The doors closed around 9:16AM EST in New York as voting got underway for the 2025 New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Last year, it took three hours for the org to announce their winners as they’re unveiled live as they’re selected.

The oldest critics group in the U.S. is good about being a bellwether for Oscar nominees, and sometimes winners, however, they haven’t been in sync with the Academy on Best Picture since 2011’s The Artist.

Last year’s 50-plus critics group bestowed Best Picture to Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The movie also won Best Actor for Adrien Brody. Of the NYFCC winners that Oscars saw eye to eye with were Brody for Best Actor, Kieran Culkin for Best Supporting Actor for Searchlight’s Real Pain, Best Screenplay for Anora, Best Animated Feature Film for Flo

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