Keke Palmer, RRR Get Huge Oscar Boosts From New York Critics Awards

Several scrappy Oscar hopefuls received major visibility boosts with Friday’s announcement of the New York Film Critics Circle winners, the first critics’ group to weigh in with their selections for the favorites of the year. Keke Palmer, explosively good and charismatic in Jordan Peele’s Nope, pulled off a glorious upset by taking best supporting actress, a vital kick start to receiving larger recognition down the road in a messy, overcrowded category. (You might compare it to another breakout first-timer winning NYFCC, the Borat sequel’s Maria Bakalova, who went on to an Oscar nod.) And S.S. Rajamouli, the man behind the… Read Full Article