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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Awards -- London Film Critics Nominees

You gotta laugh at the absolute snobbery that emits from the London Critics each year, and they always have to differentiate between their films and those made over here in the U.S. Also the fact that almost all the awards are for British candidates only. Apparently they are the only ones worth mentioning...

BEST FILM
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
A Prophet
Up in the Air
The White Ribbon

BEST BRITISH FILM
Bright Star
An Education
Fish Tank
In the Loop
Moon

BEST DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard "A Prophet"
Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"
James Cameron "Avatar"
Michael Haneke "The White Ribbon"
Jason Reitman "Up in the Air"

BEST BRITISH DIRECTOR
Andrea Arnolde "Fish Tank"
Armando Iannucci "In the Loop"
Duncan Jones "Moon"
Kevin Macdonald "State of Play"
Sam Taylor-Wood "Nowhere Boy"

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney "Up in the Air"
Tahar Rahim "A Prophet"
Michael Stuhlbarg "A Serious Man"
Christoph Waltz "Inglourious Basterds"

BEST BRITISH ACTOR
Peter Capaldi "In the Loop"
Colin Firth "A Single Man"
Tom Hardy "Bronson"
Christian McKay "Me and Orson Welles"
Andy Serkis "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish "Bright Star"
Vera Farmiga "Up in the Air"
Mo'Nique "Precious"
Carey Mulligan "An Education"
Meryl Streep "Julie & Julia"

BEST BRITISH ACTRESS
Emily Blunt "The Young Victoria"
Helen Mirren "The Last Station"
Carey Mulligan "An Education"
Katie Jarvis "Fish Tank"
Kristin Scott Thomas "Nowhere Boy"

BEST BRITISH SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael Fassbender "Fish Tank"
John Hurt "44 Inch Chest"
Jason Isaacs "Good"
Alfred Molina "An Education"
Timothy Spall "The Damned United"

BEST BRITISH SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt "Sunshine Cleaning"
Anne-Marie Duff "Nowhere Boy"
Rosamund Pike "An Education"
Kierston Wareing "Fish Tank"
Olivia Williams "An Education"

BEST SCREENWRITER
"An Education" -- Nick Hornby
"In the Loop" -- Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
"A Prophet" -- Thomas Bidegain & Jacques Audiard
"A Serious Man" -- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"The White Ribbon" -- Michael Haneke

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Class
Katyn
Let the Right One In
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

BEST YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER
Katie Jarvis "Fish Tank"
Aaron Johnson "Nowhere Boy" & "Dummy"
George MacKay "The Boys Are Back"
Bill Milner "Is Anybody There?" & "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"
Saoirse Ronan "The Lovely Bones"

BEST BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILMMAKER
Daniel Barber "Harry Brown"
Armando Ianucci "In the Loop"
Duncan Jones "Moon"
Peter Strickland "Katalin Varga"
Sam Taylor-Wood "Nowhere Boy"

DILYS POWELL AWARD -- EXCELLENCE IN CINEMA
Quentin Tarantino

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