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LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER 13, 2009 – The Hurt Locker was voted Best Picture of the Year, it was announced today by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The runner up was Up In The Air. The 35th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards ceremony will be held January 16th:
PICTURE: The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
Runner-up: Up In The Air (Paramount)
DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Runner-up: Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon (Sony Classics)
ACTRESS: Yolande Moreau, Séraphine (Music Box Films)
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, An Education (Sony Pictures Classics)
ACTOR: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)
Runner-up: Colin Firth, A Single Man (Weinstein Co)
ANIMATION: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox)
Runner-up: Up (Disney)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Summer Hours (IFC Films)
Runner-up: The White Ribbon
NEW GENERATION: Neill Blomkamp, District 9 (Sony)
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 (Fox)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Christian Berger, The White Ribbon
Runner-up: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo’Nique, Precious (Lionsgate)
Runner-up: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein/Universal)
Runner-up: Peter Capaldi, In the Loop (IFC Films)
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: (tie) The Beaches of Agnès (Cinema Guild) and The Cove (Roadside Attractions)
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom, The Anchorage
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Nice steal for District 9! Let’s toss some water on Avatar-mania!
That’s wonderful news about Jeff Bridges. I saw the trailer for Crazy Heart the other day and it made me want to see the movie.
I saw “Up in the Air” – ugh. Totally overhyped and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Too mannered and self conscious. The acting by Anna Kendrick was terrible, and George Clooney was phoning it in. Vera Farmiga was the only good thing about the movie. Still, I thought it was empty. It’s depressing to think about the money that goes in to these soul-less projects.
“Hurt Locker” has almost no character development, but accomplished an interesting visceral atmosphere. I thought “Up in the Air” beat it hands down in every way.
So glad to see “Summer Hours” being remembered for the phenomenal film that it is, by far the best film of the year along with the Clooney-starring film although I haven’t seen “The White Ribbon” and can’t wait to.
Guess old grudges die hard; the LA association still pissed at Cameron for something that happened a DOZEN FREAKIN’ YEARS AGO. And Cameron not even runner-up for Director? Bullshit. Yolande Moreau? Michael Haneke? Yes, let’s give them Oscar nominations which will cause millions of viewers more to bail on the telecast.
An awful lot of people are going to be eating crow if Avatar wins Best Picture at the Oscars.
avatar? best pic? uhhh… no.
YESSSS! Good for The Hurt Locker and good for Kathryn Bigelow. Well deserved. Is it a better movie than The White Ribbon? No. But it’s the best American movie this year.
Good for Jeff Bridges. Let’s get him his Oscar. Soon.
Good also for Christoph Waltz. He was the only good thing in that bloated movie.
Yolande Moreau, meh. How about Catalina Saavedra in The Maid? If we’re going for obscure, I thought she was much better. Or the astonishing woman who plays the title character in Mother, a fabulous film by the director of The Host, which I hope gets distribution soon.
I don’t think Summer Hours is better than The White Ribbon, but critics get all pissy for no reason sometimes.
These are critics giving awards, not morons, nor people who spent a gazillion dollars producing dreck, so no, Avatar does not count.
This was an awful year at the cineplex for anyone over the age of 15. Thankfully, I have my DVD and Blu-ray players. I used to go to the cinema at least twice a month, nowadays, it’s rare to do that in a year.
Fantastic Mr Fox is a better animated film than UP? I guess if you an LA Film Critic that makes sense to you.
I am so trilled and happy to see Crazy Heart win for best Score. I knew and loved Stephen Bruton. But honestly, anyone who knew him, loved him. His music was really just the cherry on top when it came to him. I got to see him one more time before he passed because he was here in LA working on the soundtrack for Crazy Heart. That movie will always hold a very special place in my heart and many others who knew him.
Stephen Bruton was a shining light of love and music on this earth. I am blessed to have known him.
Rest in Peace Stephen.
We miss you.
just as i thought as awards season nears—the oscars will nominate ten movies for best picture that no one will care about or heard of—WELL PLAYED!! lol even lower ratings this year i bet
The movies and Hollywood will become as relevant as broadway and the oscars will be like the tonys in about a few years…good stuff lol
Fantastic news for Kathryn Bigelow and ‘Hurt Locker’. It was an absolute achievement in directing, and I’m glad that she is getting the recognition she so greatly deserves. Good on, ya, girl!!
Watched “Up in the Air” last night — strange, sad and well, depressing. Lacked the charm and underlying sweetness of “Juno” and seemed to take itself much too earnestly. Nice directing and the acting was fine but all in all I wouldn’t call it even worthy of a runner up tag.
So they’re supposed to nominate only well-known films, no matter how crappy, just to get good ratings for the telecast? Who cares about the telecast? If it were really about rewarding the best films it’d be out of the hands of industry “peers” and in the hands of judges not directly connected with the business–scholars maybe. Now it’s like deciding who gets to take a turn as prom king and queen out of the same old class that never graduates.
How on earth did “Up in the Air” get nominated? It was not that great of a film, and “The Hurt Locker” is highly overhyped because it’s an indie film…like, hel-lo??
I thought The Hurt Locker was the worst nonimated film this year, but that’s just MHO.
No A Serious Man? the movie with the best scene of the year? What? Too jewish? sheesh.
“The Hurt Locker” is a fantastic film and richly deserves any awards it garners – and I’m not a fan of war movies!
Well done Kathryn Bigelow and well done “In the Loop” for your nomination – Malcom Tucker is Pol Pottymouth – fact!
‘The Hurt Locker’ deserves every accolade for excellence- I am thrilled and gratified. I don’t think of it as an indie film- just under appreciated by a public that still responds like Pavlov’s dogs to hype over quality. Perhaps the recent surge of acknowledgments, nominations and awards for meaningful cinematic entertainment might someday have a positive impact on future generations of film goers. I can tall you that my 25 and 22 year old sons prefer to see a good ‘indie’ (‘Me and Orson Welles’, ‘The Big Fan’, ‘Sunshine Cleaning’)than an over-promoted ‘box office hungry’ Hollywood spectacle.