On the same day it was named Best Picture of 2009 by the Boston Film Critics Association, The Hurt Locker also won those honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Here is their list of winners:
Best Picture The Hurt Locker
Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress Yolande Moreau, Seraphine
Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Screenplay Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Animation Fantastic Mr. Fox
Foreign Language Film Summer Hours
New Generation Neill Blomkamp, District 9
Music Crazy Heart
Production Design District 9
Cinematography The White Ribbon
Documentary The Beaches of Agnes and The Cove
Go Meryl!! Go Precious!! Go UP!!
Yay for The White Ribbon!
Yay! second commentator!
I think The White Ribbon could end up with a Best Picture and Best Director nomination.
Oh, and Hurray for District 9!
Great to see Yolanda Moreau get some love from the LAFCA. The Hurt Locker is a good choice of film as best picture as it neither overtly criticizes the on-going war in Southwest Asia nor upholds the righteousness of war. But it presents lives of real people with a duty to serve the country without abject moralizing. But Yolande Moreau comes from a long line of fine acting choices from LAFCA from Sally Hawkins to Vera Farmiga (in the criminally unseen ‘Down to the Bones’ 3 years ago) to Luminita Gheorghiu (from another critical favorite ‘The Death of Mr Lazarescu).
Yay for Yolande!
Yay for The Beaches of Agnes!
Yay for The White Ribbon!
Yay for Fantastic Mr Fox!
Yay for Summer Hours!
Yay for Christophe Waltz!
Fantastic Mr. Fox over Up? What kind of craziness is this !
I agree. Up easily was the best animated movie of the year! GO PIXAR!
Actually, Mary and Max is the best. Followed by Up, then Fantastic Mr. Fox
i have not seen fantastic mr fox yet, but people seem to forget the fact that up had the weakest final third of any “contender” this year. i’d put coraline ahead of 9
first win for something other than “UP”, which still has the inside track on the Oscar
If The Hurt Locker picks up the NYC award tomorrow, we may have a new frontrunner. (My early prediction is that The Hurt Locker will end up with the Best Picture award. It has a better chance in some of the technical categoies, i.e. editing and cinematography, and I feel that the Academy is ready to give a female director some love).
Avatar got screwed over big-time. Cameron not even the director RUNNER-UP? Some German guy? Please. The LAFCA are still ticked at Cameron, perhaps for wanting the LA Times movie critic back then fired for writing a bad review of Titanic. Hello, that was a dozen years ago. Get the eff over it.
Avatar will end up getting enough buzz once when it is released that I doubt it will get screwed out of a Best Picture nod, especially since there are 10 nominees. But don’t knock Michael Haneke. He is a very talented director (unknown in the U.S.) who now might have been given a shot at a Best Director nomination.
And this is precisely the reason viewers stayed away in droves last year, because foreign directors and their movies swipe nominations from those more worthy (Christopher Nolan and The Dark Knight, anyone, who got sandbagged last year?).
Monique did amazing in Precious. I hope that the Oscars and Golden Globes give her mad props!