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Posted December 9, 2019 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Detroit Film Critics Society Names Parasite Best Picture

The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2019 winners in twelve categories. The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of 19 film critics from Michigan who write or broadcast in the metro-Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor; Grand Rapids; and Toledo, Ohio.

Parasite posterEach critic submitted their top five (5) picks in the following twelve (12) categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Ensemble, and Breakthrough in any category, Best Screenplay, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, and Best Use of Music.

From these submissions, each entry was given a point value and the top five entries in each category were placed on the final ballot.  In the event of a tie, more than five entries were placed on the ballot. The final ballots were then given to each critic to rank in order. The results were once again tabulated, and the winners were decided.

Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story was the big winner with six nominations and four wins for Best Actor, Best Actress, Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay. The Irishman received the most nominations with seven and two wins for Best Director Martin Scorsese and Best Supporting Actor Joe Pesci. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood received five nominations with two wins for Best Ensemble and Best Use of Music. Best Picture winner Parasite had a total of four nominations with one win. Finally, both Jojo Rabbit and Richard Jewell received three nominations with no wins. The full list of results can be found below.

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The Best of 2019

as picked by the Detroit Film Critics Society

(nominees are listed in alphabetical order)

BEST PICTURE

  • Winner: Parasite
  • The Irishman
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • Marriage Story
  • Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Winner: Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
  • Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
  • Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
  • Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
  • Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit

BEST ACTOR

  • Winner: Adam Driver, Marriage Story
  • Robert de Niro, The Irishman
  • Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse
  • Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
  • Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems

BEST ACTRESS

  • Winner: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
  • Julianne Moore, Gloria Bell
  • Lupita Nyong’o, Us
  • Charlize Theron, Bombshell
  • Renée Zellweger, Judy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Winner: Joe Pesci, The Irishman
  • Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse
  • Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
  • Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
  • Sam Rockwell, Richard Jewell
  • Wesley Snipes, Dolemite is My Name

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Winner: Laura Dern, Marriage Story
  • Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
  • Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
  • Anna Paquin, The Irishman
  • Florence Pugh, Little Women

BEST ENSEMBLE

  • Winner: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
  • Dolemite is My Name
  • The Farewell
  • The Irishman
  • Parasite

BREAKTHROUGH

  • Winner: Florence Pugh, Actress (Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Little Women)
  • Ana de Armas, Actress (Knives Out)
  • Jessie Buckley, Actress (Wild Rose, Judy)
  • Kaitlyn Dever, Actress (Booksmart, Them That Follow)
  • Aisling Franciosi, Actress (The Nightingale)
  • Paul Walter Hauser, Actor (Richard Jewell, Late Night, Beats, 7 Days to Vegas)
  • Lulu Wang, Writer/Director/Producer (The Farewell)
  • Olivia Wilde, Director (Booksmart)

BEST SCREENPLAY

  • Winner: Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
  • Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, Parasite
  • Robert Eggers and Max Eggers, The Lighthouse
  • Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
  • Steve Zaillian, The Irishman

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  • Winner: Apollo 11
  • Amazing Grace
  • Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
  • Knock Down the House
  • Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  • Winner: Toy Story 4
  • Frozen II
  • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
  • I Lost My Body
  • Klaus

BEST USE OF MUSIC

  • Winner: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
  • 1917
  • Rocketman
  • Uncut Gems
  • Wild Rose

The Detroit Film Critics Society members for the 2018-2019 season in alphabetical order are: Nate Adams – The Clinton Local, Paul Arlon – The Downtown Monitor; Kirk Baird – The Toledo Blade; Jonathan Barkan – jonathanbarkan.com, George Elkind – Metro Times; Christopher Giroux – Moviereelist.com; Corey Hall – Metro Times, WDET; Michelle Kisner – spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com; Warren Pierce – WJR Radio; Greg Russell – WDIV-TV Detroit & Movie Show; Tom Santilli – CriticLee Speaking and Movie Show Plus; Debbie Schlussel – Sirius XM Larry the Cable Guy Show; Perry Seibert – WLBY-The Lucy Ann Lance show;  John Serba – johnserbaatlarge.com; MontiLee Stormer – Moviereelist.com;  Lee Thomas – Critic Lee Speaking, Fox 2; Mike Tyrkus – Cinemanerdz.com and VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever;  Carl Wheeler – thereelgodfather.com; and Chris Williams – michigansportsandentertainment.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Ruth Daniels at (248) 910-8796 OR ruthfdaniels@gmail.com

More information is available on the website at detroitfilmcritics.com

Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.
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