NY critics name "United 93" as best picture
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"United 93," a tense drama focusing on  one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks,  won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film  Critics Circle Awards.
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Period oil drama There Will Be Blood is named movie of the year by the US National Society of Film Critics.
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LOS ANGELES  - It looks like the way to go during awards season is &quot;Sideways.&quot;. The New York Film Critics Circle chose the Alexander Payne-directed film for the top prize in an announcement from New York&#39;s Muse Hotel on Monday, Dec. 13.
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The slightly sour story of two men on a trip through California vineyards was the sweet winner at the 70th annual voting of the New York Film Critics Circle yesterday.
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The movie-going public may not think much of this year's major Oscar contenders judging by their weak box-office performances. But for US movie critics, the nominations announced amid a debilitating writers' strike and a global market meltdown were a sign that the US movie machinery is at least doing one thing right.
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Two hit films that have been snubbed this awards season in Hollywood snared top People's Choice honors on Sunday as anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" was named best film and "The Passion of The Christ" best film drama.
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Clint Eastwood's upcoming war film  "Letters from Iwo Jima" picked up two critics' awards on  Sunday, four days after a New York-based group gave its top  honor to the Japanese-centric view of World War Two.
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The National Society of Film Critics named âThere Will Be Blood,â directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as the best picture of 2007.
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Just hours after being named one of the year's 10-best films by the National Board of Review in New York, the new political drama "Blood Diamond" got the red-carpet treatment in Hollywood. And there was much serious talk among the glittering attendees.
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The Coen brothers' latest film, No Country For Old Men, wins three prizes at the Critics Choice awards in the US.
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A group of leading U.S. film  critics named director Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby"  as the best film of 2004, and its star, Hilary Swank, shared  best actress honors with Britain's Imelda Staunton in abortion  drama "Vera Drake."
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No debate: Denzel Washington's film The Great Debaters won hands down Thursday at the 39th annual NAACP Image Awards.   The period drama about a debating squad that takes on Harvard was named best film of 2007, and Washington also was honored as best...
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Quirky comedy Sideways was named the best film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The US movie also picked up four other accolades including best director for Alexander Payne and supporting actor for Thomas Haden Church.
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Martin Scorsese won the Academy Award for best director on Sunday.
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"Sideways," a quirky comedy about two friends on a road trip through California's wine country, was picked as 2004's best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the group announced Saturday.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.