Critics Choice Awards will have stars (plus, predictions)
Nikki Finke is reporting that tomorrow night’s Critics Choice Awards will have stars. Apparently it’s a non-union show, which means no picket line. It also means that this year the BFCA awards show will finally, FINALLY, get the place it deserves ahead of the HFPA’s Golden Globes. It’s been a more accurate predictor of the Oscars for years and doesn’t do things like nominating Oprah’s movie (The Great Debaters) just to have Oprah show up on Globe night.
Anyway, here’s how I see the night going down.
Best Picture: Into the Wild (There’s too much love for Into the Wild for me to comfortably predict anything else.)
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (Though, they did give him the acting award for his last role.)
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her (But this is the most likely category in which you may see a tie. BFCA has a tie in some category almost annually. Marion Cotillard could get kudos here too.)
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men (This year’s lock all the way to Oscar. Think J-Hud in Dreamgirls.)
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There (Cate needs a good precursor boost to put her back in the running for Oscar. If Amy Ryan wins for Gone Baby Gone, we may have a runaway for Ryan. If Cate wins and goes onto Oscar, the BFCA can say they called it even though everyone has been calling it since the movie was announced.)
Best Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (BFCA splits the director award, and often gives it to an unlikely candidate.)
Best Writer: Diablo Cody, Juno (Can’t wait to hear this acceptance speech.)
Best Ensemble: Blah–I mean Juno
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
There are other categories that I don’t really care about unless they result in an Oscar. But tune in tomorrow night at 9 p.m. on VH1 to see the winners. It may be the only show this Oscar season to actually be, well, a show.
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