Awards season officially began this week as the LA. Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), and Boston Film Critics, all announced their top picks for 2010. And THE SOCIAL NETWORK came out ahead of the rest, picking up the Best Picture award from each organisation. David Fincher was also named the top director by all three groups, and screenplay writer Aaron Sorkin certainly wasn’t forgotten either.
However, the movie about Facebook didn’t dominate over all, Natalie Portman was crowned Best Actress by NYFCO and Boston for her performance in the Darren Aronofsky-directed movie BLACK SWAN (read our review here), and Christian Bale was given Best Supporting Actor credit for his role in David O. Russell’s THE FIGHTER.
When it came to Best Actor though, the three groups were at war. NYFCO awarded the accolade to James Franco for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, L.A. went for Colin Firth in THE KING’S SPEECH (see our review here), and Boston announced Jesse Eisenberg as top acting dog for THE SOCIAL NETWORK. One thing they could agree on though was that TOY STORY 3 deserved the honour of being Best Animated Feature.
Here’s the full list of winners:
LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS
Best Picture
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: CARLOS
Best Actor
Colin Firth, THE KING’S SPEECH
Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, CARLOS
Best Actress
Kim Hye-ja, MOTHER
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, WINTER’S BONE
Best Supporting Actor
Niels Arestrup, A PROPHET
Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, THE KING’S SPEECH
Best Supporting Actress
Jacki Weaver, ANIMAL KINGDOM
Runner-up: Olivia Williams, THE GHOST WRITER
Best Director
Olivier Assayas, CARLOS and David Fincher, THE SOCIAL NETWORK (tie)
Best Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: David Seidler, THE KING’S SPEECH
Best Cinematography
Matthew Libatique, BLACK SWAN
Runner-up: Roger Deakins, TRUE GRIT
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
LAST TRAIN HOME
Runner-up: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Best Foreign-Language Film
CARLOS
Runner-up: MOTHER
Best Animated Film
TOY STORY 3
Runner-up: THE ILLUSIONIST
New Generation Award
Lena Dunham, TINY FURNITURE
Best Music/Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, THE SOCIAL NETWORK and Alexandre Desplat, THE GHOST WRITER (tie)
Best Production Design
Guy Hendrix Dyas, INCEPTION
Runner-up: Eve Stewart, THE KING’S SPEECH
Douglas E. Edwards Award for Independent/Experimental Film/Video
FILM SOCIALISM
Legacy of Cinema
Serge Bromberg for his preservation efforts, including his work on Henri-Georges Clouzot’s INFERNO
BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
Best Picture
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: TOY STORY 3
Best Actor
Jesse Eisenberg, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: Colin Firth, THE KING’S SPEECH
Best Actress
Natalie Portman, BLACK SWAN
Runner-up: Annette Bening, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, THE FIGHTER
Runner-up: Andrew Garfield, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Best Supporting Actress
Juliette Lewis, CONVICTION
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, THE FIGHTER
Best Director
David Fincher, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: Darren Aronofsky, BLACK SWAN
Best Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: Nicole Holofcener, PLEASE GIVE
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, TRUE GRIT
Runner-up: Matthew Libatique, BLACK SWAN
Best Documentary
MARWENCOL
Runner-up: INSIDE JOB
Best Foreign-Language Film
TBD
Best Animated Film
TOY STORY 3
Runner-up: THE ILLUSIONIST
Best Editing (In Memory of Karen Schmeer)
Andrew Weisblum, BLACK SWAN
Runner-up: Lee Smith, INCEPTION
Best New Filmmaker (In Memory of David Brudnoy)
Jeff Malmberg, MARWENCOL
Runner-up: David Michod, ANIMAL KINGDOM
Best Ensemble Cast
THE FIGHTER
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
Best Use of Music in a Film
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Runner-up: Carter Burwell, TRUE GRIT
Source: Various Sources
