One of the key dates in the awards season, the New York Film Critics Circle’s voting, has returned to its usual time frame: December 3. The NYFCC is a bellwether of the Oscars and boasts the most impact of any critics group–even the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s popular Golden Globes, which is influential but not nearly as prestigious. Last year the NYFCC winners lined up with Oscar best picture “The Artist,” director Michael Hazanavicius, and Best Actress, “The Iron Lady”‘s Meryl Streep.
Last year’s NYFCC voting date was mired in controversy as the group attempted to get ahead of the pack–specifically, the National Board of Review, which historically weighs in first–by voting on November 28. But inevitably the group pushed back the date by one day in order to view David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” but missed Stephen Daldry’s “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” altogether. Both factored in the eventual Oscar race; the Daldry wound up nominated for Best Picture. So the group checked ahead to make sure it could screen all the films and has reverted to a date closer to its usual time.
UPDATE: It turns out the NYFCC is ahead of the National Board of Review after all, which will vote December 5.
The awards ceremony, always a coveted New York ticket, will take place on January 7, 2013, at Crimson.
New additions to this year’s circle are New York Magazine’s Bilge Ebiri, the Village Voice’s Nick Pinkerton and Time Out New York’s Keith Ulrich. Full list of voting members, comprised of 26 men and eight women, is below.
Thelma Adams
YAHOO! MOVIES
Melissa Anderson
Village Voice
John Anderson
VARIETY/NEWSDAY
Michael Atkinson
VILLAGE VOICE
Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication/BlackPressUSA.com
Richard Corliss
TIME
David Denby
THE NEW YORKER
Karen Durbin
ELLE
Bilge Ebiri
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
David Edelstein
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
David Fear
TIME OUT NY
Marshall Fine
STAR
Owen Gleiberman
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
J. Hoberman
FREELANCE
Stuart Klawans
THE NATION
Lou Lumenick
NEW YORK POST
Vincent Musetto
NEW YORK POST
Joe Morgenstern
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Joe Neumaier
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Andrew O’Hehir
SALON
Nick Pinkerton
VILLAGE VOICE
Peter Rainer
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Rex Reed
NEW YORK OBSERVER
Joshua Rothkopf
TIME OUT NEW YORK
Richard Schickel
TIME
Lisa Schwarzbaum
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Kyle Smith
NEW YORK POST
Dana Stevens
SLATE
Amy Taubin
ART FORUM
Peter Travers
ROLLING STONE
Keith Uhlich
TIME OUT NEW YORK
Elizabeth Weitzman
THE DAILY NEWS
Armond White
CITYARTS
Stephen Whitty
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
Stephanie Zacharek
NPR.ORG/FILM.COM
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