THE HURT LOCKER, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan Win in Chicago

Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)

Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, which follows a bomb disposal unit as they go about doing their work, was the big winner with the Chicago Film Critics Association. The film won in each of the five categories it was nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (for Mark Boal), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner) and Best Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd).
This is one of Mark Boal’s few wins thus far. Despite the popularity of The Hurt Locker among US film critics, Boal has been usually bypassed in favor of the screenwriters of Up in the Air, A Serious Man, or (500) Days of Summer. It [...]

by Anna Robinson | December 21, 2009   
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Chicago Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2009 Chicago Film Critics winners: Dec. 21, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)
 

BEST PICTURE
* The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up in the Air
Where the Wild Things Are
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
Summer Hours
* The White Ribbon
BEST DOCUMENTARY
* Anvil!: The True Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Tyson
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
* Up
BEST DIRECTOR
* Kathryn Bigelow (-) The Hurt Locker
Joel & Ethan [...]

by Anna Robinson | December 21, 2009   
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Chicago Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominations: December 10, 2007
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 12, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

BEST PICTURE
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
* No Country for Old Men
Once
There Will Be Blood
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Black Book
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Darfur Now
The King of Kong
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
* Sicko
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood
* Joel and Ethan Coen — No Country for Old Men
David Fincher — Zodiac
Tony Gilroy — Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman — Juno
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney — Michael Clayton
Ryan Gosling — Lars and the Real Girl
Frank [...]

by Andre Soares | December 8, 2007   
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