..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..R.J. Matson
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Michael Wilmington

October 20 , 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ADDS TO GROUP

October 20, 2003, New York ­ Andrew Johnston, Chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle announced today that Lou Lumenick, Megan Lehmann and Nathan Lee have been selected for membership in the New York Film Critics Circle, which met last week at the Judson Grill. Lumenick and Lehmann are critics for the New York Post and Lee is the critic at the New York Sun.

Additionally, Jonathan Foreman, film critic for the New York Post, was elected vice chairman. He will chair the group in 2004.

"Nathan, Megan and Lou are sure to be valuable additions to our group," said Johnston. "And I have no doubt that Jonathan will make a superb chairman when he takes over for me next year."

The NYFCC, in its 69th year, will vote its awards for 2004 on Monday, December 15th at the Muse Hotel in New York. The awards will be given out at their annual awards dinner on Sunday, January 4th at Noche in Manhattan.

The NYFCC awards are traditionally considered both a precursor to the Academy Awards and an alternative to them, in recognizing the best in feature, documentary and foreign language films of the year.