MAIN Art & ... Pop Culture 2010 Critics Choice Awards

Sure, everybody's a critic.

The opinons that pull the most weight, however, are from the 200 film critics that make up the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada.

This year, nominees for best picks in movie acting and directing were announced on December 14, 2009. Leading the nods were the star-packed musical Nine and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds with ten nominations each, followed by James Cameron's Avatar with nine nods. The Hurt Locker and Up in the Air got eight nominations each.

In the recent past, the awards ceremony was taped for later viewing, but in 2010 viewers got the chance to see a live presentation of the 15th edition of the Critics Choice Awards (now officially known as The Critic's Choice Movie Awards) when it aired on Friday, January 15, 2010 from the Hollywood Palladium on VH1.

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Broadcast Film Critics Association - The official site of the Critics Choice Awards featuring complete coverage, lists of nominees and winners, current movie ratings, pictures of red carpet arrivals, association news and background information.

10 Years of Critics' Choice Awards - Archived feature story marking the award's anniversary with photos covering the best highlights, quotable quotes and memorable moments.

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2010 Critics Choice Awards Nominees & * Winners

BEST PICTURE
* The Hurt Locker
Avatar
An Education
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 - TIE
* Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
* Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
* Mauro Fiore – Avatar
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
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
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
Colleen Atwood – Nine
Janet Patterson – Bright Star
Anna Sheppard – Inglourious Basterds
Casey Storm – Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP
* District 9
Avatar
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
* Up
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog

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

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

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

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

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

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