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Pan's the Man at Critics Awards
If award-show season already has you bored with the same-old same-old, does the National Society of Film Critics have a list for you.
Pan's Labyrinth was named Best Picture and Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress for The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion, at the group's annual meeting Saturday.
Up to now, Pan's Labyrinth, a fairy tale from Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro about a young girl in 1940s Spain, has received lots of great reviews but little in the way of Best Picture Oscar buzz. At next week's Golden Globes, the Spanish-language drama will compete for Best Foreign-Language Film.
Streep, meanwhile, has received lots of Oscar buzz and is also up for a Golden Globe, but as a lead actor, not supporting. Also, it's her work as an exacting editor in Prada, exclusively, and not her turn as a sister-act singer in Prairie Home Companion, that's earned her the kudos.
In general, the National Society of Film Critics is not a group for confirming a film or actor's Oscar chances. In its previous 40 award-presenting efforts, its Best Picture winner has gone on to claim the Academy Awards' top prize only three times, per records at the Internet Movie Database.
The group's takes on the year's top actors are a little more in line with those of Oscar voters. Last year, for instance, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon were two National Society honorees who later became Oscar winners.
Not even the go-its-own-way critics group, though, could pass up Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker, who continued their thorough domination of the preseason awards with another Best Actress and Best Actor honor, respectively.
Elsewhere, Mark Wahlberg was named Best Supporting Actor for The Departed and United 93's Paul Greengrass, Best Director.
The National Society of Film Critics releases the names of its top three vote-getters in each category. So, now it's known that the Romanian film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima ran a close second and third, respectively, to Pan's Labyrinth for Best Picture honors.
In the lead acting categories, Whitaker edged Venus' Peter O'Toole in a tie-breaking round, with Half Nelson's Ryan Gosling finishing third. Mirren easily topped Laura Dern, considered for David Lynch's self-distributed Inland Empire, and Notes on a Scandal's Judi Dench.
The maverick-minded Inland Empire also was tapped Best Experimental Film.
Here's a rundown of the top winners of the latest National Society of Film Critics Awards:
- Best Picture: Pan's Labyrinth
- Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
- Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
- Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
- Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion
- Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93
- Best Screenplay: The Queen
- Best Cinematography: Children of Men
- Best Nonfiction Film: An Inconvenient Truth
- Best Experimental Film: Inland Empire
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