West coast favorite There Will Be Blood became an east coast winner in the New York Film Critics Online awards. The Gotham-based group of 24 web-based reviewers and three print critics choose Paul Thomas Anderson's film for Best Picture tied with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It appears that Zodiac is getting zero love in year-end attention even among the online critics, but Sarah Polley's early entry is getting plenty of attention which boosts well for long-term profits for the Lionsgate drama.
Here is the complete list of winners:
BEST PICTURE
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Julie Christie for Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There
Best Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page for Juno
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Best Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola for The Darjeeling Limited
Best Documentary: Sicko
Best Foreign-Language Film: The Lives of Others (tie) Persepolis
Best Animated Feature: Persepolis
BEST PICTURES (alphabetical)
“Atonement” (Focus Features)
“Before the Devil Knows You're Dead” (THINKFilm)
“The Darjeeling Limited” (Fox Searchlight)
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax)
“I'm Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
“Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax)
“Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Sweeney Todd” (DreamWorks)
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage)
