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OscarGuy wrote:The NYFCO are elitist snobs who didn't like how the OFCS was running and left. I have no respect for them.

(I have to say that every year, btw).
That's not a very eliitist list (for elitism, there's my gang and the IRA awards :D )
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The NYFCO are elitist snobs who didn't like how the OFCS was running and left. I have no respect for them.

(I have to say that every year, btw).




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Eric wrote:Nice try pretending not to notice those are in alphabetical order.
I didn't, honest! This is what happens when one drinks rum and Pepsi while surfing the internet for precursor awards! :p
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The ten films are in alphabetical order.
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Nice try pretending not to notice those are in alphabetical order.
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Sorry about the confusion with the LA Film Critics Awards; here are the NY Online Film Critics; by the way, how does the #1 film on the top ten list NOT win Best Picture?

Best Picture: (tie)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly & There Will Be Blood
Best Actor

Daniel Day Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Best Actress:

Julie Christie for Away from Her
Director

PT Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Supporting actress:

Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There

Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men

Breakthrough Performer
Ellen Page for Juno

Debut Director
Sarah Polley for Away from Her

Ensemble Cast
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Screenplay
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola)

Documentary
Sicko

Foreign Language: (tie)
Lives of Others & Persepolis

Animated
Persepolis

Cinematography
Robert Elswitt for There Will Be Blood

Film Music
Johnny Greenwood for There Will Be Blood

Top Ten Films:

1 Atonement (Focus Features)
2 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (THINKFilm)
3 The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight)
4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Miramax)
5 I'm Not There (The Weinstein Company)
6 Juno (Fox Searchlight)
7 Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
8 No Country for Old Men (Miramax)
9 Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics)
10 Sweeney Todd (DreamWorks)
11.There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
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