2010 Critics Choice Awards Big Winners Are "The Hurt Locker" and Kathryn Bigelow

The 2010 Critics Choice Awards were held last night and the big winners in multiple categories included "The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar." 2010 Critics Choice Award for Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker". This was the first time a woman has taken Best Director at the Critics Choice Awards. "The Hurt Locker" won the two most coveted prizes for the night: it won for both Best Picture and Best Director.

James Cameron's "Avatar" received seven 2010 Critics Choice Awards but not in the top categories. "Avatar" took home seven 2010 Critics Choice Awards including Best Action Movie, but the other six were centrically technical awards.

Over the years the Critics Choice Awards have been amazingly perceptive when it comes to which film will go on to win the Best Picture at the Oscars. According to Wikipedia, between 1997 and 2004 the Critics Choice Awards have been accurate in predicting thirty three out of thirty five nominations for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Additionally there have only been three times in the history of the Academy Awards that a film has won for Best Picture and the film's Director was not nominated.

Kathryn Bigelow's Critics Choice Award for Best Director is highly significant as we head into Oscar season. In the history of the Oscar's, only three women have been nominated for Best Director and none of them have won the prize. Kathryn Bigelow, with her win at the 2010 Critics Choice Awards now has a great chance of breaking that streak and winning for Best Director at the Oscars.

Here are the remaining 2010 Critics' Choice Award Winners:

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Julie and Julie and Sandra Bullock,

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious

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

Best Acting Ensemble: Inglorious Basterds

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

Best Original Screenplay: Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino

Best Action Movie: Avatar

Best Comedy: The Hangover

Best Animated Film: Up

Best Picture Made For Television: Grey Gardens

Best Foreign Language Film: Broken Embraces

Best Documentary Feature: The Cove

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critics_Choice_Awards

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/env-critics-choice-best-worst-10-pictures,0,1176603.photogallery?index=8

http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html