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Awards & Recognition:
* Jafar Panahi won Best Director for It Was Just an Accident and KPop Demon Hunters.
* KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animated Feature.
NYFCC Event Highlights:
* David Ehrlich (NYFCC Chair) acknowledged the relationship between film critics and filmmakers.
* Benicio Del Toro won an award for his role in One Battle After Another. He almost didn’t get the part due to scheduling conflicts but was ultimately cast with the help of producers and Leonardo DiCaprio. he praised director Paul Thomas Anderson.
* Mikhail Baryshnikov presented the Best Nonfiction Film award to the makers of My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow, a documentary about independent journalists in Russia.
* the documentary’s director, Julia loktev, referenced the film’s relevance to both russia under Putin and the US under Trump.
Other Mentions:
* A reference to Ghostbusters and Peter Venkman’s reaction to critics and filmmakers interacting.
* Paul Thomas Anderson’s previous collaboration with Benicio Del Toro on Inherent Vice, an adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel.