More Awards: The Social Network Will Not Settle for 2nd Place

You know what’s better than winning most of the best picture awards? Winning all of them. Or so it would seem. The San Francisco Film Critics and The Toronto Film Critics have both announced their awards and The Social Network came out on top again, right on the heels of its Best Picture awards from New York Film Critics Online, New York Film Critics circle and the AFI/Los Angeles Film Critics one-two combo. However, there are still a few interesting choices in this batch of winners including a Best Actress win for Michelle Williams and some well-deserved love for Exit Through the Giftshop and Uncle Boonmee who can Recall His Past Lives. Read on for the full list!

2010 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards:
Best Picture - The Social Network
Best Director - Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan and David Fincher, The Social Network (Tie)
Best Original Screenplay - David Seidler, The King’s Speech
Best Adapted Screenplay - Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Best Actor - Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Best Actress - Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Supporting Actor - John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Best Supporting Actress - Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Animated Feature - Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Film - Mother (South Korea)
Best Documentary - The Tillman Story
Best Cinematography - Matthew Libatique, Black Swan

Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community -
Elliot Lavine-teacher, exhibitor, and repertory curator—for Bay Area programming over the last two decades. His revival of rare archival studio, independent, and exploitation titles has particularly played a major role in the renewed popularity of film noir and pre-Production Code features.

2010 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards:
Best Picture - The Social Network
(Runners Up: Black Swan & Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)

Best Actor - Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
(Runners-Up: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech & James Franco, 127 Hours)

Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
(Runners-Up: Natalie Portman, Black Swan & Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine)

Best Supporting Actor - Armie Hammer, The Social Network
(Runners-Up: Christian Bale, The Fighter & Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech)

Best Supporting Actress - Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
(Runners-Up: Amy Adams, The Fighter & Melissa Leo, The Fighter)

Best Director - David Fincher, The Social Network
(Runners-Up: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan & Christopher Nolan, Inception)

Best Screenplay - The Social Network, By Aaron Sorkin
(Runners-Up: The King’s Speech & Written By David Seidler True Grit, Written By Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)

Best First Feature - Exit Through The Gift Shop, Directed By Banksy
(Runners-Up: Get Low, Directed By Aaron Schneider & Monsters, Directed By Gareth Edwards)

Best Animated Feature - How To Train Your Dragon
(Runners-Up: Despicable Me & Toy Story 3)

Best Foreign-Language Film - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
(Runners-Up: Mother & Of Gods And Men)

Best Documentary Feature - Exit Through The Gift Shop
Runners-Up: Inside Job & Marwencol)

Jay Scott Prize For Emerging Talent Writer-Director - Daniel Cockburn (You Are Here)

Special Citation to Bruce McDonald, who directed four movies in 2010: This Movie is Broken, Trigger, Music from the Big House and Hard Core Logo 2

Rogers Best Canadian Film Nominees: Incendies, directed by Denis Villeneuve Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald

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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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Roman Polanski Reaps Big Rewards At European Film Awards

If there’s one thing Europe loves even more than a charismatic dictator, it’s a convicted sex offender on the lam. Yes, Roman Polanski’s Ghost Writer was the big winner at the European Film Awards last night, nabbing the statue for Best Director, Best Actor (for Ewan McGregor), Best Screenplay and Best Picture, among other accolades. But even though I mock, truth be told, The Ghost Writer is an excellent movie and it’s a bit of shame that it didn’t make a bigger impact over here. A full list of the winners after the break.[Deadline]

European Film
The Ghost Writer

European Director
Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer

European Actress
Sylvie Testud, Lourdes

European Actor
Ewan McGregor, The Ghost Writer

European Screenwriter
Roman Polanski, Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer

People’s Choice Award
Mr. Nobody

Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award
Giora Bejach, Lebanon

European Editor
Luc Barnier, Marion Monnier, Carlos

European Production Designer
Albrecht Konrad, The Ghost Writer

European Composer
Alexandre Desplat, The Ghost Writer

European Discovery - Prix Fipresci
Lebanon

European Film Academy Documentary - Prix Arte
Nostalgia for the Light

European Film Academy Animated Feature Film
The Illusionist

Lifetime Achievement Award
Bruno Ganz

Co-production Award
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan

European Achievement in World Cinema
Composer Gabriel Yared

European Film Academy Short Film
Hanoi- Warsaw

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Winter's Bone Wins at Gotham Awards, Plus a Few Curveballs

Winter’s Bone made a serious bid to hang on to it’s Best Picture nomination in Movieline’s Oscar Index at last night’s Gotham Awards, taking home two awards including Best Feature. On the other hand, Best Documentary winner The Oath probably won’t make much Oscar headway, since it wasn’t even shortlisted. Check out the full list of winners and a rundown of the upsets in what was actually a fairly unpredictable awards show after the jump.

The consensus was that this year’s ceremony was an even more star-studded one than the last with celebrities like Natalie Portman, Bill Murray and Paul Rudd in attendance. Stanley Tucci and Patrica Clarkson made for very classy hosts, and there were a a ton of tributes.

But yes, onto the upsets: Ronald Bronstein took home the Breakthrough Performance award for Daddy Longlegs, beating out Winter’s Bone actress Jennifer Lawrence, who was favored to win. Honestly though, Bronstein was phenomenal and I suspect those who saw the film will agree that he was equally deserving. Also, Holy Rollers director Kevin Asch beat out the favored Tiny Furniture director and Judd Apatow protege Lena Dunham for Breakthrough Director.

And audiences voiced complete indifference for recent Waiting For Superman critical takedowns, awarding it the new Festival Genius Award via online voting. Congratulations to all of the winners:

Best Feature
Winter’s Bone

Best Documentary
The Oath

Best Ensemble Performance
Winter’s Bone

Breakthrough Director
Kevin Asch, Holy Rollers

Breakthrough Actor
Ronald Bronstein, Daddy Longlegs

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Littlerock

Festival Genius Audience Award
Waiting For ‘Superman

·Gotham Awards 2010: Minute By Minute [Indiewire]
·Winter’s Bone Tops Surprising Gotham Awards [Moviefone]

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