#Atlanta Film Critics Circle

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Awards Season 2024-25: Awards Round-Up 12/9 + Independent Spirit Nominations

We’re really in the swing of things. I’ll be doing this every Monday for the next few weeks, breaking for a couple of weeks (since there isn’t much awards news over the holiday), then resuming in January until the smaller groups taper off. This week, I’m covering nine groups: Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) British Independent Film Awards…

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2024 Atlanta Film Critics Circle Winners: 'Anora' is Best Film

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Ariana Grande has been nominated for the golden globe awards and won 3 awards for her role as Glinda in Wicked in less than 24 hours.

She won Best Supporting Actress at the ASTRAS, The Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards and The Michigan Movie Critics Guild Awards.

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Reader usually comes to set punctually but when one day she doesn't appear and Scarlett, Florence or Elisabeth doesn't get a response to their worried messages/calls, Lizzie calls your mother. She finds out you had an car accident while driving to set and you're barely hanging on. Fast forward, you come back to filming and they take care of you. Fluff pls

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Elizabeth Olsen tried to reach you on the cell phone for the fifth time this morning. It was already 9am at Pinewood Atlanta Studios and you should be awake and actually on set by now. But your calls always were forwarded to the mailbox and her desperate messages to reach you did not come through.

She was beginning to worry. It was not your style at all not to answer the phone, let alone not appear on the film set punctually like you always did. Anxiously, she dialed your number, trying to use the house phone this time, but the call was not answered over it either.

Already during the countless attempts, she was on her way to the other girls who had to shoot their scenes in the new Avenger movie and stumbled into Scarlett's trailer, with the phone firmly to her ear while nervously ruffling her hair. "Have you heard anything from Y/n?"

Both Scarlett and Florence shook their heads thoughtfully and the brunette started pacing in circles. Liz scrolled through her contacts, she hesitated briefly, then she pressed the green receiver and listened to the annoying ringing.

After the second ring, a muffled voice took the call and she could hear the other end trying to squelch some sobs. "Good morning, y/m/n. This is Lizzie. I can not reach y/n and I was wondering if you know where she is? My calls go out but she does not answer. We spoke on the phone last night and she has a shooting day that she did not show up on."

The line went silent and a queasy feeling flared up in the brunette. She bit her lip nervously, fiddling with her coat considerably. Sobs proliferate in her hearing and she did not know what was going on. "Mrs. y/m/n?"

"I am sorry," your mother swallow hard as the words fell out of her mouth in a whisper. She had intended to call your co-worker and best friend, but she had delayed her call this far. She did not know how to teach the tender soul about the news, but she could not help but pour her pure wine now."Y/n had an accident on the way to work."

"Oh my god, what happened?" she asked, drawing the attention of the other two women as well. She quickly supported herself on the small kitchen counter and put her hand over her open mouth.

"According to witnesses, she lost control of the car when a tire hit a very deep pothole." the woman on the other end of the phone said carefully, pausing at each word to maintain her composure. "She crashed into a guardrail, which was breached. She got hurled further until her car finally came to a stop in a ditch. If a nearby tree had not stopped her, she would have-"

She sighed, not daring to voice her thoughts about the horror scenarios in her head. Lizzie's suspicion was quietly confirmed, the feeling deep inside her never deceiving. The brunette wiped her face, on the verge of tears.

"What condition is she in? Which hospital?" The brunette paced restlessly on the rough carpet, trying to find her inner calm after the heart-pounding news. By now, Florence and Scarlett had gathered around her, putting their heads close to the receiver to overhear the conversation. "Piedmont Fayette Hospital. She is in critical condition, doctors are unsure if she will survive the night."

"I will be on my way immediately." She quickly ended the call and threw her cell phone in her coat pocket. With her car keys firmly in her hands so that they were already leaving marks, she hastily left the small room and drove to you, not caring an inch about her job.

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The following months were torture for your family. For the first few days the doctors kept you sedated so as not to add to the psychological stress of the pain in order to allow your body to recover as much as possible. Several times a day there were threatening situations in which you had to intervene - from fluctuations in blood pressure to the correct ventilation of your damaged lungs was a constant trouble spot in the intensive care unit, which the doctors kept on their toes.

A pulmonary embolism also spread, which they first tried to solve with conservative methods before they had to intervene surgically to save your life. Even after that, the tension of your mother and your colleagues did not let up. Your blood was so diluted by the drugs that you could suffer a cerebral hemorrhage at any moment.

That evening, Elizabeth Olsen sat on the edge of your bed and held your hand. She talked to you softly, so that no one could hear her. Just like the doctors suggested to her heart. -Talk to her. Hold her hand. She needs something to keep her alive. Tell her about her dreams and goals, if you know them. She needs to want to live-

She did that until late at night. Sometimes she dozed off and slept for an hour, but at last she woke up with a startle, thinking that she felt a squeeze of your hand in hers. And sure enough, after weeks of being in a coma, you finally woke up on your own.

That was three months ago and only today you were able to go back to work. It was cold and raining and you rushed to the set with a large cake pan under your arms. You carefully walked around the puddles to the make-up trailer, the door of which was not completely closed but only ajar.

With your hand raised, you slowly opened the door and saw your best friend getting ready to play her role as Scarlett Witch with her stylist and make-up artist. "Lizzie?" you called, raising your voice to give it more expression and let it shine through the soft music in the background.

Her eyes sought the spot in the mirror that gave her a view of the door before her head was hastily turned to face you. A wide grin stretches across her red lips. "Oh Y/n I did not know you were going to show up for work today," she stammered, and as she spoke, the brunette stood up and walked towards you happily.

"Uh yeah, sorry. I wanted to make it a surprise. Even brought cake, homemade." only now did she notice that you were holding a cake tray with chocolate cake firmly between your arms that was pressed tightly against your body. Elizabeth grabbed your shoulder and gently but firmly pulled you into her arms. "It is so good to have you back."

"I missed your hugs." you sighed and snuggled up to her even tighter before you looked up at her and met her emerald green eyes. Liz looked at you too and she felt her pulse suddenly quicken. There was something in your gaze that made her very nervous. "How are holding up? Any pain I should know about?" she lifted her hand and tenderly stroked your cheek.

You felt your skin tingle under her touch and you wondered if that is how it's supposed to be when you are just friends. She smiled broadly at you and that smile made your heart beat even faster. "A little tug in my thigh every now and then, but do not worry too much. I have survived worse."

"You know I will always worry about you," the brunette replied and you thought you heard a tremor in her voice. You said nothing but still felt her hand warm and soft on your cheek.

All of a sudden you seemed to come back to reality and detached yourself from her. "Where are the others?" you murmured softly and were not impressed by your physical withdrawal, you would like to stay in her arms and feel her closeness as long as you possibly could.

"They are already on set. They will be glad to see you again."

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Here is a complete list of the winners of the 2024 Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards:

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Deerwoods Deathtrap from James P. Gannon on Vimeo.

50 years ago Jack and Betty were hit by a train and survived. This is their story.

A short documentary by James P. Gannon

Starring - John W. Gannon, Elizabeth Gannon Editor - Jason Tippet Producers - James D. Cochran, April Gannon, Matt Ferrin, Joseph K. Gannon, Chris Cipriano Original score - Stephane Laporte (Domotic) (domotic.bandcamp.com/) Sound mix/editor - Patrick Janssen Cinematography - James P. Gannon Title Design/Vimeo Thumbnail - Matt Ferrin Graphics - Horatio Baltz

A Pocket Storms Production

Shot on Kodak Super 8mm 50D

FESTIVAL SELECTION Sundance Film Festival Aspen Shortfest - Winner Special Jury Award Oak Cliff film festival - Winner Special Jury Award NHDOCS - Winner Best Short Film Philadelphia Film Festival - Winner Best Local Short Holly Shorts - Winner Best Super 8 Short Digital 8 & Super 8 Film Festival - Winner Best short Fantastic Fest Palm Springs Shortfest Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Thin Line Film Festival Florida Film Festival Athens Int Film Festival Wisconsin Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival Arizona Internation Film Festival Milwaukee Film Festival Seattle INT Film Festival Calgary Underground Film Festival Rooftop Film Festival Brooklyn Film Festival The Norwegian Short Film Festival Georgetown Film Festival Lago Film Festival Southside Film festival Desertscape Film festival Hot Springs Film festival SideWalk Film Festival Drunken Film Festival Indie Street Film Festival Sydney Underground Film Festival Jacksonville Film Festival Montclair Film Festival Picture Farm Film Festival Chicago Critics Circle Vilnius Short Film Festival Prague International Indie Film Festival Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival Virginia Film Festival

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Dear Los Angeles Film Critics Association/ Chicago Film Critics Association/ New York Film Critics Circle:

Dear Los Angeles Times/ Chicago Tribune/ New York Times:

The date is Saturday, December 9, 2023; below is a DUPLICATE of the 1973 RERELEASE with additional LOW TONE:

The 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film directed by William Freidkin and starring Linda Blair is widely remarked for its American Film Institute (AFI) ranking. The AFI anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film has all turned to Hall of Fame legacy due to not prosecution itself but the prosecutors. The director has come to consent and censure the rerelease of future presentation. The supposedly consent and censure has lead to full censor to become familiar with the crucifix. The out-of-context crucifixion is widely renown for casting out demons. Each casting out demons is widely renown in reality for uncensored territory, not supernatural powers. In reality, uncensored territories would only lead to demonic possession that would only encourage unnatural change of behavior. The retelling of a real life casting out demons traces back to the name of Anneliese van der Poel. The name of the actual demonically possessed is the first person of interest who lead directly to irreligious society. The first person of interest who lead directly to irreligious society had all begun with Anneliese van der Poel.

When first released, the 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film has had to earn completely restricted status due to the potential monotheist overthrow. The first person of interest who lead directly to irreligious society is the prime source of inspiration for the 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film. As the prime source of inspiration, irreligious society has all held true to each timespan of and beyond the year of release. The year of release had all symbolized a generation of bizarre interests that have had to restore human scope directly from each sought out bizarre interest. The natural change of behavior over unnatural change of behavior has to stay natural and primordial at all times, otherwise, human imagination would only turn berserk. As wild as any human imagination may turn out to be, the natural is primordial, the unnatural would only turn uncontrollable. The controllable behavior is that of the roots and beginnings of not behavior or humankind but religious studies. The roots and beginnings of religious studies would only turn berserk if irreligious. It is because of that that, inevitably, religion and society may turn anti-Catholic but not monotheist oppositional in general. In general, inevitably, relationship building with a spiritual being has to stay monotheist supportive, in which monotheist oppositional and supportive simultaneity may turn anti-Catholic ITSELF, not amongst all belief systems.

The story is panoramically rotational between Atlanta, Georgia, USA and the Middle East. The Catholic upbringings amongst each heritage often turn to eastern regional western Atlantic irreligious status. Each eastern regional western Atlantic irreligious status has to advance onto the rest of the eastern regional western Atlantic. This is where atheist roots and beginnings begin to apply. Each atheist root and beginning typically begin with the eastern regional western Atlantic; there is no ending pinpoint. The supposedly alcoholic intake and smoking that would only turn to completely restricted interests, on reverse and reciprocate, is namely bubble gum and fruit juice. On reverse and reciprocate, each alcoholic intake and smoking through each outlet has to turn to bubble gum and fruit juice. The wholesomeness is that of the bubble gum and fruit juice as opposed to alcoholic intake and smoking. The more the underage storage, the more the adulthood cramming. The more the adulthood cramming, the more 18+ best accept.

The transitional family gatherings and solidarity are widely gathered and solidified on their own. Each underage storage and adulthood cramming are of a cultural influence of a remarkable legacy. The cultural influence is that of NOT taller than one another BUT getting older each day. The so called WEIGHT AND HEIGHT SEPARATION OF AGE is indeed SEPARATE. If the adulthood cramming has to stay CRAMMED, best accept; if the underage storage has to seek CAPACITY, best accept. The resemblance to GOTHIC STRUCTURE is indeed alike; the structure of an OLDER SHELTER AND YOUNGER CAPACITY has to stay fully INVESTED AND CAPACITATED. The GOTHIC influences are way too CLEAR: the SCORNING RELIGION is the result AND resultant of abiding by WHOLESOMENESS, NEITHER BELIEF SYSTEMS NOR RELATIONSHIP BUILDING. If BELIEF SYSTEMS AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, the WHOLESOMENESS takes EXTRA STORAGE, NOT LESSER. In order to capacitate EXTRA STORAGE, underage FIRST, and then comes adulthood. Whether religious OR not, EXTRA STORAGE has to stay true to UNDERAGE FIRST PRIORITY at all times.

The imitation on the crucifixion of Christ immediately spells underestimated fluids. (TS2) (TS3) (TS4) (TS5) (TS6) (TS7) (TS8) (TS9) (TS10)**

Each demonic statue that alternates amongst each change of scene is its own grueling effect getting all the more gruesome. The so called Gothic timespan is a time period full of not heroism or anti-heroism but religious disbelief, in which the FLIP SIDE to all of religion is all GOTHIC. While having a BELIEF SYSTEM is already DEDICATED, having a DISBELIEF is of a NEITHER FAITHFUL NOR UNFAITHFUL quality BUT DECEIT. In order to FIGHT the DECEIT, each GOTHIC PAGEANTRY is the direct OPPOSITE of a HEAVENLY BANQUET. While HEAVEN ITSELF is the OPPOSITE of HELL, the additional BANQUET is widely EMBELLISHED to the brink of the FOUNDATIONS OF STONE. Each FOUNDATION OF STONE in IRRELIGIOUS reiteration is of the POPULATION SEPARATE GENERATIONS. In IRRELIGIOUS reiteration, POPULATION SEPARATE GENERATIONS have to stay SEPARATE. Each BANQUET there would have been is all WHOLESOME. The frequently MISCONCEIVED AND MISLEAD PROTEIN BASE INTAKE may have to resolve to VEGETARIANISM AND VEGANISM. The DEMONIC GRUEL is what MISLEADS the PROTEIN BASE INTAKE to OVERPOWERING the VEGETARIANISM AND VEGANISM.

Most widely debated scenery of the 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film is the spider walk scene or lizard tonguing scene. It is exactly the spider walk scene or lizard tonguing scene of contrasting behavior that gave rise to partially developed interests. Each partially developed interest may turn to a half neurotic and half intellectual mindset. The half neurotic is bound to stay behavioral; the half intellectual has to stay informational. The more the behavior COMPLETELY, the more the INTELLECTUAL DISMISSAL. The more the informational COMPLETELY, the more the BEHAVIORAL DISMISSAL. This is where the modern AND postmodern standard in all of BEHAVIOR AND INTELLECT begins to apply. The BEHAVIOR AND INTELLECT PARTIAL SEPARATION has to stay PARTIAL. Ability to apply MODERATE IMMODERATE NEUROPATHOLOGY is indeed MODERATE IMMODERATE SIMULTANEOUS. One way or another, the MODERATE IMMODERATE NEUROPATHOLOGY has had to go through EXPERIMENTS in order to see into valid EXPERIENCES.

The upside-down crucifix is a blasphemous behavior that would only turn to lefty spasm to the brink of having gotten pinpointed within the demonically possessed. (TS2) (TS3) (TS4) (TS5) (TS6) (TS7) (TS8) (TS9) (TS10)**

The environmentalist background to the industrial world is a foretelling to the translucence ahead of time. The more the environmentalist and industrial, the more the translucence. Each BALANCED office desk AND outdoor destination has to seek EITHER RETAILING OR EXTENUATION. One may be expecting of COMPLETE EXTENUATION to be ATTRACTIONS. RETAILING, on the other hand, is that of MULTIPLE DESTINATION ALTERNATION. Each MULTIPLE DESTINATION ALTERNATION is of a certain RETAILER. The CAPACITY DIFFERENCE is already CLEAR: each ATTRACTION leads to GREATER POPULATION as each RETAILER leads to MAXIMAL CAPACITY. Each ATTRACTION may lead to greater OPEN HORIZONS whereas each RETAILER has to HINDER CRAMMING. Inevitably, OPEN HORIZONS belong to ATTRACTIONS AT ALL TIMES whereas EXTRA STORAGE are in NO NEED of the RETAILERS AT ALL TIMES. Whereas EXTRA STORAGE are in NO NEED of the RETAILERS AT ALL TIMES, inevitably, GREATER CAPACITY leads directly to OPEN HORIZONS.

The demonic possession of Regan McNeil is of an unnatural change of behavior out of supernatural powers. The rerelease of future trends is profoundly Gothic to the background in a direct extract from the 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film. The 1973 anti-Catholic prosecuted feature film had begun with the Gothic architecture to encapsulate each concrete of a variety of structure. The Gothic architecture has to have not many but double staircases of lesser proportions than prior grand staircases. Each lesser proportion has to remain standing not towards but against each other. Double staircases of lesser proportions than prior grand staircases are of a dissymmetrical nature. In dissymmetrical nature to each other, what would have been frontal and back view is all facing against each other, not towards each other. The long gone Gothic timespan has all gotten revived in the architectural design.*** The revival has to see to its concreteness in order to survive. In order to survive, what would have been adulthood cramming or underage storage is learning how to survive on one’s own through growing up.

Sincerely,

Michael Chang

* William Friedkin, director; Linda Blair, Reagan McNeil

** (access restricted policy and guidelines on IMDB, YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, or TikTok (18+))

*** Gothic architecture is by far the only known Gothic revival in reality; in reality, no expectations other than the architectural design



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Críticos de Atlanta premiam “Assassinos da Lua das Flores”, do Apple TV+

By MacMagazine “Assassinos da Lua das Flores” (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) O filme “Assassinos da Lua das Flores” (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), do Apple TV+, deixou sua marca no Círculo de Críticos de Cinema de Atlanta (Atlanta Film Critics Circle, ou AFCC) de 2023. A atriz Lily Gladstone foi elogiada por sua performance “excepcional”, garantindo os prêmios de Melhor Atriz…

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Shadows by Kristin Bryant Rajan

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Kristin Bryant Rajan, Ph.D. in English, writes #poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism in Atlanta, GA. She is widely published in literary and creative writing journals and books and is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her literary research and creative writing revolve around meditative moments of deep self. She is a senior lecturer in English at Kennesaw State University.

PRAISE FOR Shadows by Kristin Bryant Rajan

Kristin Rajan‘s four long poems draw readers into a deep pool of memory where they encounter a voice that negotiates self with #love, #family, and #loss. This voice is clear and strong and simultaneously vulnerable, creating a stark tension that propels readers through lines and images filled with candor and longing. Thoughtful readers will finish this book and be a different person than when they started.

–Kimberly K. Williams, author of Sometimes a Woman, winner of the 2022 WILLA Literary Prize in Poetry.

Kristin Rajan writes, “I am a loosened thread on the fringes of this tapestry.” Likewise, Shadows is woven with the shadows of memory—reconciling what we thought we knew with what we know now. Rajan’s work comes full circle with movement and maturity, a powerful trajectory that takes us by surprise in “Sundays and Shadows”: “But I don’t think he was looking at the trees / or the ornate shapes their shadows made on sidewalks.” At once familial and familiar, each celebration of life and death develops slowly like the shadows of film.

–Valerie A. Smith, author of Back to Alabama, a book of poems forthcoming from Sundress Publications in 2024.

In four narrative poems written with gentle musicality, Kristin Rajan transports the reader into the isolation of growing up in a complicated family. Reflecting the narrator’s conflict, this is a book of contrasts, in which there is “darkness beneath color.” Through memorable images, Rajan conveys detachment and guilt from a young age and later loss and despair, “Who will keep the front door wide open?” We move with this author through vivid settings at different ages, the details lingering long after the final page. Rajan combines horror and softness in a way that invites the reader to look without judgement at our own blood relationships.

–Lisa Alletson, author of Good Mother Lizard, winner of the Headlight Review Poetry Chapbook Prize

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El Recuento de los Premios: temporada 2022- 2023

El recuento de todos los premios de los gremios y la crítica especializada a lo largo de la temporada 2022-2023. #Oscars95

Los premios de la crítica y el sindicato artístico a lo largo de la temporada 2022-2023.   Películas premiadas por crítica y gremios 2022-2023   MEJOR PELÍCULA Everything Everywhere All At Once (41) – Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA), Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC), Critics Association of Central Florida (CACF), Critics’ Choice Association (CCA), Chicago Indie Critics (CIC), Denver Film…

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Congratulations to The Power of The Dog for their wins at 2021 Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Director: Jane Campion

Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch

Best Supporting Actress: Kirsten Dunst

Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner

Also:

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Awards Season 2023-24: Awards Round-Up 12/11

The local critics groups are starting to announce their winners, and with that comes the newest edition of these weekly posts where I set group against group to see what trends I can identify – or what categories remain wide open. First, a quick word on the European Film Awards, which gave Anatomy of a Fall Best Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress, and Editing. Again, it’s not eligible for the…

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2023 Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) Awards: 'Oppenheimer' Dominates with 8 Wins

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Atlanta Film Critics Circle 2024 Awards:

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana Grande-Butera

Full:

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Atlanta Film Critics Circle | Lista de Ganadores

'Licorice Pizza' de Paul Thomas Anderson sigue dominando en la temporada de premios.

Siguiendo en el recorrido de los gremios, quienes son los primeros en revelar lo que para ellos representa lo mejor del cine en 2021, ahora el Círculo de Críticos de Cine de Atlanta reveló su lista de ganadores. A continuación la lista completa: Las 10 Mejores Películas del Año Licorice Pizza The Power of the Dog The Green Knight Belfast tick, tick… BOOM! Drive My Car Titane West Side…