BFCA Nominees

Announced this morning were the nominees for this year's Critics' Choice Awards, bestowed by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Just a heads up, kids: I tried last year to keep up with the precursor awards, and it's an exhausting, timestaking, often thankless process. Therefore, this year I'm just posting some of the nominees and winners from major awards bodies when I get around to it. I've become a busier bee and a lazier Oscar watcher. Anyway, from the BFCA:


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”

*Read the rest at AwardsDaily.com. My thoughts? I'm mighty pissed about the snubbing of Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star," something I fear is going to be a trend this season. In better news, I'm happy to see Bailee Madison recognized in the Best Young Actor category (if it were up to me, she'd be among the Supporting Actress Oscar nominees). Guided by Jim Sheridan, her work in "Brothers" is one of the best child performances I've seen in quite some time, and I'm not often one to applaud child actors.