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    “The Zone of Interest,” “All of Us Strangers” Top London Critics’ Circle Film Awards With 3 Wins Apiece

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    Sandra Hüller in a scene from director Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest." (photo courtesy of A24)
    LONDON --

    The Zone of Interest and All of Us Strangers led the way at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards with three wins apiece during a ceremony on Sunday (2/4) at the May Fair Hotel in London. Jonathan Glazer’s German-language drama The Zone of Interest was named Film of the Year and also took prizes for director and  a technical achievement honor for music and sound. Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers won the Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year, with Andrew Scott named Actor of the Year and co-star Paul Mescal earning distinction as British/Irish Performer of the Year for his body of work in 2023.

    Emma Stone won Actress of the Year for Poor Things, while supporting performance awards went to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers and Charles Melton for May December. All three accepted their awards on videotape. Justine Triet and Arthur Harari were on hand to receive the Screenwriter award for Anatomy of a Fall, and director Mstyslav Chernov arrived to accept Documentary of the Year for 20 Days in Mariupol. Celine Song’s Past Lives was named Foreign-Language Film of the Year, while Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron won the new Animated Film award.

    Jeffrey Wright received the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film, presented to him by American Fiction director-writer Cord Jefferson. And Misan Harriman, an Oscar nominee this year for his short The After, presented the inaugural Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation to Colman Domingo, who had received the award in a small videotaped ceremony two days earlier in London. Rustin co-stars Wright and Domingo are both nominated for Oscars this year; Wright for American Fiction and Domingo for Rustin.

    Right behind The Zone of Interest and All of Us Strangers was How to Have Sex, which garnered two awards from U.K. critics. Mia McKenna-Bruce received the group’s first international Breakthrough Performance award for How to Have Sex, and the film’s writer-director Molly Manning Walker won the Philip French Award for British/Irish Breakthrough Filmmaker. Other British/Irish winners included Lola Campbell as Young Performer for Scrapper, and Natalie Cubides-Brady, director of short film The Veiled City.

    Here’s a full rundown of winners:

     

     

    FILM OF THE YEAR 
    The Zone of Interest (A24)

     

     

    FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
    Past Lives (StudioCanal)

     

     

    DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR
    20 Days in Mariupol (Dogwoof)

     

     

    ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR
    The Boy and the Heron (Elysian)

     

     

    DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 
    Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest (A24)

     

     

    SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR
    Justine Triet & Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall (Picturehouse)

     

     

    ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
    Emma Stone – Poor Things (Searchlight)

     

     

    ACTOR OF THE YEAR 
    Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)

     

     

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR 
    Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (Universal)

     

     

    SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR
    Charles Melton – May December (Sky)

     

     

    BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR 
    Mia McKenna-Bruce – How to Have Sex (Mubi)

     

     

    THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR
    All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)

     

     

    THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
    Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex (Mubi)

     

     

    BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work) 
    Paul Mescal – All of Us Strangers (Searchlight), God’s Creatures (BFI), Foe (Metfilm), Carmen (Miracle)

     

     

    YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
    Lola Campbell – Scrapper (Picturehouse)

     

     

    BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR
    The Veiled City – Natalie Cubides-Brady, director

     

     

    TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
    The Zone of Interest – music & sound, Mica Levi & Johnnie Burn (A24)

     

     

    THE DILYS POWELL AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN FILM
    Jeffrey Wright

     

     

    THE DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION
    Colman Domingo

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    Is “Glicked” The New “Barbenheimer”? “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Hit Theater Screens

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    "Barbenheimer" was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn't stopped people from trying to make "Glicked" — or even "Babyratu" — happen.

    The counterprogramming of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up. Unlike so many things that begin as memes, it transcended its online beginnings. Instead of an either-or, the two movies ultimately complemented and boosted one another at the box office.

    And ever since, moviegoers, marketers and meme makers have been trying to recreate that moment, searching the movie release schedule for odd mashups and sending candidates off into the social media void. Most attempts have fizzled (sorry, "Saw Patrol" ).

    This weekend is perhaps the closest approximation yet as the Broadway musical adaptation "Wicked" opens Friday against the chest-thumping sword-and-sandals epic "Gladiator II." Two big studio releases (Universal and Paramount), with one-name titles, opposite tones and aesthetics and big blockbuster energy — it was already halfway there before the name game began: "Wickiator," "Wadiator," "Gladwick" and even the eyebrow raising "Gladicked" have all been suggested.

    "'Glicked' rolls off the tongue a little bit more," actor Fred Hechinger said at the New York screening of "Gladiator II" this week. "I think we should all band around 'Glicked.' It gets too confusing if you have four or five different names for it."

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