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(Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) Andy Kropa—Andy Kropa /Invision/AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Dec 1, 2014 6:56 PM UTC The first major awards of the Oscar season have been announced — and it looks like Mason and family will be with us through the Academy Awards. _Boyhood_, the story of one child’s development shot sporadically over the course of twelve years, was named the best film by the New York Film Critics Circle today; it also earned best director and best supporting actress citations for Richard Linklater and Patricia Arquette, respectively. An honor from the NYFCC does not necessarily presage glory later on: The voting body, made up of New York-based writers, has its own set of tastes, as witnessed by recent best film champions _American Hustle_, _Zero Dark Thirty_, and _The Social Network_, all of which missed best picture at the Academy Awards. (Conversely, films including _The Artist_ and _The Hurt Locker_ did win both the NYFCC’s and the Academy’s top prizes.) Indeed, last year, _American Hustle_ picked up three NYFCC prizes before getting entirely shut out at the Oscars. But today’s announcement is, still, an effective signal of the sort of films and performances that rise to the top of awards voters’ minds, and that will at least be discussed through the end of awards season. Other acting winners include best supporting actor J.K. Simmons, of the jazz-drumming drama _Whiplash_; best actor Timothy Spall, playing J.M.W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s _Mr. Turner_; and best actress Marion Cotillard, cited for her roles in _Two Days, One Night_ and _The Immigrant_. (Cotillard’s win for two films, one of them entirely in French and another that was barely promoted during its theatrical run this spring, comes as a mild surprise in a best actress conversation that’s been focused on a fairly small set of names.) The rest of the winners included _Citizenfour_, Laura Poitras’s film about Edward Snowden, for best nonfiction film; _The Lego Movie_ for best animated film; _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ for best screenplay; _The Immigrant_‘s Darius Khondji for best cinematography; and the Polish period drama _Ida_ for best foreign-language film. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3612281/boyhood-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3612281/boyhood-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/"},"headline":"Boyhood Picks Up Three New York Film Critics Circle Awards","datePublished":"2014-12-01T18:56:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:28:59.385Z","description":"The twelve-year project picks up best film, director, and supporting actress at the season's first major awards ceremony","url":"https://time.com/3612281/boyhood-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/","keywords":["movies","The Lego Movie","Marion Cotillard","Boyhood","Richard Linklater","Patricia Arquette","the oscars"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae7124a87a517b6/69876ba30b72e375146dc3b1/ap731550515464.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ae7124a87a517b6/69876ba30b72e375146dc3b1/ap731550515464.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater","caption":"Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater","creditText":"Andy Kropa—Andy Kropa /Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3612281/boyhood-new-york-film-critics-circle-awards/","name":"Boyhood Picks Up Three New York Film Critics Circle Awards"}}]}] ```