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San Fran Film Critics’ Circle back homegrown biopic Milk
It would have been a surprise if the S.F. Film Critics' Circle would have snubbed one of their own. It helps that Gus Van Sant did an excellent job with Milk. While Van Sant’s biopic picked up four awards, the wins worth signaling out is the Best Supporting Actress kudos for Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler and a Best Documentary win for quasi-experimental pic from Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg).
Boston Critics claim ‘Slumdog’ and ‘WALL-E’ as year’s Best
The Boston Society of Film Critics split the vote -- Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire tied for Best Film honors. Curiously, it’s Gus Van Sant’s work in Paranoid Park and Milk that received kudos in some main categories.
Milk is Warm for New York Film Critics Circle
East Coast critics gave kudos to the West Coast-set story from Gus Van Sant – the NYFCC gave year end wins in three categories (Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor), while Happy-Go-Lucky receives two wins in the Director and Actress category. Best First Film honors went to Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River and the group did not forget about the beginning of the year, awarding Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days as the Best Foreign Film of the year.
Milk and Benjamin Button lead Broadcast Film Critics Association Noms
Gus Van Sant and David Fincher’s respective films grabbed eight nominations each in the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics Choice Awards (a group which is an amalgamation of 235 film reviewers in TV, radio or web outlets.
Searchlight ingests ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid’
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fox Searchlight Pictures were the highest bidder for Gus Van Sant’s next project after the Harvey Milk biopic.
