NEW YORK (AP) — Brady Corbet’s 3 1/2-hour postwar epic “The Brutalist” gained finest movie from the New York Movie Critics Circle on Tuesday, whereas its lead, Adrien Brody, additionally gained finest actor.
The win notches an early awards-season victory for one of many fall’s most-talked about movies. “The Brutalist,” which A24 will launch Dec. 20, stars Brody as László Toth, a visionary Hungarian Jewish architect who flees WWII Budapest for America.
Contemporary off profitable two awards at Monday night’s Gotham Awards, RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” picked up one other pair of honors. Ross gained for guiding and the movie’s director of images, Jomo Fray, took finest cinematography honors. “Nickel Boys,” which opens subsequent week, is shot largely from a first-person perspective in telling the story, tailored from Colson Whitehead’s novel, of two Black youngsters at an abusive reform faculty in Jim Crow-era Florida.
The critics group, which final 12 months awarded Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” finest movie, will hand out awards in a ceremony on Jan. 8.
Full checklist of 2024 New York Movie Critics Circle winners
Finest movie: “The Brutalist”
Finest director: RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
Finest actress: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
Finest actor: Adrian Brody, “The Brutalist”
Finest screenplay: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Finest supporting actress: Carol Kane, “Between the Temples”
Finest supporting actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Finest worldwide movie: “All We Imagine as Light”
Finest Non-Fiction Movie: “No Other Land”
Finest cinematography: Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys”
Finest first movie: “Janet Planet”
Finest animated movie: “Flow”
Particular award: To Save and Undertaking: The MoMA Worldwide Pageant of Movie Preservation
