Broadcast Film Critics Announce New Critics Choice Awards for Documentaries

Posted on August 1, 2016 at 1:38 pm

I am delighted that the Broadcast Film Critics Association, of which I am a proud member, has established a new set of awards for documentaries, with the first to be awarded on November 3, 2016. This is a category that has been long overdue for more recognition than one category each year. Awards will include:

Best Documentary Feature Film (Theatrical Premiere)
Best Documentary Feature (Television Premiere)
Best Director of a Documentary
Best First Documentary Feature
Best Music Documentary
Best Sports Documentary
Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary
Best Limited Documentary Series for Television
Best Ongoing Documentary Series for Television
Best Unstructured Reality Series
Best Song in a Documentary
Most Innovative Documentary
Best Investigative Journalist

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Critics Choice Nominees 2015

Posted on December 14, 2015 at 10:27 pm

I am honored to be a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and excited that we’ve joined forces with the Broadcast Television Journalists Association to announce this year’s nominees. Be sure to tune in for our Critics Choice Awards broadcast on January 17, 2016, hosted by T.J. Miller.

MOVIE

BEST PICTURE

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Carol

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

Room

Sicario

Spotlight

BEST ACTOR

Bryan Cranston
Trumbo

Matt Damon
The Martian

Johnny Depp
Black Mass

Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant

Michael Fassbender
Steve Jobs

Eddie Redmayne
The Danish Girl

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett
Carol

Brie Larson
Room

Jennifer Lawrence
Joy

Charlotte Rampling
45 Years

Saoirse Ronan
Brooklyn

Charlize Theron
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Dano
Love & Mercy

Tom Hardy
The Revenant

Mark Ruffalo
Spotlight

Mark Rylance
Bridge of Spies

Michael Shannon
99 Homes

Sylvester Stallone
Creed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Jason Leigh
The Hateful Eight

Rooney Mara
Carol

Rachel McAdams
Spotlight

Helen Mirren
Trumbo

Alicia Vikander
The Danish Girl

Kate Winslet
Steve Jobs

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Abraham Attah
Beasts of No Nation

RJ Cyler
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Shameik Moore
Dope

Milo Parker
Mr. Holmes

Jacob Tremblay
Room

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

The Big Short

The Hateful Eight

Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton

Trumbo

BEST DIRECTOR

Todd Haynes
Carol

Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Revenant

Tom McCarthy
Spotlight

George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road

Ridley Scott
The Martian

Steven Spielberg
Bridge of Spies

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Bridge of Spies

Alex Garland
Ex Machina

Quentin Tarantino
The Hateful Eight

Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley
Inside Out

Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy
Spotlight

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
The Big Short

Nick Hornby
Brooklyn

Drew Goddard
The Martian

Emma Donoghue
Room

Aaron Sorkin
Steve Jobs

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Carol
Ed Lachman

The Hateful Eight
Robert Richardson

Mad Max: Fury Road
John Seale

The Martian
Dariusz Wolski

The Revenant
Emmanuel Lubezki

Sicario
Roger Deakins

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Bridge of Spies
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo

Brooklyn
François Séguin, Jennifer Oman and Louise Tremblay

Carol
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler

The Danish Girl
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish

Mad Max: Fury Road
Colin Gibson

The Martian
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak

BEST EDITING

The Big Short
Hank Corwin

Mad Max: Fury Road
Margaret Sixel

The Martian
Pietro Scalia

The Revenant
Stephen Mirrione

Spotlight
Tom McArdle

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Brooklyn
Odile Dicks-Mireaux

Carol
Sandy Powell

Cinderella
Sandy Powell

The Danish Girl
Paco Delgado

Mad Max: Fury Road
Jenny Beavan

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP

Black Mass

Carol

The Danish Girl

The Hateful Eight

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Ex Machina

Jurassic World

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

The Revenant

The Walk

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Anomalisa

The Good Dinosaur

Inside Out

The Peanuts Movie

Shaun the Sheep Movie

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Furious 7

Jurassic World

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

Sicario

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Daniel Craig
Spectre

Tom Cruise
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

Tom Hardy
Mad Max: Fury Road

Chris Pratt
Jurassic World

Paul Rudd
Ant-Man

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE

Emily Blunt
Sicario

Rebecca Ferguson
Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation

Bryce Dallas Howard
Jurassic World

Jennifer Lawrence
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

Charlize Theron
Mad Max: Fury Road

BEST COMEDY

The Big Short

Inside Out

Joy

Sisters

Spy

Trainwreck

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Christian Bale
The Big Short

Steve Carell
The Big Short

Robert De Niro
The Intern

Bill Hader
Trainwreck

Jason Statham
Spy

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

Tina Fey
Sisters

Jennifer Lawrence
Joy

Melissa McCarthy
Spy

Amy Schumer
Trainwreck

Lily Tomlin
Grandma

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE

Ex Machina

It Follows

Jurassic World

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

The Assassin

Goodnight Mommy

Mustang

The Second Mother

Son of Saul

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Amy

Cartel Land

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

He Named Me Malala

The Look of Silence

Where to Invade Next

BEST SONG

Fifty Shades of Grey
“Love Me Like You Do”

Furious 7
“See You Again”

The Hunting Ground
“Til It Happens To You”

Love & Mercy
“One Kind of Love”

Spectre
“Writing’s on the Wall”

Youth
“Simple Song #3”

BEST SCORE

Carol
Carter Burwell

The Hateful Eight
Ennio Morricone

The Revenant
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto

Sicario
Johann Johannsson

Spotlight
Howard Shore
(more…)

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Tonight: Critic’s Choice Awards!

Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm

The first big awards show of the year is the one from the Broadcast Film Critics Association. I am a proud member, and spent a lot of time making sure my votes on the impressive list of nominees were just right. Be sure to watch tonight on VH1!

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Critic’s Choice Nominees

Posted on December 14, 2009 at 8:43 am

The Broadcast Film Critics have announced our nominations, often the best predictor of the Oscars. I am hoping to attend the awards event, which will be broadcast on VH1 on January 15. I’ll be voting on these soon, so if you have favorites, let me know!
The BFCA consists of 235 television, radio and online film critics. It is the largest critics organization in the United States and Canada.
BEST PICTURE
“Avatar”
“An Education”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Invictus”
“Nine”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up In The Air”
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 DIRECTING
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 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker”
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man”
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer”
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “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
Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker”
Dion Beebe – “Nine”
Mauro Fiore – “Avatar”
Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones”
Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ART DIRECTION
Dan Bishop – “A Single Man”
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar”
John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine”
Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones”
David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST EDITING
Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air”
Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds”
Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker”
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar”
Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood – “Nine”
Janet Patterson – “Bright Star”
Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria ”
Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds”
Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”
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
“Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“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 PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
“Gifted Hands”
“Grey Gardens”
“Into The Storm”
“Taking Chance”
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 Yeston – “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, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are”
Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”

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