The Power of the Dog Wins In Kansas City!

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Power of the Dog picked up another award for Best Picture today when the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) announced their picks for the best of 2021!

Here are all the winners from Kansas City!

Best Picture
Winner: The Power Of The Dog
Runner-Up: West Side Story

Best Director
Winner: Jane Campion – The Power Of The Dog
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg – West Side Story

Best Actor
Winner: Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power Of The Dog
Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom!

Best Actress
Winner: Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Runner-Up: Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Runner-Up: Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power Of The Dog

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Ann Dowd – Mass
Runner-Up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Licorice Pizza
Runner-Up: The French Dispatch

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: West Side Story
Runner-Up: Drive My Car

Best Cinematography
Winner: The Tragedy Of Macbeth
Runner-Up: Dune

Best Animated Film
Winner: The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Runner-Up: Flee

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Drive My Car
Runners-Up: The Worst Person In The World

Best Documentary
Winner: Summer Of Soul
Runner-Up: Procession

Vince Koehler Award For Best SciFi/Horror/Fantasy
Winner: The Green Knight
Runner-Up: Dune

Tom Poe Award For Best LBGTQ Film
Winner: Flee
Runner-Up: The Power Of The Dog

The Kansas City Film Critics Honor Both Nomadland and Promising Young Woman

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Award season continues!

Yesterday, the Kansas City Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2020. Over the course of the awards season so far, Nomadland has dominated, with the occasional victory for a film like Promising Young Woman or Minari. The Kansas City Film Critics ended up giving their best picture award to two films — Nomadland and Promising Young Woman.

In the history of the Oscars, there’s never been a tie for best picture. Actually, considering that they now do ranked-choice voting for Best Picture, I don’t suppose there ever will be. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if that happened occasionally? Like both Moonlight and La La Land could have gone home with a Best Picture Oscar. EVERYONE’S A WINNER! Of course, it’ll never happen. Someone will have to go home the loser. Oh well.

Anyway, here’s the winners from Kansas City! I assume this is the Kansas City that’s in Missouri as opposed to the Kansas City in Kansas. Speaking of strange city names, did you know that there’s a Little New York, Texas? It’s true!

Best Picture
Winners: Nomadland & Promising Young Woman (TIE)

Best Director
Winner: Chloe Zhao – Nomadland
Runner-Up: Aaron Sorkin – The Trial Of The Chicago 7

Best Actor
Winner: Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
Runner-Up: Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Actress
Winner: Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Runner-Up: Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Leslie Odom, Jr. – One Night in Miami
Runner-Up: Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Youn Yuh-Jung – Minari
Runner-Up: Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Promising Young Woman
Runner-Up: The Trial Of The Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Nomadland
Runner-Up: I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

Best Cinematography
Winner: The Vast Of Night
Runner-Up: Mank

Best Animated Film
Winner: Wolfwalkers
Runner-Up: Soul

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Another Round
Runners-Up: 76, Bacurau & The Life Ahead

Best Documentary
Winner: The Dissident
Runner-Up: Crip Camp

Vince Koehler Award For Best SciFi/Horror/Fantasy
Winner: The Invisible Man
Runner-Up: The Vast Of Night

Tom Poe Award For Best LBGTQ Film
Winner: Kajillionaire
Runner-Up: The Prom

Little New York, Texas

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Honors 1917 and Da’Vine Joy Randolph!

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle went their own way earlier today and selected 1917 as the best film of the year! I haven’t seen 1917 yet so I’ll withhold on saying whether it deserved the award more than Irishman or Parasite. However, I have seen Dolemite Is My Name and I am absolutely thrilled that the KCFCC selected the excellent Da’Vine Joy Randolph as best supporting actress!

Here are the winners:

BEST FILM: 1917

BEST DIRECTOR – Sam Mendes, 1917

BEST ACTOR – Adam Driver, Marriage Story

BEST ACTRESS – Lupita Nyong’o, Us

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Joe Pesci, The Irishman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dolemite Is My Name

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – Little Women

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Knives Out

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – 1917

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – Toy Story 4

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – Parasite

BEST DOCUMENTARY (tie) – Amazing Grace & Apollo 11

THE TOM POE AWARD FOR BEST LGBT FILM – Portrait of a Lady on Fire

THE VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY or HORROR FILM – Us

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Announces Their Picks For The Best of 2018

Posted on December 16, 2018 by Lisa Marie Bowman

And here they are!

Best Picture: ROMA and The Favourite (tie)

Robert Altman Award for Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA
Runner-up: Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Best Actor: Christian Bale, Vice and Ethan Hawke, First Reformed (tie)

Best Actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runner-up: Yalitza Aparicio, Roma

Best Supporting Actor: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Vice
Runner-up: Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace

Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Runner-up: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Original Screenplay: The Favourite
Runner-up: Eighth Grade

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse
Runners-up: Incredibles 2 and Isle of Dogs (tie)

Best Foreign-Language Film: ROMA
Runner-up: Cold War

Best Documentary: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Runner-up: Free Solo

Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: A Quiet Place
Runner-up: Sorry to Bother You

Tom Poe Award for Best LGBTQ Film: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Runner-up: Love, Simon

Get Out Wins With The Kansas City Film Critics!

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Lisa Marie Bowman

On Sunday, the Kansas City Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2017!

BEST PICTURE: Get Out
BEST DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
BEST ACTOR: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
BEST ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Get Out
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Call Me By Your Name and Logan (TIE)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Coco
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: In the Fade
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Jane
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR/FANTASY: Get Out
BEST LGBTQ FILM: Call Me By Your Name

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Names Manchester By The Sea As The Best of 2016!

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Meanwhile, in Kansas City, the Kansas City Film Critic Circle announced that Manchester By The Sea was their pick for the best of 2016!

Here’s what won in Kansas City!

Best Picture
“Manchester By The Sea”
Best Director
Kenneth Lonergan – “Manchester By The Sea”
Best Actor
Casey Affleck – “Manchester By The Sea”
Best Actress
Natalie Portman – “Jackie”
Best Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges – “Hell Or High Water”
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis – “Fences” AND Naomie Harris – “Moonlight” (TIE)
Best Original Screenplay
“Hell Or High Water”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Arrival”
Best Foreign Language Film
“The Handmaiden”
Best Documentary Film
“O.J.: Made In America”
Best Animated Film
“Zootopia”
Best SciFi/Fantasy/Horror Film
“Arrival”
Best LGBT Film
“Moonlight”

The Kansas City Film Critics Are Mad For Max!

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Kansas City Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2015 yesterday and they love Mad Max! You can check out a full list of their nominees here! Check out the winners below!

Best Picture: Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Director: George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Best Actress: Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Shannon, 99 Homes

Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina

Best Original Screenplay: Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short

Best Foreign Language Film: Phoenix

Best Animated Feature: Inside Out

Best Documentary: Amy

Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror Film: Ex Machina

Here Are Nominations of the Kansas City Critics!

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Hi! We briefly interrupt our nonstop Star Wars coverage to bring you the latest developments in awards season! First off, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle — the 2nd oldest critical group in America (the National Board of Review is the oldest) — announced their nominations for the best of 2015 and guess what? They liked one of my favorite movies of the year, Sicario!

BEST PICTURE:
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
Spotlight

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR:
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Denis Villeneuve, Sicario
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

BEST ACTOR:
Steve Carell, The Big Short
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

BEST ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Bel Powley, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Benicio Del Toro, Sicario

Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon, 99 Homes
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Elizabeth Banks, Love & Mercy
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Sicario
Spotlight
Trainwreck

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Big Short
Carol
The Martian
Room
Steve Jobs

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
Anomalisa
Inside Out
Minions
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Phoenix
Son of Saul
The Tribe
White God

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Amy
Best of Enemies
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next
The Wrecking Crew

VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY or HORROR FILM:
Ex Machina
Goodnight Mommy
It Follows
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian