Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Zero Dark Oscar?

Awards season has started again!  It really sneaked up on me.  Thank goodness for LC NY Bureau Chief Doug who keeps a sharp eye out for movie awards news.

On Monday, the New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners and today, the National Board of Review released their list.  The same picture won both - Zero Dark Thirty.  It a second Oscar for Kathryn Bigelow already inevitable?  Here is the National Board of Review's list:

BEST PICTURE
"Zero Dark Thirty"

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow (""Zero Dark Thirty"")

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playbook")

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ann Dowd ("Compliance")

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Rian Johnson ("Looper")

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
David O. Russell ("Silver Linings Playbook")

BEST ENSEMBLE
"Les Miserables"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Wreck-It-Ralph"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Amour"

BEST DOCUMENTARY
"Searching for Sugar Man"

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
John Goodman

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES
Tom Holland ("The Impossible")
Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild")

DEBUT DIRECTOR
Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild")

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT
Ben Affleck ("Argo")

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
"Central Park Five"
"Promised Land"

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