The New York Film Critics Circle is an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honour excellence in U.S. and world cinema. Founded in 1935, the Circle's membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines. Every year in December the organization meets in New York to vote on awards for the previous calendar year's films. Below are past winners for "Best Film".
One of the '70's most acclaimed films is an audacious, moving and hilarious look at 24 characters involved in a political rally in the music capital o... Read more
Smashing translation of James Ellroy's celebrated pulp novel of life in the L.A. police department in the 1950s. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kevin S... Read more
This highly acclaimed portrait about one unit's search for a soldier who has been ordered home stars Tom Hanks and Matt Damon. Famous for its intense... Read more
Director Peter Jackson's triumphant finale to fantasy cinema's most acclaimed series has Frodo, Sam and the treacherous Gollum attempt to destroy the... Read more
A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras's "Z" was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains... Read more
Winner of five Oscars, this harrowing indictment of war from director Michael Cimino stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage as three... Read more
Academy Award-winning director Warren Beatty's acclaimed epic, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, jour... Read more
A classic performance by Jack Nicholson as a classical pianist who prefers to work in the oil fields. Great supporting work by Karen Black, Susan Ansp... Read more
A magnificent documentary-like war drama produced, co-directed, written by, and starring Noel Coward as the captain of a crew of brave, young soldiers... Read more
Four Academy Awards - including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor, went to the Coen Brothers' riveting adaptation of Cormac McCart... Read more