'La
La Land' leads Critics Choice, wins over New York film
critics
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[December 02, 2016]
By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "La
La Land," a modern-day musical love story of two
struggling artists in Los Angeles, cemented its
Hollywood awards season front-runner status on Thursday
by simultaneously leading the nominees for Critics'
Choice Awards and being named best picture by New York
film critics.
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"La La Land" scored 12 Critics Choice nominations, including
best picture, best actress for Emma Stone, best actor for Ryan
Gosling and best director and screenplay for Damien Chazelle.
Sci-fi drama "Arrival" and independent drama "Moonlight" both
landed 10 nominations each, including in the best picture race,
as well as best director for Denis Villeneuve and Barry Jenkins
respectively.
The New York Film Critics Awards, a separate critics
organization, named its 2016 winners on Thursday, with "La La
Land" taking best picture. Jenkins was named best director.
The Critics' Choice Awards are chosen by the 300-plus members of
the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). Winners will be
announced at a televised ceremony held in the Los Angeles
coastal town of Santa Monica on Dec. 11.
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Both the New York Film Critics and BFCA members rarely cross
over into the film Academy and industry guilds that picks
nominees and winners for the majority of Hollywood's awards
shows, but the critics' awards help to build buzz for potential
Oscar front-runners.
Also in the Critics Choice best picture race is Denzel
Washington's "Fences," Mel Gibson's war drama "Hacksaw Ridge,"
crime thriller "Hell or High Water," adoption tale "Lion,"
"Loving," about an interracial married couple, family grief
drama "Manchester by the Sea," and Clint Eastwood's "Sully."
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Stone will be contending for best actress opposite Amy Adams for
"Arrival," Natalie Portman for "Jackie," Ruth Negga for "Loving,"
Annette Bening for "20th Century Women" and Isabelle Huppert for
"Elle."
Gosling will face Casey Affleck for "Manchester by the Sea,"
Washington for "Fences," Tom Hanks for "Sully," Joel Edgerton for
"Loving" and Andrew Garfield for "Hacksaw Ridge" in the best actor
race.
The Critics Choice Awards divides the movie categories across drama,
comedy, action, animated and sci-fi/horror, to include the bigger
budget studio films sometimes overlooked during awards season.
In the action movie categories, superhero films "Captain America:
Civil War," "Deadpool" and "Doctor Strange" will compete against
"Jason Bourne" and "Hacksaw Ridge."
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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