The Broadcast Film Critics Association likes to think of themselves as the most significant awards predicting the Oscar nominees and winners. Considering they open their categories to six nominees when need be it makes for very few surprises with any of them. So of course their noms will closely mirror the Oscars, it also makes for quite the predictable group of awards. As a matter of fact I don’t think you will be surprised by a single nominee below as their selections seem more like an Oscar prediction table than an actual group trying to award what they feel are the best in the business. This may very well be what they believe the best in the business to be, but if your only value is to be an early Oscars preview what’s the point?
Either way, Inglourious Basterds and Nine received the most mentions with 10 nominations each. You tell me, any surprise additions or omissions in this bunch? The Critics’ Choice Awards will be held Friday, January 15, 2010 and I believe broadcast for the first time at 9:00pm PST on VH1.
Best Picture
- Avatar
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Invictus
- Nine
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- 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 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 Adapted Screenplay
- District 9
- An Education
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- A Single Man
- Up in the Air
Best Original Screenplay
- (500) Days of Summer
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- A Serious Man
- Up
Best Animated Feature
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Coraline
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- The Princess and the Frog
- Up
Best Art Direction
- Avatar
- Inglourious Basterds
- The Lovely Bones
- Nine
- A Single Man
Best Cinematography
- Avatar
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- The Lovely Bones
- Nine
Best Costume Design
- Bright Star
- Inglourious Basterds
- Nine
- Where the Wild Things Are
- The Young Victoria
Best Editing
- Avatar
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Nine
- Up in the Air
Best Makeup
- Avatar
- District 9
- Nine
- The Road
- Star Trek
Best Score
- The Informant!
- The Princess and the Frog
- Sherlock Holmes
- Up
- Where the Wild Things Are
Best Song
- “The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart
- “(I Want To) Come Home” from Everybody’s Fine
- “Cinema Italiano” from Nine
- “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
- “All is Love” from Where the Wild Things Are
Best Sound
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hurt Locker
- Nine
- Star Trek
Best Visual Effects
- 2012
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Lovely Bones
- Star Trek
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!: The Story of Anvil
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- The Cove
- Food, Inc.
- Michael Jackson’s This Is It
