The Hurt Locker won three major awards from the National Society of Film Critics (of which I am a member): Best Picture, Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow, and Best Actor for Jeremy Renner.
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Oscar: Nights of Cabiria, Second Foreign Language Winner
January 2, 2010 by
Starring Giulietta Masina in one of greatest performances, Fellini's masterpiece relates in a realistic yet serio-comic way the adventures of a Roman prostitute, who manages to remain upbeat and even optimistic despite an endless series of disasters and mishaps.
Cinema 2000-2009: Best Picutre–Runners-Up of the Decade
January 1, 2010 by
Too many good films to choose from. Here is my list of ten runners-up, arranged in alphabetical order. It represents half a dozen national cinemas, including Romania, a country that continues to produce some of the best films around.
1. Adaptation (2003), Spike Jonze
2. City of God (2002), Brazil, Fernando Mereilles
3……..
Cinema 2000-2009: Best Films of Decade–Mulholland Drive, The Lives of Others, Cache
December 31, 2009 by
My choices for the ten best (most memorable) films of the past decade, from 2000 to 2009.
Oscar 2009: Best Picture Predictions
December 24, 2009 by
Ten of the these 17 pictures likely will get Best Picture nomination, now that the field is wider and includes more films. It's almost irrelevant whether there were ten really good pictures in 2009; the slots must be filled. But be prepared for major surprises—It's called Oscar.
