Entertainment News
2006-01-10
Capote the favorite of National Society of Film
Critics
Capote was named best picture Saturday by the
National Society of Film Critics in a hard-fought contest
Capote was named best picture Saturday by the
National Society of Film Critics in a hard-fought contest
that saw the feature about Truman Capote's creation of
the nonfiction book In Cold Blood prevail over David
Cronenberg's A History of Violence by 12 votes to 11
on the group's sixth ballot. Wong Kar-wai's
2046 came in third in the balloting. In the
best director vote, the positions shifted, however,
and Cronenberg was named best director with 32 points,
followed by Wong with 26, and Capote's Bennet
Miller with 23.
For his lead
performance in Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman
was named best actor, while Ed Harris, who portrays a
menacing figure in Violence, was chosen best
supporting actor. Reese Witherspoon took best actress honors
for her performance as June Carter in Walk the
Line, and Amy Adams was chosen best supporting
actress for her role as a pregnant Southern girl in
Junebug.
Noah Baumbach was
hailed for best screenplay for The Squid and the
Whale, which he also directed. 2046 earned
best cinematography honors for Christopher Doyle, Kwan
Pun-leung, and Lai Yiu-fai. Fatih Akin's Head-On was
named best foreign film, and Werner Herzog's
Grizzly Man was selected as best nonfiction
picture.
The group issued
two experimental awards: to William Greaves for the 1968
film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and the
2005 film Take Two, and to James Benning for
three 2005 productions, 13 Lakes, Ten Skies,
and 27 Years Later. It recognized the
seven-disc DVD box set Unseen Cinema, assembled
by Anthology Film Archives and Bruce Posner, with its Film
Heritage Award. And it issued a Special Citation, commending
and congratulating openly gay writer Kevin Thomas for
his 44-year tenure as a movie critic at the Los
Angeles Times. The National Society, which is
chaired by David Sterritt and which is made up of 57
critics from around the country, met at Sardi's Restaurant
in New York City. (Gregg Kilday, Reuters)
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