Need Some Movie Ideas for the Holidays? Here’s How the Los Angeles Film Critics See It

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS

(announced December 13, 2009)

Best Picture:  The Hurt Locker

            Runner Up:       Up In The Air

Best Director:  Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

            Runner Up:       Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon

Best Actor:  Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

            Runner Up:       Colin Firth, A Single Man

Best Actress:  Yolande Moreau, Séraphine

            Runner Up:       Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor:  Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

            Runner Up:       Peter Capaldi, In The Loop

Best Supporting Actress:  Mo’Nique, Precious

            Runner Up:       Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

Best Screenplay:  Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

            Runner Up:       Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche,

                                    In The Loop

Best Foreign Language Film:  Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours

            Runner Up:       Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon

Best Documentary:  The Beaches Of Agnès and The Cove (tie)

            Runner Up:      

Best Cinematography:  Christian Berger, The White Ribbon

            Runner Up:       Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker

Best Music Score:  T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton, Crazy Heart

            Runner Up:       Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Production Design:  Philip Ivey, District 9

            Runner Up:       Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Avatar

Best Animated Feature:  Fantastic Mr. Fox

            Runner Up:       Up

New Generation Award:  Neill Blomkamp, District 9

Career Achievement:  Jean-Paul Belmondo

Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:  Anders Edstrom and C.W.

            Winter, The Anchorage

Special Award: 

Legacy of Cinema Award: