Austin Film Critics Awards Articles

Lee Byung-hun, I Saw the Devil This year, the Austin Film Critics went for some unusual — though not exactly "surprising" — choices. Well, with one exception: Jee-woon Kim's revenge thriller I Saw the Devil, their Best Foreign Language Film. To date, US-based critics have gone instead for Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, or Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. Earlier [...]

Natalie Portman, Black Swan Darren Aronofsky's psychological ballet thriller/drama Black Swan swept the Austin Film Critics Association's 2010 awards. Black Swan, which stars Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, and Winona Ryder, won a total of five awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Portman), Best Original Screenplay (Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin), and Best Cinematography (Matthew Libatique). [List of Austin [...]

Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Black Swan Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, A PROPHET: Austin Film Critics Winners Best Film: Black Swan Top 10 Films: 1. Black Swan 2. The Social Network 3. Inception 4. Toy Story 3 5. The King's Speech 6. True Grit 7. The Fighter 8. A Prophet 9. Winter's Bone 10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Best Foreign Language Film: A Prophet (Un [...]

The Austin Film Critics Association has chosen the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (above, with Jeremy Renner) as the best film of 2009. Kathryn Bigelow was chosen best director. Most other Austin picks were just as predictable, though they didn't exactly match the choices of the majority of critics groups thus far, e.g., Anna Kendrick as best supporting actress for Up in the Air [...]