Awards season 2009-2010

It looks like Inglourious Basterds is making it's way through all the major award competitions.

Wish the movie luck, because we could get appearances by Michael in some of the biggest award ceremonies.

http://www.lafca.net/news.html

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ANNOUNCE 2009 AWARD WINNERS

MUSIC/SCORE: T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, "Crazy Heart"

Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, "Fantastic Mr. Fox"

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Philip Ivey, "District 9"

Runner-up: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, "Avatar"

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christian Berger, "The White Ribbon"

Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd, "The Hurt Locker"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo'Nique, "Precious"

Runner-up: Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Runner-up: Peter Capaldi, "In the Loop"

SCREENPLAY: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

Runner-up: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, "In the Loop"

DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: "The Beaches of Agnès" and "The Cove" (tie)

DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom, "The Anchorage"

Supposedly this group is the forerunner for all the big award ceremonies, so congrats to Christoph Waltz, who pretty much looks like he has it in the bag.

Is it me, or do the big conglomerate awards like when someone speaks another language in a movie? Didn't Penelope Cruz win last year for her half English half Spanish deal in a movie last year or year before?

AND, this is only half the list. The rest come out later today. Plus two other 'groups' of some kind of highly regarded and respected critics will be giving out awards today. AFI and New York Film Critics Online.

There are people out there who think Christoph should be nominated as best actor, so that Michael can have a chance at best supporting actor.

Again, it's that whole, who is really the lead and supporting actor. At least next year, Michael will be working on lead acting, instead of supporting.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012693.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Posted: Mon., Dec. 14, 2009, 2:30am PT

BFCA announces its nominees
'Basterds,' 'Nine' each score 10 nods
By STUART LEVINE
'Inglourious Basterds'

Weinstein Co. pics "Inglourious Basterds" and "Nine" each scored 10 nominations and will lead the charge at the upcoming Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.

Chosen by the Broadcast Film Critics Assn., both films were also selected for best picture along with "Avatar," "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Invictus," "Precious," "A Serious Man," "Up" and "Up in the Air."

In the lead actor race, noms were handed out to Jeff Bridges for "Crazy Heart," George Clooney for "Up in the Air," Colin Firth for "A Single Man," Morgan Freeman for "Invictus," Viggo Mortensen for "The Road" and Jeremy Renner for "The Hurt Locker."

On the distaff side, lead actresses selected were Emily Blunt in "The Young Victoria," Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side," Carey Mulligan in "An Education," Saoirse Ronan in "The Lovely Bones," Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious" and Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia."

Directors tabbed were Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker," James Cameron for "Avatar," Lee Daniels for "Precious," Clint Eastwood for "Invictus," Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air" and Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds."

The org historically selects six noms for many of the major categories.

Following the 10 noms each for "Inglorious Basterds" and "Nine," "Avatar" — Cameron’s $300-plus million sci-fi epic from 20th Century Fox that opens Friday — landed nine noms.

The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards was, so far, the best kudo showing for Rob Marshall’s "Nine," which failed to make the American Film Institute top 10 list announced Sunday. Also from the film, Marion Cotillard was nominated for supporting actress, even though the Weinstein Co. has been pushing her in the lead category for the Oscar race. Academy Award voters are allowed to choose whatever category they think is most appropriate.

Sunday was a good day for "The Hurt Locker," which also picked up top pic prizes from the Los Angeles and Boston film critics. Bigelow was selected as best helmer by both groups as well.

The BFCA have revamped this year’s awards show. Org changed the name of its kudocast to the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and moved the venue from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to the Hollywood Palladium. In addition, they added eight categories to make it more similar to the Oscars.

Show, hosted by Kristin Chenoweth, airs at 9 p.m. Jan. 15 and is currently in the final year of a pact with VH1. Cabler and sister net MTV simulcast red carpet coverage prior to the telecast.

Last year the BFCA was in line with the Oscars as both tabbed "Slumdog Millionaire" as top pic, as well director Danny Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy.

BFCA is made up of 235 members representing TV, radio and online.

And the nominees are:

BEST PICTURE
"Avatar"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Invictus"
"Nine"
"Precious"
"A Serious Man"
"Up"
"Up In The Air"

BEST ACTOR
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
Emily Blunt - "The Young Victoria"
Sandra Bullock - "The Blind Side"
Carey Mulligan - "An Education"
Saoirse Ronan - "The Lovely Bones"
Gabourey Sidibe - "Precious"
Meryl Streep - "Julie & Julia"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon - "Invictus"
Woody Harrelson - "The Messenger"
Christian McKay - "Me And Orson Welles"
Alfred Molina - "An Education"
Stanley Tucci - "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz - "Inglourious Basterds"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard - "Nine"
Vera Farmiga - "Up In The Air"
Anna Kendrick - "Up In The Air"
Mo’Nique - "Precious"
Julianne Moore - "A Single Man"
Samantha Morton - "The Messenger"

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jae Head - "The Blind Side"
Bailee Madison - "Brothers"
Max Records - "Where The Wild Things Are"
Saoirse Ronan - "The Lovely Bones"
Kodi Smit-McPhee - "The Road"

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Nine"
"Precious"
"Star Trek"
"Up in the Air"

BEST DIRECTING
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
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"
Quentin Tarantino - "Inglourious Basterds"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
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"
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - "Up In The Air"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd - "The Hurt Locker"
Dion Beebe - "Nine"
Mauro Fiore - "Avatar"
Andrew Lesnie - "The Lovely Bones"
Robert Richardson - "Inglourious Basterds"

BEST ART DIRECTION
Dan Bishop - "A Single Man"
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg - "Avatar"
John Myhre, Gordon Sim - "Nine"
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. - "The Lovely Bones"
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco - "Inglourious Basterds"

BEST EDITING
Dana E. Glauberman - "Up In The Air"
Sally Menke - "Inglourious Basterds"
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis - "The Hurt Locker"
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron - "Avatar"
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith - "Nine"

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood - "Nine"
Janet Patterson - "Bright Star"
Sandy Powell - "The Young Victoria"
Anna Sheppard - "Inglourious Basterds"
Casey Storm - "Where The Wild Things Are"

BEST MAKEUP
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"Nine"
"The Road"
"Star Trek"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"The Lovely Bones"
"Star Trek"
"2012"

BEST SOUND
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Nine"
"Star Trek"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs"
"Coraline"
"Fantastic Mr. Fox"
"Princess And The Frog"
"Up"

BEST ACTION MOVIE
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Star Trek

BEST COMEDY
"(500) Days Of Summer"
"The Hangover"
"It’s Complicated"
"The Proposal"
"Zombieland"

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
"Gifted Hands"
"Grey Gardens"
"Into The Storm"
"Taking Chance"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Broken Embraces"
"Coco Before Chanel"
"Red Cliff"
"Sin Nombre"
"The White Ribbon"

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Anvil"
"Capitalism: A Love Story"
"The Cove"
"Food, Inc."
"Michael Jackson’s This Is It"

BEST SONG
"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"
"The Weary Kind" - T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham - "Crazy Heart"

BEST SCORE
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"

Golden Globes will be on Sunday, Jan 17, 2010

http://www.goldenglobes.org/news/id/159

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards NOMINATIONS

HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION
2010 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009

NOMINATIONS PRESS RELEASE
1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

1. AVATAR
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
2. THE HURT LOCKER
Voltage Pictures; Summit Entertainment
3. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg GmbH Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures
4. PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production;
Lionsgate
5. UP IN THE AIR
Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures

2. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

1. EMILY BLUNT
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
2. SANDRA BULLOCK
THE BLIND SIDE
3. HELEN MIRREN
THE LAST STATION
4. CAREY MULLIGAN
AN EDUCATION
5. GABOUREY SIDIBE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

1. JEFF BRIDGES
CRAZY HEART
2. GEORGE CLOONEY
UP IN THE AIR
3. COLIN FIRTH
A SINGLE MAN
4. MORGAN FREEMAN
INVICTUS
5. TOBEY MAGUIRE
BROTHERS

4. BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

1. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER
Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures
2. THE HANGOVER
Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
3. IT’S COMPLICATED
Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures
4. JULIE & JULIA
Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing
5. NINE
The Weinstein Company/Relativity Media/Lucamar Productions/Marc Platt Productions; The Weinstein Company

5. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR
MUSICAL

1. SANDRA BULLOCK
THE PROPOSAL
2. MARION COTILLARD
NINE
3. JULIA ROBERTS
DUPLICITY
4. MERYL STREEP
IT’S COMPLICATED
5. MERYL STREEP
JULIE & JULIA

6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY
OR MUSICAL

1. MATT DAMON
THE INFORMANT!
2. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
NINE
3. ROBERT DOWNEY JR
SHERLOCK HOLMES
4. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
5. MICHAEL STUHLBARG
A SERIOUS MAN

7. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

1. CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing
2. CORALINE
Laika, Inc.; Focus Features
3. FANTASTIC MR. FOX
American Empirical Picture; Twentieth Century Fox
4. THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
5. UP
Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

8. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

1. BAARIA (ITALY)
Medusa Film; Summit Entertainment
2. BROKEN EMBRACES (SPAIN)
El Deseo SA; Sony Pictures Classics
3. THE MAID (CHILE)
(LA NANA)
Forastero; Elephant Eye Films
4. A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) (FRANCE)
Chic Films/Page 114/Why Not Productions; Sony Pictures Classics
5. THE WHITE RIBBON (GERMANY)
(DAS WEISSE BAND – EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE)
X Filme Creative Pool/Les Films Du Losange/Lucky Red; Sony Pictures Classics

9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
MOTION PICTURE

1. PENÉLOPE CRUZ
NINE
2. VERA FARMIGA
UP IN THE AIR
3. ANNA KENDRICK
UP IN THE AIR
4. MO’NIQUE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
5. JULIANNE MOORE
A SINGLE MAN

10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
MOTION PICTURE

1. MATT DAMON
INVICTUS
2. WOODY HARRELSON
THE MESSENGER
3. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
THE LAST STATION
4. STANLEY TUCCI
THE LOVELY BONES
5. CHRISTOPH WALTZ
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE

1. KATHRYN BIGELOW
THE HURT LOCKER
2. JAMES CAMERON
AVATAR
3. CLINT EASTWOOD
INVICTUS
4. JASON REITMAN
UP IN THE AIR
5. QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE

1. NEILL BLOMKAMP, TERRI TATCHELL
DISTRICT 9
2. MARK BOAL
THE HURT LOCKER
3. NANCY MEYERS
IT'S COMPLICATED
4. JASON REITMAN, SHELDON TURNER
UP IN THE AIR
5. QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE

1. MICHAEL GIACCHINO
UP
2. MARVIN HAMLISCH
THE INFORMANT!
3. JAMES HORNER
AVATAR
4. ABEL KORZENIOWSKI
A SINGLE MAN
5. KAREN O, CARTER BURWELL
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE

1. “CINEMA ITALIANO” — NINE
Music & Lyrics by: Maury Yeston
2. “I WANT TO COME HOME” — EVERYBODY'S FINE
Music & Lyrics by: Paul McCartney
3. “I SEE YOU” — AVATAR
Music by: James Horner, Simon Franglen
Lyrics by: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell
4. “THE WEARY KIND (THEME FROM CRAZY HEART)” — CRAZY HEART
Music & Lyrics by: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
5. “WINTER” — BROTHERS
Music by: U2
Lyrics by: Bono

15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

1. BIG LOVE (HBO)
Anima Sola Productions and Playtone in association with HBO Entertainment
2. DEXTER (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
3. HOUSE (FOX)
Universal Media Studios in association with Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry
4. MAD MEN (AMC)
AMC
5. TRUE BLOOD (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment

16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
DRAMA

1. GLENN CLOSE
DAMAGES
2. JANUARY JONES
MAD MEN
3. JULIANNA MARGULIES
THE GOOD WIFE
4. ANNA PAQUIN
TRUE BLOOD
5. KYRA SEDGWICK
THE CLOSER

17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

1. SIMON BAKER
THE MENTALIST
2. MICHAEL C. HALL
DEXTER
3. JON HAMM
MAD MEN
4. HUGH LAURIE
HOUSE
5. BILL PAXTON
BIG LOVE

18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

1. 30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
2. ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
3. GLEE (FOX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
4. MODERN FAMILY (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
5. THE OFFICE (NBC)
Universal Media Studios, Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC

19. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL

1. TONI COLLETTE
UNITED STATES OF TARA
2. COURTENEY COX
COUGAR TOWN
3. EDIE FALCO
NURSE JACKIE
4. TINA FEY
30 ROCK
5. LEA MICHELE
GLEE

20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL

1. ALEC BALDWIN
30 ROCK
2. STEVE CARELL
THE OFFICE
3. DAVID DUCHOVNY
CALIFORNICATION
4. THOMAS JANE
HUNG
5. MATTHEW MORRISON
GLEE

21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

1. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (LIFETIME TELEVISION)
Sony Pictures Television
2. GREY GARDENS (HBO)
Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films
3. INTO THE STORM (HBO)
Scott Free and Rainmark Films Production in association with the BBC and HBO Films
4. LITTLE DORRIT (PBS)
Masterpiece/BBC Co-production
5. TAKING CHANCE (HBO)
Motion Picture Corporation of America and Civil Dawn Pictures in association with HBO Films

22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

1. JOAN ALLEN
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
2. DREW BARRYMORE
GREY GARDENS
3. JESSICA LANGE
GREY GARDENS
4. ANNA PAQUIN
THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER
5. SIGOURNEY WEAVER
PRAYERS FOR BOBBY

23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

1. KEVIN BACON
TAKING CHANCE
2. KENNETH BRANAGH
WALLANDER: ONE STEP BEHIND
3. CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
ENDGAME
4. BRENDAN GLEESON
INTO THE STORM
5. JEREMY IRONS
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

1. JANE ADAMS
HUNG
2. ROSE BYRNE
DAMAGES
3. JANE LYNCH
GLEE
4. JANET McTEER
INTO THE STORM
5. CHLOË SEVIGNY
BIG LOVE

25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES,
MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

1. MICHAEL EMERSON
LOST
2. NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
3. WILLIAM HURT
DAMAGES
4. JOHN LITHGOW
DEXTER
5. JEREMY PIVEN
ENTOURAGE

SCREEN GUILD AWARDS

http://www.killerfilm.com/articles/read/screen-actors-guild-nominations-are-out-20923

Screen Actors Guild nominations are out
Submitted by Melissa Molina on December 17, 2009 – 10:34 am

Even though the Golden Globe nominations were announced earlier this week does not mean that this is the last of the nomination announcements were going to be seeing. The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be going underway this January 23rd, 2010, and what better way to remind you than releasing the nomination list.

From movies to television, all the way to stuntmen, SAG certainly is following suit on a lot of the similar nominations that were already made with the Golden Globes in the feature film category. Though the both do differ in ways through television, which list do you prefer more? Here it is right for you all to look at below.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)
* George Clooney – Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures)
* Colin Firth – A Single Man (The Weinstein Company)
* Morgan Freeman – Invictus (Warner Bros Pictures)
* Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

* Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side (Warner Bros Pictures)
* Helen Mirren – The Last Station (Sony Pictures Classic)
* Carey Mulligan – An Education (Sony Pictures Classic)
* Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
* Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (Columbia Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

* Matt Damon – Invictus (Warner Bros Pictures)
* Woody Harrelson – The Messenger (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
* Christopher Plummer – The Last Station (Sony Pictures Classic)
* Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones (Paramount Pictures)
* Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

* Penelope Cruz – Nine (The Weinstein Company)
* Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures)
* Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures)
* Diane Kruger – Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)
* Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

* An Education (Sony Pictures Classic) – Dominic Cooper, Alfred Molina, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams
* The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) – Chrisitian Camargo, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner
* Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures) – Daniel Bruhl, August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Michael Fassbender, Slyvester Groth, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Denis Menochet, Mike Myers, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Til Scweiger, Rod Taylor, Christoph Waltz, Martin Wukke
* Nine (The Weinstein Company) – Penelope Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren
* Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate) – Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd, Gabourey Sidibe

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series

* Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance (HBO)
* Cuba Gooding Jr. – Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (TNT)
* Jeremy Irons – Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
* Kevin Kline – Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac (PBS)
* Tom Wilkinson – A Number (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series

* Joan Allen – Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime)
* Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens (HBO)
* Ruby Dee – America (Lifetime)
* Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens (HBO)
* Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby (Lifetime)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

* Simon Baker - The Mentalist (CBS)
* Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad (AMC)
* Michael C. Hall – Dexter (Showtime)
* Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
* Hugh Laurie – House (Fox)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

* Patricia Arquette – Medium (NBC/CBS)
* Glenn Close – Damages (FX)
* Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC)
* Holly Hunter – Saving Grace (TNT)
* Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

* Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
* Steve Carrell – The Office (NBC)
* Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
* Tony Shaloub – Monk (USA Network)
* Charlie Sheen – Two and a Half Men (CBS)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

* Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? (ABC)
* Toni Collette – United States of Tara (Showtime)
* Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie (Showtime)
* Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
* Julia Louis-Dreyfus – The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)

Oustanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

* The Closer (TNT) – G.W. Bailey, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Tony Denison, Robert Gossett, Phillip P. Keene, Corey Reynolds, Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Tenney
* Dexter (Showtime) – Preston Bailey, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Courtney Ford, Michael C. Hall, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, John Lithgow, Rick Peters, James Remar, Christina Robinson, Lauren Velez, David Zayas
* The Good Wife (CBS) – Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry, Julianna Margulies, Archie Panjabi, Graham Phillips, MacKenzie Vega
* Mad Men (AMC) – Alexa Alemanni, Bryan Batt, Jared S. Gilmore, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Jared Harris, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, Elisabeth Moss, Kiernan Shipka, John Slattery, Rich Sommer, Christopher Stanley, Aaron Staton
* True Blood (HBO) – Chris Bauer, Mehcad Brooks, Anna Camp, Nelsan Ellis, Michelle Forbes, Mariana Klaveno, Ryan Kwanten, Todd Lowe, Michael McMillian, Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, William Sanderson, Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Deborah Ann Woll

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

* 30 Rock (NBC) – Scott Adsit, Alec Baldwin, Katrina Bowden, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Tina Fey, Judah Friedlander, Jane Krakowski, John Lutz, Jack McBrayer, Tracy Morgan, Keith Powell
* Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO) – Larry David, Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines
* Glee (Fox) – Diana Argon, Chris Colfer, Patrick Gallagher, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Harry Shum Jr., Josh Sussman, Dijon Talton, Iqbal Theba, Jenna Ushkowitz
* Modern Family (ABC) – Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ed O’Neill, Rico Rodriguez, Eric Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter
* The Office (NBC) – Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Creed Bratton, Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, Kate Flannery, Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, Ellie Kemper, Angela Kinsey, John Krasinski, Paul Lieberstein, B.J. Novak, Oscar Nunez, Craig Robinson, Phyllis Smith, Rainn Wilson

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

* Public Enemies (Universal Pictures)
* Star Trek (Paramount Pictures)
* Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series

* 24 (Fox)
* The Closer (TNT)
* Dexter (Showtime)
* Heroes (NBC)
* The Unit (CBS)

Screen Actors Guild 46th Lifetime Achievement Award

* Betty White

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More Critics Kudos for 'Basterds,' 'Locker'
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By Steve Pond
Published: December 22, 2009

Another day, another batch of critics groups giving awards. This time it’s the St. Lous Film Critics Association, the Phoenix Film Critics Society, and the London Film Critics Circle.

The St. Louis group, which offered some surprising choices when it released its list of nominees last week, played it a little safer with the winners:

Best Film: “Up in the Air”

Runner-Up: “The Hurt Locker”
Best Actor: George Clooney in “Up in the Air”

Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt in “Big Fan”
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
 (right)
Runner-Up: Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious”
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in “Inglorious Basterds”

Runner-up: Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique in “Precious”

Runner-Up: Marion Cotillard in “Nine”
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow in “The Hurt Locker”

Runners-Up (tie): Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air” and Quentin Tarantino for ‘Inglourious Basterds”
Best Screenplay: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for ‘(500) Days of Summer”

Runner-Up: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air”
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe for “Nine”

Runner-Up: Eduard Grau for “A Single Man”
Best Music: “Nine”

Runner-Up: “Crazy Heart”
Best Visual Effects: “Avatar”

Runner-Up: “Where the Wild Things Are”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Red Cliff”
Runner-Up: “Treeless Mountain”
Best Documentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story”

Runner-Up: “Anvil! The Story of Anvil”
Best Animated Film: “Up”

Runner-Up: “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Best Comedy: “The Hangover”

Runner-Up: “(500) Days of Summer”
Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film: “Avatar”

Runner-Up (tie): “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “(500) Days of Summer”
Favorite Scene: “Up” – the four-minute marriage montage
Runner-Up: “Inglourious Basterds” – the opening farmhouse scene

Not to be outdone, the Phoenix Film Critics Society opted for crowd-pleasers: “Inglourious Basterds” won best picture, while “Sherlock Holmes” made its first appearance on a critics’ group’s top 10 list.

Best Picture: “
Inglourious Basterds”

Top Ten Films of 2009 (in alphabetical order)
:
“Avatar”
“
District 9”
“
(500) Days of Summer
”
“The Hurt Locker”
“
Inglourious Basterds” (left)
“
Precious”
“
Sherlock Holmes”
“
Star Trek”
“
Up”
“
Up In The Air”

Best Director: Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role: 
George Clooney, “Up In The Air”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role: 
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: 
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: 
Mo’Nique, “Precious”
Best Acting Ensemble:
 “Inglourious Basterds”
Best screenplay written directly for the screen: “
Up”
Best screenplay adapted from another medium: “
Up In The Air”
Best Live Action Family Film: “
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince”
Overlooked Film: “Moon”
Best Animated Film: “Up”
Best Foreign Language Film: “
Broken Embraces”
Best Documentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story”
Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”
Best Original Score: “
Up”
Best Cinematography: “Avatar”
Best Film Editing: “Avatar”
Best Production Design: “Avatar”
Best Costume Design: “The Young Victoria”
Best Visual Effects: “
Avatar”
Best Stunts: “
Star Trek”
Breakout on Camera: Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”
Breakout Behind the Camera: 
Neill Blomkamp, “District 9”
Best Performance by a Youth – Male: Jae Head, “The Blind Side”
Best Performance by a Youth – Female: 
Saoirse Ronan, “The Lovely Bones”

In London, meanwhile, the critics offered their nominations, not winners – though in honor of their group’s 30th anniversary, they did throw in a list of the 10 best winners over the years.

Film of the Year:
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“A Prophet”
“The White Ribbon”
“Up in the Air”

The Attenborough Award: British Film of the Year:
“Bright Star”
“An Education”
“Fish Tank”
“In the Loop” (right)
“Moon”

Foreign Language Film of the Year:
“The Class”
“Katyn”
“Let the Right One In”
“A Prophet”
“The White Ribbon”

Director of the Year:
Jacques Audiard – “A Prophet”
Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron – “Avatar”
Michael Haneke – “The White Ribbon
”
Jason Reitman – “Up in the Air”

British Director of the Year:
Andrea Arnold – “Fish Tank”
Armando Iannucci – “In the Loop”
Duncan Jones – “Moon
”
Kevin Macdonald – “State of Play”
Sam Taylor-Wood – “Nowhere Boy”

Actor of the Year:
Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart
”
George Clooney – “Up in the Air”
Tahar Rahim – “A Prophet”
Michael Stuhlbarg – “A Serious Man
”
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress of the Year:
Abbie Cornish – “Bright Star”
Vera Farmiga – “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique – “Precious”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia

British Actor of the Year:
Peter Capaldi – “In the Loop”
Colin Firth – “A Single Man
”
Tom Hardy – “Bronson”
Christian MacKay – “Me and Orson Welles”
Andy Serkis – “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”

British Actress of the Year:
Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria”
Helen Mirren – “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Katie Jarvis – “Fish Tank”
Kristin Scott Thomas – “Nowhere Boy”

British Actor in a Supporting Role:
Michael Fassbender – “Fish Tank”
John Hurt – “44 Inch Chest”
Jason Isaacs – “Good”
Alfred Molina – “An Education”
Timothy Spall – “The Damned United”

British Actress in a Supporting Role:
Emily Blunt – “Sunshine Cleaning”
Anne-Marie Duff – “Nowhere Boy”
Rosamund Pike – “An Education”
Kierston Wareing – “Fish Tank”
Olivia Williams – “An Education”

Screenwriter of the Year:
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche – “In the Loop”
Thomas Bidegain & Jacques Audiard – “A Prophet”
Joel & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”

Michael Haneke – “The White Ribbon”
Nick Hornby – “An Education”

The NSPCC Award: Young British Performer of the Year:
Katie Jarvis – “Fish Tank”
Aaron Johnson – “Nowhere Boy” and “Dummy”
George MacKay – “The Boys Are Back”
Bill Milner – “Is Anybody There?” and “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”

Breakthrough British Film-Maker:
Daniel Barber – “Harry Brown
”
Armando Ianucci – “In the Loop”
Duncan Jones – “Moon”
Peter Strickland – “Katalin Varga”
Sam Taylor-Wood – “Nowhere Boy”

Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Cinema:
Quentin Tarantino

30TH Anniversary Award: Best of our Winners Since 1980:
1. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1980)

2. “Schindler’s List” (Steven Spielberg, 1994)
3. “The Lives of Others” (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2007)
4. “Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
5. “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)

6. “Cinema Paradiso” (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1990)

7. “ L.A. Confidential” (Curtis Hanson, 1997)
8. “Fargo” (Joel Coen, 1996)

9. “ Distant Voices, Still Lives” (Terence Davies, 1989)

10. “The King of Comedy” (Martin Scorsese, 1983)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2009
1. Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)


2. Peter Capaldi (In the Loop)


3. Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen)


They say, a hero is only as good as his villain. Well, then we’ve seen some damn good heroes. For the third year in a row, my pick for best supporting actor goes to the bad guy. Javier Bardem’s stone-cold Anton Chigurh, Heath Ledger’s maniacal Joker, and now we have Christoph Waltz’s Col. Hans Landa. Waltz manages to be charming and chilling at the same time. Tarantino has emphatically stated that if he didn’t find the right actor, Inglourious Basterds would have never happened. Waltz gave QT his film back and we thank him for it.

Peter Capaldi’s ill-tempered, foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker originally appeared in the BBC series The Thick of It. He reprises that role in the spin-off In the Loop, spewing venom at any unlucky sod within earshot. Who would have thought that Kelly from Bad News Bears would grow up to become such a ruthless badass? Jackie Earle Haley absolutely nails the role of the disturbed vigilante, Rorschach.

Honorable Mentions: Alfred Molina (An Education), Karl Urban (Star Trek), Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Robert Duvall (Crazy Heart, The Road), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)

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List of 82nd annual Academy Award nominations (AP)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:55:00 AM PT, Associated Press 455 comments

Complete list of 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:

1. Best Picture: "Avatar," "The Blind Side," "District 9," "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "A Serious Man," "Up," "Up in the Air."

2. Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"; George Clooney, "Up in the Air"; Colin Firth, "A Single Man"; Morgan Freeman, "Invictus"; Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker."

3. Actress: Sandra Bullock, "The Blind Side"; Helen Mirren, "The Last Station"; Carey Mulligan, "An Education"; Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire"; Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia."

4. Supporting Actor: Matt Damon, "Invictus"; Woody Harrelson, "The Messenger"; Christopher Plummer, "The Last Station"; Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"; Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds."

5. Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, "Nine"; Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"; Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Crazy Heart"; Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"; Mo'Nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

6. Directing: James Cameron, "Avatar"; Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"; Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"; Lee Daniels, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"; Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air."

7. Foreign Language Film: "Ajami," Israel; "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Argentina; "The Milk of Sorrow," Peru; "Un Prophete," France; "The White Ribbon," Germany.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, "District 9"; Nick Hornby, "An Education"; Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, "In the Loop"; Geoffrey Fletcher, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"; Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, "Up in the Air."

9. Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, "The Hurt Locker"; Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"; Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, "The Messenger"; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "A Serious Man"; Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, "Up."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Coraline"; "Fantastic Mr. Fox"; "The Princess and the Frog"; "The Secret of Kells"; "Up."

11. Art Direction: "Avatar," "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," "Nine," "Sherlock Holmes," "The Young Victoria."

12. Cinematography: "Avatar," "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "The White Ribbon."

13. Sound Mixing: "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Star Trek," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

14. Sound Editing: "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Star Trek," "Up."

15. Original Score: "Avatar," James Horner; "Fantastic Mr. Fox," Alexandre Desplat; "The Hurt Locker," Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders; "Sherlock Holmes," Hans Zimmer; "Up," Michael Giacchino.

16. Original Song: "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog," Randy Newman; "Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog," Randy Newman; "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36," Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas; "Take It All" from "Nine," Maury Yeston; "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart," Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.

17. Costume: "Bright Star," "Coco Before Chanel," "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," "Nine," "The Young Victoria."

18. Documentary Feature: "Burma VJ," "The Cove," "Food, Inc." "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers," "Which Way Home."

19. Documentary (short subject): "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province," "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner," "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant," "Music by Prudence," "Rabbit a la Berlin."

20. Film Editing: "Avatar," "District 9," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

21. Makeup: "Il Divo," "Star Trek," "The Young Victoria."

22. Animated Short Film: "French Roast," "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty," "The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)," "Logorama," "A Matter of Loaf and Death."

23. Live Action Short Film: "The Door," "Instead of Abracadabra," "Kavi," "Miracle Fish," "The New Tenants."

24. Visual Effects: "Avatar," "District 9," "Star Trek."

We're pretty sure that Christoph is going to win. Michael wasn't nominated for anything, and may not even be there, although I don't know what he'd be doing, since he's not up for anything until April after filming in Dublin this month. Don't know if the Academy will ask Michael to present anything. We'll have to see.

Bummed that Michael's not nominated for anything this year, but kind of relieved too. Don't know if I'll watch only because I'm not fond of Avatar, and think it might win most of the awards...if it wasn't in the running, Basterds could have won a lot more.

Hopefully when Jane Eyre and The Talking Cure come out, there will be more awards for Michael.

good luck

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2010 Calvin Awards: Best Cast
February 9, 2010
When the world finds out their political affiliation, all of their careers are over.

This year, our runaway winners for Best Cast are the actors in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, which relies heavily on its ensemble cast to both drive the action and to believably perform the dialogue-heavy screenplay. Just consider the fact that some of the character names in the film are instantly memorable – Lt. Aldo Raine, Col. Hans Landa, The Bear Jew, Hugo Stiglitz and Bridget von Hammersmark. Without the solid work from Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger and Diane Kruger, none of that would be possible. And that doesn't even account for additional great acting turns from Melanie Laurent, Daniel Bruhl, Michael Fassbender and Martin Wuttke. Both the Basterds and the Nazis were fully brought to life on the big screen, and even though we know who the good guys are, we're repulsed by their actions, too. Yet, we still root for them, and it's a credit to the cast that we do.

Second place goes to the gang from The Hangover, as they completely delivered on the promise that a great premise offered. The main trio of Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms kept us cracking up throughout the movie, while Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Mike Epps and yes, Mike Tyson all added their own personalities to the proceedings. With Cooper playing a guy who's more complex than he seems, Galifianakis portraying a guy who we ought to hate but don't and Helms filling in as the every-dude, there was someone any audience member could relate to. Bring on the sequel!

Next up is The Hurt Locker in third place, as key performances from Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty put us in the center of action in Iraq. We suffer with them and we boggle at the audacity of Renner's Sergeant William James as he eagerly risks his life as well as that of his team. There are also appearances in the film by Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes and David Morse, and I can promise you that there is nothing expected or ordinary about any of them.

It's a little tougher for a small cast to break through in this category, but Up in the Air does so nonetheless. George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick are simply marvelous in the film, and deserve all the accolades they are receiving. Clooney has never been so vulnerable, Farmiga feels like someone who might be a friend, co-worker or neighbor, and Kendrick proves that the horrible acting in the Twilight series might not be a function of the talent involved in the films. Jason Bateman co-stars as a dorky, waffling boss, and director Jason Reitman also used a variety of people who had actually lost their jobs to play people about to be fired. It makes for a powerful film that feels somehow both timeless and relevant to current events.

Slotting in a fifth place is a movie with a massive cast that had a heavy-duty task on its hands. Most of the actors in Star Trek had to reprise roles that are already considered practically archetypal, and they were happily more than up to the challenge. Chris Pine transformed James T. Kirk to a new man of action for our time, while Zachary Quinto effortlessly slipped into the skin of Spock. Karl Urban might have been the best of all in the film as the wisecracking Dr. McCoy, and John Cho and Anton Yelchin breathed new life into Chekov and Sulu. Zoe Saldana, who had a banner year, made Uhura smart and vulnerable at the same time, while BOP fave Simon Pegg became Scotty. Eric Bana was a solid villain, and Leonard Nimoy even appeared as Spock Prime (from a different timeline). What a credit to all these performers that Trekkers and non-fans alike were thrilled with the results.

Sixth and seventh go to very, very different movies in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Precious has a strong ensemble cast that surprises with the depth of emotion they portray. Newcomer Gabourey Sidibe has turned heads with her portrayal of the title character, and people are wondering where the Mo'Nique in this movie came from (certainly not Soul Plane!). Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and even Lenny Kravitz are all driving forces behind the film's success. Harry Potter 6 has an even bigger cast to keep all its moving parts flowing, with series stalwarts Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton really growing into their roles. Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Robbie Coltrane continue their solid work, and Jim Broadbent as Slughorn and Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood are simply marvelous. Special notice should also go to Jessie Cave, who is hilarious as Lavender Brown.

We close out the top ten with State of Play, In the Loop and Zombieland. For State of Play, Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck play the key characters, but the support they receive from Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman (again!) and Jeff Daniels brings the movie to something several notches above standard thriller fare. There are no true "lead performers" in In the Loop, so the sum of its parts had to be pretty spectacular. Led by a phenomenal turn by Peter Capaldi, the movie also has solid acting from Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Mimi Kennedy, David Rasche and Paul Higgins. Finally, Zombieland leaves us lost in admiration for the work of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin (not to mention the appearance by a certain actor we won't spoil).

Casts who just missed the top ten include Fantastic Mr. Fox, Away We Go, Avatar, Funny People and the Brothers Bloom. (Kim Hollis/BOP)

Best Album
Best Cast
Best DVD
Best Scene
Best TV Show
Best Use of Music
Best Videogame

Top 10
Position Film Total Points
1 Inglourious Basterds 106
2 The Hangover 84
3 The Hurt Locker 78
4 Up in the Air 71
5 Star Trek 68
6 Precious 47
7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 46
8 State of Play 42
9 In the Loop 39
10 Zombieland 37

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Tarantino’s ‘Basterds’: An Oscar Surprise Thanks to SAG Award?
By: Roger Friedman // Thursday February 18, 2010

Tarantinos Basterds: An Oscar Surprise Thanks to SAG Award? Could Quentin Tarantino’s self described “masterpiece” be the upset winner at the Academy Awards?

Suddenly, the “Inglourious Basterds” are surfing a tidal wave to the March 7 ceremonies at the Kodak Theater.

“Basterds” won the SAG Award for best ensemble cast. Screen Actors Guild voters make up the majority of the Academy. “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Crash,” “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,” Chicago” and “No Country for Old Men” all went from the SAG Award to the Oscar for best picture. Think back to when “Crash” beat “Brokeback Mountain.” SAG has proven to be a an accurate weather vane.

I told you this might happen. Voters tire of front runners. “Avatar” — despite its technological advances — is not warmly received by Academy members. “The Hurt Locker” has been out there a long time and has many admirers (myself included).
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But “Basterds” seems to be a guilty pleasure, especially among Academy voters. It has two things pulling it forward, also: Tarantino, who’s never won an Oscar but has rabid fans. And Christoph Waltz, who’s a cinch to win best supporting actor for his portrayal of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Waltz is Austrian, but what makes his whole Cinderella story so amazing is that his children are Jewish thanks to his first marriage. His son is studying to be a rabbi. Talk about poetic justice!

There seems to be no question that Kathryn Bigelow and “The Hurt Locker” are on a roll. But there’s also an issue that few people have seen the Iraq war movie. Whereas “Basterds” took in over $120 million at the boxoffice. It’s also a war fable, with inspired madness from a terrific cast including Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger and Michael Fassbender.

One sign of things to come: that lunch last week in Hollywood. Warren Beatty, Ron Howard, and other big names turned out to support Tarantino.There were a lot of places those people might have broken bread that day, but they’re voters, and they wanted to be seen there. I’m just sayin’…

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Friday, February 19, 2010
Muriel Award: Best Ensemble

Inglourious Basterds [123/18]

“If we look to Merriam Webster for a definition of “ensemble,” we discover that the primary meaning is that of “a group producing a single effect” and that the term is also defined as “a group of supporting players, singers, or dancers.” When one thinks of the ensemble cast that has won so much acclaim, including a Screen Actors Guild award for Best Ensemble Cast, for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, one could hardly be faulted for conjuring images of Brad Pitt as the leathery Lt. Aldo “the Apache” Raine, or Christoph Waltz as the intellectually cunning and fatally charming Col. Hans Landa, “the Jew Hunter,” or Melanie Laurent as Shoshanna Dreyfus a.k.a. Emmanuelle Mimeux, driven by a lust for revenge on the biggest screen of all, or Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark, convinced that her luscious persona as a famous German actress can get her in and out of the most dangerous scenarios, or even Eli Roth as Donny “the Bear Jew” Donowitz, going yard on Nazi craniums all across the European theater of war.

For as much ink as has been spilled about Tarantino’s expansively outrageous vision of World War II and Jewish revenge and the director’s increasingly expressive grasp of his medium, try to imagine the cumulative effect of the movie had it not begun by being so expertly cast. The five actors mentioned above, in that they have effectively become the face of Inglourious Basterds (when their director steps out of the spotlight himself, of course), are generally what is thought of when words of praise regarding that great ensemble cast come flowing out of the pens and off of the keyboards of writers during this award season. And I would never contest the accuracy or the effusiveness of that praise; it is well deserved (yes, even by Eli Roth).

But I don’t think that praise often goes far enough. That is, as important as Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent are to the emotional landscape of Basterds, the movie is rightly teeming with actors in smaller parts who, were their impression not just as precisely pitch-perfect and of a piece with the overriding inspiration drawn from Tarantino’s writing, the movie could have fatally faltered in any number of individual moments right up through its literally inflammatory ending. A major part of the glory of Inglourious Basterds is found in the absolute rightness of everyone in the cast, down to the slightest and most incremental of roles.

And so, with that in mind, as we salute the ensemble cast of Inglorious Basterds, I’d like to just take a moment to remember that the real ensemble extends far beyond those five or so well-known faces so richly caricatured in the painting that makes up the movie’s evocative one-sheet art. When we think of this movie’s honored and honorable cast, we shouldn’t forget Denis Menochet as LaPadite, his weary, piercing eyes brimming with rage and defeat as he sits across the table from Landa, matching Waltz’s brilliant linguistic onslaught with the most pregnant of pauses and muted responses, knowing that it is only a matter of time before he’ll be able to protect the family under his feet no longer; Samm Levine as the trigger-happy Pfc. Herschberg, Omar Doom as Pfc. Ulmer, none too convincing in Italian, and B.J. Novak as Pfc. Utivich, taking in Raine’s climactic chess moves against Landa with wide-eyed bemusement; Gedeon Burkhard’s implacable cool as Wilhelm Wicki, the Basterd’s German translator; the stoic squint that means death coming from Til Schweiger’s Hugo Stiglitz; the way that Richard Sammel’s Sgt. Rachtmann turns his pronunciation of “HOOgo SchTIGleetz” into a reptilian vocal sneer, and the mixture of humanity and the steely reserve of arrogant military righteousness in his eyes as he faces the Bear Jew for the first and last time.

There’s also Daniel Bruhl as Pvt. Frederick Zoller, at once caught up in his newfound celebrity and eventually slightly disgusted at the slaughter that has become his memoriam, even as his twisted entitlement leads him to an unexpected fate in the projection booth of Le Gamaar, the sounds of his own death masked by the sniper fire on the soundtrack of Nation’s Pride; the seedy, sentimental hubris of Sebastian Groth’s Josef Goebbels, comingling David O. Selznick and Don Knotts with unexpected subtlety, and brought to tears by Hitler’s rave review; Julie Dreyfus, sublimely beautiful and funny as Goebbels’ imperious multi-lingual interpreter, her air of mysterious, haughty elegance ruptured by a shock cut to a hilariously undignified rear attack by the entirely unworthy Minister of Propaganda; August Diehl, ice in his veins as Major Hellstrom, whose deadened eyes mask his intentions brilliantly in every scene, and whose observation of a gesture inconsistent with German behavior in the brilliantly elongated pub sequence assures the deaths of his opponents, and his own; an almost unrecognizable Rod Taylor, wheezing life into Winston Churchill in a single brief scene; Mike Myers wryly channeling Alan Napier and every other suave British military strategist in the movies, and never quite tipping with delight into sheer caricature in the process, as Colonel Ed Fenech.

Perhaps finest of all is Michael Fassbender as Colonel Archie Hicox, former film critic and current British military infiltrator whose specific knowledge of the German film industry has put him in a unique position to carry out one of two unknowingly intersecting plots against the Nazi high command. Fassbender looks, feels and sounds as if he might have leapt straight out of a Powell-Pressburger creation like The Small Back Room or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, so absolutely spot-on is his entire dashing, slightly arrogant presence and repose as Hicox. One hopes that somewhere in that fertile field of Basterds back stories fermenting in Tarantino’s file cabinet is one devoted entirely to the adventures of this sly, ultimately doomed master of film history and the occasional bit of military espionage. Any director would kill for such a cast as this; and with this ensemble, it is Inglourious Basterds that most certainly kills.” - Dennis Cozzalio

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Hey, Oscar: Inglourious Basterds Is More Movie Than Any Other Movie This Year
By Katey Rich: 2010-02-25 12:59:20

Everyone has the thing that made them first fall in love with Inglourious Basterds-- the milk, the giant pipe, the tilt pan underneath the floorboards-- but for me it all started with the fonts. The opening credits of Quentin Tarantino's gonzo epic boast no fewer than five fonts, from the hand-scrawled and misspelled titles to the Godfather-esque serif for the "guest stars." There no reason for all the changing fonts, no themes explored or artistic expression. It's just something Quentin Tarantino thought was cool.

But as it turns out, all that inconsistency and artistic flourish was a perfect introduction the jangly, spastic energy of Inglourious Basterds, a movie so excited about what it contains that it can't decide how it wants to present itself. Sometimes Samuel L. Jackson is narrating the backstory of a particularly violent character, and sometimes the camera lingers on Hans Landa's immobile face. Sometimes David Bowie's theme from Cat People is the perfect introduction to a movie night during World War II, and sometimes the specific details of where to climb mountains near Paris are enough to get a person killed. Sometimes you feel bad for the young Nazi who wants to get back home to see his son. Sometimes it's just really fun to see Hitler shot in the face.

In other words, Inglourious Basterds is all over the place, like a puppy running in circles because he can't decide whose face to lick first. But because Quentin Tarantino is a genius at sharing his enthusiasms with his audience, the movie's logical gaps and tonal shifts are what make it brilliant instead of infuriating. More than just keeping you guessing, Inglourious Basterds constant;u demands that you re-ground yourself within its wild world, go back to rooting for the Nazi who just strangled the starlet, keep up with the complicated machinations of Operation Kino, figure out where Hans Landa was keeping that pipe anyway. Every detail provides a new opportunity to be mystified and amazed.

It's not like the movie just turned out that way, either. From the moment he divided the film into five chapters Tarantino knew he was making something sprawling and strange, and the very decision to include a caricature like Aldo Raine in the same story as Shosanna Dreyfuss marked a leap away from the traditional. Most movies that feel this crazy and loose get that way unintentionally-- a scene that felt right on the set is jarring in the edit, or one performance fits horribly when paired with another. But Tarantino crafted each of his characters and his scenes with exquisite detail, to the point that each of the chapters could be seen separately and stand on their own. The pub scene is nothing like the introduction of the Basterds is nothing like Shosanna and Frederick Zoller's tense lunch together; all three could come out of different films entirely. But when put together, they're magic.

From the cinematography to the performances to the strudel, Inglourious Basterds is completely stuffed with potential favorites. Sure Christoph Waltz is the actor getting the most attention-- and deservedly so-- but think back to the look on Daniel Bruhl's face when he forces Shosanna back into the projection room, or the way Michael Fassbender says "David O. Selznick," or even Brad Pitt's curled lip. Everyone, in every story, has their moments, from Monsieur LaPadite's shocked compliance with Landa's orders to Marcel's obedient flick of the match and "Oui, Shosanna." These moments reveal the order in the chaos; no movie as disorganized as Inglourious Basterds appears to be on the surface could treat its characters so well.

We give the Oscar for Best Picture for a different reason each year, from the cultural phenomena that simply demand recognition (Titanic, Slumdog Millionaire) to the difficult works of art that somehow struck a chord (No Country for Old Men, Schindler's List). But Inglourious Basterds is the Best Picture in the broadest sense, the movie that contains the most movie of any among the 10. For all its quirks and inconsistencies, it contains all the things movies do best, and specifically American movies. The war film, the revenge thriller, the wartime love story-- all have won Best Picture in the past. Now's the chance to reward a movie that's all of those things and more.