Drive My Car Declared Best Film by New York Film Critics Circle

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has been named Best Film by the New York Film Critics Circle. It’s only the sixth time in the group’s history that a film not in the English language has taken out their top prize. After a recent win at the Gotham Awards for Best International Feature, it’s another major coup for the film and a great start to its Oscar campaign.

Elsewhere, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog picked up three awards for Best Director, Best Actor for Benedict Cumberbatch, and Best Supporting Actor for Kodi Smit-McPhee. Lady Gaga took home Best Actress for House of Gucci.

Full list of winners below.

Best Film
Drive My Car

Best Director
Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog

Best Screenplay
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Power of the Dog

Best Actress
Lady Gaga for House of Gucci

Best Supporting Actor
Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress
Kathryn Hunter for The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Animated Film
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Best Foreign Language Film
The Worst Person in the World

Best Non-Fiction Film
Flee

Best Cinematographer 
Janusz Kaminski for West Side Story

Best First Film
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.