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   Nel says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:14am

   Aww as much as I love Meryl and these critics prizes don’t mean much – I have to admit this is my favourite critics awards list so far!

   Go Up and Gabby (two critics acting awards in less then two days) !!
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   filmboymichael says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 6:19am

   Up? Really….I admired the film – but do not think it was the best….it had an amazingly emotional opening – perhaps the best montage ever captured….but like a lot of pixar films, it faultered in the middle only to find itself again at the end….

   Love the attention that Gabby is getting….I really don’t think that Meryl will lose the oscar, but i don’t think it’s Meryl vs Carey….I think it’s Meryl vs. Gabby….
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   kk says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 6:25am

   once i found out sidibe is actually TWENTY SIX, she def now deserves an oscar nom and all these wins. throughout the whole movie i thought she was REALLY 16. amazing. i wonder if the votes will split so much between these 3 women(mulligan, streep, sidibe) that someone else could sneak up with the oscar win.
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   JJ says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:38am

   Not a big Up fan but love Colin Firth and The Hangover.
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   Jordan says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:39am

   @ kk. Yea, that would be bullock for the sneak up win.
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   JJ says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:01am

   Bullock would not deserve it. Mediocre performance in a mediocre movie. Only reason she is getting any consideration is because this is a horrible era for female roles.
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   Nic says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:03am

   Thank you Detroit for recognizing that “Up” is indeed one of the best animated features to come along in a long time. The use of color in this film is simply mesmerizing. Most animated features use color as a signature, it’s usually hard and glaring and screams at you “animation” in this film it had an almost subdued impressionistic feeling.

   I struck by how much Mr. Frederickson when he appeared older reminded me of Spencer Tracy. Even more strange that when he spoke I kept saying to myself how the hell did they find someone who could use the same inflection and sound so much like Spencer Tracy. Then I found out in the credits it was Ed Asner. Well done Mr. Asner. I’m so used too Ed Asner from MTM that I was completely surprised. Yeah on the DVD it doesn’t list the actors who did the voices so I actually sat there waiting for the credits. The thing about this that surprised me so much is that in so many animated films you never divorce the voice from the character. It’s like Carol Burnett is the Kangeroo in Horton Hears a Who or George Clooney in Fox. Here you have no idea so you just go with Mr. Frederickson is Mr. Frederickson. It took me awhile to draw the association between the explorer and Christopher Plummer but I finally got that before the credits. Frederickson I never got til the credits.

   I loved Kevin. I loved that instead of making Kevin some talking side kick that Kevin was distinctly a bird and behaved like a bird. I remember when the three dogs were together that I caught the design of their coats, their fur, and it was amazing how well they were designed. I thought it was genius to create a collar designed by a scientist to allow the dogs to actually speak instead of just making them talking dogs.

   It’s brilliant. Beautifully done. So thank you Detroit for recognizing it.
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   Other Ryan says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:32am

   No screenplay or foreign/documentary/animated films?
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   Mark says:
   Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:35am

   Yay!!!!!!!!! UP! WAS THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!!!! GREAT CHOISE
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    john says:
    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 11:43am

    I agree that UP was among the best of the year and deserves kudos. I also like that they rewarded its director; just because it’s a somewhat different skill set from the director of a live-action film doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be seen as competitive in these awards. The award that makes me happiest is those three wonderful goofballs that made such a wonderful team and the assortments of Las Vegas crazies they had to deal with taking Best Ensemble. Their omission from the SAG Ensemble category was glaring.
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    Andrew2 says:
    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 2:01pm

    Did I read right- The HANGOVER???
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    Hans says:
    Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:32pm

    Ha! This has to be among the most refreshing critics awards in a while. Unfortunately, it seems like everybody is relegating “Up” to this also-ran “Here’s your treat, a BP nod, now go and play while the adults duke it out!” kind of mentality, when, honestly, it still continues to be one of the best movies of the year.