The Los Angeles Film Critics Awards & The American Film Institute Like The Social Network

Director David Fincher’s take on the creation of Facebook had a banner day today, as The Social Network was named the Best Film of the year by the L.A Film Critics Association and one of the top ten movies of the year by the AFI. Fincher also tied for Best Director, and writer Aaron Sorkin won for Best Screenplay, courtesy of the L.A. Critics. The full list of winners for both groups after the break.

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS AWARDS

PICTURE: The Social Network; Runner-up: Carlos

DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas, Carlos, and David Fincher, The Social Network (tie)

ACTOR: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech; Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, Carlos

ACTRESS: Kim Hye-ja, Mother; Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Niels Arestrup, A Prophet; Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom; Runner-up: Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer

SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network; Runner-up: David Seidler, The King’s Speech

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Carlos; Runner-up: Mother

ANIMATION: Toy Story 3; Runner-up: The Illusionist

DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: Last Train Home; Runner-up: Exit Through the Gift Shop

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matthew Libatique, Black Swan; Runner-up: Roger Deakins, True Grit

MUSIC/SCORE: Alexandre Desplat, Winter’s Bone, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network(tie)

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Guy Hendrix Dyas, Inception; Runner-up: Eve Stewart, The King’s Speech

NEW GENERATION: Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture

DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: Film Socialism

LEGACY OF CINEMA AWARDS: Serge Bromberg, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, and the F.W. Murnau Foundation and Fernando Pena for the restoration of Metropolis

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Paul Mazursky

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
127 Hours
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR
The Big C
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Glee
Mad Men
Modern Family
The Pacific
Temple Grandin
30 Rock
The Walking Dead

AFI SPECIAL AWARDS
The King’s Speech
Waiting for Superman

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Aliens attack LA again in Battle: Los Angeles Trailer

Screenwriters have finally stumbled upon the perfect revenge-fantasy-outlet for their Los Angeles angst. Just as aliens head to theaters today to devour the city in Skyline, here comes the teaser for Battle: Los Angeles, in which a presumably different group of aliens turn LA into a total war zone. These scenarios are probably comforting to imagine after the second hour stuck in traffic, waiting for some flaky producer to call back. Anyway, this is a great trailer - Something like Black Hawk Down in Los Angeles…with aliens.

For a teaser, this preview seems to reveal quite a bit of the film, though the aliens remain obscured. At the same time, it’s so stylized and self-contained (the images and music are married perfectly here), that it’s hard to tell whether this is a great trailer for a great film or simply a great trailer. The one moment where an alien begins to materialize out of thin air kind of kills the mood. On the other hand, it’s hard to ignore the visceral impact of how convincingly director Jonathan Liebesman turns the west coast into a frantic battleground.

Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez are in this somewhere, but with all of the explosions and army fatigues, I had to watch the trailer twice to pick them out.

Verdict: I’m going to wait and see what Kim Kardashian thinks.

If the trailer gets pulled, head over to Apple.

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