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".
Day For Night (1973)
8.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Ale...
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, trade unions threaten to walk, shooting must somehow... Read more
A Man for All Seasons ( Blu-ray ) (1966)
7.9/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Corin Redgrave, John Hurt, Leo McKern, Nigel Davenport, Orson Welles, Paul Scofi...
Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage ro... Read more
Milk ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.6/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Victor Garber, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
Sean Penn garnered a Best Actor Academy Award as San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to major public office, in dir... Read more
From Here to Eternity ( Blu-ray ) (1953)
7.7/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Sinatra, Montgo...
The talented Fred Zinnemann ('A Man for All Seasons') perfectly captures the static isolation and boredom that envelops the military personnel in peac... Read more
Going My Way (1944)
7.2/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens
Sentimental story of a down-to-earth priest, Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) who moves to a new parish, run by a somewhat crusty old priest. The new g... Read more
My Fair Lady (1964)
7.9/10
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Coope...
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical variation of Shaw's 'Pygmalion' is an intellectual comedy of manners from expert director George Cukor.... Read more
A Passage To India (1984)
7.4/10
Director: David Lean
Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft
Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft and Victor Bannerjee star in this adaptation of E M Forster's celebrated novel about the clash of Indian and British cultur... Read more
All About Eve (Blu-ray) (1950)
8.2/10
Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Starring: Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe
Six Oscars were awarded this cynical and entertaining examination of life as it exists on the Broadway theatre scene. Bette Davis glows as the ageing... Read more
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1947)
8.3/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Pauline Kael calls this 'one of the strongest of all American movies'. Three Americans strike it rich and greed takes over. With Bogart, Walter Huston... Read more
The Artist (2011)
7.9/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: James Cromwell, John Goodman, Penelope Ann Miller, Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo
Five Academy Awards - including Best Picture, Director, and Actor - went to this magical, mostly silent seriocomedy set in 1927 Hollywood. As screen i... Read more