"The Florida Project" also scores two wins--for Best Director and Supporting Actor
Lady Bird and The Florida Project each won two honors at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The marquee Best Picture mantle went to Lady Bird which also scored Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan.
Meanwhile The Florida Project earned Best Director distinction for Sean Baker along with Best Supporting Actor for Willem Dafoe.
Named Best Actor was Timothee Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name. Best Supporting Actress went to Tiffany Haddish for Girls Trip.
Paul Thomas Anderson took Best Screenplay for Phantom Thread. Rachel Morrison, ASC, won Best Cinematography for Mudbound.
Writer-director Jordan Peele’s Get Out was named Best First Feature. Coco won for Best Animated Film, Faces Places topped the Non-Fiction Film/Documentary category, and BPM (Beats Per Minute) was named Best Foreign Language Film.
Best Picture
LADY BIRD
Best Director
Sean Baker
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
Best Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson
PHANTOM THREAD
Best Actress
Saoirse Ronan
LADY BIRD
Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Best Supporting Actress
Tiffany Haddish
GIRLS TRIP
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe
THE FLORIDA PROJECT
Best Cinematographer
Rachel Morrison
MUDBOUND
Best Animated Film
COCO
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
FACES PLACES
Best Foreign Language Film
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Best First Film
Jordan Peele
GET OUT
Special Award–Career Achievement
Molly Haskell (Former Village Voice and New York Magazine film critic)
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More