movies dominated the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, whose winners were announced Wednesday by the 73-year-old organization, with "Milk" claiming three awards. Gus Van Sant's biographical film about the politician Harvey Milk was named best ...

The New York Film Critics Circle has announced its awards for the year: Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky" Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, "Rachel Getting Married" Best Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire" Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, "Milk"  ...

The New York Film Critics Circle has just handed Gus Van Sant's Milk its Best Picture award. This obviously firms things up big-time for the Focus Features release, and makes it look right now like the only Best Picture contender...

So yesterday, the Los Angeles Film Critics made the stunning move of voting Wall-E as the Best Film of 2008. Stunning, because this is the first time the body has ever given their top honor to an animated film; stunning because last year, they gave it to the decidedly less commercial There Will ...

We're glad to finally see some major support for Mike Leigh 's " Happy Go Lucky ." Yesterday, the LAFCA (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association) gave Best Picture to " Wall-E " and us and a few others rolled their eyes while some jumped for joy and naively thought this meant Oscar. Let's ...

Refresh your screen for more details later... Got it? Here we go. The New York Film Critics Circle announcement is in progress. Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky NY & LA combined is powerful leverage for Oscar nods. Maybe that BFCA snub won't hurt her at all since she was losing ...

by Peter Knegt (December 10, 2008) The New York Film Critics' Circle are currently voting for their 73rd annual awards. Early winners include " Happy-Go-Lucky "'s Sally Hawkins for best actress and " Milk "'s Josh Brolin for best supporting actress, while " Rachel Getting Married "'s Jenny ...

The New York Film Critics Circle began voting about 20 minutes ago, and they'e given Sally Hawkins their Best Actress award for her performance in Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky. Hawkins won the same honor yesterday from the L.A. Film...

Will the New York film critics fall into step behind their peers in LA and pick the cuddly robot?

The New York Film Critics' Circle is currently voting for their 73rd annual awards, with " Happy-Go-Lucky "'s Sally Hawkins already announced as their best actress of the year. Check back with indieWIRE for results as they come in. [Peter Knegt]