Critics Choice Awards Nominations

With the Golden Globes nomination announcement coming tomorrow, the Broadcast Film Critics Association has published their nominations for their best in cinema. Leading the way with 10 nominations each are Rob Marshall's Nine and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Where Tarantino picked up a nomination for Directing, Marshall failed to get one so that may hurt his chances at a nomination come Oscar night, but there's still time to make his case. Although Basterds has the most nominations, it is worthy to note that is the case because the BFCA added new technical categories to reward, for which Tarantino's film dominates particularly. Nonetheless Christoph Waltz looks to be the favorite and it also picked up a nomination for Best Original Screenplay, so it may still make its way into the top 10 come Oscar night. Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones continues to get snubbed by the critics (this year's Dreamgirls perhaps?) as it failed to get both a Best Picture nomination and for Best Director as well. Still Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci received nominations as they are the strong points from the film, as agreed by most critics, but we'll have a strong idea tomorrow for which films will make the cut. Avatar is starting to get noticed as it received a nomination for Best Picture as well. After winning the NYFCO award, it looks to start becoming a safe bet to make the top 10 but we'll have a better idea in the following weeks.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

Best Picture
Avatar
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In the Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Lee Daniels - Precious
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up In the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up In the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Viggo Mortensen - The Road
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
Alfred Molina - An Education
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up In the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up In the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious
Julianne Moore - A Single Man
Samantha Morton - The Messenger

Best Young Actor/Actress
Jae Head - The Blind Side
Bailee Madison - Brothers
Max Records - Where the Wild Things Are
Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road

Best Acting Ensemble
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up In the Air

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - (500) Days of Summer
Pete Docter & Bob Peterson - Up
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best Adapted Screenplay
Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell - District 9
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious
Tom Ford & David Scearce - A Single Man
Nick Hornby - An Education
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up In the Air

Best Cinematography
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
Nine

Best Art Direction
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
The Lovely Bones
Nine
A Single Man

Best Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Up In the Air

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Where the Wild Things Are
The Young Victoria

Best Makeup
Avatar
District 9
Nine
The Road
Star Trek

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek
2012

Best Sound
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Nine
Star Trek

Best Animated Feature Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up

Best Action Movie
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

Best Comedy
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland

Best Foreign Language Film
Broken Embraces
Coco Before Chanel
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon

Best Documentary Feature
Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson's This Is It

Best Song
''All Is Love'' (Karen O & Nick Zinner) - Where the Wild Things Are
''Almost There'' (Randy Newman) - The Princess and the Frog
''Cinema Italiano'' (Maury Weston) - Nine
''(I Want To) Come Home'' (Paul McCartney) - Everybody's Fine
''The Weary Kind'' (T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham) - Crazy Heart

Best Score
Michael Giacchino - Up
Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant!
Randy Newman - The Princess and the Frog
Karen O & Nick Zinner - Where the Wild Things Are
Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes

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