Awards season has officially kicked into high gear with a number of critics organizations announcing their awards in the next couple of days. Today, the L.A. Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online (of which ComingSoon.net’s Edward Douglas is a member) and Boston Film Critics announced their awards and all three of them picked David Fincher’s The Social Network as their top choice. Fincher was also named top director by all three groups (with L.A. sharing the award with Olivier Assayas for his multi-part crime epic Carlos) and the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin was honored by all three groups as well.
Natalie Portman was deigned Best Actress by both NYFCO and Boston for her performance in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Christian Bale received supporting actor for David O. Russell’s The Fighter (Black Swan won two technical awards from NYFCO for its music and cinematography.) L.A. Film Critics gave their Actress award to Kim Hye-ja for Bong Joon-ho’s Mother and Niels Arestrup was honored as Supporting Actor for Jacques Audiard’s Une Prophete.
The three groups split for Best Actor with NYFCO giving it to James Franco for Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, Boston honoring Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network and L.A. going with Colin Firth for The King’s Speech. All three groups honored DisneyPixar’s Toy Story 3 in the Animated Feature category, but split on all other categories.
NYFCO honored Melissa Leo for her supporting role in The Fighter, which received the Boston Film Critics’ “Ensemble Cast” award, which NYFCO gave to The Kids Are All Right.
NYFCO’s full awards are below:
Picture – The Social Network
Actor – James Franco, 127 Hours
Actress – Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Director – David Fincher, The Social Network
Supporting Actor – Christian Bale, The Fighter
Supporting Actress – Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Breakthrough Performer – Noomi Rapace, The Millenium Trilogy
Debut Director – John Wells, The Company Men
Ensemble Cast – The Kids Are All Right
Screenplay – The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
Documentary – Exit Through the Gift Shop
Foreign Language – I Am Love
Animated – Toy Story 3
Cinematography – Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
Film Music or Score – Black Swan, Clint Mansell
Top 10 Films
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight)
Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics)
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)
Blue Valentine (The Weinstein Co.)
The Ghost Writer (Summit)
Inception (Warner Bros.)
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Co.)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Universal)
The Social Network (Sony)
The 36th Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards are as follows:
PICTURE: “The Social Network”
Runner-up: “Carlos”
DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas, “Carlos,” and David Fincher, “The Social Network” (tie)
ACTOR: Colin Firth, “The King’s Speech”
Runner-up: Edgar Ramirez, “Carlos”
ACTRESS: Kim Hye-ja, “Mother”
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence, “Winter’s Bone”
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet”
Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush, “The King’s Speech”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”
Runner-up: Olivia Williams, “The Ghost Writer”
SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network”
Runner-up: David Seidler, “The King’s Speech”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Carlos”
Runner-up: “Mother”
ANIMATION: “Toy Story 3”
Runner-up: “The Illusionist”
DOCUMENTARY / NON-FICTION FILM: “Last Train Home”
Runner-up: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matthew Libatique, “Black Swan”
Runner-up: Roger Deakins, “True Grit”
MUSIC/SCORE: Alexandre Desplat, “The Ghost Writer,” and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “The Social Network” (tie)
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Guy Hendrix Dyas, “Inception”
Runner-up: Eve Stewart, “The King’s Speech”
NEW GENERATION: Lena Dunham, “Tiny Furniture”
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: “Film Socialism”
LEGACY OF CINEMA AWARDS: Serge Bromberg, “Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno,” and the F.W. Murnau Foundation and Fernando Pena for the restoration of “Metropolis”
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Paul Mazursky
And the Boston Film Critics Awards:
Best Picture
The Social Network
Best Actor
Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Best Actress
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale for The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress
Juliette Lewis for Conviction
Best Director
David Fincher for The Social Network
Best Screenplay
Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins for True Grit
Best Documentary
Marwencol
Best Foreign-Language Film
TBD
Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3
Best Film Editing (awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer)
Andrew Weisblum for Black Swan
Best New Filmmaker (awarded in memory of David Brudnoy)
Jeff Malmberg for Marwencol
Best Ensemble Cast
The Fighter
Best Use of Music in a Film
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network
