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2011 Critics' Choice Awards

Well, I must say that this year's Critics Choice Awards are plenty of good choices in my opinion. I loved the fact that they recognized Noomi Rapace as a nominee in the Best Actress category for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but there are some missing names like Lesley Manville for Another Year, Dianne Wiest for Rabbit Hole or even John Hawkes for Winter's Bone? What about Somewhere and Animal Kingdom missing in screenplay categories? And... hey!... Why isn't The Kids Are All Right nominated for Best Picture? Shouldn't Hailee Steinfeld be in the leading actress category (I think she seems more a "leading" than a "supporting" actress)?
But I can't complain about Critics' Choice Awards specially after having a look at Golden Globes, but it is another post...
Here's the nominees list with my winner predictions with an *:

BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
*
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges for True Grit
Robert Duvall for Get Low
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Colin Firth for The King’s Speech *
James Franco for 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan *
Noomi Rapace for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale for The Fighter *
Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Sam Rockwell for Conviction
Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush for The King’s Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech
Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Melissa Leo for The Fighter *
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit
Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning for Somewhere
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone *
Chloe Grace Moretz for Let Me In
Chloe Grace Moretz for Kick-Ass
Kodi Smit-McPhee for Let Me In
Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
The Social Network *
The Town


BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Danny Boyle for 127 Hours
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for True Grit
David Fincher for The Social Network *
Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year – Mike Leigh
Black Swan – Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
The Fighter – Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson (Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson)
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg *
The King’s Speech – David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin *
The Town – Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard
Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt (Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
True Grit – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
127 Hours – Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Inception – Wally Pfister *
The King’s Speech – Danny Cohen
True Grit – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg *
Black Swan – Therese DePrez and Tora Peterson
Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas
The King’s Speech – Netty Chapman
True Grit – Jess Gonchor and Nancy Haigh

BEST EDITING
127 Hours – Jon Harris
Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum
Inception – Lee Smith *
The Social Network – Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood
Black Swan – Amy Westcott
The King’s Speech – Jenny Beavan *
True Grit – Mary Zophres

BEST MAKEUP
Alice in Wonderland *
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
True Grit

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Inception *
Tron: Legacy

BEST SOUND
127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception *
The Social Network
Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3 *

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Inception *
Kick-Ass
Red
The Town
Unstoppable

BEST COMEDY
Cyrus *
Date Night
Easy A
Get Him to the Greek
I Love You Phillip Morris
The Other Guys

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
The Pacific *
Temple Grandin
You Don’t Know Jack

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Biutiful *
I Am Love
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job
Restrepo
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
The Tillman Story
Waiting for Superman *


BEST SONG
“I See the Light” – performed by Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi/written by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater – Tangled
“If I Rise” – performed by Dido and A.R. Rahman/music by A.R. Rahman/lyrics by Dido Armstrong and Rollo Armstrong – 127 Hours *
“Shine” – performed and written by John Legend – Waiting for Superman
“We Belong Together” – performed and written by Randy Newman – Toy Story 3
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet” – performed by Cher/written by Diane Warren – Burlesque

BEST SCORE
Black Swan – Clint Mansell
Inception – Hans Zimmer *
The King’s Speech – Alexandre Desplat
The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
True Grit – Carter Burwell

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