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 “Milk”.
It is the third major awards group, and the third different movie to win:
LA FILM CRITICS: Wall-E
NATION BOARD OF REVIEW: Slumdog Millionare
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE: Milk
This is going to be a race to the finish.
I should also mention that “Man on a Wire”, the documentary about the man who walked a high wire between the twin towers has won “Best Documentary” from all three groups so far, and that “Penelope Cruz picked up her third award for the season, named best supporting actress by all three groups for her role in director Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.””
The only major awards contender film I haven’t seen yet is “Happy Go Lucky” (which I’m watching later today), but lead actress Sally Hawkins won Best Actress for New York AND Los Angeles, and director Mike Leigh took home the New York prize as well.
And just in case I haven’t emphasized this enough yet:
BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR = Wall-E
