The cinema, still the cinema, always the cinema. This beginning of the year is more than ever cradled by the seventh art. After the BAFTA and Critics Choice Awards ceremonies, it’s the turn of the National Board of Review Awards to shine the stars. On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, celebrities gathered at Cipriani, located on 42nd Street in New York, to celebrate this event launched in 1909. A total of 221 films were viewed by a group of professionals and amateurs in order to refine the selection.
The job was well done since it attracted, as far as the city of New York, actresses and actors, each one more brilliant than the other. Julianne Moore made the flashes of photographers crackle in an elegant Valentino dress, just like Bradley Cooper, Will Smith, Joachim Trier, Craig Melvin, Danielle Deadwyler, Marcus Samuelsson, Tony Shalhoub, Questlove, Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman from the film Licorice PizzaKenneth Branagh and his wife Lindsay Brunnock, Renate Reinsve, Stephanie Beatriz – Brooklyn Nine Nine, the original voice of Mirabel in Encanto… -, Ebony Obsidian, Zazie Beetz, Aunjanue Ellis, Joseph Patel, Jessica Kingdon, Nathalie Diamantis, Ciaran Hinds, Michael Sarnoski and the two heroines of the film West Side Storyby Steven Spielberg, Jeanette Delgado and Ilda Mason.
The National Board of Review Awards Gala was also an opportunity to treat yourself to a nice couple outing. This is how Morena Baccarin – Homeland, The Flash – appeared, in a bright silver dress, on the arm of her husband Ben McKenzie. The lovers have been together since March 2015. They met on the set of the series Gotham… and quickly concretized their feelings, since the actress announced to be pregnant the following September. Married for almost 5 years, parents of a little Frances Laiz Setta Schenkhan, aged 6, they welcomed their second child, Arthur, a little boy, at the beginning of the year 2021…