The Broadcast Film Critics Association has released its nominees for its 15th annual Critics’ Choice awards, and a pair of Weinstein Co. movies (Inglourious Basterds and Nine) led with 10 nods each, followed by Avatar with nine. The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, and Precious all fared very well overall. Missing from the BFCA’s list of 10 Best Picture nominees: Star Trek, The Hangover, The Lovely Bones, and (500) Days of Summer. You can follow me on Twitter (@davekarger) for Oscar updates.
BEST PICTURE
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney - “Up In The Air”
Colin Firth – “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman – “Invictus”
Viggo Mortensen – “The Road”
Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”
BEST ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria”
Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side”
Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious”
Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon – “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson – “The Messenger”
Christian McKay – “Me And Orson Welles”
Alfred Molina – “An Education”
Stanley Tucci – “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard – “Nine”
Vera Farmiga – “Up In The Air”
Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air”
Mo’Nique – “Precious”
Julianne Moore – “A Single Man”
Samantha Morton – “The Messenger”
BEST DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron – “Avatar”
Lee Daniels – “Precious”
Clint Eastwood – “Invictus”
Jason Reitman – “Up In The Air”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
Read the rest of the nominees after the jump.
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jae Head – “The Blind Side”
Bailee Madison – “Brothers”
Max Records – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Road”
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In The Air
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer”
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “Up”
Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – “District 9″
Geoffrey Fletcher – “Precious”
Tom Ford, David Scearce – “A Single Man”
Nick Hornby – “An Education”
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – “Up In The Air”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker”
Dion Beebe – “Nine”
Mauro Fiore – “Avatar”
Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones”
Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ART DIRECTION
Dan Bishop – “A Single Man”
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar”
John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine”
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones”
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST EDITING
Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air”
Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds”
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker”
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar”
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood – “Nine”
Janet Patterson – “Bright Star”
Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria”
Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds”
Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”
BEST MAKEUP
Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012
BEST SOUND
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess And The Frog
Up
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
BEST COMEDY
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland
BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Gifted Hands
Grey Gardens
Into The Storm
Taking Chance
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
BEST SONG
“All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – “Where The Wild Things Are”
“Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog”
“Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – “Nine”
“(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – “Everybody’s Fine”
“The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – “Crazy Heart”
BEST SCORE
Michael Giacchino – “Up”
Marvin Hamlisch – “The Informant!”
Randy Newman – “The Princess and the Frog”
Karen O, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”
ha — beat you by a minute
This pretty much is exactly how the Oscars should be…except maybe 500 Days getting a “Best Picture” nom…other than that, I love it!
should that be a SINGLE man in the best movie category?
Probably not- The Coen Bros made A Serious Man, and of course most of us haven’t seen it yet!!!!
A Serious Man is actually a very good film if you get a chance to see it. It’s kind of haunting and has stayed with me ever since I saw it three weeks ago. One of my favorite Coen Bros. movies so far.
A Serious Man is crap. I’m a Coen brothers fan, but this movie is all over the place and makes zero sense. The forst ten minutes of the movie have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of it! Bad, bad movie.
A Serious Man = meandering muddle, an excruciating and unrewarding film to sit through (and I am normally a Coen Bros fan). Seriously, avoid that one like that plague.
should that not be a SINGLE man in the Best movie Category?
Why would the Lovely Bones be on this list? It was not favorably received by the critics, so I guess its omission is not a surprise to me
Broadcast Cirtics went to 10 noms also? Hmm..
It’s awesome they have a Best Action movie category. And their Best Animated is expanded to 5. The Best Visual Effects noms are exactly right, and I think it’d be cool if this Award show was aired (on cable or something). I’m a whore for Award shows
They have always had ten best picture nominees.
It’s aired on VH1.
they really should’ve nominated 500 days
Uhm – Why the hell was Leona Lewis not nominated for Avatar? Puhlease.
or Mary J. Blige for “I Can See in Color” from Precious?? let’s hope they both get Golden Globes noms (out tomorrow) and Oscar noms.
Inglorious Basterds in the Original Screenplay catagory? Shouldn’t that be in the Adapted Screenplay list?
It was Tarantino’s version not what you would call an adaptation.
Why would it be in the adapted category?
Because it’s loosely based on the foreign language B-movie Inglorious Bastards.
Even though Tarantino borrowed the title and they’re both WWII “guys on a mission” movies, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. It was obviously an influence, but Tarantino’s screenplay has to be considered original.
I’m an admirer of Tarantino and the Coen brothers, and not usually a major fan of action movies. However, “District 9″ was IMO a FAR better movie than either “Inglourious Basterds” or “A Serious Man”.
Glad I am not the only one who feels this way
seriously, Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs??? they just had to throw DreamWorks a pity bone didnt they?
“Cloudy” was produced by Sony Animation, not Dreamworks. Dreamworks released “Monsters Vs. Aliens”.
oops my bad
I’m sad that Bright Star was almost completely shut out. And Weinstein must REALLY have sway with the BFCA, because how else do you explain that two of his films got nominations (especially since Nine is getting such poor reviews…). Oh, and this solidifies that Sandra Bullock is a major contender for a Best Actress nomination.
ugh Sandra Bullock… gross
I am really glad to see Emily Blunt picking up some steam… it would be fantastic for her to grab an oscar nod. Especially in a category that seems to just have three out of five on lock (Streep, Sidibe, and Mulligan)
Inglourious Basterds is a masterpiece. If GETTYMOVIE the Getty/Hitler trilogy attains half the respect … then there is true justice in the movie industry.
That first sentence… a reference to the final line of the film?