Who Won 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards?
Jan 15, 2010
The 15th Annual Critics Choice Awards were held January 15, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium and hosted by Kristin Chenoweth. The most overall awards went to Avatar, which won six times - mostly for technical awards. The top prize of Best Picture went to "The Hurt Locker." Director Kathryn Bigelow also won. "Inglourious Basterds" won three awards, and the Best Actress award was a tie between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock.
| Critics Choice: Best Actor | |
| Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) | |
| Other Nominees: George Clooney (Up In The Air); Colin Firth (A Single Man); Morgan Freeman (Invictus); Viggo Mortensen (The Road); Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) | |
| Critics Choice: Best Actress | |
| Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) | |
| Other Nominees: Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria); Carey Mulligan (An Education); Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones); Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) | |
| Critics Choice: Best Actress | |
| Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) | |
| Other Nominees: Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria); Carey Mulligan (An Education); Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones); Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) | |
| Critics Choice: Best Picture | |
| The Hurt Locker | |
| Other Nominees: Avatar; An Education; Inglourious Basterds; Invictus; Nine; Precious; A Serious Man; Up; Up In The Air | |
| Critics Choice: Acting Ensemble | |
| Inglourious Basterds | |
| Other Nominees: Nine; Precious; Star Trek; Up In The Air | |
| Critics Choice: Best Director | |
| Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) | |
| Other Nominees: James Cameron (Avatar); Lee Daniels (Precious); Clint Eastwood (Invictus); Jason Reitman (Up In The Air); Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) | |
| Critics Choice: Best Supporting Actor | |
| Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) | |
| Other Nominees: Matt Damon (Invictus); Woody Harrelson (The Messenger); Christian McKay (Me And Orson Welles); Alfred Molina (An Education); Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) | |
| Critics Choice: Best Supporting Actress | |
| Mo'Nique (Precious) | |
| Other Nominees: Marion Cotillard (Nine); Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air); Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air); Julianne Moore (A Single Man); Samantha Morton (The Messenger) | |
| Critics Choice: Animated Feature | |
| Up | |
| Other Nominees: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs; Coraline; Fantastic Mr Fox; Princess And The Frog | |
| Critics Choice: Writer | |
| Jason Reitman (Up In The Air) | |
| and Sheldon Turner | |
| Other Nominees: 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) | |
| Critics Choice: Writer | |
| Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) | |
| Other Nominees: 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) | |
| Critics Choice: Action Movie | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: District 9; The Hurt Locker; Inglourious Basterds; Star Trek | |
| Critics Choice: Comedy | |
| The Hangover | |
| Other Nominees: 500 Days Of Summer; It's Complicated; The Proposal; Zombieland | |
| Critics Choice: Young Actor | |
| Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) | |
| Other Nominees: Jae Head (The Blind Side); Bailee Madison (Brothers); Max Records (Where The Wild Things Are); Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) | |
| Critics Choice: Documentary Feature | |
| The Cove | |
| Other Nominees: Anvil; Capitalism: A Love Story; Food Inc; Michael Jackson's This Is It | |
| Critics Choice: Foreign Language Film | |
| Broken Embraces | |
| Other Nominees: Coco Before Chanel; Red Cliff; Sin Nombre; The White Ribbon | |
| Critics Choice: Picture Made for Television | |
| Grey Gardens | |
| Other Nominees: Gifted Hands; Into The Storm; Taking Chance | |
| Critics Choice: Composer | |
| Michael Giacchino (Up) | |
| Other Nominees: Marvin Hamlisch (The Informant!); Randy Newman (The Princess And The Frog); Karen O & Carter Burwell (Where The Wild Things Are); Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes) | |
| Critics Choice: Song | |
| Ryan Bingham (Crazy Heart (The Weary Kind)) | |
| and T Bone Burnett | |
| Other Nominees: All Is Love (Where The Wild Things Are); Almost There (The Princess And The Frog); Cinema Italiano (Nine); I Want To Come Home (Everybody's Fine) | |
| Critics Choice: Art Direction | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: A Single Man; Nine; The Lovely Bones; Inglourious Basterds | |
| Critics Choice: Cinematography | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: The Hurt Locker; Nine; The Lovely Bones; Inglourious Basterds | |
| Critics Choice: Costume Design | |
| The Young Victoria | |
| Other Nominees: Nine; Bright Star; Inglourious Basterds; Where The Wild Things Are | |
| Critics Choice: Editing | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: Up In The Air; Inglourious Basterds; The Hurt Locker; Nine | |
| Critics Choice: Makeup | |
| District 9 | |
| Other Nominees: Avatar; Nine; The Road; Star Trek | |
| Critics Choice: Sound | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: District 9; The Hurt Locker; Nine; Star Trek | |
| Critics Choice: Visual Effects | |
| Avatar | |
| Other Nominees: District 9; The Lovely Bones; Star Trek; 2012 | |