BFCA 2010 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards winners – AVATAR takes 6, Picture & Director for HURT LOCKER
There was only one instance in the past 10 years when the BFCA’s Critics’ Choice Awards Best Picture winner didn’t go home with the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars. That was in 2004 when Sideways beat the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby. Now that The Hurt Locker has won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Picture, do we finally have a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar? Or is this another critics’ darling that won the award during a foggy season? We’re all pretty certain that Kathryn Bigelow is going to walk away with the Best Director Oscar already. Best Picture may not be that far out of reach. Full list of winners after the jump… BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia...
Read MoreNational Society of Film Critics picks THE HURT LOCKER
Other than Paul Schneider popping up in the Supporting Actor category, no real surprises from the National Society of Film Critics this year. The Hurt Locker took the picture, director and actor awards, leaving scraps for all the other films released this year. Variety does point out that this is the first time the since L.A. Confidential that a film has swept top honors from Los Angeles, New York, and national critics. Oddly enough, that was also the year Avatar-director James Cameron saw his film Titanic go on the win big on Oscar night. I’m not saying that’s going to be the case again this year, but it’s something to think about this morning. Full list of 2009 NSFC winners (via Variety): Picture: The Hurt Locker Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker Actress:...
Read MoreYear in Review – Best Films of 2009
I saw fewer new movies this year than in any other since I started putting together my top ten lists. That’s not bad news. I just cut out a lot of… well… crap. No, I didn’t see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and no, I didn’t see Sherlock Holmes. I love movies, but what’s the point in watching all the bad when there’s so much good out there. (That doesn’t explain how I ended up seeing Nine, though. Ugh.) The good, in fact, was so good that I could have chosen any one of the 11 pictures on my top 10 list to be the best movie of the year. That’s a testament to the quality of all the pictures listed below. All the films on my list, from Tarantino, Reitman, the Coen brothers, Bigelow and more, may very...
Read MoreRIP Patrick Swayze – TFC Morning Report
Top Story: Patrick Swayze, star of Dirty Dancing, Ghost, and Road House, died yesterday after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. (Variety) In Other News: Ingourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz will replace Nicolas Cage as the villain in The Green Hornet. (DHD) Director Peter Berg is officially at the helm of Battleship. (Variety)...
Read MoreMovie Review: Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds (2009)–**** All of Quentin Tarantino’s films are about cinema, but Inglourious Basterds may be his first to harness cinema’s power to show us cinema’s power. This isn’t just a film about a group of Jewish-American soldiers killing Nazis guerrilla-style. Basterds is a film about movies–and one of the greatest at that. From the casting of superstar Brad Pitt in the lead role to moments where images flicker on the big screen in a theater filled with Nazis, Inglourious Basterds has one great conceit: Cinema can change history. Told in four chapters, Inglourious Basterds opens with a scene on a French dairy farm that introduces us to Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), a.k.a “The Jew Hunter.” He’s a fiendish, cartoony Nazi officer who, as his nickname makes clear, is in charge of rounding up all the Jewish people...
Read MorePalme d’Or for Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke earned his first Palme d’Or prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival today for The White Ribbon. The Austrian film follows a children’s choir in northern Germany before the start of WWI. I don’t know who called this one, but someone had this one pegged last week. (Which blog was it?!) Best Actress went to Charlotte Gainsbourg for suffering at the hands of Lars von Trier in Antichrist and Christoph Waltz took home Best Actor for playing the cartoonish Nazi a.k.a. “The Jew Hunter” in Inglourious Basterds. Oscar watchers, you can now put Waltz’s name down as a potential Best Supporting Actor nominee. Complete list of winners after the jump. Palme d’Or The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Germany-France-Austria-Italy Grand Prix A Prophet, Jacques Audiard, France Special Jury Prize Alain Resnais, Wild Grass (France) Director Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay,...
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