Posts Tagged ‘The Hurt Locker’
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Richard T. Jameson
MSN |
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A Serious Man |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Taking Woodstock |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Bright Star |
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Liverpool |
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Up in the Air |
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Inglourious Basterds | Public Enemies |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Don Kaye
MSN |
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The Hurt Locker |
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A Serious Man |
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District 9 |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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In the Loop |
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An Education |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Coraline |
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The Road |
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Up in the Air | Watchmen |
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Anne Thompson
IndieWire |
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Red Cliff |
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Bright Star |
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A Serious Man |
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A Prophet |
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Up |
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Summer Hours |
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Coraline |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Up in the Air |
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An Education |
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Shawn Edwards
FOX-TV |
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The Hangover |
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Avatar |
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Nine |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Precious |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Up in the Air |
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District 9 |
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Up |
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The Soloist |
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Anthony Lane
New Yorker |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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Cloudy…Chance of Meatballs |
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Coraline |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Gommorrah |
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Star Trek |
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The White Ribbon |
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Up |
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Up in the Air |
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Richard Corliss
Time Magazine |
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Princess and the Frog |
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Up |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Up in the Air |
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The White Ribbon |
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A Single Man |
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Of Time and the City |
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District 9 |
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Thirst |
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Dave McCoy
MSN |
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The Hurt Locker |
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A Serious Man |
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The White Ribbon |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Where the Wild Things Are |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil |
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In the Loop |
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Still Wallking |
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The Maid |
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Taking Woodstock |
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Kim Morgan
MSN |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Bad Lieutenant |
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A Serious Man |
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Antichrist |
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Observe and Report |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Thirst |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Road |
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Broken Embraces |
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Jim Emerson
MSN |
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A Serious Man |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Liverpool |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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The Headless Woman |
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Police, Adjective |
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Summer Hours |
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The White Ribbon |
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Goodbye Solo / The Limits of Control / The Informant! / Watchmen / Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Sight & Sound
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A Prophet |
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The Hurt Locker |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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The White Ribbon |
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Let the Right One In |
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Up |
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White Material |
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Bright Star |
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Antichrist |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Anne Thompson | Shawn Edwards | Anthony Lane | Richard Corliss | Sight & Sound | Jim Emerson | Richard T. Jameson | Don Kaye | Dave McCoy | Kim Morgan
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 2
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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Phil Villarreal OK! Magazine |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Precious |
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Crazy Heart |
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A Serious Man |
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Me & Orson Welles |
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Princess & the Frog |
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Were the World Mine |
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Up |
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Up in the Air |
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Kristopher Tapley In Contention |
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A Serious Man |
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Up in the Air |
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Antichrist |
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The Cove |
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Avatar |
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Precious |
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An Education |
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Mary & Max |
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Bronson |
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The Lovely Bones |
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Lou Lumenick New York Post |
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Up in the Air |
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Up |
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A Serious Man |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Avatar |
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Invictus |
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Precious |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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In the Loop |
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Ponyo |
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Kyle Smith New York Post |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Up |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Watchmen |
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Funny People |
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Up in the Air |
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An Education |
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In the Loop |
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Of Time and the City |
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Shall We Kiss? |
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Stephen Holden New York Times |
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Up in the Air |
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The White Ribbon |
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Still Walking |
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The Messenger |
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35 Shots of Rum |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The Headless Woman |
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An Education |
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Summer Hours |
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Disgrace |
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone |
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Precious |
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Up in the Air |
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The Hurt Locker |
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An Education |
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Up |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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A Serious Man |
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District 9 |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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The Messenger |
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David Denby New Yorker |
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The Hurt Locker |
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The White Ribbon |
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The Messenger |
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Funny People |
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Adventureland |
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Up |
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The Last Station |
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Me and Orson Welles |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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Up in the Air |
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National Board of Review |
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An Education |
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(500) Days of Summer |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Invictus |
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The Messenger |
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A Serious Man |
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Star Trek |
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Up |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Austin Film Critics |
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The Hurt Locker |
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Star Trek |
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Up |
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A Serious Man |
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Up in the Air |
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Avatar |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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District 9 |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Moon | The Messenger |
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Sean Axmaker MSN |
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The Hurt Locker |
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A Serious Man |
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Summer Hours |
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Of Time and the City |
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Police, Adjective |
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Still Walking |
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Liverpool |
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Up in the Air |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Phil Villarreal | Kristopher Tapley | Lou Lumenick | Kyle Smith | Stephen Holden | Peter Travers | David Denby | National Board of Review | Austin Film Critics | Sean Axmaker
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens - Critics Pages | Comments Off on Page 1
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for January 21, 2010
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Ajami, An Education, Avatar, Burma VJ, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, In the Loop, Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers, Nine, Paris 36, Precious, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Milk of Sorrow, The Princess and the Frog, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, This is It, Un Prophete, Up in the Air, Which Way Home
Posted in Awards Watch, Gurus o' Gold | Comments Off on January 14
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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BEST ACTRESS
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Actress – Film
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Comment
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| Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia |
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| Carey Mulligan – An Education |
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| Helen Mirren – The Last Station |
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| Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side |
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| Marion Cotillard – Nine |
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| Gabourey Sidibe – Precious |
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| Zoe Saldana – Avatar |
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| Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria |
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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Actress – Film
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Comment
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| Mo’Nique – Precious |
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| Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air |
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| Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air |
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| Penelope Cruz – Nine |
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| Julianne Moore – A Single Man |
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| Susan Sarandon – The Lovely Bones |
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actress Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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BEST ACTOR
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Actor – Film
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Comment
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| Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart |
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| George Clooney – Up in the Air |
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| Morgan Freeman – Invictus |
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| Colin Firth – A Single Man |
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| Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker |
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| Viggo Mortensen – The Road |
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| Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
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| Tobey Maguire – Brothers |
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| Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
His proper category… could shift |
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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Actor – Film
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Comment
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| Christopher Walz – Inglourious Basterds |
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| Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
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| Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones |
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| Alfred Molina – An Education |
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| Woody Harrelson – The Messenger |
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| Alec Baldwin – It’s Complicated |
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| Peter Sarsgaard – An Education |
His proper category… could change |
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Actor Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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BEST DIRECTOR
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Director
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Picture
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Comment
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| The Frontrunners For Nomination |
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James Cameron
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Avatar |
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Kathryn Bigelow
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The Hurt Locker |
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Jason Reitman
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Up In The Air |
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Quentin Tarantino
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Inglourious Basterds |
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Lone Scherfig
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An Education |
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Clint Eastwood
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Invictus |
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Lee Daniels
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Precious |
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Rob Marshall
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Nine |
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Pete Docter
Bob Petersen
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Up |
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| The Coen Bros. |
A Serious Man
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Director Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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BEST PICTURE
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Picture
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Studio
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Director
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Stars |
Comment
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| The Frontrunners For Nomination |
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Avatar |
Fox
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Cameron
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Saldana
Weaver
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2
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2
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The Hurt Locker |
Sum
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Bigelow
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Renner
Mackie
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3
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3
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Up In The Air |
Par
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Reitman
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Clooney
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4
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8
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Inglourious Basterds |
TWC
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Tarantino
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Waltz
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5
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4
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An Education |
SPC
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Scherfig
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Mulligan
Sarsgaard
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6
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5
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Precious |
LG
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Daniels
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Sidibe
Mo’Nique
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7
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6
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Up |
Disney
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Docter
Petersen
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8
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Invictus |
WB
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Eastwood
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Freeman
Damon
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9
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The Messenger |
Oscill
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Moverman
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Harrelson
Foster
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10
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7
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Nine |
TWC
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Marshall
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Day-Lewis
Cotillard
Cruz
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10
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The Last Station |
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Hoffman
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Plummer
Mirren
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The Blind Side |
WB
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Hancock
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Bullock
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A Serious Man |
Focus
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Coens
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Stuhlbarg
Kind
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Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
Posted in 20 Weeks to Oscar - Charts, Awards Watch | Comments Off on Best Picture Chart
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
If you are wondering why Avatar has become a prohibitive front-runner in the Best Picture race, you are right at the crux of what this season is all about.
There was a lot of really excellent work this year. But there are virtually no “that’s The ONE!” movies, performances, or even below-the-line efforts that scream for an award. The only one that has been right there was Mo’Nique in Precious… and there is still a very good chance that she will end up winning Oscar. But even that performance is beginning to blur under the strain of time and slowly sliding memory.
If I had to pick a Best Picture on quality, I would probably have to go for The Hurt Locker’s dry, tense, black-key detail to the wide-open magic of Avatar. But there are plenty who would choose Up In The Air or Inglourious Basterds or Precious or Up or An Education on the same basis.
But which film represents what the Academy membership would like to represent them for the year? Keep in mind, Avatar is not just a major advance in technology… not just a hugely entertaining experience… not only leading the way to the (perhaps overstated) 3D revolution… but it is also about to become the second $1 billion film overseas in history. #1 is Titanic’s $1.243b. #3 is LOTR: Return of The King’s $742m.
Avatar is not just the highest grossing film of the season, as in, “Well, Gladiator is the biggest commercial movie in the group, 50% bigger than Erin Brockovich,” it is easily the biggest worldwide phenomenon of the last decade. The Academy isn’t going to pass on this opportunity, anymore than it would pass on the opportunity to celebrate LOTR’s $3 billion in worldwide grosses.
But that said… the other categories are a different set of issues.
In Best Actress, it looks like Oscar-winners Streep and Mirren vs first-time nominee “The Beloved” Bullock vs the two kids, Mulligan and Sidibe. All the performances are worthy. But is any one of them THE performance? There are no big surprises that the veterans can do what they did. Mulligan is just rising and they rarely vote for first-timers in the Lead slot. And Sidibe is probably a one-off, however personally charming she may be… again, the kind of role that wins in Supporting (see: Mo’Nique).
In Best Actor, you’re likely looking at four well-loved veterans and a newcomer in Jeremy Renner. Fine performances all, is there a real shock in the performances of Bridges, Freeman, Firth, or Clooney? This doesn’t mean that one of them won’t win. Someone has to win. But is there anything in the work that screams that we will never see any of them give a performance this good again… if not next year?
In Supporting Actor, Christoph Waltz has the edge… in part because no one has ever seen the guy before. He is a surprise. And that is such a key in this process. This goes for Mo’Nique in Supporting Actress as well. If Angela Bassett gave that performance, would she even be nominated? I wouldn’t bet on it. But Mo’Nique is a comic known for doing Sassy Black Lady in movies. Who saw it coming that she would ooze anguish in a small indie film? No one. Shock. Win.
This is not to diminish the performances. Please… don’t take it the wrong way. But winning an Oscar is not some sort of objective event. There is no such thing when comparing quality artistic work.
There is an argument to be made in reverse as well… all the reasons why this person or performance should win. But you can make them for almost every one. Streep hasn’t won in a long time. Bullock hasn’t ever been nominated before, but is a terribly positve part of the film industry family. Mirren, with Christopher Plummer, is having a ball. Carey Mulligan is a skyrocking starlet. And Gabby Sidibe exposed herself in a dark, dangerous way. And Zoe Saldana gives a great, intimate performance in spite of being surrounded by technology.
The guys? Jeff Bridges is a living legend and has it coming. But Clooney is a big star and people want to support their Cary Grant (even if they never voted Cary Cary Cary a performance Oscar). But Colin Firth is so brave playing gay when he is straight and showing the cracks in a closeted facade. But Jeremy Renner is so great in the film and we love the film and we aren’t going to give it Best Picture, so let’s show our love here (and in screenplay). But Viggo Morrtensen has is coming too… and it was such a tough movie… just him and a kid.
But there is no Charlize Theron, 30 pounds heavier than normal, lesbian, and raging. Hilary Swank wore pants this year, but she was wasn’t stuffing her pants or hitting people. Scorsese has his Oscar. No one is drinking your milkshake and channeling a former Oscar winner. And while Jeff Bridges sings, he isn’t blind and he doesn’t transform from America’s legally blind sweetheart into a dramatic actress who signs for the first time.
What I am talking about is a season loaded with a sense of appreciation… not the tone of intense passion that these things sometimes take.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Isn ’t the fun of it all that we all have our personal favorites, but can also enjoy a sense of healthy competition and a celebration of terrific work?
– by David Poland
January 14, 2010
Tags: A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Up, Up in the Air
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for January 12, 2010
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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Avatar |
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2
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2
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2
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1
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1
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15
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144
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3
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The Hurt Locker |
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3
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2
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3
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1
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3
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3
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3
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2
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1
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1
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1
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3
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2
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3
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15
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133
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3
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1
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Up in the Air |
3
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1
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3
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2
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3
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2
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2
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2
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3
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3
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4
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3
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2
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3
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2
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15
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127
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4
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5
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Inglourious Basterds |
5
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7
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4
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4
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5
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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3
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4
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4
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4
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4
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15
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101
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5
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4
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Precious |
4
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4
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5
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5
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4
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7
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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6
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5
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15
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90
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6
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8
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An Education |
7
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8
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7
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9
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6
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6
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8
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6
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5
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15
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64
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15
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59
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8
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7
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Invictus |
–
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10
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9
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44
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District 9 |
10
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30
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A Serious Man |
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The Blind Side |
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Who Or What Potential Nominee(s) Made A Big Step Forward Over The
Holiday Weeks? |
Who Or What Potential Nominee(s) Made A Big Step Backwards Over
The Holiday Weeks
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| Scott Bowles |
The Hurt Locker/ By not falling to the weight of expectation, it becomes a contender.
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Invictus/ It may still land a nod, but only because there are 10 slots and he’s Clint Eastwood.
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| Anthony Breznican |
Avatar — dur. Also The Hurt Locker
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Invictsomething.
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| Gregory Ellwood |
The Messenger
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Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine.
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| Pete Hammond |
District 9
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Nine
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| Eugene Hernandez |
Avatar
District 9
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Nine
A Serious Man
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| Peter Howell |
Avatar
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Nine
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| Dave Karger |
Avatar
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Invictus
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| Mark Olsen |
Avatar, District 9
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Nine, The Lovely Bones
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| David Poland |
The Messenger (Avatar was already well on its way)
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Nine
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| Steve Pond |
Hurt Locker, Avatar
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Nine, A Serious Man
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| Sean Smith |
Avatar
Sandra Bullock
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Invictus
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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| Sasha Stone |
District 9, Avatar
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Nine (unfortunately)
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| Kris Tapley |
Avatar
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Nine
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| Anne Thompson |
Avatar and The Hurt Locke
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Nine, The Lovely Bones
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| Susan Wloszczyna |
Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges
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Anyone associated with Nine
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Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, Ajami, An Education, Avatar, Burma VJ, Coraline, Crazy Heart, District 9, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, In the Loop, Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, It's Complicated, Julie & Julia, Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & the Pentagon Papers, Nine, Paris 36, Precious, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Milk of Sorrow, The Princess and the Frog, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, This is It, Un Prophete, Up in the Air, Which Way Home
Posted in Awards Watch, Gurus o' Gold | Comments Off on January 7
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
132 Critics. 161 Films. 30 New to the List.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
Posted in Awards Watch, The Top Tens | Comments Off on The Top Ten Chart for January 6, 2010
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
102 Critics. 151 Films. 30 New to the List.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, 12, 2012, 24 City, 35 Shots of Rum, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, A Town Called Panic, Adventureland, Afterschool, An Education, Antichrist, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Avatar, Away We Go, Bad Lieutenant, Beeswax, Big Fan, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Bronson, Brothers, Bruno, Burma VJ, Capitalism: A Love Story, Cheri, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Collapse, Coraline, Crank: High Voltage, Crazy Heart, Departures, Disgrace, District 9, Drag Me to Hell, Duplicity, Everlasting Moments, Every Little Step, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Frontier of Dawn, Funny People, Gommorah, Good Hair, Goodbye Solo, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, House of the Devil, Humpday, Hunger, I Killed My Mother, I Love You Man, I'm Gonna Explode, Il Divo, Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julia, Julie & Julia, Knight and Day, Knowing, La Danse, Lake Tahoe, Liverpool, Loren Cass, Lorna's Silence, Mary & Max, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Mother, Mystery Team, Nine, O'Horten, Of Time and the City, Paradise, Paranormal Activity, Passing Strange, Phoebe in Wonderland, Pirate Radio, Police Adjective, Pontypool, Ponyo, Precious, Princess and the Frog, Privates Live of Pippa Lee, Public Enemies, Red Cliff, Revanche, Seraphine, Serbis, Sherlock Holmes, Silent Light, Sin Nombre, Sita Sings the Blues, Somers Town, Star Trek, State of Play, Still Walking, Sugar, Summer Hours, Sunshine Cleaning, Taking Woodstock, Tetro, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Beaches of Agnes, The Blind Side, The Brothers Bloom, The Cove, The Hangover, The Headless Woman, The Hurt Locker, The Informant, The Limits of Control, The Lovely Bones, The Maid, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Messenger, The Road, The Soloist, The White Ribbon, Thirst, Three Monkeys, Tulpaan, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Waltz with Bashir, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are, World's Greatest Dad, You the Living
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Here are my ten best, from a year of my life I wish I had never lived, a year of sorrow and pain and occasional flashes of redemption and love.
What of the movies I watched during that time of personal tragedy? Well, this makes twice I’ve (more…)
Tags: A Serious Man, Avatar, Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans Port of Call, Everlasting Moments, Il Divo, Invictus, Katyn, Me and Orson Welles, Red Cliff, Still Walking, Summer Hours, The Hurt Locker, Up
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Film
WINNER
Up in the Air
NOMINEES
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Hurt Locker
Up
Best Actor
WINNER
Up in the Air: George Clooney
NOMINEES
A Single Man: Colin Firth
Invictus: Morgan Freeman
The Hurt Locker: Jeremy Renner
The Road: Viggo Mortensen
Best Actress
WINNER
An Education: Carey Mulligan
NOMINEES
Away We Go: Maya Rudolph
Julie & Julia: Meryl Streep
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Gabourey Sidibe
The Blind Side: Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor
WINNER
Inglourious Basterds: Christoph Waltz
NOMINEES
An Education: Alfred Molina
The Hurt Locker: Anthony Mackie
The Lovely Bones: Stanley Tucci
The Messenger: Woody Harrelson
Best Supporting Actress
WINNER
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Mo’Nique
NOMINEES
A Single Man: Julianne Moore
The Messenger: Samantha Morton
Up in the Air: Vera Farmiga
Up in the Air: Anna Kendrick
Best Director
WINNER
The Hurt Locker: Kathryn Bigelow
NOMINEES
Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino
Invictus: Clint Eastwood
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Lee Daniels
Up in the Air: Jason Reitman
Best Screenplay, Original
WINNER
Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino
NOMINEES
(500) Days of Summer: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
A Serious Man: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal
Up: Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Best Screenplay, Adapted
WINNER
Up in the Air: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
NOMINEES
An Education: Nick Hornby
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Geoffrey Fletcher
The Blind Side: John Lee Hancock
The Road: Joe Penhall
Art Direction
NOMINEE
The Young Victoria: Patrice Vermette
Best Art Direction
WINNER
Nine
NOMINEES
Star Trek
The Lovely Bones
The Young Victoria
Where the Wild Things Are
Best Documentary
WINNER
Food, Inc.
NOMINEES
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
Good Hair
The Cove
Best Foreign Film
WINNER
Sin Nombre
NOMINEES
Red Cliff
The White Ribbon
I Killed My Mother
Summer Hours
Broken Embraces
Best Animated Film
WINNER
Up
NOMINEES
9
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
Best Ensemble
WINNER
The Hurt Locker: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Ralph Fiennes, Evangeline Lilly, David Morse, Guy Pierce, Brian Geraghty
NOMINEES
Nine: Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Stacy Ferguson, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Mo’Nique, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton, Gabourey Sidibe, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Stephanie Andujar, Chyna Layne, Amina Robinson, Xosha Roquemore
Star Trek: Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, John Cho, Karl Urban, Chris Pine, Bruce Greenwood, Ben Cross, Anton Yelchin, Clifton Collins Jr.
Up in the Air
Best Breakthrough Performance
WINNER
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Gabourey Sidibe
NOMINEES
An Education: Carey Mulligan
Me and Orson Welles: Christian McKay
The Hurt Locker: Jeremy Renner
Up in the Air: Anna Kendrick
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Picture
Up in the Air
(runners-up: The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds)
Best Achievement in Directing
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
(runner-up: John Hillcoat, The Road)
Best Male Lead Performance
Viggo Mortensen, The Road
(runner-up: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker)
Best Female Lead Performance
Carey Mulligan, An Education
(runner-up: Maya Rudolph, Away We Go)
Best Male Supporting Performance
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
(runner-up: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
(runner-up: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air)
Best Screenplay
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox
(runners-up: Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer; Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds)
Best Animated Feature
Fantastic Mr. Fox
(runner-up: Up)
Best Documentary Feature
The Cove
(runner-up: Anvil! The Story of Anvil)
Best Non-English Language Feature
Thirst
(runner-up: Sin Nombre)
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Picture (tie)
“Hunger”, “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Performance, Male
Nicolas Cage, “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”
Best Performance, Female
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Best Supporting Performance, Male
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Supporting Performance, Female
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
Best Screenplay (tie)
” Inglourious Basterds” written by Quentin Tarantino
“Up in the Air” written by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner based on the novel by Walter Kirn (tie)
Best First Feature
Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
Best Animated Feature
“The Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Best Foreign-Language Film
“The White Ribbon”
Best Documentary Feature
“The Cove”
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Best Film
Up in the Air
Runner-Up: The Hurt Locker
Best Actor
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt in Big Fan
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan in An Education
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
To be eligible for an award, a film must have been shown in St. Louis, by theatrical release, at a film festival or film series, or made available for viewing by the SLFC member film critics during the past year. This year, a few major film releases were not considered for awards because they were not made available to member film critics for awards consideration.
The St. Louis Film Critics association also presents annual awards at the St. Louis International Film Festival and St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, both presented by Cinema St. Louis. The mission of the SLFC association is to promote appreciation of great cinema in St. Louis and St. Louis as an area that appreciates great cinema. The member film critics review films for a variety of media outlets, in print, on radio, television and Internet in the Greater St. Louis Area.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN (tie)
Coco Before Chanel
My One And Only
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Julie & Julia: Nora Ephron
BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
Sunshine Cleaning: Megan Holley
BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish: Bright Star
BEST ACTOR
Ben Foster: The Messenger
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Sidibe Gabourey: Precious
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS
Meryl Streep: Julie & Julia
BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Seraphine
BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE
American Violet
Amreeka
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Inglourious Basterds
Lemon Tree
The Messenger
My Sister’s Keeper
Sweet Crude
BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN
Grey Gardens
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES
Julie & Julia
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE
Princess And The Frog: Anika Noni Rose as Tiana
BEST FAMILY FILM
Up
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Gertrude Berg [Posthumous]: Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg: Aviva Kempner, director
ACTING AND ACTIVISM
Emma Thompson – For her work on and off screen against sex trafficking
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women
Precious
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America
American Violet
KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity
An Education
COURAGE IN ACTING: For taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on screen
Isabella Rossellini: Green Porno
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD: Supporting performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored
Olivia Williams: An Education
BEST DOCUMENTARIES BY WOMEN
GROUNDBREAKER
The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda
ABOVE AND BEYOND
American Casino, Leslie Cockburn
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING
Tattooed Under Fire, Nancy Schiesari
WFCC TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME
Antichrist: The cinematic equivalent of nails down a chalkboard. Pretentious pornography, satanic sex, and Willem Dafoe as an artsy New Age femocidal sexorcist.
Deadgirl: Again the theme is vile sexual violence to women. In this case, the woman is dead and the men can do what they like with her And they do. This film brings out the worst of male fantasies towards women, and it wasn’t a pretty sight.
Downloading Nancy: The sexual violence towards Nancy, even though she asked for and seemed to want it, was difficult to absorb.
Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past: Matthew McConaughey as cardboard cutout misogynist, in one too many phone-it-in rom-coms featuring toxic bachelors.
Pirate Radio: Horrible male characters who treat women like a floating meat market.
Precious: If this film were a poor ‘white trash’ family/community, it wouldn’t have received the applause that it did. The point is that it promotes prejudice against blacks, fat women, unmarried women, less educated women and a whole lot more. That it is successful screams out for another film from the same neighborhood where the family is kept above the fray of stereotyping, by a strong unmarried mother.
Twilight Saga: New Moon: Bella (lead human female) is completely pathetic, the whole giving up one’s soul thing. How sad is it when a gal in a small town picks two boys she likes, one is a vampire and one is a werewolf.
Up In The Air: ‘Just think of me as yourself, only with a vagina.’ Oh, puh-leez! Who was this corporate female predaor [Vera Farmiga] supposed to be, this gorgeous, available babe with no back story and the magic ability to pull two sexy black dresses from her rollaway with no prior notice?!?!?
Two words: Judd Apatow. Some more words: perfect, beautiful women exist to save overweight schlubby men from their otherwise inevitable fate as complete no-hopers.
Worst Full Frontal Male Nudity 2009: Observe And Report’s comedic flabby flasher. Ha Ha.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
BEST PICTURE
1. Up in the Air
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Up
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. A Serious Man
6. (500) Days of Summer
7. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
8. The Messenger
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. District 9
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Runner-up: Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Runner-up: Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Runner-up: Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Runner-up: Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Runner-up: Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – (500) Days of Summer
Runner-up: Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air
Runner-up: Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach – Fantastic Mr. Fox
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Summer Hours (France)
Runner-up: The White Ribbon (Germany)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Food, Inc.
Runner-up: The Cove
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Up
Runner-up: Fantastic Mr. Fox
WYATT AWARD
That Evening Sun
Runner-up: Goodbye Solo
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, Up in the Air
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