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Kate Winslet, Leonardio DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road (top); Winslet, David Kross in The Reader (bottom) There were few surprises among the 2009 Golden Globe winners. The biggest one was Kate Winslet's best actress, drama, win for Revolutionary Road. Pundits everywhere — including those in this blog — were predicting either Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep. Sally Hawkins' best actress, comedy or musical, win may have [...]

An animated film has won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman's anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel's disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It's hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with [...]

Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass in The Visitor BEST ACTOR Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) Sean Penn (Milk) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Clint Eastwood becomes a sentimental favorite whenever he has a Message to convey; Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke have been winning awards left and right; Frank Langella will get his first Oscar nod (a sort of career achievement [...]

2008 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 Oklahoma Film Critics winners: December 23, 2008   Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire   Best Film of 2008: Slumdog Millionaire dir. Danny Boyle Top Ten Films (listed alphabetically): The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Happy-Go-Lucky Milk Rachel Getting Married Slumdog Millionaire WALL-E The Wrestler Best Foreign Film: Let the Right One In, dir. [...]