NINE, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, AVATAR Top 2010 Critics Choice Nominations
Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (top); Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds (middle); Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver in Avatar (bottom)
Two The Weinstein Co. releases are the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s top nominees for the 2009 Critics Choice Awards.
Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall‘s Nine lead the race with ten nominations each. James Cameron‘s soon-to-be blockbuster (how big a blockbuster remains to be seen) Avatar followed closed behind with nine nods. Kathryn Bigelow‘s The Hurt Locker and Jason Reitman‘s Up in the Air came next with eight nominations apiece. All of them are up for best picture. (The Broadcast critics have expanded their number of categories from 17 to 25, with six nominations per category except best picture, which has ten slots.)
There were no major surprises in terms of who got shortlisted in the acting, directing, or screenwriting categories, with big names — Cameron, Tarantino, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Bullock, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Marion Cotillard — dominating the lists.
A couple of minor surprises were the inclusion of Jeremy Renner (above) in the best actor category for The Hurt Locker and Christian McKay in the best supporting category for the box-office disappointment Me and Orson Welles.
Even Michael Jackson got a nomination of sorts: This Is It is up for the best documentary award. (And so is Michael Moore‘s Capitalism: A Love Story.)
Like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Broadcast Film Critics have a television show to push. You can’t expect, say, Yolande Moreau or Hiam Abbass or Catalina Saavedra getting best actress nominations because those three names (unfortunately) mean nothing to the vast majority of people who watch those types of awards shows. In fact, they probably mean nothing to the vast majority of Broadcast film critics, either.
That’s one good reason why you get so many mentions for, say, Avatar (though, tellingly, not for its screenplay) or the high-profile but not that well-received Nine (though, tellingly, not for director Marshall, screenwriters Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella, or star Daniel Day-Lewis).
The Broadcast critics also enjoy giving out awards in audience-friendly categories like "best comedy" and "best action movie." Strangely, 2012 wasn’t listed in either one. Possibly the Broadcast critics took that Roland Emmerich flick as serious drama, and who can blame them? After all, Oprah will end in 2012, and reportedly so will Alec Baldwin‘s acting career. Who knows what else may happen?
Missing from the Critics Choice roster: Penelope Cruz for either Nine or Broken Embraces; The Lovely Bones in the best picture and best director (Peter Jackson) categories; The Last Station; The Maid; Brad Pitt for Inglourious Basterds; and, perhaps the biggest surprise of all considering the awards source, Star Trek in the best picture category.
Kristin Chenoweth is set to host the Critics Choice Awards ceremony on Jan. 15, 2010. In the US, the show will be televised on VH1.
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i cant wait to see nine just to see how bad its gona be