The award season was well and truly kicked off last night with the 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards.
I think most of it is pretty predictable. We will have to see how the Golden Globes go on Sunday night.
The winners are . . .
BEST PICTURE
Winner: The Hurt Locker
Avatar
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
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
Winners: Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side & Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
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
Winner: Mo’Nique – Precious
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
Winner: Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Jae Head – The Blind Side
Bailee Madison – Brothers
Max Records – Where The Wild Things Are
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Winner: Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air
BEST DIRECTING
Winner: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Lee Daniels – Precious
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
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
Winner: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air
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
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Up
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Winner: Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
BEST COMEDY
Winner: The Hangover
(500) Days Of Summer
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland
BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Winner: Grey Gardens
Gifted Hands
Into The Storm
Taking Chance
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner:
Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
BEST SONG
Winner: “The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – Crazy Heart
“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
Winner: Michael Giacchino – Up
Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
Randy Newman – The Princess and the Frog
Karen O, Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are
Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – AVATAR
BEST ART DIRECTION – AVATAR
BEST EDITING – AVATAR
BEST COSTUME DESIGN – THE YOUNG VICTORIA
BEST MAKE UP – DISTRICT 9
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – AVATAR
BEST SOUND – AVATAR
