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Detroit Film Critics Society Names Parasite Best Picture

Mike Tyrkus
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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.

Each 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

BEST DIRECTOR

BEST ACTOR

BEST ACTRESS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

BEST ENSEMBLE

BREAKTHROUGH

BEST SCREENPLAY

BEST DOCUMENTARY

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

BEST USE OF MUSIC

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

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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