Category: cinephilia

“One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” Lead FFCC Awards Nominations

December 15th, 2025

The Florida Film Critics Circle announces nominees in 20 categories

“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling, politically tinted seriocomic action thriller, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” a blues-soaked socially conscious period piece that doubles as a horror film, top the nominees for this year’s Florida Film Critics Circle awards, with 12 bids each.

Also among the top contenders in 20 categories are Park Chan-wook’s comic thriller “No Other Choice,” with seven nominations, and Bi Gan’s sci-fi drama “Resurrection,” with six. “Grand Tour,” “The Secret Agent” and “The Mastermind” each received four nominations, while “Hamnet” and “Sirat” each received three.

The FFCC Awards winners are expected to be announced on Friday.

BEST PICTURE
Grand Tour
The Mastermind
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Sinners

ACTOR
Lee Byung-hun (No Other Choice)
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Josh O’Connor (The Mastermind)

ACTRESS
Crista Alfaiate (Grand Tour)
Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rita Cortese (Most People Die on Sundays)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Mia Threapleton (The Phoenician Scheme)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Jacques Develay (Misericordia)
David Jonsson (The Long Walk)
Delroy Lindo (Sinners)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

ENSEMBLE
Eephus
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

DIRECTOR
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Bi Gan (Resurrection)
Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind)
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Astronaut Lovers (Marco Berger)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Rent Free (Fernando Andrés & Tyler Rugh)
Sentimental Value (Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bugonia (Will Tracy)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Liane-Cho Han, Aude Py, Maïlys Vallade & Eddine Noël)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Grand Tour (Gui Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças)
One Battle After Another (Michael Bauman & Paul Thomas Anderson)
Resurrection (Dong Jingsong)
Sinners (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)
Sirāt (Mauro Herce)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
No Other Choice
Resurrection
Sinners

EDITING
Die My Love (Toni Froschhammer)
No Other Choice (Kim Sang-bum & Kim Ho-bin)
Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie)
One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen)
Sinners (Michael P. Shawver)

PRODUCTION DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
Frankenstein
The Phoenician Scheme
Resurrection
The Secret Agent
Sinners

ORIGINAL SCORE
The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)
One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)
Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)
Sirāt (Kangding Ray)
Resurrection (M83)

DOCUMENTARY
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
The Perfect Neighbor
Predators
River of Grass
Sabbath Queen

INTERNATIONAL FILM
Grand Tour
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Resurrection
The Secret Agent
Sirāt

ANIMATED FEATURE
100 Meters
Arco
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie
Zootopia 2

FIRST FILM
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Eephus
Lurker
Sorry, Baby
The Ugly Stepsister

BREAKOUT AWARD
Miles Caton (Sinners)
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)
Jacobi Jupe (Hamnet)
Théodore Pellerin (Lurker)
Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

GOLDEN ORANGE
River of Grass – Sasha Wortzel
No Sleep Till – Alexandra Simpson

(Philip Booth is a voting member of the Florida Film Critics Circle)

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“Dunkirk” Takes Top Honors in 2017 FFCC Awards; “The Florida Project” Wins Golden Orange

December 24th, 2017
“Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan‘s dazzling and cinematically daring account of the WWII evacuation of Dunkirk beaches by Allied forces, was named best picture of the year, and Nolan best director, by the Florida Film Critics Circle. I voted.

The cast and crew of Sean Baker‘s “The Florida Project,” a low-budget, documentary-style study of life among the very poor, told largely from the point of view of children living in the shadow of the Mouse House, was honored with the FFCC’s annual Golden Orange award. The honor is generally awarded to a Florida-based movie, event, organization, or person making a significant impact on the film community, statewide or beyond. The film’s subject matter and unique vision and narrative style have drawn critical kudos and attention from around the world.

The critics group — 25 writers based in the Sunshine State — gave multiple honors to several different films and artists:
- Jordan Peele, one-half of the Key and Peele comedy duo, won best original screenplay and best first film for controversial, widely acclaimed comic/horror/social-commentary shocker “Get Out!”
- “Blade Runner 2049,” Ridley Scott‘s belated sequel to his 1982 sci-fi classic, won in four categories, for best cinematography, art direction/production, visual effects, and score.
- “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy about murder and revenge, won for best ensemble, and the film’s Sam Rockwell, as a racially wounded and wounding small-town cop, for best supporting actor
- “I, Tonya”: Margot Robbie, best actress, as troubled skating star Tonya Harding; and Allison Janey, best supporting actress, as Tonya’s mother from hell.
- “Call Me By Your Name”: Timothee Chalamet, best actor and breakout award; and James Ivory, best adapted screenplay
(Guillermo del Toro‘s exquisitely photographed, beautifully acted, emotionally resonant and often technically dazzling “The Shape of Water,” an odd but compelling sci-fi/horror/fantasy cross between “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” and “Beauty and the Beast,” was my favorite film of the year. It received 10 FFCC nominations but, strangely, got skunked in every category. But that’s a subject for another post, one with my own Top 10+ list).

The complete list, with runners-up, and, in red, my own pick in each category:

BEST PICTURE

Dunkirk (WINNER)

Lady Bird

Call Me By Your Name

Get Out

The Shape Of Water — PHILIP’s PICK

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk (WINNER)

Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water — PHILIP’s PICK

Jordan Peele – Get Out

Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name (WINNER)

Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour

Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out — PHILIP’s PICK

James Franco – The Disaster Artist

Robert Pattinson – Good Time

BEST ACTRESS

Margot Robbie – I, Tonya (WINNER)

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Philip’s Pick

Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water

Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER) — Philip’s Pick

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project

Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name

Barry Keoghan – The Killing of A Sacred Deer

Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me By Your Name

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney – I, Tonya (WINNER)

Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

Holly Hunter – The Big Sick — Philip’s Pick

Hong Chau – Downsizing

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound

BEST ENSEMBLE

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (WINNER)

Dunkirk

Get Out

I, Tonya

Lady Bird

The Big Sick — Philip’s Pick

The Shape Of Water

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Get Out (WINNER)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Lady Bird

The Big Sick — Philip’s Pick

The Shape Of Water

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Call Me By Your Name (WINNER)

The Disaster Artist — Philip’s Pick

Marjorie Prime

Molly’s Game

The Lost City of Z

Wonderstruck

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Blade Runner 2049 (WINNER)

Dunkirk

Personal Shopper

The Post

The Shape of Water — Philip’s Pick

Wonderstruck

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049 (WINNER)

War for the Planet of the Apes

Dunkirk

Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Shape of Water — Philip’s Pick

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

Blade Runner 2049 (WINNER)

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water — Philip’s Pick

Wonderstruck

BEST SCORE

Blade Runner 2049 (WINNER)

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Philip’s Pick

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Jane (WINNER) — Philip’s Pick

Ex Libris: New York Public Library

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Faces Places

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Kedi

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

BPM (WINNER)

The Square

First They Killed My Father — Philip’s Pick

Loveless

The Ornithologist

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Coco (WINNER)

Loving Vincent — Philip’s Pick

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

The LEGO Batman Movie

BEST FIRST FILM

Get Out (WINNER) — Philip’s Pick

God’s Own Country (Runners-Up)

Ingrid Goes West

Molly’s Game

PAULINE KAEL BREAKOUT AWARD

Timothée Chalamet (WINNER)

Jordan Peele

Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk & The Killing of a Sacred Deer) — Philip’s Pick

Greta Gerwig

Millicent Simmonds

GOLDEN ORANGE

The cast and crew of The Florida Project — Philip’s Pick
When Cinephilia Was Cinephilia

March 18th, 2009

The old-school passion for tracking down and watching great — and rumored-to-be-great — film masterworks largely has faded, filmmaker C.J. Leigh writes in The Believer.

The piece is titled “Contemplating the New Physicality of Cinema: Mourning the Death of the Fetid, Human Way We Used to Interact with Movies.”

Here’s what Leigh means by all that: “… the physical act of seeking out and consuming great or hallowed or mythical films was as obsessive as our need to experience these films, when and if we found them.”

Read the rest of the piece here.

Leigh’s column is part of the mag’s 2009 Film Issue, now on newsstands.

I’ve yet to pick up the mag at the newsstand, but I noticed that the entire Mike Leigh interview is available online, along with “teasers” of interviews with Sam Mendes, John Sayles and Julie Delpy.

Category: cinephilia

“One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” Lead FFCC Awards Nominations

“Dunkirk” Takes Top Honors in 2017 FFCC Awards; “The Florida Project” Wins Golden Orange

BEST PICTURE

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST ENSEMBLE

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEST SCORE

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

BEST ANIMATED FILM

BEST FIRST FILM

PAULINE KAEL BREAKOUT AWARD

GOLDEN ORANGE

When Cinephilia Was Cinephilia