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Top Ten Tuesday: Best Movies of 2009

3 hours ago | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or… the craziest for some, but it’s a time of year when many are giving and receiving gifts of some kind. So, the Movie Geeks want to give you something as well… the best movies of the year, surprise! 2009 was an interesting year for movies, producing incredible movies from various genres. We saw many great films ranging from drama to comedy, sci-fi to animation, old school to new technology. There was something for everyone. We’ve tossed and turned and toiled, even lost some sleep to give you the perfect list of movies we feel are the Top Ten Best Movies of 2009.

10. The Hurt Locker

As much as you will hear about Jeremy Renner’s performance, which is a great performance, to me this is a film that really shines the spotlight on the film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow.  A …

- Movie Geeks

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Quentin Tarantino to receive `excellence` gong at awards

3 hours ago | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino is to pick up an 'excellence' gong at the London Film Critics' Circle Awards next year. The British flick An Education is nominated for seven gongs at the bash and its star, Carey Mulligan, has been nominated for actress of the year as well as British actress of the year. Dame Helen Mirren is also up for a gong in the best British actress category for her role as Leo Tolstoy's wife in film The Last Station. In the category for Film of the Year, James Cameron's much-anticipated movie Avatar has been nominated as well as The Hurt Locker. Speaking about his prize, Tarantino said: 'This is such an honour. I …

- Sophie Eager

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An Education heads London critics' shortlist

3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The drama based on Lynn Barber's memoir of coming of age in swinging London has seven nominations for the 30th annual London Critics' Circle film awards

An Education, Lone Scherfig's coming-of-age tale about a teenager who becomes involved with an older man in 60s London, leads the charge at the London Critics' Circle film awards. The shortlist, announced today, included seven nominations for the drama, among them actress of the year and British actress of the year for star Carey Mulligan.

Another big beast is A Prophet (Un Prophète), Jacques Audiard's gangster thriller about the fortunes of an illiterate teenager in a French prison, which has five nominations, including screenwriter of the year for Thomas Bidegain and Audiard, actor of the year for star Tahar Rahim, director of the year and foreign language film of the year.

A Prophet, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year, …

- Ben Child

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Phoenix Film Critics Name “Basterds” Best Film

4 hours ago | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »

10th Annual Pfcs Awards – Dec. 22, 2009 Best Picture Inglourious Basterds Top Ten Films of 2009 (in alphabetical order) Avatar District 9 (500) Days of Summer The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious Sherlock Holmes …

- Sasha Stone

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'Basterds' Dominates Phoenix Film Critics Awards

6 hours ago | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

The 10th annual Phoenix Film Critics Society awards have been announced, and since I vote in this one, I thought I'd share. Now, in the interest of transparency, I should tell you that these votes don't necessarily reflect my own thoughts, and since I have long maintained the Pfcs has way too many awards, I don't even vote in some of these categories myself, because I am not confident that we are, as a body, completely qualified to do so.

But it was a big year for Inglourious Basterds in the Valley of the Sun, and I'm happy to see that, even if it's not tops on my list. It's a bit more progressive than some of our previous years have reflected. So here they are, beginning first with the society's top ten films of the year in alphabetical order.

Avatar

District 9

(500) Days of Summer

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds …

- Colin Boyd

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Best Movies Of 2009, By Kurt Loder

7 hours ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

A pretty good year.

George Clooney in .Up in the Air.

Photo: Dale Robinette/ Paramount

It seems to be a critical tradition to bewail the awfulness of each year's movies. But how often is this really true? With the annual caveat that it's impossible (and meaningless) to designate one movie or filmmaker as the "best," here are a number of 2009 pictures I liked a lot in various aspects, with one entrant in each category selected, fairly arbitrarily, as the "best," and equally worthy contenders noted below them.

Best Picture:

"Up in the Air" A mainstream film with a complex heart and a brain, too. Not exactly a comedy, not precisely a drama, but as close to a perfect movie as any other this year.

Also really good: "The Hurt Locker": Can it actually have been seven years since Kathryn Bigelow's last picture? This scrappy low-budget film, with a breakthrough performance by Jeremy Renner, …

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Contest Winners!

8 hours ago | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »

Our Inglourious Basterds DVD contest is now over. The winners' names are Caitlyn Itts, Tim Ropp, Jeremiah Terry, Logan Herlovich and Jessica Deigert. You have all been notified via email and need to respond within 72 hours in order to claim your prizes. Thanks to everyone who entered. I think you'll see, when we publish our Best of 2009 lists, that Inglourious Basterds will be pretty well represented. I've already watched it a 2nd time and it could easily be one of those films that I'll …

- Mike Sampson

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5 Actresses Up For Green Lantern Role

9 hours ago | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

A casting notice including Green Lantern's love interest Carol Ferris was found in September, and it appears that Warner Brothers has narrowed its selection to five actresses. According to Latino Review, either Eva Green (Casino Royale), Keri Russell (Mission Impossible III), Jennifer Garner (Elektra), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), or Blake Lively (Gossip Girl) will play the part.

Our thoughts: Garner is certainly no stranger to comic book movie fans, but Elektra left a lot to be desired, while Russell provided the voice of Wonder Woman in the animated movie Warners and DC released this year. Kruger had a star-making turn in Basterds, while Lively seems ... largely out of place here. Green may have the upper hand considering that she worked with director Martin Campbell before on Casino Royale. Still, the casting will likely be contingent on how the ladies match up with Ryan Reynolds.

Which actress do you think should get the role? …

- Ryan Gowland

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Florida Film Critics Pick "Up in the Air" for Best Picture

12 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" took home three Florida Film Critics Circle awards including best picture, best actor for George Clooney and best director for Reitman.

"Precious" also won three awards including two for Gabourey Sidibe for best actress and breakout performance. Mo'Nique nabbed the best supporting actress award.

And the winners are:

Picture: "Up In The Air"

Actor: George Clooney, "Up In The Air"

Actress: Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious"

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, "Precious"

Director: Jason Reitman, "Up In The Air"

Screenplay: Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, "(500) Days of Summer"

Cinematography: Mauro Fiore, "Avatar"

Foreign Language: "Sin Nombre"

Animated Feature: "Up"

Documentary: "The Cove"

Breakout: Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious"

Golden Orange: No Award …

- Manny

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"The Hurt Locker" Sweeps Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

12 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

"The Hurt Locker" swept another critics association awards, this time, it's for the Chicago Film Critics Association. The film won all five awards that it was nominated for namely Best Picture, Best Director (for Kathryn Bigelow), Best Original Screenplay (for Mark Boal), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner) and Best Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd).

Here's the complete list of winners:

Picture: "The Hurt Locker"

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"

Actor: Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"

Actress: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Supporting Actress: Mo'nique, "Precious"

Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, "The Hurt Locker"

Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, "Up in the Air"

Foreign-language Film: The White Ribbon"

Animated Feature: "Up"

Documentary: Anvil: "The Story of Anvil"

Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, "The Hurt Locker"

Original Score: "Up," Michael Giacchino

Most Promising Performer: Carey Mulligan, "An Education"

Most Promising Filmmaker: Neill Blomkamp, "District 9" …

- Manny

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"An Education" Tops London Film Critics' Circle Awards

13 hours ago | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

The coming of age tale, "An Education," topped the London Film Critics' Circle Awards nominations. The film picked up seven nominations including actress for Carey Mulligan and screenwriter of the year for Nick Hornby.

Quentin Tarantino is set to receive the Critics' Circle's highest honor, the Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Cinema. The 30th Awards will take plave on February 18 at the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone.

Here are the nominees:

Breakthrough British Film-maker

Daniel Barber - Harry Brown

Armando Ianucci - In the Loop

Duncan Jones . Moon

Peter Strickland - Katalin Varga

Sam Taylor-Wood - Nowhere Boy

The Attenborough Award: British Film Of The Year

Bright Star

An Education

Fish Tank

In the Loop and Moon

Foreign Language Film Of The Year

The Class

Katyn

Let the Right One In

A Prophet

The White Ribbon

Director Of The Year

Jacques Audiard - A Prophet

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker …

- Manny

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The best films of 2009

13 hours ago | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

Since Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain, lists have come in tens, not that we couldn't have done with several more commandments. Who says a year has Ten Best Films, anyway? Nobody but readers, editors, and most other movie critics. There was hell to pay last year when I published my list of Twenty Best. You'd have thought I belched at a funeral. So this year I have devoutly limited myself to exactly ten films.

On each of two lists.

The lists are divided into Mainstream Films and Independent Films. This neatly sidesteps two frequent complaints: (1) "You name all those little films most people have never heard of," and (2) "You pick all blockbusters and ignore the indie pictures." Which is is my official Top Ten? They both are equal, and every film here is entitled to name itself "One of the Year's 10 Best!"

Alphabetically:

¶ The Top 10 Mainstream Films

Bad Lieutenant. …

- Roger Ebert

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'The Hurt Locker' Sweeps 2009 Chicago Film Critics Awards

13 hours ago | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

The winners of 2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards have been announced on Monday morning, December 21. At the ceremony, "The Hurt Locker" has once again shown a great achievement as it grabbed five kudos out of five nods that were received by the drama action movie.

Beside being hailed as the Best Picture, the movie also helped Jeremy Renner to win Best Actor award and Kathryn Bigelow to earn Best Director prize. Additionally, the Iraq-set movie about an Army bomb squad grabbed Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography kudos.

Other winners at the annual awards event were Christoph Waltz who was honored with Best Supporting Actor prize for his role of Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds", and "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" star Mo'Nique who was named Best Supporting Actress. Meanwhile, "Up in the Air" which was nominated in six categories only managed to win Best Adapted Screenplay prize. …

- AceShowbiz.com

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Blu-Ray Review: Masterful ‘Inglourious Basterds’ One of 2009’s Best Blu-Rays

14 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – If only there were more filmmakers with visions as unique as “Inglourious Basterds” and the guts to put their reputation on the line. Thriller, drama, comedy, action film, and a slice of revisionist history that plays as a modern revenge fantasy, “Inglourious Basterds” plays even better the second time through and shines with a fantastic Blu-Ray release. It’s a total blast.

Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0

Audiences were drawn in by previews that incorrectly made “Basterds” look like a big summer action movie, but they found a more dialogue-driven film about the power of propaganda that proved to be even more rewarding. I have to admit that I suspected most viewers would be turned off by “Inglourious Basterds,” but I was happily proven wrong and I think the film serves as proof that not every summer movie needs to be a Michael Bay action extravaganza.

Inglourious Basterds was released on Blu-Ray and DVD on December 15th, …

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Emily Blunt Failed to Secure Her Double Satellite Awards Noms

15 hours ago | Celebrity Mania | See recent Celebrity Mania news »

Emily Blunt has impressed critics with her performance on both "The Young Victoria" and "Sunshine Cleaning", leading to her being nominated for two 2009 Satellite Awards titles. When the winners of the awards were announced however, it was unraveled that she has lost to Shohreh Aghdashloo and Mo'Nique.

On Monday, December 21, the International Press Academy made public Shohreh Aghdashloo bested Blunt in the category for Best Actress in Drama, and Mo'Nique stole her chance at securing Best Supporting Actress title. While she failed to add her award collection, her co-star in "The Devil Wears Prada" Meryl Streep took home Best Actress in Comedy/Musical honor for her performance in "Julie & Julia".

The 26-year-old was not the only double-nominated actress who walked away with no kudo. Her fellow competitor Penelope Cruz has to admit defeat as well. Nonetheless, both of Cruz' movies nailed at least one award. "Broken Embraces" was in tie …

- celebrity-mania.com

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Full Winners List of 14th Annual Satellite Awards in Movie

16 hours ago | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

International Press Academy has announced the winners of 2009 Satellite Awards in Movie on Sunday, December 20. Coming out as a big winner was "The Hurt Locker" which took home four gongs, one of which was Best Motion Picture (Drama) award.

Additionally, the Iraq-set drama action earned Best Director prize for Kathryn Bigelow and Best Actor (Drama) for Jeremy Renner. The other award for the movie was from Best Film Editing category, which was given to Chris Innis and Bob Murawski.

Other winners at the 14th Annual Satellite Awards were "Nine" and "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire", which took home two gongs each. The drama musical was crowned Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) beside earning Best Cinematography gong for Dion Beebe. The indie film, in the meantime, won Best Supporting Actress award for Mo'nique and Best Adapated Screenplay prize for Geoffrey Fletcher.

Also nabbing two prizes was "2012 (2009)". The …

- AceShowbiz.com

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'Green Lantern' Rumor: Will One Of These Actresses Play Carol Ferris?

19 hours ago | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

Another day, another comic book movie rumor... but instead of yet another "Spider-Man 4" bite, this time around we have an unofficial report regarding "Green Lantern."

Citing anonymous sources connected to the project, Latino Review reports that casting for Carol Ferris (the love interest of Ryan Reynolds' Hal Jordan) is down to five potential actresses. The list of names covers a wide spectrum of age and on-screen experience, and includes Eva Green ("Casino Royale"), Keri Russell (who voiced the title character in the animated "Wonder Woman" movie), Diane Kruger ("Inglourious Basterds"), Blake Lively ("Gossip Girl") and Jennifer Garner ("Alektra").

"Per the script, Carol Ferris (27) is the daughter of aerospace mogul Carl Ferris," reports the site. "She works for her dad’s company Ferris Air, got an Mba, and has a lifetime crush on Hal Jordan."

It should be noted (again) that the list of potential actresses is entirely unofficial, …

- Rick Marshall

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Brittany Murphy, East Coast Snow And A Zombie Hand In Today's Twitter-Wood

19 hours ago | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

This has been a bad holiday season for untimely deaths around Hollywood, and none have been more unexpected than actress Brittany Murphy's on Sunday. Alyssa Milano, Peter Facinelli, Paris Hilton and virtually everyone else with a Twitter account associated with the entertainment industry has something to say about Murphy, and there's a rundown below.

The other big nationwide news of the past weekend has been the massive snowstorm pounding the East Coast. "Twilight" actress Christian Serratos was one of those who had her travel plans derailed by the frozen precipitation dump, on Washington, D.C. You can find those posts after jump along with Fred Durst's "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" clan name and Neil Gaiman's undead lawn ornament. It's in the Twitter-Wood report for December 21, 2009. (Editor's note: You'll see some crossover between this post and our earlier Brittany Murphy tweet round-up. That's okay... this is a …

- Brian Warmoth

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Chicago Film Critics make ‘Hurt Locker’ the big winner

19 hours ago | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

The Chicago Film Critics Association (Cfca) announced their winners this morning and Kathryn Bigelow, Christoph Waltz and Carey Mulligan are the big winners.

Hurt Locker walks away with five wins, including best picture. The documentary Anvil: “The Story of Anvil” won but isn’t available for an Oscar nomination. Up in the Air, the one with the most nominations around the nation right now wasn’t empty handed, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won for Adapted Screenplay.

Picture: “The Hurt Locker”

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Actor: Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Actress: Carey Mulligan, “An Education”

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Supporting Actress: Mo’nique, “Precious”

Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”

Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

Foreign-language Film: The White Ribbon”

Animated Feature: “Up”

Documentary: Anvil: “The Story of Anvil”

Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, “The Hurt Locker”

Original Score: “Up, …

- Jeff Bayer

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Mélanie Manly Laurent

19 hours ago | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Inglourious Basterds was always a conversation starter. But we didn't expect it to start this conversation. Mélanie Laurent is actually a man!

Actual screenshot (with web menu removed, highlight and "oops" added)

Best Supporting Actor, eh? We always thought it was an odd strategy to position Laurent right out of the Oscar race by vying for Lead Actress. But this is even crazier gambit. Oscar voters do have eyes, you know!

I'm joking. As far as I know Mélanie is still a woman but thanks to readers Rj and Jim T for pointing out this error on theWeinstein Co website. I'm sure someone will fix this pronto but for now let it stand as an amusingly literal and/or satiric demonstration of the absurd modern flexibility for Oscar categorizations. …

- NATHANIEL R

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