It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears, but it’s finally here.

We’re exciting, nervous, busy, thrilled: all those things that come with putting the 1st Annual New York Critics Circle Awards together.

If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket to the sold out show at the Cantor Film Center tonight, we hope to inform and entertain you.

We have people coming in from around the world for the event, and the positive response we’ve received has been more than we’ve hoped for.

We’ll have news on the winners soon, and we may even stream the event if everything comes together in an audio visual way.

-Harold Goldberg, founder