NYFCC Keeps Awards Eligibility to 2020, Will Vote in December

While the Oscars and other awards bodies have all pushed events back on their calendar and expanded eligibility for what movies can be considered, the New York Film Critics Circle will only consider movies released in the 2020 calendar year for its annual awards.

The NYFCC announced Friday it will vote for its 2020 awards on Dec. 18 and that only movies released in theaters or on digital platforms between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, will be considered.

Further, the date for the group’s annual Gala Awards dinner is still to be announced, and membership for 2020 members will be frozen this year, with all current members still eligible to vote, even as many critics’ jobs have been affected by COVID-19. No new members will be voted in this year.

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“This is a year unlike any other in our lifetimes. But the world of movies hasn’t stopped, and already, even in this very strange year, we’ve seen a range of films and performances that have impressed and moved us. It’s more important than ever to celebrate the way movies can connect us, and the NYFCC is looking forward to honoring the best of 2020,” NYFCC chair Stephanie Zacharek said in a statement.

Dec. 18 is still later than usual for the New York Film Critics Circle to vote, as last year the NYFCC selected “The Irishman” as its best film of the year in the first week of December, and in past years the awards have been voted on in late November.

While the awards are one of the first handed out in the long awards season calendar, they’re less a precursor to the Oscars and have shown more diverse tastes than The Academy. The last time the NYFCC agreed with the Academy on the eventual Best Picture winner was “The Artist” from 2011.

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While other awards bodies such as the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild and various film festival galas have all pushed back and changed their eligibility in line with the Oscars, it’s possible that other regional film critics groups will follow New York’s lead in keeping eligibility to the 2020 calendar year.

The Oscars meanwhile will take place on April 25, the latest the ceremony has been held since 1932, and movies released up through February 28 will be eligible for the 93rd Oscars.

The New York Film Critics Circle was founded in 1935 and features Time Magazine critic Stephanie Zacharek as 2020 chairman, Jordan Hoffman as vice chair and Marshall Fine as NYFCC general manager.

A full list of current NYFCC members is below:

Stephanie Zacharek (CHAIR)
Time Magazine

Jordan Hoffman (VICE CHAIR)
Freelance

Marshall Fine (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance

MEMBERS:

Sam Adams
Slate

John Anderson
Freelance

Melissa Anderson
4Columns

Michael Atkinson
Freelance

Richard Brody
The New Yorker

Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication

Kameron Austin Collins
Rolling Stone

Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine

David Edelstein
Freelance

David Ehrlich
IndieWire

Kate Erbland
IndieWire

David Fear
Rolling Stone

Graham Fuller
Freelance

Owen Gleiberman
Variety

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly

Steven D. Greydanus
The National Catholic Register

Rafer Guzman
Newsday

Caryn James
BBC

Stuart Klawans
The Nation

Eric Kohn
IndieWire

Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair

Tomris Laffly
Freelance

Violet Lucca
Freelance

Joe Morgenstern
The Wall Street Journal

Sheila O’Malley
Rogerebert.com

Nick Pinkerton
Freelance

Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

Rex Reed
Observer

David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter

Joshua Rothkopf
Freelance

Matt Zoller Seitz
Rogerebert.com

David Sims
The Atlantic

Matt Singer
ScreenCrush

Kyle Smith
National Review

Dana Stevens
Slate

Sara Stewart
New York Post

Amy Taubin
Artforum

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Keith Uhlich
Freelance

Elizabeth Weitzman
The Wrap

Stephen Whitty
Freelance

Alissa Wilkinson
Vox

Alison Willmore
New York Magazine

All 16 EGOT Winners, From Audrey Hepburn to Alan Menken (Photos)

Richard Rodgers, composer (1902-1979)
Emmy: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed, "Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years" (1962)
Grammy: Best Show Album, "The Sound of Music" (1960); Best Original Cast Show Album, "No Strings" (1962)
Oscar: Best Song, "It Might As Well Be Spring" from "State Fair" (1945)
Tony: three for "South Pacific" (1950); one each for "The King and I" (1952), "The Sound of Music" (1960) and "No Strings" (1962)
Helen Hayes, actress (1900 - 1993)
Emmy: Best Actress, "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: Not a Chance" (1953)
Grammy: Best Spoken Word Recording, "Great American Documents" (1977)
Oscar: Best Actress, "The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932); Best Supporting Actress, "Airport" (1970)
Tony: Best Actress in a Drama, "Happy Birthday" (1947); Best Actress in a Drama, "Time Remembered" (1958)
Rita Moreno, actress (1931 -)
Emmy: Supporting Actress, Variety or Music, "The Muppet Show" (1977); Lead Actress for Single Appearance in a Comedy or Drama, "The Rockford Files" (1978)
Grammy: Best Recording for Children, "The Electric Compan" (1972)
Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, "West Side Story" (1961)
Tony: Best Supporting Actress in a Play, "The Ritz" (1975)
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John Gielgud, actor (1904 - 2000)
Emmy: Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special, "Summer's Lease (1991)
Grammy: Best Spoken World Album, "Ages of Man" (1979)
Oscar: Best Supporting Actor, "Arthur" (1981)
Tony: Outstanding Foreign Company, "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1948); Best Director of a Drama, "Big Fish, Little Fish" (1961)
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Audrey Hepburn, actress (1929 - 1993)
Emmy: Best Individual Achievement, Informational Programming, "Gardens of the World With Audrey Hepburn" (1993)
Grammy: Best Spoken Word Album for Children, "Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales" (1994)
Oscar: Best Actress, "Roman Holiday" (1953)
Tony: Best Actress in a Drama, "Ondine" (1954)
Marvin Hamlisch, composer (1944–2012)
Emmy: Four awards, two for work on "Barbra: The Concert" (1995) and one each for "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" (1999) and "Timeless: Live in Concert" (2001)
Grammy: Four awards in 1974, including Best New Artist, Song of the Year ("The Way We Were"), Best Album of the Original Score ("The Way We Were") and Best Pop Instrumental Performance ("The Entertainer")
Oscar: Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Song, "The Way We Were" (1973) and Best Adapted Score, "The Sting" (1973)
Tony: Best Musical Score, "A Chorus Line" (1976)
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Jonathan Tunick, music director and composer (1938 - )
Emmy: Music Direction, "Night of 100 Stars" (1982)
Grammy: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals, Cleo Laine's "No One Is Alone" (1988)
Oscar: Best Adapted Score, "A Little Night Music" (1977)
Tony: Best Orchestrations, "Titanic" (1977)
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Mel Brooks, performer, writer and director (1926 - )
Emmy: Best Writing in Variety, "The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special" (1967); three awards for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy, "Mad About You" (1997-99)
Grammy: Best Spoken Comedy Album, "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" (1998); Best Long-Form Music Video, "Recording 'The Producers'" (2002); Best Musical Show Album, "The Producers" (2002)
Oscar: Best Original Screenplay, "The Producers" (1968)
Tony: Best Musical, Original Score and Book of a Musical, "The Producers" (2001)
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Mike Nichols, performer, director and producer (1931 - 2014)
Emmy: Best Director of Miniseries, Movie or Special, "Wit" (2001); Best Made for Television Movie, "Wit" (2001); Best Directing of Miniseries, Movie or Special, "Angels in America" (2004); Best Miniseries, "Angels in America" (2004)
Grammy: Best Comedy Performance, "An Evening With Mike Nichols and Elaine May" (1961)
Oscar: Best Director, "The Graduate" (1967)
Tony: Best Director of a Play, "Barefoot in the Park" (1964), "Luv" and "The Odd Couple" (1965), "Plaza Suite" (1968), "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" (1972), "The Real Thing" (1984), "Death of a Salesman" (2012); Best Musical, "Annie" (1977); Best Play, "The Real Thing" (1984); Best Director of a Musical, "Monty Python's Spamalot" (2005)
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Whoopi Goldberg, performer and producer (1955 - )
Emmy: Best Special Class Special, "Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel" (2002); Best Talk Show Host, "The View" (2009)
Grammy: Best Comedy Recording, "Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording" (1985)
Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, "Ghost" (1990)
Tony: Best Musical (producing), "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (2002)

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Scott Rudin, producer (1958 - )
Emmy: Best Children's Program, "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'" (1984)
Grammy: Best Musical Theater Album, "The Book of Mormon" (2012)
Oscar: Best Picture, "No Country for Old Men" (2007)
Tony: 12 awards, for producing musicals "Passion" (1994) and "The Book of Mormon" (2012) and the plays "Copenhagen" (2000), "Doubt" (2005), "The History Boys" (2006), "God of Carnage" (2009), "Fences" (2010), "Death of a Salesman" (2012), "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" (2015), "Skylight" (2015), "The Humans" (2016) and "A View From the Bridge" (2016)

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Robert Lopez, composer (1975 - )
Emmy: Best Music Direction and Composition, "Wonder Pets" (2008, 2010)
Grammy: Best Musical Theater Album, "The Book of Mormon" (2012); Best Compilation Soundtrack, "Frozen" (2015), Best Song for Visual Media, "Let It Go" from "Frozen" (2015)
Oscar: Best Original Song, "Let It Go" from "Frozen" (2014)
Tony: Best Score, "Avenue Q" (2004); Best Score and Best Book of a Musical, "The Book of Mormon" (2011)
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John Legend, songwriter and producer (1978-)

Emmy: Outstanding Live Variety Special, "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert"

Grammy: Best New Artist (2005); Best R&B Album, "Get Lifted" (2005); Best R&B Vocal, "Ordinary People" (2005); Best Male R&B Vocal, "Heaven" (2006); Best R&B Duo or Group, "Family Affair" (2006); Best R&B Vocal or Group, "Stay With Me by the Sea" (2008); Best R&B Album, "Wake Up!" (2010); Best R&B Song, "Shine" (2010); Best R&B Vocal, "Hang On in There" (2010); Best Song Written for Visual Medium, "Glory" (2015)

Oscar: Best Original Song, "Glory" from "Selma (2014)

Tony: Producer of Best Play Revival, "August Wilson's Jitney" (2017)
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer and producer (1948-)

Emmy: Outstanding Live Variety Special, "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert"

Grammy: Best Cast Album, "Evita" (1980); Best Cast Album, "Cats" (1983); Best Contemporary Composition, "Lloyd Webber: Requiem" (1985)

Oscar: Best Original Song, "You Must Love Me" from "Evita" (1996)

Tony: Best Score, "Evita" (1980); Best Score, "Cats" (1983); Best Score, "Sunset Boulevard" (1995)
Tim Rice, lyricist and producer (1944-)

Emmy: Outstanding Live Variety Special, "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert"

Grammy: Best Cast Album, "Evita" (1980); Song of the Year and Song for Film or TV, "A Whole New World" (1993); Best Album for Children, "Aladdin" (1993); Best Cast Album, "Aida" (2000)

Oscar: Best Original Song, "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin" (1992); "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" from "The Lion King" (1994); "You Must Love Me" from "Evita" (1996)

Tony: Best Book and Best Score, "Evita" (1980); Best Score, "Aida" (2000)
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Alan Menken, composer (1949-)

Emmy: Original Song in a Children’s, Young Adult or Animated Program, “Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventures.”

Grammy: Best Recording for Children and Song for TV or Film, "The Little Mermaid" (1990); Best Recording for Children, Song for TV or Film, Instrumental for TV or Film, "Beauty and the Beast" (1992); Song of the Year, "A Whole New World," Best Recording for Children, Song for TV or Film, Instrumental for TV or Film, "Aladdin" (1993); Best Song for TV or Film, "Colors of the Wind" (1995); Best Song for Visual Medium, "I See the Light" (2011)

Oscar: Best Score and Song, "The Little Mermaid" (1989); Best Score and Song, "Beauty and the Beast" (1991); Best Score and Song, "Aladdin" (1992); Best Score and Song, "Pocahontas" (1995)

Tony: Best Score, "Newsies" (2012)
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