2010 Critics Choice Awards: The Winners

Before we get to the Golden Globes on Sunday we have to make a stop at the 2010 Critic’s Choice Awards. The ceremony took place on Friday, and honored the best in film from the previous year. The front runners of the night included the musical Nine, and the Nazi drama Inglourious Basterds with ten nominations each including Best Picture. They both appeared in more categories than anyone else, but still had to fight off some stiff competition including Jason Reitman‘s Up in The Air, and Kathryn Bigelow‘s The Hurt Locker.

And the winners are…

BEST PICTURE

• The Hurt Locker *** WINNER
  

Avatar
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

The Best Picture winner shouldn’t really be a surprise considering The Hurt Locker has swept almost every major critics award known to man. The one exciting thing to come out of this repetition is the fact that we might get our first female Oscar winner for Best Director. That’s the ‘direction’ it looks like it’s going in. Bigelow picked up the award this evening and was welcomed by a standing ovation because people know what’s going to happen next month. History will be made.

BEST ACTOR

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart *** WINNER

George Clooney – Up In The Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Viggo Mortensen – The Road
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS – It’s a TIE

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side *** WINNER
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia *** WINNER

Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds *** WINNER

Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christian McKay – Me And Orson Welles
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Mo’Nique – Precious *** WINNER

Marion Cotillard – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
Julianne Moore – A Single Man
Samantha Morton – The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

• Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones *** WINNER

Jae Head – The Blind Side
Bailee Madison – Brothers
Max Records – Where The Wild Things Are
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

• Inglourious Basterds *** WINNER

Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker *** WINNER

James Cameron – Avatar
Lee Daniels – Precious
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds *** WINNER

Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – (500) Days Of Summer
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air *** WINNER

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – District 9
Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man
Nick Hornby – An Education

Be warned: All the technical awards wreak of Avatar so if you’re one of the very few who weren’t a fan of the film you’re not going to enjoy these results. James Cameron’s latest swept all the major categories in this section including Best Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Art Direction, and of course Visual Effects. That man didn’t spend damn near 15 years of his life on this movie for nothing. We could see a similar result at Sundays’ Golden Globes and down the line at the Oscars. Avatar might not take home any acting awards this year, but technically this movie can’t be beat.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Mauro Fiore – Avatar *** WINNER

Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker
Dion Beebe – Nine
Andrew Lesnie – The Lovely Bones
Robert Richardson – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – Avatar *** WINNER

Dan Bishop – A Single Man
John Myhre, Gordon Sim – Nine
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – The Lovely Bones
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – Inglourious Basterds

BEST EDITING

• Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar *** WINNER

Dana E. Glauberman – Up In The Air
Sally Menke – Inglourious Basterds
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – The Hurt Locker
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – Nine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Sandy Powell – The Young Victoria *** WINNER

Colleen Atwood – Nine
Janet Patterson – Bright Star
Anna Sheppard – Inglourious Basterds
Casey Storm – Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP

• District 9 *** WINNER

Avatar
Nine
The Road
Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avatar *** WINNER

District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012

BEST SOUND

• Avatar *** WINNER

District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Up *** WINNER

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog

BEST ACTION MOVIE

• Avatar *** WINNER

District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

BEST COMEDY

• The Hangover *** WINNER

(500) Days Of Summer
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Grey Gardens *** WINNER

Gifted Hands
Into The Storm
Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Broken Embraces *** WINNER

Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• The Cove *** WINNER

Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It

BEST SONG

• “The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – Crazy Heart *** WINNER

“All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – Where The Wild Things Are
“Almost There” – Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog
“Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – Nine
“(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – Everybody’s Fine

BEST SCORE

• Michael Giacchino – Up *** WINNER

Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
Randy Newman – The Princess and the Frog
Karen O, Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are
Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes

What do you think of this year’s winners? Do you think they’re precursors to Sunday’s Golden Globes?