Tuesday, December 14, 2010

2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has chosen The Social Network as best picture, winning three other prizes.

David Fincher was picked best director; Aaron Sorkin for best screenplay; and, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for best musical score.

Fincher tied with Olivier Assayas, whose
Carlos was the runner-up for best picture. Carlos was adjudged best foreign-language film, for which the runner-up was Mother.

Alexandre Desplat ("The Ghost Writer") shared the honors for best musical score.


Other winners were:

best actor- Colin Firth in
The King's Speech
best actress- Kim Hye-ja in
Mother (from South Korea)

runners-up: Edgar Ramirez in Carlos, and Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone


best supporting actor- Niels Arestrup in A Prophet (from France)

best supporting actress- Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom (Australia)

runners-up: Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech, and Olivia Williams in The Ghost Writer



runner-up for best screenplay: David Seidler for
The King's Speech


Other awards:

cinematography- Matthew Libatique for
Black Swan; runner-up: Roger Deakins for True Grit

production design- Guy Hendrix Dyas for Inception; runner-up: Eve Stewart for The King's Speech

best animated film- Toy Story 3; runner-up: The Illusionist (by French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet)

best documentary- Last Train Home; runner-up: Exit Through the Gift Shop

career achievement award- Paul Mazursky



new generation- Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award- Jean-Luc Godard for Film Socialism

Legacy of Cinema Awards-

Serge Bromberg for Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno; and,

The F.W. Murnau Foundation and Fernando Pena for the restoration of Metropolis



The awards will be presented on Jan. 15 in Los Angeles.

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