2010 Critics' Choice Award Winners: Should They Get Their Oscar Speeches Ready?

The 2010 Critics' Choice Awards ceremony winners are likely excited about their win, but their minds could possibly already be on their chances of clutching that gold statuette. Like any other awards show, the winners provided us with some titillating moments.

Critics' Choice Winners' Oscar Chances

In the 10 years, an astonishing amount of winners have gone on to receive an Academy Award in the same category. According to Reuters, 80 percent of the Critics' Choice Awards' Best Picture winners go on to win an Oscar. Seventy percent of Best Director, Actor and Actress winners also bring home an Oscar.

The Golden Globe Awards, which airs this Sunday, has slightly less of a success rate. In the same ten years, 60 percent of Best Director winners and 50% of Best Director winners go on to win an Oscar.

2010 Critics' Choice Awards Show Winner Highlights

Kathryn Bigelow beat out ex-husband and box office giant James Cameron to win Best Director. This was the first time a woman has won in this category. Her movie, The Hurt Locker, also topped Cameron's Avatar, winning the Best Picture Critics' Choice Award.

Avatar won Best Action Movie and also took home five other Critics' Choice Awards. They were for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound.

Sandra Bullock expressed her astonishment on tying with Meryl Streep for Best Actress with the word "bulls--t." She then went on to kiss Streep full on the mouth.

John Kransinski and Amy Poehler donned a Pretty in Pink prom wardrobe, as the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards paid tribute to late director John Hughes. Death Cab For Cutie played The Breakfast Club's "Don't You (Forget About Me)."

2010 Critics' Choice Award Winners

Best Adapted Screenplay: Up In the Air, by Jason Reitman

Best Original Screenplay: Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino

Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious

Other Nominees: Marion Cotillard (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up In the Air), Anna Kendrick (Up In the Air), Julianne Moore (A Single Man), Samantha Morton (The Messenger).

Best Animated Film: Up

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

The other 2010 Critics' Choice Award Best Actor hopefuls were George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth, (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Viggo Mortensen (The Road) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Julie and Julie and Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

A tie in this category left only four nominees without a win. They are: Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria), Carey Muligan (An Education), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious).

Best Young Actor/Actress: Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

Waltz won over Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles), Alfred Molina (An Education) and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones).

Best Acting Ensemble: Inglorious Basterds

Best Action Movie: Avatar

Best Comedy: The Hangover

Best Picture Made For Television: Grey Gardens

Best Foreign Language Film: Broken Embraces

Best Documentary Feature: The Cove

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker beat out nine other films to win its Critics Choice Award. They are: Avatar, An Education, Inglorious Basterds, Invictus, Nine, Precious, A Serious Man, Up and Up in the Air.

Sources:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9577437

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