Critics' Choice Nominees

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 ACTOR

* Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart”
* George Clooney – “Up In The Air”
* Colin Firth – “A Single Man”
* Morgan Freeman – “Invictus”
* Viggo Mortensen – “The Road”
* Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”

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 DIRECTING

* Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker”
* James Cameron – “Avatar”
* Lee Daniels – “Precious”
* Clint Eastwood – “Invictus”
* Jason Reitman – “Up In The Air”
* Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

* Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker”
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”
* Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer”
* Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “Up”
* Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”

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 VISUAL EFFECTS

* Avatar
* District 9
* The Lovely Bones
* Star Trek
* 2012

BEST SOUND

* Avatar
* District 9
* The Hurt Locker
* Nine
* Star Trek

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

* Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
* Coraline
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* Princess And The Frog
* Up

BEST ACTION MOVIE

* Avatar
* District 9
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* Star Trek

BEST COMEDY

* (500) Days Of Summer
* The Hangover
* It’s Complicated
* The Proposal
* Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

* Gifted Hands
* Grey Gardens
* Into The Storm
* Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

* Broken Embraces
* Coco Before Chanel
* Red Cliff
* Sin Nombre
* The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

* Anvil
* Capitalism: A Love Story
* The Cove
* Food, Inc.
* Michael Jackson’s This Is It

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”