New York Film Critics Online

The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) is an organization founded by Harvey Karten in 2000 composed of Internet film critics based in New York City. The group meets once a year, in December, for voting on its annual NYFCO Awards.

2003

Top 10 Films

1. Lost in Translation

2. American Splendor

3. In America

4. 21 Grams

5. A Mighty Wind

5. Cold Mountain

5. Girl with a Pearl Earring

5. Lawless Heart

5. Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)

10. Station Agent, The

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
• Best Actress: Charlize Theron - Monster
• Best Animation: Finding Nemo
• Best Cinematography: Girl with a Pearl Earring - Eduardo Serra
• Best Director: Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
• Best Documentary: Winged Migration
• Best Picture: Lost in Translation
• Best Screenplay: In America - Jim, Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan
• Best Support Actor: Alec Baldwin - The Cooler
• Best Support Actress: Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation

2004

Top 10 Films

1. Sideways
2. The Aviator
3. Before Sunset
4. Ying xiong (Hero)
5. Kinsey
6. La mala educación (Bad Education)
7. The Incredibles
8. Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)
9. Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers)
10. Cat Woman

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Jamie Foxx - Ray
• Best Actress: Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
• Best Animated Film: The Incredibles
• Best Cinematography: Ying xiong (Hero) - Christopher Doyle
• Best Debut Director: Joshua Marston - Maria Full of Grace
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
• Best Documentary (tie): Broadway: The Golden Age
• Best Documentary (tie): Super Size Me
• Best Foreign Language Film: Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries), USA/Germany/UK/Argentina/Chile/Peru/France
• Best Picture: Sideways
• Best Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman
• Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church - Sideways
• Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen - Sideways
• Best Ever: Beyonce

2005

Top 9 Films

(Alphabetical order)

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Capote
3. The Constant Gardener
4. Crash
5. Good Night, and Good Luck.
6. La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth)
7. Munich
8. The Squid and the Whale
9. Syriana

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Best Actress: Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice
• Best Animated: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Best Cinematography: March of the Penguins
• Best Debut Director: Paul Haggis - Crash
• Best Director: Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
• Best Documentary: Grizzly Man
• Best Foreign Language Film: Der Untergang (Downfall), Germany/Italy/Austria
• Best Picture: The Squid and the Whale
• Best Screenplay: Crash - Paul Haggis
• Best Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt - Casanova
• Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams - Junebug
• Breakthrough Performer: Terrence Howard - Crash, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Hustle & Flow

2006

Top 10 Films

(Alphabetical order)

• Babel
• The Fountain
• Inland Empire
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
• Little Children
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Queen
• Thank You for Smoking
• Volver
• Water

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren - The Queen as Elizabeth II
• Best Animated Film: Happy Feet
• Best Cast: Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Cinematography: The Illusionist - Dick Pope
• Best Debut Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Director: Stephen Frears - The Queen
• Best Documentary Film: An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Film: The Queen
• Best Film Score: The Illusionist - Philip Glass
• Best Foreign Language Film: Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) • Mexico
• Best Screenplay: The Queen - Peter Morgan
• Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen - The Queen as Tony Blair
• Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls as Effie White (tied with) Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration as Marilyn Hack

2007

Top 11 Films

(Alphabetical order)

• Atonement
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• The Darjeeling Limited
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• I'm Not There
• Juno
• Michael Clayton
• No Country for Old Men
• Persepolis
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• There Will Be Blood

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview
• Best Actress: Julie Christie - Away from Her as Fiona Anderson
• Best Animated Film: Persepolis
• Best Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page - Juno
• Best Cast: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Best Cinematography: There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit
• Best Debut Director: Sarah Polley - Away from Her
• Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
• Best Documentary Film: Sicko
• Best Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (tied with)There Will Be Blood
• Best Film Score: There Will Be Blood - Johnny Greenwood
• Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) Germany Persepolis France
• Best Screenplay: The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman & Roman Coppola
• Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
• Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There as Jude Quinn/Bob Dylan

2008

Top 10 Films

(Alphabetical order)

• Che
• A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Milk
• Rachel Getting Married
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL•E
• The Wrestler

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Sean Penn - Milk as Harvey Milk
• Best Actress: Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline "Poppy" Cross
• Best Animated Film: WALL•E
• Best Cast: Milk
• Best Director: Danny Boyle & Loveleen Tandan - Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire
• Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Foreign Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) • Romania
• Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight as The Joker posthumously
• Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena

2009

Top 11 Films

(Alphabetical order)

• Adventureland
• Avatar
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Messenger
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Two Lovers
• Up
• Up in the Air

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart as Bad Blake
• Best Actress: Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia as Julia Child
• Best Animated Film: Up
• Best Cast: In the Loop
• Best Cinematography: Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
• Best Debut Director: Marc Webb - (500) Days of Summer
• Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
• Best Documentary Film: The Cove
• Best Film: Avatar
• Best Film Music or Score: Crazy Heart - Steve Bruton, T-Bone Burnett and Jeffrey Pollack
• Best Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon • Germany
• Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
• Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa
• Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique - Precious as Mary
• Breakthrough Performer: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

2010

Various Awards

• Best Actor: James Franco - 127 Hours as Aron Ralston
• Best Actress: Natalie Portman - Black Swan as Nina Sayers
• Best Animated Film: Toy Story 3
• Best Cast: The Kids Are All Right
• Best Cinematography: Black Swan - Matthew Libatique
• Best Debut Director: John Wells - The Company Men
• Best Director: David Fincher - The Social Network
• Best Documentary Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Best Film: The Social Network
• Best Film Music or Score: Black Swan - Clint Mansell
• Best Foreign Language Film: I Am Love • Italy
• Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network
• Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale - The Fighter as Dicky Eklund
• Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo - The Fighter as Alice Eklund
• Breakthrough Performer: Noomi Rapace - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

Various Awards

• Best Actor:Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
• Best Actress:Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
• Best Animated Film:The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
• Best Cast:Bridesmaids
• Best Cinematography:The Tree of Life - Emmanuel Lubezki
• Best Debut Director:Joe Cornish - Attack the Block
• Best Director:Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
• Best Documentary Film:Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Best Film:The Artist
• Best Film Music or Score:The Artist - Ludovic Bource
• Best Foreign Language Film:A Separation Iran
• Best Screenplay:The Descendants - Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and Alexander Payne
• Best Supporting Actor:Albert Brooks - Drive
• Best Supporting Actress:Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
• Breakthrough Performer:Jessica Chastain - The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields and Coriolanus

2012

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis â€" Lincoln
• Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva â€" Amour
• Best Animated Film: Chico and Rita
• Best Cast: Argo
• Best Cinematography: Life of Pi â€" Claudio Miranda
• Best Debut Director: Benh Zeitlin â€" Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow â€" Zero Dark Thirty
• Best Documentary Film: The Central Park Five
• Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty
• Best Film Music or Score: Django Unchained â€" Various Artists
• Best Foreign Language Film: Amour • France
• Best Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty â€" Mark Boal
• Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones â€" Lincoln
• Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway â€" Les Misérables
• Breakthrough Performer: Quvenzhane Wallis â€" Beasts of the Southern Wild

2013

Top 11 Films

1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Before Midnight
3. Blue Is the Warmest Color
4. Dallas Buyers Club
5. Gravity
6. Her
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Nebraska
9. Philomena
10. Prisoners
11. The Wolf of Wall Street

Various Awards

• Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor â€" 12 Years a Slave
• Best Actress: Cate Blanchett â€" Blue Jasmine
• Best Animated Film: The Wind Rises
• Best Cast: American Hustle
• Best Cinematography: Gravity â€" Emmanuel Lubezki
• Best Debut Director: Ryan Coogler â€" Fruitvale Station
• Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón â€" Gravity
• Best Documentary Film: The Act of Killing
• Best Film: 12 Years a Slave
• Best Film Music or Score: Inside Llewyn Davis â€" T-Bone Burnett
• Best Foreign Language Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color • France
• Best Screenplay: Her â€" Spike Jonze
• Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto â€" Dallas Buyers Club
• Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong'o â€" 12 Years a Slave
• Breakthrough Performer: Adèle Exarchopoulos â€" Blue Is the Warmest Color

2014

Top 10 Films

1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2. Boyhood
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. The Imitation Game
5. A Most Violent Year
6. Mr. Turner
7. Selma
8. The Theory of Everything
9. Under the Skin
10. Whiplash

Various Awards

• Best Film: Boyhood
• Best Director: Richard Linklater â€" Boyhood
• Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne â€" The Theory of Everything
• Best Actress: Marion Cotillard â€" Two Days, One Night
• Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons â€" Whiplash
• Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette â€" Boyhood
• Best Screenplay: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) â€" Amando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone, and Alejandro G. Inarritu
• Best Animated Film: The Lego Movie
• Best Documentary Film: Life Itself
• Best Ensemble Cast: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Best Cinematography: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) â€" Emmanuel Lubezki
• Best Debut Director: Dan Gilroy â€" Nightcrawler
• Best Film Music or Score: Get On Up â€" Thomas Newman
• Best Foreign Language Film: Two Days, One Night • Belgium
• Breakthrough Performer: Jack O'Connell â€" Unbroken, Starred Up

References

• NYFCO.org Official site
• New York City News: NTFCO Awards