The Boston Online Film Critics Honor Banshees!

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Earlier today the Boston Online Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2022!

And here they are:

Top 10 of 2022
1. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
2. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
3. THE FABELMANS
4. AFTERSUN
5. TÁR
6. TOP GUN: MAVERICK
7. DECISION TO LEAVE
8. NOPE
9. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE
10. GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Best Director
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, TÁR

Best Actor
Colin Farrell, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Best Supporting Actress
Kerry Condon, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN

Best Ensemble
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Best Score
Justin Hurwitz, BABYLON

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda, TOP GUN: MAVERICK

Best Editing
Paul Rogers, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Best Documentary
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Best International Feature
DECISION TO LEAVE

Best Animated Film
GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

The Boston Online Film Critics Honor The Power of the Dog!

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Online Film Critics Association has announced their picks for the best of 2021 and they definitely favored Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog! (It’s a really good movie, by the way!) Check out all of their winners below:

Top 10 of 2020
1. The Power Of The Dog
2. Licorice Pizza
3. The Green Knight
4. Drive My Car
5. Pig
6. Dune
7. Titane
8. The Worst Person In The World
9. Spencer
10. Flee

Best Director
Jane Campion – The Power Of The Dog

Best Actress
Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power Of The Dog

Best Supporting Actor
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog

Best Supporting Actress
Kirsten Dunst – The Power Of The Dog

Best Screenplay
Jane Campion – The Power Of The Dog

Best Ensemble
Licorice Pizza

Best Score
Hans Zimmer – Dune

Best Cinematography
Ari Wegner – The Power Of The Dog

Best Editing
Joe Walker – Dune

Best Documentary
Flee

Best International Feature
The Worst Person In The World

Best Animated Film
The Mitchells vs. The Machines

The Boston Online Film Critics Honor Nomadland

Posted on December 19, 2020 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Online Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2020 today and Nomadland picked up another win. I have a feeling that I’m going to soon get bored with Nomadland winning awards from the critics. That’s not a knock on Nomadland as much as it’s just a lament for a more varied awards season. Oh well!

Top 10 of 2020
1. Nomadland
2. First Cow
3. Da 5 Bloods
4. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
5. Minari
6. Lovers Rock
7. Promising Young Woman
8. Mank
9. Dick Johnson is Dead
10. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Director
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actress
Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Actor
Delroy Lindo – Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Screenplay
Charlie Kaufman – I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Cinematography
Joshua James Richards – Nomadland

Best Editing
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Ensemble
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Animated Film
Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary
The Painter and the Thief

Best International Feature
Bacurau

The Boston Online Film Critics Association Honors Parasite and Adam Sandler

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Online Film Critics Association has announced their picks for the best of 2019! And here they are:

Here is the full list of winners below.

TOP 10 FILMS OF 2019
1. PARASITE
2. UNCUT GEMS
3. THE IRISHMAN
4. ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD
5. MARRIAGE STORY
6. LITTLE WOMEN
7. PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
8. FORD V FERRARI
9. THE FAREWELL
10. US

Director: Bong Joon-ho, PARASITE
Actor: Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS
Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, US
Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Supporting Actress: Florence Pugh, LITTLE WOMEN

BEST SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

BEST ENSEMBLE
LITTLE WOMEN

BEST SCORE
Daniel Lopatin, UNCUT GEMS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Richardson, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

BEST EDITING
Thelma Schoonmaker, THE IRISHMAN

BEST DOCUMENTARY
APOLLO 11

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
PARASITE

BEST ANIMATED FILM
TOY STORY 4

The Boston Online Film Critics Association are there for You Were Never Really Here

Posted on December 15, 2018 by Lisa Marie Bowman

On Friday, the Boston Online Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2018! They really liked You Were Never Really Here!

Best Picture
You Were Never Really Here

Best Director
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here

Best Actor
Ethan Hawke – First Reformed

Best Actress
Toni Collette – Hereditary

Best Supporting Actor
Richard E.Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress
Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Ensemble
Support The Girls

Best Screenplay
First Reformed

Best Foreign Language Film
Roma

Best Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Best Cinematography
Roma

Best Editing
You Were Never Really Here

Best Score
You Were Never Really Here

Top 10 Films Of 2018
1. You Were Never Really Here
2. First Reformed
3. Roma
4. BlacKkKlansman
5. Black Panther
6. Shoplifters
7. Support The Girls
8. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
9. Hereditary
10. If Beale Street Could Talk

The Boston Online Film Critics Name Get Out The Best of 2017!

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Earlier today, The Boston Online Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2017! They really liked Get Out.

Check out their picks below:

Best Picture — Get Out

Best Director — Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread

Best Actor — Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name

Best Actress — Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Supporting Actor — Willem DaFoe, The Florida Project

Best Supporting Actress — Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Best Screenplay — Jordan Peele, Get Out

Best Foreign Language Film — First They Killed My Father

Best Documentary — Faces Places

Best Animated Feature — Coco

Best Cinematography — Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049

Best Editing — Lee Smith, Dunkirk

Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water and Johnny Greenwood, Phantom Thread

Best Films of 2017:

“Get Out”
“The Florida Project”
“Call Me By Your Name”
“Lady Bird”
“Phantom Thread”
“Dunkirk”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
“A Ghost Story”
“Good Time”

The Boston Online Film Critics Honor Moonlight!

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Society of Film Critics may have honored La La Land. However, the Boston Online Film Critics honored Moonlight!

Here’s what the Boston Online Film Critics honored this year:

Best Picture — Moonlight

Best Director — Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Best Actor — Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea

Best Actress — Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Best Supporting Actor — Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Best Supporting Actress — Michelle Williams. Manchester By The Sea

Best Ensemble — Moonlight

Best Screenplay — Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By The Sea

Best Foreign Language Film — The Handmaiden

Best Documentary — Cameraperson

Best Animated Film — Kubo and the Two Strings

Best Cinematography — Natasha Braier. The Neon Demon

Best Editing — Nels Bangerter, Cameraperson

Best Original Score — Mica Levi, Jackie

TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR
MOONLIGHT
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
LA LA LAND
PATERSON
HELL OR HIGH WATER
GREEN ROOM
SILENCE
CERTAIN WOMEN
THE HANDMAIDEN
ELLE

The Boston Online Film Critics Are Mad for Max!!!!

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Online Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2015 earlier today and once again, my expectations have been defied! I figured that since Spotlight is a Boston-story, it would be an easy pick for the Boston critics.

But no! The Boston Online Critics went for … MAD MAX: FURY ROAD! According to Awards Circuit, Creed was the runner-up. (Though, to be clear, the Boston Online Critics definitely did like Spotlight, naming it the 5th best film of 2015 and giving it awards for screenplay and ensemble.) Now again, that doesn’t mean that either Fury Road or Creed is going to be Oscar-nominated. But, every bit helps. With each victory, the idea of a Fury Road best picture nomination becomes just a little more plausible.

Here’s my question — one month ago, would you have believed that the early critics awards would be dominated by Mad Max, Sylvester Stallone, and Kristen Stewart?

Here are the winners!

BEST PICTURE:
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

BEST DIRECTOR:
George Miller, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

BEST ACTOR:
Michael B. Jordan, CREED

BEST ACTRESS:
Saoirse Ronan, BROOKLYN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Sylvester Stallone, CREED

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Kristen Stewart, CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

BEST ENSEMBLE:
SPOTLIGHT

BEST SCREENPLAY:
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer, SPOTLIGHT

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
SON OF SAUL

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
AMY

BEST ANIMATED FILM:

INSIDE OUT

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
John Seale, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

BEST EDITING:
Margaret Sixel, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Junkie XL, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR:

The Boston Online Film Critics Go Their Own Way

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Boston Online Film Critics have announced their picks for the best of 2014!

(While I doubt that this will lead to Snowpiercer becoming a major player in the Oscar race, the Boston Online Film Critics do have excellent taste in film…)

BEST PICTURE:
SNOWPIERCER

BEST DIRECTOR:
Alejandro González Iñárritu, BIRDMAN

BEST ACTOR:
Brendan Gleeson, CALVARY

BEST ACTRESS:
Marion Cotillard, TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Edward Norton, BIRDMAN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Tilda Swinton, SNOWPIERCER

BEST SCREENPLAY:
John Michael McDonagh, CALVARY

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
LIFE ITSELF

BEST ANIMATED FILM:
THE LEGO MOVIE

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
BIRDMAN

BEST EDITING:
James Herbert & Laura Jennings, EDGE OF TOMORROW

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Mica Levi, UNDER THE SKIN

THE TEN BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR:
1. SNOWPIERCER
2. UNDER THE SKIN
3. BOYHOOD
4. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
5. THE BABADOOK
6. TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT
7. BIRDMAN
8. CALVARY
9. INHERENT VICE
10. SELMA