New York Film Critics Circle Award / Best Picture
Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle in the category Best Film ( Best Picture ).
In the selection of the best film of the year , both the New York Critics' Prize and the Academy Award go to a film from one of the five major Hollywood studios ( MGM , Paramount , 20th Century Fox , RKO , Warner Bros. ) originates. Even if you include smaller Hollywood companies such as Universal , Columbia or DreamWorks in the comparison, the New York Film Critics Circle Award does not turn out to be a film award that avoids Hollywood productions. So it is not surprising that the award, whose winners are announced each year before the Oscar awards ceremony, is viewed as an important preliminary examination for the Academy Award ( Oscar ).
The most successful in this category were the US film directors William Wyler , Elia Kazan and Fred Zinnemann and the British David Lean , whose films each received three awards. The Association of Film Critics succeeded in presenting the Oscar winner 30 times in advance, most recently in 2011 with the award of the award to the French feature film production The Artist . With Kathryn Bigelow's Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker (2009) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the directorial work of a filmmaker was recognized for the first time. Bigelow's victories were followed by Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird award in 2017 .
The annual figures in the table indicate the film years assessed; the awards were given in the following year.
* = Film productions, later the Oscar as Best Picture of the Year won