The Kansas City Film Critics Circle, to which your RF pals December, Ian, and myself belong (plus our pals Eric and JD from Scene Stealers) got together last night for the 42nd Annual Loutzenhiser Awards voting. The 25 voting memebers from print, television, radio and online media in the Greater Kansas City area cast ballots in 12 categories to determine the best films and performances of 2007. Check out the full list of winners inside the Full Diagnosis.
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Best Film: There Will Be Blood (read Ian’s review)
The Robert Altman Award for Directing: TIE
Paul Thomas Anderson: There Will Be Blood
and Julian Schnabel: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Marion Cotilliard, La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (read Alan’s review)
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton (read Alan’s review)
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno (read reviews from Alan and December)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille (read Ian’s review)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Moon (read Alan’s review)
Vince Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film:
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (read Alan’s review)
The first movie to win the Kansas City Film Critics Circle award for Best Picture was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966. The group is the second oldest organization of film critics in the United States.
For more information go to www.kcfcc.org.
