Best Actress: Greta Gerwig, “Greenberg”
A mumblecore vet delivers a nuanced, touching performance that seems effortless but surely isn’t.
A mumblecore vet delivers a nuanced, touching performance that seems effortless but surely isn’t.
Best Supporting Actor: John Hawkes, “Winter’s Bone”
Hawkes’ skeletal, haunted mountain man, who starts out fearsome and becomes if not sympathetic then at least understandable, is an unforgettable presence in one of the year’s best indies.
Hawkes’ skeletal, haunted mountain man, who starts out fearsome and becomes if not sympathetic then at least understandable, is an unforgettable presence in one of the year’s best indies.
Best Picture: “Never Let Me Go”
If you can embrace a plot point that makes perfect sense to me but completely stymies lots of people, Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel is heartbreaking and enormously powerful.
If you can embrace a plot point that makes perfect sense to me but completely stymies lots of people, Mark Romanek’s adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel is heartbreaking and enormously powerful.
Best Original Screenplay: “Four Lions”
A brazen, tasteless comedy about bumbling Islamic jihadists-in-training boasts a good number of the funniest lines of the year.
A brazen, tasteless comedy about bumbling Islamic jihadists-in-training boasts a good number of the funniest lines of the year.
Best Supporting Actor: Richard Jenkins, “Let Me In”
By not taking a vampire movie seriously, voters miss out on the saddest eyes, and one of the most shattering characters, to be found at the movies this year.
By not taking a vampire movie seriously, voters miss out on the saddest eyes, and one of the most shattering characters, to be found at the movies this year.
Best Director: Sofia Coppola, “Somewhere”
Finely calibrating every pause and pan, Coppola has the nerve and skill to pull off an exacting, unblinking, and alternately confounding and mesmerizing art film about Hollywood.
Finely calibrating every pause and pan, Coppola has the nerve and skill to pull off an exacting, unblinking, and alternately confounding and mesmerizing art film about Hollywood.
Best Animated Feature: “Idiots and Angels”
Can’t we find room beside Pixar and DreamWorks for an animation legend, Bill Plympton, who funded his own qualifying run for a hand-drawn, striking, wordless gem of adult noir animation?
Can’t we find room beside Pixar and DreamWorks for an animation legend, Bill Plympton, who funded his own qualifying run for a hand-drawn, striking, wordless gem of adult noir animation?
Best Supporting Actress: Rosamund Pike, “Made in Dagenham”
Co-star Miranda Richardson is a likely nominee with a far showier role – but in only two significant scenes, Pike is one of the truest, most moving presences in the film.
Co-star Miranda Richardson is a likely nominee with a far showier role – but in only two significant scenes, Pike is one of the truest, most moving presences in the film.
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, “Animal Kingdom”
With her fearsome performance as a mom even scarier than Melissa Leo in “The Fighter,” Weaver demands: voters, watch this movie.
With her fearsome performance as a mom even scarier than Melissa Leo in “The Fighter,” Weaver demands: voters, watch this movie.
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “I’m Still Here”
De Niro gained 60 pounds for “Raging Bull”: Oscar. Day-Lewis spent months in a wheelchair for “My Left Foot”: Oscar. Phoenix acted like a complete imbecile in public for a whole year for this faux doc: Well?
De Niro gained 60 pounds for “Raging Bull”: Oscar. Day-Lewis spent months in a wheelchair for “My Left Foot”: Oscar. Phoenix acted like a complete imbecile in public for a whole year for this faux doc: Well?
You certainly don’t need us to tell you that you should see “The Social Network,” but here are some other deserving accomplishments that might not be on your radar.
