New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) members met this past Saturday, December 7, 2019 at the Walter Reade Theatre Gallery inside Lincoln Center. At their 20th annual awards meeting, NYFCO selected a foreign language film, South Korea’s Parasite, for Best Picture, the second consecutive year that the New York area onliners did so, as ‘Roma’ from Mexico won the gold last year.
PICTURE
Parasite
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
DOCUMENTARY
Apollo 11
ANIMATED FEATURE
I Lost My Body
ENSEMBLE
Knives Out
ACTOR
Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o for Us
DIRECTOR
Bong Joon-Ho for Parasite
DEBUT DIRECTOR
Lila Avilés for The Chambermaid
USE OF MUSIC
Matthew Margeson for Rocketman
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roger Deakens for 1917
SCREENPLAY
Bong Joon-Ho & Han Jin-won for Parasite
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Joe Pesci for The Irishman
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laura Dern for Marriage Story
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER
Kelvin Harrison, Jr. for Waves & Luce
TOP TEN FILMS OF 2019 (Alphabetical)
1917
The Farewell
Hustlers
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Marriage Story
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Parasite
The Two Popes