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20 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »

As the various critic associations around North America continue to release their picks for the best in film of the past year, my hometown's critic association (well, my home is very close to Toronto) has unveiled their list of awards:

Best Picture (tie)

Hunger

Inglourious Basterds

Runner Up: The Hurt Locker

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage - The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Runners-up:

George Clooney - Up in the Air

Michael Fassbender - Hunger

Colin Firth - A Single Man

Viggo Mortensen - The Road

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan - An Education

Runners-up:

Arta Dobroshi - Le Silence de Lorna

Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Runners-up:

Christian McKay - Me & Orson Welles

Timothy Olyphant - A Perfect Getaway

Best Supporting Actress

Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air

Runners-up:

Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air

Mo’nique - Precious: »

- John Campea

16 December 2009 9:01 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

It's verging on a sweep for Kathryn Bigelow.  Fresh off the Golden Globe nom for The Hurt Locker, the Toronto Film Critic's Association has just published their list of award winners and while the film itself didn't get the best picture nod, there Bigelow is again as best director.  The fact that they picked Nicolas Cage as best actor for his role in Bad Lieutenant makes me particularly proud of where I live, as does the general diversity of the rest of the list.  If we're not careful people might actually start to think that Toronto's critics actually watch more than is available in the multiplex ...

The list!

Best Picture (Tie)

    "Hunger" (Maple Pictures)

    "Inglourious Basterds" (Alliance Films)

Runner-up:

    "The Hurt Locker" (Maple Pictures)

Best Performance, Male

    Nicolas Cage, "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"

Runners-up:

    George Clooney, "Up in the Air"

    Michael Fassbender, "Hunger"

    Colin Firth, "A Single Man"

    Viggo Mortensen, »

4 September 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

Lorna’S Silence (Le silence de Lorna) is the title of this newest film from the filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The siblings’ films tend to be preoccupied with themes involving unconventional family dynamics and small-time underworld crime, such as The Promise (La promesse, 1996) and The Infant (L’enfant, 2005). Lorna’S Silence is no different, featuring a story similar in theme.

Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is a young Albanian woman working in Belgium as a dry cleaner. Her dream is to open a small snack bar/cafe with her boyfriend Sokol. In order to pay for this venture, Lorna falls in with Fabio, a taxi driver with underworld connections. Fabio arranges for Lorna to marry a local junkie named Claudy (Jeremie Renier) so that she can acquire Belgian citizenship. Once done, Lorna and Claudy will divorce so that she can marry a Russian mobster who also wishes to obtain Belgian »

- Travis

3 articles from 2009