Awards Watch: New York Critics

Things are starting to look awfully familiar in the awards race this week.

The New York Film Critics Circle has announced their picks for the best of 2007, and Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men tops their list as Best Picture. The brothers also won Best Director and Best Screenplay, while Javier Bardem picked up his first prize for the film as Supporting Actor. There Will Be Blood's Daniel Day-Lewis, Away from Her's Julie Christie and Gone Baby Gone's Amy Ryan round out the acting honors; if you're keeping score with the three major prercursors announced in the past few days, that's two out of three for the first two and three in a row for Ryan, rapidly overtaking early favorite Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There). This year's Oscar-winner for Foreign Language Film, The Lives of Others, nabbed another prize, while No End in Sight, Persepolis and Away from Her's first-time director Sarah Polley earned their second trophies in as many days.

Still to come this week: nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics' Choice Awards (tomorrow) and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards (Thursday); then we'll see if these early critics' darlings continue their domination on their road to the Oscars.

See the comments section below for a quick look at the full list of winners.

Link via NYFCC.com.