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3rd December 2012, 11:04 PM
This is a precusor to the Academy's
Critics 'knocked out' by Bigelow's Bin Laden film
It hasn't been released yet but Zero Dark Thirty, starring Joel Edgerton, has won the major prizes at the first Oscars lead up awards.
Awards season got into full swing on Monday as the New York Film Critics Circle announced their annual awards - an early precursor to the Academy Awards - and did so via Twitter.
Through 12 tweets on the freshly created @NYFCC2012 (http://www.twitter.com/NYFCC2012) account, the well-regarded association of 35 New York-based critics founded in 1935 named Kathryn Bigelow's docudrama surrounding the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, the best film of 2012, despite the fact that the film hasn't even been released yet.
"We were knocked out by the film"
The movie, which stars Australian brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton as Navy SEAL team members, won't hit American screens until December 19. Its release was pushed back after controversy surrounding the film swelled during the US election when Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were forced to deny claims they had received classified material.
The delay did not prevent the film winning two of the top honours though as exclusive screenings are held for NYFCC members prior to theatrical release in order to qualify the film for awards consideration, a situation that caused controversy last year when David Fincher reacted explosively to an advance review for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo published by The New Yorker prior to the embargo date for coverage.
Oscar winner Bigelow also took home the Film Critics' award for best director and is now likely to become a front-runner to take home the best director Oscar next year, having won the award previously for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
"Zero Dark Thirty confirms the massive talent of Kathryn Bigelow," said Critics Circle chairman Joshua Rothkopf, a critic for Time Out New York. "Zero Dark Thirty is a very important movie. It's not triumphant and it's still a very significant dramatisation of an important event. And we were knocked out by the film."
Link to a not very interesting article (http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/critics-knocked-out-by-bigelows-bin-laden-film-20121204-2as5v.html)
it's a little bit like awarding the Nobel Peace prize before you've actually done any peacing.
Critics 'knocked out' by Bigelow's Bin Laden film
It hasn't been released yet but Zero Dark Thirty, starring Joel Edgerton, has won the major prizes at the first Oscars lead up awards.
Awards season got into full swing on Monday as the New York Film Critics Circle announced their annual awards - an early precursor to the Academy Awards - and did so via Twitter.
Through 12 tweets on the freshly created @NYFCC2012 (http://www.twitter.com/NYFCC2012) account, the well-regarded association of 35 New York-based critics founded in 1935 named Kathryn Bigelow's docudrama surrounding the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, the best film of 2012, despite the fact that the film hasn't even been released yet.
"We were knocked out by the film"
The movie, which stars Australian brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton as Navy SEAL team members, won't hit American screens until December 19. Its release was pushed back after controversy surrounding the film swelled during the US election when Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were forced to deny claims they had received classified material.
The delay did not prevent the film winning two of the top honours though as exclusive screenings are held for NYFCC members prior to theatrical release in order to qualify the film for awards consideration, a situation that caused controversy last year when David Fincher reacted explosively to an advance review for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo published by The New Yorker prior to the embargo date for coverage.
Oscar winner Bigelow also took home the Film Critics' award for best director and is now likely to become a front-runner to take home the best director Oscar next year, having won the award previously for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
"Zero Dark Thirty confirms the massive talent of Kathryn Bigelow," said Critics Circle chairman Joshua Rothkopf, a critic for Time Out New York. "Zero Dark Thirty is a very important movie. It's not triumphant and it's still a very significant dramatisation of an important event. And we were knocked out by the film."
Link to a not very interesting article (http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/critics-knocked-out-by-bigelows-bin-laden-film-20121204-2as5v.html)
it's a little bit like awarding the Nobel Peace prize before you've actually done any peacing.