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Box-office sensation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is up for a Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Award for the best Swedish picture of 2009. Strangely, director Niels Arden Oplev wasn't nominated — The Girl's Fredrik Edfeldt took his place — though Noomi Rapace (above) is in the running for best actress. A surprise blockbuster, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has earned more than $100 million [...]

Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Not too many surprises among the Central Ohio Film Critics Association's 2009 winners. In the last few weeks, Up in the Air, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Up, Mo'Nique, and Christoph Waltz have all been cited a number of times by other critics' groups throughout the United States. The one Central Ohio win [...]

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.) The National Society of Film Critics announces its award winners tomorrow, Jan. 3. Admired by those who call their choices daring, reviled by others who call their choices snotty, the NSFC has been around since the mid-60s, when it was formed as a sort of splinter group from the more "mainstream" New York Film [...]

2009 David di Donatello Awards 2009 David di Donatello Award nominations: April 9, 2009 2009 David di Donatello Award winners: May 8, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (top photo); Toni Servillo in Il Divo (lower photo)   Best Film / miglior film Il divo produced by Andrea Occhipinti, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Maurizio Coppolecchia directed by Paolo Sorrentino [...]