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“Black Swan” Leads 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Nominations
Black Swan came out ahead with 12 nominations, followed by The King’s Speech andTrue Grit with 11 each. The Social Network received nine.
BEST PICTURE
Nominees:
- 127 Hours
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
- The Town
- Toy Story 3
- True Grit
- Winter’s Bone
Movie Quote of the Day – Dance of the Dead, 2008 (dir. Gregg Bishop)
Coach Keel: Little lady, you’ll get the machete.
Gwen: But I don’t know how to shoot a machete.
Indiana Film Critics Name “The Social Network” Best Film, Nolan Best Director
Best Film of the Year: The Social Network
Runner-up: Inception
Other Finalists: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Fighter, Never Let Me Go, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, True Grit, Winter’s Bone
LA Film Critics Name “The Social Network” Best Film of the Year
The LA Film Critics are announcing their winners in two batches, this post will be updated as they’re announced. Aaron Sorkin seems to be on his way to Oscar, with another Best Screenplay win for The Social Network.
Best Picture
The Social Network
Runner-up: Carlos
“The Social Network” Sweeps Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Jesse Eisenberg, David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin all received awards. They also pushed Christian Bale even further into frontrunner status, naming him Best Supporting Actor of the year. Juliet Lewis is still in the mix, winning Best Supporting Actress of the year for Conviction.
Best Picture
The Social Network
Runner up: Toy Story 3
Movie Quote of the Day – Clueless, 1995 (dir. Amy Heckerling)
Christian: Do you like Billie Holiday?
Cher: I love him.
Christian: Right.
Winter’s Bone, The King’s Speech Lead Detroit Film Critics Society Nominations
Most of these are pretty expected. The biggest surprises are no nomination for either Annette Bening or Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right and no Inception or The Town for Best Ensemble. I’m really excited to see both Carey Mulligan’s performance from Never Let Me Go and Jennifer Lawrence from Winter’s Bone included in the Best Actress category. Both were absolutely astounding and from films that weren’t huge box office successes. Also, I love that John Hawkes got another nomination for his stellar performance in Winter’s Bone.
Best Film
127 Hours
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Winter’s Bone
Movie Quote of the Day – Frequency, 2000 (dir. Gregory Hoblit)
John Sullivan: Listen Gordo, my name is Santa Claus and I’m going to give you the biggest Christmas present that you’ve ever had.
Gordo Hersch (8 Years old): I better give you my address then.
John Sullivan: No, no, no. Don’t worry about it kid. Now, this is important. Something you’ve got to remember for a long time. Yahoo.
Gordo Hersch (8 Years old): What’s that?
John Sullivan: It’s a magic word. It’s like abracadabra, only better.
Movie Quote of the Day – American Psycho, 2000 (dir. Mary Harron)
Patrick Bateman: Harold, it’s Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You’re my lawyer so I think you should know: I’ve killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can’t remember maybe a model, but she’s dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell’s Kitchen. I don’t want to leave anything out here. I guess I’ve killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um… I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I’m not sure I’m gonna get away with it this time. I guess I’ll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I’m a pretty uh, I mean I guess I’m a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry’s Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.
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