First Cow Named Best Film by New York Film Critics Circle

Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow has been named Best Film by the New York Film Critics Circle. Elsewhere, Da 5 Bloods took home two awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, while Never Rarely Sometimes Always also scooped up two prizes for Best Actress and Best Screenplay. Full list of winners below.

Best Film

First Cow

Best Foreign Language Film

Bacurau

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor

Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods

Best Actress

Sidney Flanigan – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best Supporting Actor

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Screenplay

Eliza Hittman – Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Best First Film

Florian Zeller – The Father

Best Non-Fiction Film

Time

Best Animated Film

Wolfwalkers

Best Cinematography

Small Axe

Special Award

Kino Lorber for their creation of Kino Marquee, a virtual cinema distribution service that was designed to help support movie theaters, not destroy them.

Special Award

Spike Lee for inspiring the New York community with his short film “New York New York” and for advocating for a better society through cinema.


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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.