The Boston Society of Film Critics has announced its year-end awards, with The Hurt Locker winning five prizes, including Best Picture, Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow, and Best Actor for Jeremy Renner. Here’s their list:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Animated Film: Up
Best Film Editing: Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Best New Filmmaker: Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Best Ensemble Cast: Precious and Star Trek
Best Use of Music in a Film: Crazy Heart
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Yayyy for Waltz, Bigelow and Streep!
Go Meryl! Onto the Oscars!
Glad to Streep take home an award for Julie and Julia, which I plan on watching for the billionth time again today. She certainly is on her way to a Golden Globe win! And perhaps with a little bit of that Streep charm and talent, her ingeniously deceptive performance as Julia Child will win her another oscar.
Yeah Neill Blomkamp!!!
I hope the oscars turn out exactly like this.
they won’t
i hope the hurt locker continues to win awards this movie is amazing and i hope meryl streep continues to win her and morgan freeman even if he didin’t won boston.
I just saw that the LA Crtics also went for Hurt Locker. I hope this year turns out with some surprises (besides Christoph Waltz) unlike last year. I like the underdogs coming through, though I still want Colin Firth.
Yes!!!!! This is great for Hurt Locker. A really incredible film. Pleasantly surprised about Renner. I think all of their acting choices are right on.
If Colin Firth doesn’t win the NY Critics award for Best Actor, Renner will likely sneak in. This tough race already has Cloony, Freeman, and Bridges as shoo-ins. Maybe both renner and Firth will get in but I have a feeling that Colin Firth will end up shunned on nomination day.
Yeah, too bad they couldn’t release Hurt Locker to more theaters. I had to travel 40 miles to see it. But hey, I could have seen G.I. Joe on 5 different screens if I wanted to.
I know what you mean :/ I wanted to see (500) days of summer, but I couldn’t because it didn’t play in my town…
I’m sorry, but I wish that Meryl Streep does not get nominated this year. I’m tired of her getting nominated just because her movie draws in audience members, plus her performance was pretty weak. On another year, I would’nt mind, but with a packed year of female contenders I’m pretty sure that people would’nt mind if she didn’t get a best actress Oscar nomination, and it would instead go to:
Penelope Cruz-Broken Embraces or
Arta Dobroshi-Lorna’s Silence
Especially Arta, I have not heard her being mentioned at all.
Sorry, Jose… but she gets nominated every year bc she is the greatest living actress. AND she more than deserves to win it this year.
I agree. If this race ends up with Carey Mulligan and Gabrielle Sidrouy as frontrunners, Meryl Streep may sneak up and win the award.
i would love to see gaby win for “precious” but i do agree meryl streep is the greatest actress of our generation.
I’ll say it since no one else has yet…Yea, Mo’Nique!! Add this win to the DC and LA critics!! I think she gave one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from anyone.
I think Mo’Nique and Christoph Waltz can begin dusting their mantles.
meryl streep is a living legend, and will go down as the best actor in our generation. there’s a reason why she has 15 oscar noms, and why she will pick up another this year. it was like watching julia child herself on screen
A midget Julia Child, you mean; was Streep a half-foot shorter than Child or so? This is a SOSO nomination, potentially – Same Old Same Old. Streep nominated because, and only because, she’s Meryl Streep.
If Meryl wins for that horrible movie it will be a testament to the ridiculous and clichéd moviegoing public and their pull with the lame-duck critical hegemony, who will rarely (if ever) stand up for talent and artistry over industry slop. I can think of 10 performances more worth of the 2010 Best Actress Oscar. What a shame.
Since no one else has said it yet: yeah Star Trek!!! Seriously, when was the last time a Star Trek movie won an award for acting? Wow!
Sweet! Not that I don’t think it’s probably great (I haven’t seen it yet), it’s nice to see that not every critics’ group is up Up in the Air’s ass. Also, great seeing so much Hurt Locker Recognition, plus Waltz, Streep, Mo’nique and Neill Blomkamp!