SFFCC. Awards.

It's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford for the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. What's more, Casey Affleck's their choice for Best Supporting Actor. As great as the front-runners surely are, it's nice to see the accolades spread around a bit.

And Best Supporting Actress? Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) streaks on. Actor: George Clooney (Michael Clayton). Actress: Julie Christie for Away from Her, which has also been awarded Best Adapted Screenplay (Sarah Polley; she based the film on Alice Munro's short story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain").

Director: Joel and Ethan Coen.

Best Original Screenplay: The Savages (Tamara Jenkins).

Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Best Documentary: No End in Sight.

The Marlon Riggs Award for courage and vision in the Bay Area film community goes to Lynn Hershman-Leeson (Strange Culture).

And a Special Citation for under-looked independent film goes to Colma: The Musical.

"I walked out pretty happy this year," blogs the San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle.

More on the awards front via Movie City News: the Broadcast Film Critics Association puts forward thousands (well, dozens) of nominations for their awards.

Posted by dwhudson at December 11, 2007 8:41 AM