Awards -- Broadcast Film Critics (Critics Choice) Nominees

This morning, the Broadcast Film Critics announced the nominees for this year's Critics' Choice Awards. Always one of the bigger awards of the year, and this year they also added in many more technical categories, thus possibly making these nominees more important when talking about the Oscar nominees as well.

Also, let me say this now. It can only be possibly explained that it's because the film came out way back in March, but the fact that "I Love You, Man" is NOT nominated for Best Comedy Film is an EPIC, EPIC FAIL! But very pleased about the Avatar outpouring of love, glad they actually saw it before voting!!!, along with the good mentions for The Road, Star Trek, District 9, Fantasic Mr. Fox, and (500) Days of Summer.

All in all, they chose to serious spread around the love. Leading the pack with 10 nominations each are Inglourious Basterds (yay) and Nine (really?), followed by Avatar with 9 nods (yay), The Hurt Locker & Up in the Air with 8 nods, Precious & The Lovely Bones with 6 (although Bones did not get into picture). Nomination tallies are after the nominees, and here they are...

BEST PICTURE
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
James Cameron "Avatar"
Lee Daniels "Precious"
Clint Eastwood "Invictus"
Jason Reitman "Up in the Air"
Quentin Tarantino "Inglourious Basterds"

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" (tie)
Carey Mulligan "An Education"
Saoirse Ronan "The Lovely Bones"
Gabourey Sidibe "Precious"
Meryl Streep "Julie & Julia" (tie)

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 ENSEMBLE CAST
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up in the Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"(500) Days of Summer" -- Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
"The Hurt Locker" -- Mark Boal
"Inglourious Basterds" -- Quentin Tarantino
"A Serious Man" -- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"Up" -- Bob Peterson & Pete Docter

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"District 9" -- Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell
"An Education" -- Nick Hornby
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" -- Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach
"Precious" - Geoffrey Fletcher
"A Single Man" -- Tom Ford & David Scearce
"Up in the Air" -- Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Avatar" -- Mauro Fiore
"The Hurt Locker" -- Barry Ackroyd
"Inglourious Basterds" -- Robert Richardson
"The Lovely Bones" -- Andrew Lesnie
"Nine" -- Dion Beebe

BEST FILM EDITING
"Avatar" -- Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua & James Cameron
"The Hurt Locker" -- Bob Murawski & Chris Innis
"Inglourious Basterds" -- Sally Menke
"Nine" -- Claire Simpson & Wyatt Smith
"Up in the Air" -- Dana E. Glauberman

BEST ART DIRECTION
"Avatar" -- Rick Carter & Robert Stromberg
"Inglourious Basterds" -- David Wasco & Sandy Reynolds Wasco
"The Lovely Bones" -- Naomi Shohan & George De Titta, Jr.
"Nine" -- John Myhre & Gordon Sim
"A Single Man" -- Dan Bishop

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
"Bright Star" -- Janet Patterson
"Inglourious Basterds" -- Anna Sheppard
"Nine" -- Colleen Atwood
"Where the Wild Things Are" -- Casey Storm
"The Young Victoria" -- Sandy Powell

BEST SOUND
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
2012
Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek

BEST MAKEUP
Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
"The Informant!" -- Marvin Hamlisch
"The Princess and the Frog" -- Randy Newman
"Sherlock Holmes" -- Hans Zimmer
"Up" -- Michael Giacchino
"Where the Wild Things Are" -- Karen O & Carter Burwell

BEST ORIGINAL 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 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson's This Is It

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 ACTION FILM
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

BEST COMEDY FILM
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland

BEST FILM MADE FOR TELEVISION
Gifted Hands
Grey Gardens
Into the Storm
Taking Chance


NOMINATION TALLIES
10
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
9
Avatar
8
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
6
The Lovely Bones
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
5
District 9
Star Trek
4
An Education
Invictus
A Single Man
Up
Where the Wild Things Are
3
The Princess and the Frog
The Road
2
(500) Days of Summer
The Blind Side
Crazy Heart
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Messenger
A Serious Man
The Young Victoria
1
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