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Best Actor – Drama George Clooney, Up in the Air The best actor category may be more difficult to predict at the Oscars, but for the Golden Globes George Clooney is the undisputable favorite. He’s a star, he’s good-looking, he’s charming, he’ll probably have interesting things to say when he goes onstage to get his award, he’s the year-end critics’ favorite, his movie is doing [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) With ten wins from groups as diverse as the 75-year-old New York Film Critics Circle and the recently formed Indiana Film Journalists Association, George Clooney was the actor of choice of most US-based critics’ groups. Clooney has received the best reviews of his career for his performance as a corporate-downsizing expert in [...]

Michelle Monaghan in Trucker Quentin Tarantino’s INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Is San Diego Critics’ Big Winner Colin Firth’s best actor win for his gay college professor in Tom Ford’s A Single Man, however well-deserved, wasn’t really a surprise, but the San Diego critics‘ choice for best actress sure was: Michelle Monaghan for her portrayal of a carefree long-haul truck driver whose life suddenly undergoes a dramatic change [...]

Another major critical surprise: The Hurt Locker (above, with Jeremy Renner) was voted best picture of 2009 by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. The Iraq War drama’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, received top honors as well. All kidding aside, a more unique choice — though not all that unexpected considering that it’s San Francisco — was Colin Firth for best actor. In Tom Ford’s A [...]