UP IN THE AIR, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth: Vancouver Film Critics Nominations
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount)
Montreal-born Jason Reitman‘s comedy-drama Up in the Air is the top nominee for the 2010 Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards. Starring George Clooney as a corporate-downsizing expert, Up in the Air is in the running for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay (Reitman and Sheldon Turner) Best Actor (Clooney) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga.)
The Hurt Locker and A Serious Man are the other two Best Film nominees. In addition to Clooney, Kendrick, and Farmiga, others in the running in the non-Canadian acting categories are Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina (An Education), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Mo’Nique and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds).
Xavier Dolan‘s Quebec-made J’ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother, Canada’s submission for the 2010 foreign language film Oscar, earned five nominations in the Canadian categories, including Best Director and Best Actor nominations for Dolan, who plays a gay teenager at odds with his mother (Anne Dorval). I Killed My Mother was also nominated for Best Canadian Film, Best Actress (Dorval) and Best Supporting Actor (François Arnaud).
Another Quebec film, Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique is up for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Sébastien Huberdeau). The third nominee for Best Canadian Film is Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée’s The Young Victoria, which was nominated for Best Actress (Emily Blunt, above) and Best Supporting Actress (Miranda Richardson).
The Best Foreign Language Film nominees are Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces, Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman and Olivier Assayas‘ Summer Hours.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle also announced that documentary filmmaker Nettie Wild and Vancouver International Film Festival founder Leonard Schein are the winners of its Achievement Award for Contribution to the British Columbia Film Industry. Among Wild’s films are A Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution, A Place Called Chiapas, Blockade and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City. Schein and business partner Tom Lightburn currently run seven screens, mostly art-house fare, under the umbrella of Festival Cinemas.
The tenth annual Vancouver Critics Circle Awards will be held at The Railway Club in Vancouver on Monday, January 11. The Vancouver Film Critics Circle is composed of Vancouver-based online, radio, print, and television film writers and critics.
Photo: The Young Victoria (Apparition)
Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2010
BEST FILM
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces, Spain
The Headless Woman, Argentina
Summer Hours, France
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil – The Story of Anvil
The Cove
Food Inc.
BEST CANADIAN FILM
J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Polytechnique
The Young Victoria
BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
A Shine of Rainbows
Excited
Facing Ali
BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
BEST SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM
Cherien Dabis, Amreeka
Xavier Dolan, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Denis Villeneuve, Polytechnique
BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
Xavier Dolan, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Sébastien Huberdeau, Polytechnique
Stephen McHattie, Pontypool
BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Anne Dorval, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Nisreen Faour, Amreeka
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM
François Arnaud, J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
Daniel J. Gordon, Nurse. Fighter. Boy
John Paul Tremblay, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM
Lisa Houle, Pontypool
Miranda Richardson, The Young Victoria
Gabrielle Rose, Excited
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE FILM INDUSTRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Nettie Wild
Leonard Schein
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