Dang, the New York Film Critics Circle is getting old. The group’s 90th-annual ceremony is promising to be a toast each and every one of those nine decades come 2025.
The NYFCC will ring in its 90th anniversary with a Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at TAO Downtown. IndieWire can confirm that a special anniversary program is in the works to celebrate this historic milestone for the NYFCC.
“This has already been an exciting time for moviegoing, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of 2024 holds before our 90th anniversary dinner,” NYFCC Chair David Sims said. “NYFCC has always been there to recognize and celebrate the best in cinema, and we’ll be sure to put on an especially fun show next January.”
Sims will serve as the 2024 Chair of the NYFCC, Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager. IndieWire’s own Kate Erbland and David Ehrlich are members of the group.
The 2024 awards ceremony feted Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” which was awarded Best Picture, along with Lily Gladstone as Best Actress. Christopher Nolan accepted the award for Best Director for “Oppenheimer,” and Paul Dano presented the award to Justine Triet for Best International Film for “Anatomy of a Fall.” Steve Buscemi was also on hand to present the award for Best First Film to Celine Song for “Past Lives,” and Richard Jenkins presented the award for Best Supporting Actress to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for “The Holdovers.”
The NYFCC ceremony is an indicator of the Oscar picks, with Randolph and Nolan going on to win in their respective categories at the Academy Awards. The organization votes on awards for the calendar-year’s films, and is among the first of the major groups to pronounce its winners.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the country, and among the most prestigious. The NYFCC’s membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and the web’s most respected online publications.
The NYCC awards cash prizes and gala tickets to graduate and undergraduate students pursuing film criticism and journalism from schools in the surrounding New York metropolitan area. NYFCC member Keith Uhlich spearheads this effort.
The Circle additionally collaborates with programmers at The Paris Theater for the “NYFCC @ The Paris” series, in which members of the Circle present favorite titles, oftentimes with filmmaker conversations afterward. Recent screenings of “After Hours,” “Moonstruck,” and Michael Almereyda’s modern-day “Hamlet” with the director and star Ethan Hawke in attendance are among programming highlights.
