67th Annual Golden Globes: The Winners – AVATAR takes Drama Picture, Director
After the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Globes, it looks like the Best Picture race is down to Avatar and The Hurt Locker. Here are tonight’s Golden Globe winners. Motion Picture winners… Best Motion Picture, Drama – AVATAR Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical – The Hangover Best Director – James Cameron, Avatar Best Actress, Drama – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Best Actor, Drama – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best Actress, Comedy/Musical — Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Best Actor, Comedy/Musical – Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes Best Supporting Actress — Mo’Nique, Precious Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Best Foreign Language Film – The White Ribbon Best Animated Feature — Up Best Screenplay – Up in the Air Best Original Score — Michael Giacchino, Up Best Original Song — “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart Not Motion Picture...
Read MoreBFCA 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 MoreDirectors Guild announces 2010 DGA Award nominees
From the DGA, the 2010 Director’s Guild of America Award nominees: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Yeah… thanks for clearing things up,...
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 MoreOscar Predictions updated – Now it feels like a race
In August, if you would have asked Oscarwatchers whether or not Inglourious Basterds would be a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, you would have heard a chorus of “NOs.” What a difference a week makes. After BFCA, HFPA and most shockingly the SAG all nominated Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece for their top honor, it’s safe to say Inglourious Basterds is solidly in the Best Picture race. The Hurt Locker, too, is sweeping nearly every critics group award, making the film a lock for a Best Picture nomination and putting Kathryn Bigelow out in front in Best Director race. Then there’s Up in the Air, a film that seems destined to win Best Picture but curiously missed out on an Ensemble nomination from the SAG. All its primaries grabbed SAG nominations, but its weak supporting cast (compared to the nominated...
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