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2009 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 5, 2009     Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In (Sweden) Best Documentary: Man on Wire Best Animated Film: WALL-E Robert Altman Award for Best Director: Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler Best Actor: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler Best Actress: Meryl Streep [...]

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 [...]

2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards 2009 National Society of Film Critics award winners: January 3, 2009   Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman   BEST PICTURE 1. Waltz with Bashir, directed by Ari Folman (26) 2. Happy-Go-Lucky (20) 3. WALL-E (20) BEST NON-FICTION FILM 1. Man on Wire, directed by James Marsh (55) 2. Trouble the Water (34) 3. Encounters at the End [...]

J. Hoberman in The Village Voice: "All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots. "Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late [...]