2010 Critics Choice Awards Recap and Awards Winners List Revealed

The 2010 Critics Choice Awards were given out to the winners Friday night. The 2010 Critics Choice Awards winners list comprises some great films from the 2009 year in film, and covers many different genres. The winners of the 2010 Critics Choice Awards could also give some insight into who might be getting Academy Awards nominations when they come out later this winter, and could even tip the hand of who the Oscar favorites might be. This is the show where the critics get to decide what there favorite films and performances were from the past year, and where box office totals don't mean much when it comes to their voting styles.

Some of the early winners at the 2010 Critics Choice Awards included Inglourious Basterds for Best Acting Ensemble, Avatar for Best Action Movie, and Christoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor. Avatar also took home several additional awards that included Best Editing and Best Art Direction. The Best Young Actor or Actress went to Saoirse Ronan of The Lovely Bones, who put in an absolutely brilliant performance in that film.

When they got to the writing awards it got interesting with Up In The Air winning Best Adapted Screenplay. The winner of Best Original Screenplay went to Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino over Jason Reitman's Up In The Air, Clint Eastwood's Invictus, Lee Daniels with Precious, James Cameron's Avatar, and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker.

In the larger awards, Mo'Nique won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Precious, Up was named the Best Animated Film, Jeff Bridges won Best Actor (he was in Crazy Heart), and Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow who made The Hurt Locker. This win makes Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to ever win the award for Best Director, and it was well deserving for her great film.

The winner for Best Actress ended up actually being a tie this year when it was announced by actor Bradley Cooper. The winners of Best Actress were Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock (who was in The Blind Side).

The final, and biggest movie award of the night was for (you guessed it) Best Picture. They went with ten nominations this year to mirror what the Oscars are doing, and those nominees were Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Nine, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, and Up In The Air.

The 2010 Critics Choice Award for Best Picture went to The Hurt Locker.

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2010 Nomination List

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