Precursor: D.C. Area Film Critics Nominations

I don’t know if there’s something in the water, but this is the second week in a row where a previously-announced date was ignored and nominations were announced early. Last week it was the Satellite Awards. This week it’s the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Here are their choices:

Nomination Tallies

(8) Up in the Air
(7) The Hurt Locker; Precious
(4) An Education; Inglourious Basterds
(3) Up

The Nominations

Best Film
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up
Up in the Air

Best Animated Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
9
Ponyo
Up

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Lee Daniels – Precious
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor
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
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Anthony Mackie – The Hurt Locker
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
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 Original Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Blind Side
An Education
Precious
The Road
Up in the Air

Best Breakthrough Performance
Anna Kendrick – Up in The Air
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

Best Art Direction
The Lovely Bones
Nine
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are
The Young Victoria

Best Foreign Film
Broken Embraces
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
Summer Hours
The White Ribbon

Best Documentary
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Good Hair

Best Ensemble
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up in the Air

Comments

One response to “Precursor: D.C. Area Film Critics Nominations”

Nathan Donarum

December 6, 2009

Up In The Air seems to be gaining more and more momentum with every new award or nomination release. Although there’s no winners announced for the D.C. Area Film Critics, Up In The Air nabbed the most nominations. And although that doesn’t guarantee anything whatsoever in terms of it winning those awards, it does show a pattern. I think Up In The Air is slowly becoming the Critics’ darling.

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