Guy Pearce, Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, and Adrien Brody at the 2025 NYFCC.
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As Oscar front-runner Brady Corbet took the stage to accept his New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film for The Brutalist, he shared a story about losing his house in a fire prior to making Vox Lux. The home he shared with his wife and collaborator, Mona Fastvold, was suddenly gone — they lost so much, production on the film was delayed for years, and now, as he stood upon the stage, Los Angeles was on fire, with countless people, artists and not, feeling what he felt all those years ago.
The New York Film Critics Circle Awards are often a pretty light affair with winners preselected and announced by…
