News Roundup: Even more Film Critics Awards 2009 Nominations and Winners, Film Festival News, etc.

So many film critics awards nominations and winners to keep up...so, I'm putting these new ones all in one post, film festival news and new Carey Mulligan video from Hollywood Reporter.

Lets start with...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announced the winners of the 2009 EDA Awards:

EDA ANNUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan – An Education
EDA FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS
Best Breakthrough Performance: Carey Mulligan – An Education
EDA SPECIAL MENTION AWARDS
Best Depiction Of Nudity, Sexuality, or Seduction: (Tie)
An Education – Carey Mulligan and Peter Saarsgard
It’s Complicated – Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin

American Film Institute Movies of the Year

[source: afi]

• CORALINE
• THE HANGOVER
• THE HURT LOCKER
• THE MESSENGER
• PRECIOUS
• A SERIOUS MAN
• A SINGLE MAN
• SUGAR
• UP
• UP IN THE AIR 

LAFCA (Los Angeles Film Critics)
ACTRESS: Yolande Moreau, “Séraphine”
Runner-up: Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
 SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Runner-up: Peter Capaldi, “In the Loop” 
  
NYFCO (New York Film Critics Online)
 Best Ensemble: In the Loop

NYFCO Top Ten Films of 2009

• Adventureland (Miramax Films)
• Avatar (20th Century Fox)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight)
• The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Co.)
• The Messenger (Oscilloscope)
• Precious (Lionsgate)
• A Serious Man (Focus Features
• Two Lovers (Magnolia)
• Up (Disney/Pixar)
• Up in the Air (Paramount)

The Critics' Choice Movie Awards announced their nominations today and here are their nominations...

NOMINEES FOR THE 15TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE

• Avatar
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• Nine
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up In The Air

BEST ACTRESS

• Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria”
• Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side”
• Carey Mulligan – “An Education”
• Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
• Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious”
• Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Matt Damon – “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson – “The Messenger”
• Christian McKay – “Me And Orson Welles”
• Alfred Molina – “An Education”
• Stanley Tucci – “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Marion Cotillard – “Nine”
• Vera Farmiga – “Up In The Air”
• Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air”
• Mo’Nique – “Precious”
• Julianne Moore – “A Single Man”
• Samantha Morton – “The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

• Jae Head – “The Blind Side”
• Bailee Madison – “Brothers”
• Max Records – “Where The Wild Things Are”
• Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones”
• Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Road”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

• Inglourious Basterds
• Nine
• Precious
• Star Trek
• Up In The Air

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
• Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – “District 9”
• Geoffrey Fletcher – “Precious”
• Tom Ford, David Scearce – “A Single Man”
• Nick Hornby – “An Education”
• Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – “Up In The Air”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker”
• Dion Beebe – “Nine”
• Mauro Fiore – “Avatar”
• Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones”
• Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Dan Bishop – “A Single Man”
• Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar”
• John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine”
• Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones”
• David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST EDITING

• Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air”
• Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds”
• Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker”
• Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar”
• Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Colleen Atwood – “Nine”
• Janet Patterson – “Bright Star”
• Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria”
• Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds”
• Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”

BEST MAKEUP

• Avatar
• District 9
• Nine
• The Road
• Star Trek

BEST SONG

• “All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – “Where The Wild Things Are”
• “Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog”
• “Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – “Nine”
• “(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – “Everybody’s Fine”
• “The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – “Crazy Heart”

BEST SCORE

• Michael Giacchino – “Up”
• Marvin Hamlisch – “The Informant!”
• Randy Newman – “The Princess and the Frog”
• Karen O, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are”
• Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”

Read full nominees here.

The Southeastern Film Critics Awards

Ten Best Films of 2009:
1 ) Up in the Air
2 ) The Hurt Locker
3 ) Up
4 ) Inglourious Basterds
5 ) A Serious Man
6 ) (500) Days of Summer
7 ) Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
8 ) The Messenger
9 ) Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 ) District 9


Indiana Film Critics Awards Winners

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Runner-up: Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia


The 2009 New York Film Critics’ Circle Award Winners:
Best Screenplay
“In the Loop” 

St. Louis Film Critics Nominations

(St. Louis Film Critics Association Nominations 2009 – winners tba December 20).

Best Film
(500) Days of Summer
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
Precious
Up
Up in the Air
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall – The Road
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Melanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
Mo’Nique – Precious
Samantha Morton – the Messenger
Best Director
Wes Anderson – The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Best Music
Crazy Heart
Nine
Pirate Radio
Princess and the Frog
Up
Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)
(500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadlter/Michael H. Weber
An Education – Nick Hornby
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner


The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 5:00am (8:00am ET) at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, broadcast live on NBC's Today show. Also, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Nominations will be announced December 17th.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will recognize four actors - Carey Mulligan, Saoirse Ronan, Gabourey Sidibe and Michael Stuhlbarg - with its 2010 Chopin Virtuosos Award, which will be presented Feb. 7 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.

The award honors "a select group of actors who have distinguished themselves through performances in film this past year."

Mulligan stars in "An Education," Ronan appears in "The Lovely Bones"; Sidibe plays the title character in "Precious"; and Stuhlbarg headlines "A Serious Man."

Ones to Watch: Carey Mulligan

 VIDEO: "An Education" star talks about which actor she considers a "brother" and dishes on what Oliver Stone told Shia LaBeouf on the set of "Wall Street 2." Watch the video or watch it below...

[source: Hollywood Reporter]