NYFCC Awards - Best Film
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".
The Bridge on the River Kwai ( Blu-ray ) (1957)
8.2/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, James Donald, Sessue Hayakawa, William Holden, Ann...
Epic story of British prisoners of war held by the Japanese, combines psychological battles of will with gripping action. Winner of seven Oscars inclu... Read more
Some Like It Hot (1959)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more
Mr Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
8/10
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Gary Cooper is Longfellow Deeds who inherits 20 million dollars and wants to give it away to needy people. Director Capra won an Oscar for this irresi... Read more
Schindler's List ( Blu-ray ) (1993)
8.9/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jona...
Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is a Nazi Party member out to profit from the war. The local Jewish population provide a ready source of cheap labour fo... Read more
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
7.4/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Garfield, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Gregory Peck plays a magazine writer who masquerades as a Jew in order to report firsthand on high-society discrimination. Oscars for Best Picture, Di... Read more
A Streetcar Named Desire ( Blu-ray ) (1951)
8/10
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh
Blanche du Bois, the magnificently brooding Vivien Leigh, a faded descendant of the once-proud Southern gentry, comes to live with her matter-of-fact... Read more
The Apartment (1960)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
This Oscar-winning Best Picture stars Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine as they wheel and deal over a New York apartment in a comedy of morality. This... Read more
Saving Private Ryan ( Blu-ray ) (1998)
8.6/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
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
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( Blu-ray ) (2003)
8.9/10
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Bernard Hill, Cate Blanchett, David Wenham, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm,...
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
The Social Network (2010)
7.7/10
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, Armie Hammer
Based on Ben Mezrich's book "The Accidental Billionaires," about the personal and legal dealings of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Jesse Eisenberg... Read more