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Gabourey Sidibe in Lee Daniels' Precious John Cassavetes Award winner Lynn Shelton, Best First Film Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, and Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher all shed tears when accepting their awards. But the most emotional moment of the evening was the standing ovation given to Roger Ebert, who presented the Chaz and Roger Ebert Truer Than Fiction award to Bill Ross and Turner Ross' [...]

The winners of London’s Evening Standard awards were announced on Monday, Feb. 8. Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (above), the tale of a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) who resents her mother’s new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender) was chosen as the best British film of 2009. Although it's been received warmly by critics, Fish Tank is up for only one BAFTA Award: Best British Film. Anne-Marie Duff was [...]

Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Not too many surprises among the Central Ohio Film Critics Association's 2009 winners. In the last few weeks, Up in the Air, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Up, Mo'Nique, and Christoph Waltz have all been cited a number of times by other critics' groups throughout the United States. The one Central Ohio win [...]

Louie Psihoyos' The Cove (above), about the annual slaughter of dolphins at a small Japanese village, has thus far been the various US critics groups' favorite documentary. The runner-up is Sacha Gervasi's Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which has been referred to as This Is Spinal Tap for real. (However, there have been accusations that Anvil! isn't technically a "documentary" as its chronology is supposed [...]