The NYFCC announced its choice for best of the year today, and after showering Moonlight and Manchester By the Sea with various honors down the line, they suddenly turned around and chose heavy Oscar favorite La La Land for Best Picture and nothing else. It's rare for that to happen, but it shows how love was split between the three films. La La Land is presumed to be the BP frontrunner as of right now, but we'll see if the rest of the critics jump onboard with it as well. The rest of their picks this year were actually pretty routine. It definitely looks like Isabelle Huppert is to become the critics push for Actress, but Emma Stone is still considered the Oscar frontrunner for the win there. The LA film critics are next to weigh in on Sunday, and they'll be followed by all the various critics groups around the country in the next two months. But don't forget that the most influential critics organizations are still the big four- NBR, NY, LA and the National Society of Film Critics, which usually comes last in January. Two of them have spoken now, and it looks like it may be a somewhat predictable year, with the top three films looking like La La Land, Moonlight and Manchester By the Sea.
- Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
- Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
- Animated Film: Zootopia
- Documentary: OJ: Made in America
- Foreign-Language Film: Toni Erdmann
- Cinematography: Moonlight
- Screenplay: Manchester By the Sea
- First Film: The Edge of Seventeen and Krisha (tie)
- Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams, Manchester By the Sea and Certain Women
- Actress: Isabelle Huppert, Elle and Things to Come
- Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
- Picture: La La Land
