Awards Tour: Critics’ Choice Awards Winners List!

With the Oscars around the corner, Avatar and The Hurt Locker win big

by RT Staff | January 15, 2010

The Critics’ Choice Awards were announced on Friday night, giving films like Avatar and The Hurt Locker plenty to celebrate. Over the past three years, the Best Picture winner of the Critics’ Choice Awards has gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. And this year, RT got a shoutout from host Kristin Chenoweth (at the :43 mark), which was a fun surprise for us. Find out who won and who tied at this year’s awards!

Best Picture

Avatar 91%	An Education 94%	The Hurt Locker 98%	Inglourious Basterds 88%	Invictus 83%
Nine 36%	Precious 91%	A Serious Man 87%	Up 98%	Up in the Air 84%

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker 98%	James Cameron Avatar 91%	Lee Daniels Precious 91%
Clint Eastwood Invictus 83%	Jason Reitman Up in the Air 84%	Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds 88%

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart 94%	Colin Firth A Single Man 83%	George Clooney Up in the Air 84%
Morgan Freeman Invictus 83%	Viggo Mortensen The Road 72%	Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker 98%

Best Actress (Tie)

Emily Blunt The Young Victoria 74%	Sandra Bullock The Blind Side 71%	Carey Mulligan An Education 94%
Saoirse Ronan The Lovely Bones 40%	Gabourey Sidibe Precious 91%	Meryl Streep Julie & Julia 75%

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon Invictus 83%	Woody Harrelson The Messenger 90%	Christian McKay Me and Orson Welles 81%
Alfred Molina An Education 94%	Stanley Tucci The Lovely Bones 40%	Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds 88%

Best Supporting Actress

Marion Cotillard Nine 36%	Vera Farmiga Up in the Air 84%	Anna Kendrick Up in the Air 84%
Mo’Nique Precious 91%	Julianne Moore A Single Man 83%	Samantha Morton The Messenger 90%

Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Hurt Locker (98%)	Fantastic Mr. Fox (92%)
A Serious Man (87%)	District 9 (90%)
(500) Days of Summer (87%)	Precious (91%)
Up (98%)	A Single Man (83%)
Inglourious Basterds (88%)	An Education (94%)
	Up in the Air (84%)

Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Coraline (94%)	Broken Embraces (82%)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (92%)	Red Cliff (87%)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (86%)	Sin Nombre (88%)
The Princess and the Frog (83%)	Coco Before Chanel (65%)
Up (98%)	The White Ribbon (89%)

Best Action Movie	Best Comedy
Avatar (91%)	(500) Days of Summer (87%)
District 9 (90%)	The Hangover (78%)
The Hurt Locker (98%)	It’s Complicated (38%)
Inglourious Basterds (88%)	The Proposal (43%)
Star Trek (95%)	Zombieland (89%)

Best Cinematography	Best Editing
The Hurt Locker (98%)	Up in the Air (84%)
Nine (36%)	Inglourious Basterds (88%)
Avatar (91%)	The Hurt Locker (98%)
The Lovely Bones (40%)	Avatar (91%)
Inglourious Basterds (88%)	Nine (36%)

Best Art Direction	Best Costume Design
A Single Man (83%)	Nine (36%)
Avatar (91%)	Bright Star (83%)
Nine (36%)	The Young Victoria (74%)
The Lovely Bones (40%)	Inglourious Basterds (88%)
Inglourious Basterds (88%)	Where the Wild Things Are (72%)

Best Sound	Best Song
Avatar (91%)	“All is Love” from Where the Wild Things Are (72%)
District 9 (90%)	“Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog (83%)
The Hurt Locker (98%)	“Cinema Italiano” from Nine (36%)
Nine (36%)	“(I Want To) Come Home” from Everybody’s Fine (47%)
Star Trek (95%)	“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart (94%)

Best Score
Up (98%)
The Informant! (77%)
The Princess and the Frog (83%)
Where the Wild Things Are (72%)
Sherlock Holmes (69%)