Daniel Day-Lewis Articles

Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes This is probably the most difficult motion-picture category to hazard a guess for the very simple fact that none of the five nominated actors have received much esteem and admiration, i.e., year-end awards, from US-based critics’ groups. None of the five is up for an individual SAG Award. On the other hand, only one of [...]

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 [...]

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) (top); Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophia Loren in Nine (David James / The Weinstein Co.) (bottom) The Hurt Locker and Nine were named, respectively, best film drama and comedy/musical by the International Press Academy on Sunday evening, Nov. 20. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won the IPA’s Satellite Award for best director, The Hurt Locker follows a [...]

Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker The Best Actor field for the 2010 SAG Awards is a little crowded. Even so, I’d say that four actors have a lock on a nomination: George Clooney for his corporate-downsizing expert in Up in the Air, Jeff Bridges for [...]