Two early and important precursors to the awards season have introduced their voting dates and annual galas. First, the Nationwide Board of Evaluate will reveal its 2021 honorees on Tuesday, Nov. 30, with their awards presentation and gala scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 11, hosted by NBC Information’ Willie Geist. They are going to be adopted by the New York Movie Critics Circle, which broadcasts its awards on Friday, Dec. 3, earlier than the gala deliberate for Jan. 10, 2022, at Tao Downtown “pending world occasions.”
“After such an unsure 12 months and a half, we’re wanting ahead to honoring some unbelievable movies, artists and expertise,” mentioned Annie Schulhof, NBR President.
Because of the pandemic, the NBR moved its 2020 ceremony, aligning it with the Oscar eligibility extension interval. During the last 30 years, the winner of the very best movie has gone on to obtain an Oscar nomination for greatest image, with exceptions of as soon as each decade — 1998’s “Gods and Monsters,” 2000’s “Quills,” 2014’s “A Most Violent 12 months” and 2020’s most up-to-date winner “Da 5 Bloods.” The group additionally averages two of their appearing winners shifting on to Oscar nominations. Nonetheless, final 12 months’s winners — Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci (“Sound of Metallic”), Carey Mulligan (“Promising Younger Lady”) and eventual Oscar-winner Yuh-Jung Youn (“Minari”), all went on to Academy recognition.
“The world, and the world of films, is making an attempt exhausting to return to some state of normalcy, and we’ve had setbacks,” says NYFCC chair Stephanie Zacharek. “Nonetheless, the flicks endure, and so they proceed to get us by unsure instances.”
The NYFCC elected to not prolong the eligibility interval final 12 months. For a movie to be eligible this 12 months, they need to be launched within the better New York Metropolis space, both in theaters or on digital platforms, by Dec. 31. This might throw a possible wrench or two into the combination with movies similar to “Judas and the Black Messiah” and “The US vs. Billie Vacation” opening in 2021 and gaining Oscar consideration earlier this 12 months. NYFCC selected A24’s “First Cow” as the highest movie final 12 months, which in the end turned the primary winner for the reason that group’s founding in 1935 to be shut out on the Oscars.
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