Tuesday 27 December 2016

SIX FOR FIVE AT NORTH CAROLINA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARD NOMINATIONS


You know how it goes - actually, no, you probably don't. The SOS Critics' Tally relies upon its (unwittingly) participating groups practising discrimination at no point in their awards-giving process in order to qualify for that particular part of our process. And so, the North Carolina Film Critics Association's Best Narrative Film category doesn't quite cut it as a Best Picture category, due to the apparent disqualification of documentaries. Now you know how it goes, yes? Anyway, that appears to be their top award, and all five of its competitors receive six mentions from the NCFCA in the nominations for their 2016 awards. Also doing well, though absent from that category, are The Handmaiden, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Love & Friendship - all highly deserving. Winners will be announced when I hear about them, k?

Best Director
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
David MacKenzie (Hell or High Water)
Park Chan Wook (The Handmaiden)

Best Actress
Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)
Annette Bening (20th Century Women)
Ruth Negga (Loving)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Emma Stone (La La Land)

Best Actor
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Joel Edgerton (Loving)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (Fences)
Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Ben Foster (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Sam Neill (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

Best Original Screenplay
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Mike Mills (20th Century Women)
Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Tom Ford (Nocturnal Animals)
Eric Heisserer (Arrival)
Jeong Seo Kyeong and Park Chan Wook (The Handmaiden)
Whit Stillman (Love & Friendship)
Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)

Best Cinematography
Chung Chung Hoon (The Handmaiden)
James Laxton (Moonlight)
Giles Nuttgens (Hell or High Water)
Linus Sandgren (La La Land)
Bradford Young (Arrival)

Best Special Effects
Arrival
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
The Jungle Book
Rogue One

Best Narrative Film
Arrival
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight

Best Animated Film
Finding Dory
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Sausage Party
Zootopia

Best Documentary Film
13th
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
Weiner

Best Foreign Language Film
Elle
The Handmaiden
A Man Called Ove
Things to Come
Toni Erdmann

Ken Hanke Memorial Tar Heel Award
Anthony Mackie
Jeff Nichols
Starving the Beast

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