NY Film Critics Circle Awards

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The 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards were held last night January 11 at Crimson in New York City. The awards were founded in 1935, the Circle’s membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying on-line general-interest publications.

2009 New York Film Critic's Circle Awards

NEW YORK – JANUARY 11: Italian model/actress Elisabetta Canalis and actor George Clooney attend the 2009 New York Film Critic’s Circle Awards at Crimson on January 11, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Big stars of the show were George Clooney and girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis who is recently starring in a Robert Cavalli lingerie ad. Hit celeb site Just Jared for more details.

Guest list at the event included Amy Ryan, Anthony Mackie, Christine Lahti, Christoph Waltz Deborah Lin, Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney, James Gandolfini, James Toback, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Fassbender, Sylvia Miles, Wes Anderson.
2009 New York Film Crtics Circle Awards

Best Picture The Hurt Locker

Best Director Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker

Best Screenplay In The Loop

Best Actress Meryl Streep Julie & Julia

Best Actor George Clooney Up In The Air / Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Supporting Actress Mo’Nique Precious

Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds

Best Cinematographer Christian Berger The White Ribbon

Best Animated Film Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary) Of Time and The City

Best Foreign Film Summer Hours

Best First Film Hunger Steve McQueen

Special Andrew Sarris

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Party Of The Week: Clooney a winner over dinner with the critics

By Charlotte Cripps

Friday, 15 January 2010

Clooney was accompanied by his girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, an Italian television presenter and model, as he was given the Best Actor award for his performances in Up in the Air and Fantastic Mr Fox, ahead of the Academy Awards in March. Meryl Streep, who won Best Actress for Julia & Julia, chatted to Lynn Redgrave at the cocktail reception before dinner. She was joined by the former Sopranos actor James Gandolfini, who collected an award for In The Loop, in which he starred. The Armando Iannucci film, a spin-off from the BBC comedy The Thick of It, won Best Screenplay.

The Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, Armond White, made the most of meeting the director Kathryn Bigelow, who was named Best Director for her Iraq war movie, The Hurt Locker, which also won Best Film. The two had not seen each other since they were film students at Columbia University and White had always been a big fan of the music video Bigelow made for New Order in 1987, for the song "Touched by the Hand of God".

The Metropolitan director Whit Stillman was in deep conversation with the director of Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas, the winner of Best Foreign Language Film. The director of the British film Hunger, Steve McQueen, who won Best First Feature, stuck close to the film's star, Michael Fassbender.

In his acceptance speech, Clooney offered comforting words to the film critics who had voted for him. His dad had been a reporter, he said, and he understood how difficult it was for journalists losing their jobs due to the shrinkage of newspapers