In what could turn out to be a dominant performance over the critics' portion of this year's awards season, Roma wins both Best Film and Director from the New York Film Critics Circle. Don't quiz me as to why, but the non-English language title failed to win the NYFCC's Foreign Language Film award, which went instead to Cold War, though arguably the biggest surprise of today's announcement was the Best Actress win for Support the Girls' Regina Hall; it was a double success for Reginas, as Regina King wins Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk, in another category where a contender could dominate all season long. Check out the full winners list below.
Best Film
Roma
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Best Actress
Regina Hall (Support the Girls)
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Supporting Actor
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Best Screenplay
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Cinematography
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Best Animated Film
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman)
Best Non-Fiction Film
Minding the Gap (Liu Bing)
Best Foreign Language Film
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Best First Film
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Special Award
David Schwartz, Chief Film Curator at Museum of the Moving Image
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers (Kino Classics)