In the run up to the Oscars in February, the Hollywood awards season sees virtually a different awards ceremony every week. The latest, the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, has named the soon to be released “There Will Be Blood’ as best film. This as yet unreleased film has not featured in any other awards so far.
“There Will Be Blood’, which tells the story of a turn-of-the-century oilman who strikes it rich in California, picked up the best actor (Daniel Day Lewis) and best director (Paul Thomas Anderson of “Boogie Nights’ fame) awards as well.
French actress Marion Cotillard’s performance as Edith Piaf in “Ma Vie en Rose’ got the best actress nod, while best supporting actress was Amy Ryan, who was honoured for two films, Ben Affleck’s directorial debut “Gone Baby Gone’ and “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’.
Vlad Ivanov won the supporting actor’s prize for playing a back-street abortionist in the Romanian drama “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,’ also named best foreign-language film.
In its report, Reuters noted that the Los Angeles critic’s best picture award is not the best omen for a film as it rarely leads to the Oscar. The Washington DC and Boston film critics each recently named the Coen Brothers’ “No Country for Old Men’ as best picture
Next on the awards agenda are the New York Film Critics Circle, the Critics Choice Awards nominations and the Golden Globe Award nominations.
