L.A. Film Critics Award Winners Announced
Hurt Locker
“I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing,” said Col. Hans Landa. But this one is not rumor. Fact is, Chirstoph Waltz has earned the best supporting actor for that role of his in Inglourious Basterds from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
While Mo’nique won the best supporting actress for her role in a movie based on Sapphire’s novel Push, Precious.
The best screenplay goes to Up in the Air, written by director Jason Reitman and writer Sheldon Turner.
From music and visual department, T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton won the best music/score for Crazy Heart, Philip Ivey won the best production design for District 9, while Christian Berger won the best cinematography for The White Ribbon.
C.W. Winter and Anders Edstrom won the Douglas E. Edwards Independent/Experimental Film/Video Award for their outstanding work in The Anchorage.
The best documentary/nonfiction film was a tough call. It puts The Beaches of Agnes and The Cove together on stage.
Jeff Bridges won the best actor for his country singer role in Crazy Heart, while newcomer Carey Mulligan is the best actress for her teenager falling in love with an older man role in An Education.
Hurt Locker, the movie offering a drama on the Iraqi war, won the best film. It also preserves the best director for Kathryn Bigelow.
[ via LA Times Blog ]
