The New York Film Critics Circle met today and announced their picks for the best of 2016!  The awards were pretty evenly divided between the three films that are rapidly emerging as the early Oscar front runners — Manchester By The Sea, Moonlight, and La La Land!

Here are the winners!

• BEST FILM: “La La Land”
• BEST DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins for “Moonlight”
• BEST ACTRESS: Isabelle Huppert for both “Elle” and “The Things to Come”
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michelle Williams for both “Manchester by the Sea” and “Certain Women”
• BEST FIRST FILM: (TIE) “The Edge of Seventeen” and “Krisha”
• BEST SCREENPLAY: Kenneth Lonergan for “Manchester by the Sea”
• BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Toni Erdmann”
• BEST ANIMATED FILM: “Zootopia”
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Mahershala Ali for “Moonlight”
• BEST ACTOR – Casey Affleck for “Manchester by the Sea”
• SPECIAL AWARDS: One for editor Thelma Schoonmaker, the other for Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” 25th Anniversary Restoration