Awards -- Houston Film Critics

The next group to announce is out of Houston. A few nice surprise nods, including some of my personal fav's of the year. But here are their nominees.

[Edit] -- They have announced their winners, which are highlighted below. Once again, The Social Network retains it's runaway-train ways.


BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
Kick-Ass
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone


BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Aronofsky "Black Swan"
Danny Boyle "127 Hours"
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen "True Grit"
David Fincher "The Social Network"
Christopher Nolan "Inception"


BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges "True Grit"
Robert Duvall "Get Low"
Jesse Eisenberg "The Social Network"
Colin Firth "The King's Speech"
James Franco "127 Hours"


BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening "The Kids Are All Right"
Nicole Kidman "Rabbit Hole"
Jennifer Lawrence "Winter's Bone"
Natalie Portman "Black Swan"
Noomi Rapace "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale "The Fighter"
Andrew Garfield "The Social Network"
Bill Murray "Get Low"
Jeremy Renner "The Town"
Geoffrey Rush "The King's Speech"


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Helena Bonham Carter "The King's Speech"
Melissa Leo "The Fighter"
Julianne Moore "The Kids Are All Right"
Hailee Steinfeld "True Grit"
Jackie Weaver "Animal Kingdom"


BEST SCREENPLAY
Inception -- Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right -- Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The Social Network -- Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 -- John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich & Michael Arndt
Winter's Bone -- Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Tangled
Toy Story 3


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
127 Hours -- Anthony Dod Mantle
Black Swan -- Matthew Libatique
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 -- Eduardo Serra
Inception -- Wally Pfister
True Grit -- Roger Deakins


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
127 Hours -- A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon -- John Powell
Inception -- Hans Zimmer
The Social Network -- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
True Grit -- Carter Burwell


BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"The Clap" -- Get Him to the Greek
"If I Rise" -- 127 Hours
"Shine" -- Waiting for Superman
"We are Sex Bob-Omb!" -- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" -- Burlesque


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful -- Mexico
Carlos -- France/Germany
El Secreto del Sus Ojos -- Argentina
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Sweden
Mother -- South Korea


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Marwencol
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for Superman


WORSE MOVIE OF THE YEAR
Furry Vengeance
Jonah Hex
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2
Splice