Where the Wild Things Are Gets Some Chicago Love~

December 16, 2009 — Leave a comment

And the nominations and winners continue, this time with the Chicago Critics’ nominations (and tomorrow with the SAG nominations). It is a busy time.

Leading the nominees with six is one of the many awards favorites, Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air. But hold on just a moment. It has a co-pilot. Also riding a wave of six nominations is Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are,

Joining both films in the Best Picture race from Chicago are Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (each with five nominations) and Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man with 4.

some nice changes and surprises!
check the nominees!

BEST PICTURE
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up in the Air
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Joel & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Spike Jonze – Where the Wild Things Are
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Matt Damon – The Informant!
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

BEST ACTRESS
Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Peter Capaldi – In the Loop
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Julianne Moore – A Single Man
Natalie Portman – Brothers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Away We Go – Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
A Serious Man – Joel & Ethan Coen
Up – Bob Peterson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
An Education – Nick Hornby
In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
The Informant! – Scott Z. Burns
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
Where the Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Anvil!: The True Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Tyson

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces) – Spain
Chi Bi (Red Cliff) – China/HK
Sin Nombre – Mexico/USA
L’heure d’été (Summer Hours) – France
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon) – Germany

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
Up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar – Mauro Fiore
Bright Star – Greig Fraser
The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Avatar – James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch
Up – Michael Giacchino
Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell & Karen Orzolek

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER

Sharlto Copley – District 9
Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Max Records – Where the Wild Things Are
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Neill Blomkamp – District 9
Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
Duncan Jones – Moon
Marc Webb – (500) Days of Summer

Yay for Moon! Yay District 9! Yay Ponyo! And yay Red Cliff! LOL

For more talk about chances of Oscar nods, continue reading the Cinematical article.

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