This past week, the Internet Film Critic Society announced the winners of their 17th annual IFCS Awards. Film Obsessive Editor-in-Chief Don Shanahan are staff writer Kevin Wozniak are proudly two of the 20-member voting body of the IFCS. The critics group bestowed the top honor of Best Drama to The Brutalist from director Brady Corbet. Mikey Madison won the Best Actress prize for the Sean Baker film Anora, while Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The Brutalist, giving the epic immigrant drama two total IFCS wins.
Image courtesy of the IFCS
The full winners list for the 17th annual Internet Film Critic Society Awards:
Best Drama:The Brutalist
Best Comedy:Anora
Best Horror or Science Fiction Film:The Substance
Best Action Film: Civil War
Best Actor: Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
Best Actress: Mikey Madison for Anora
Best Director: Robert Eggers for Nosferatu
Best Experimental Film:I Saw the TV Glow
Most Underrated Film:September 5
Worst Film of the Year:Reagan
About the Internet Film Critic Society
The Internet Film Critic Society is an international association of online film critics and journalists. Our members provide expert opinions, analyses and criticisms on all forms of cinema, primarily or exclusively through online outlets. The IFCS is designed to stimulate awareness of the internet as a respectable and professional source of film critique and studies. The IFCS has given year-end awards for excellence in filmmaking annually since its founding in 2007. Additional information and previous awards can be seen at www.InternetFilmCritics.com.
As many internet film critics know, there are few genuine collectives of internet-only critics online. Most film critic societies do not allow internet-only members – and are oftentimes frequented largely by print, television, or radio critics. Therefore, we’re proud to accept applications for all internet-based film critics (as well as those with multiple outlet mediums), and we base acceptance solely on a critic’s quality of work, not on their membership in other existing societies.
At the same time, the IFCS still upholds strict standards for excellence and professionalism to ensure that its members maintain the highest quality and distinction in the film critic and journalist community. If you would like to join the IFCS, please view the membership criteria. And a big thank you to all the dedicated and hard-working film critics and internet organizations that have made the IFCS possible!
DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.
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