Critics Choices Articles

"What am I wearing?" that's best actor winner Jeff Bridges (for Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart), having to look inside his tux to figure out who designed it. As for the his chances of taking home a best actor Academy Award, Bridges remarked he wasn't counting "the chickens" though he was thankful because "these awards, that's how we get people into the theaters." Bridges, who thus [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Up in the Air is the #1 winner among North American critics groups, with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds coming in second place. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's (500) Days of Summer, a boy meets girl tale in which things don't quite go as planned, [...]

Mo'Nique in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate) Like Christoph Waltz in the best supporting actor category, Mo'Nique — who plays a nasty mother in Lee Daniels' Precious — is by far the North American critics' top choice for best supporting actress of 2009: 17 wins and counting, in addition to awards at both the Sundance and Stockholm film festivals. Mo'Nique has also nabbed SAG, [...]

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.) If US critics found only two lead actresses to vote for in 2009 (Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan), they had an even tougher time finding a supporting actor. Or perhaps it was just his own thespian brilliance that made Christoph Waltz walk away with nearly every critics' award out there. With more than 90 [...]