Few surprises surface in this early harbinger of the Academy Awards.
NEW YORK -- Oscar season, in case you hadn't heard, is in full swing.
And that means movie stars globe-trot from red carpet to soiree to awards ceremony, collecting accolades. Monday night, some swung by the New York Film Critics Circle dinner at the Crimson Club.
The prizes had been announced earlier, and featured one major surprise: Rachel Weisz was named best actress for the tiny drama The Deep Blue Sea.
Other honorees were more or less expected. Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty was named best picture, and she was dubbed best director. Daniel Day-Lewis earned best-actor honors for playing president Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln, and his on-screen spouse Sally Field was there as best supporting actress.
Matthew McConaughey — who just welcomed third child Livingston with wife Camila — was there as best supporting actor for the comedies Bernie and Magic Mike.
PHOTOS: Scenes from the awards gala in NYC
"The baby is doing great," McConaughey said before the ceremony. "Ten fingers, 10 toes." He added that he "already finished Dallas Buyers Club," the film loosely based on the life of AIDS patient Ron Woodruff. He was photographed looking extremely gaunt for that role. But "I put on 25 pounds," he said.
"Tonight I'm here because I did work that you liked. It feels good," he told the audience in his acceptance speech. "I was able to humble myself to who these guys were. They're both outsiders. I had a ball diving into their obsessions."
Zero Dark Thirty's Jessica Chastain, who is in New York where she has a role in the Broadway production of The Heiress, was at arrivals. "There's something humbling about doing theater," said Chastain, who is up for a Golden Globe on Sunday for her performance in Zero Dark Thirty. "It keeps me grounded," she said.
ZeroDark Thirty's Bigelow is an awards season veteran. "I used to get really nervous," said the Oscar winner for director and best movie in 2010 for The Hurt Locker. "I'm really shy. The last time I did the circuit, it beat it out of me," said Bigelow, who is also up for a Golden Globe.
Weisz is part of the nominee entourage. "I haven't done anything apart from this," she said Monday night. "I'm going to the Globes."
She's modest, too. "I'm not going to win," Weisz said. "It's relaxing. ... I can go and have a really good time."
Field was candid accepting her prize. "I don't read reviews," said the Globe nominee said. "The fact that I've won this award twice in my life so far, I thank you so much. Even though I didn't read your reviews."
Source: http://www.news.theusalinks.com/2013/01/07/new-york-film-critics-circle-doesnt-stray-from-script/
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