Las Vegas Film Critics Winners
This is their revised list as their voting hadn’t tabulated.
LVFCS 2009 Sierra Award Winners
Best Picture
“The Hurt Locker”
Best Actor
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”
Best Actress
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, “Inglorious Basterds”
Best Supporting Actress
Monique, “Precious”
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
“500 Days of Summer”
Best Cinematography
Andrew Lesnie, “The Lovely Bones”
Best Film Editing
Bob Murawski, “The Hurt Locker”
Best Costume Design
Anna B. Sheppard, “Inglorious Basterds”
Best Art Direction
“Avatar”
Best Visual Effects
“Star Trek”
Best Documentary
“Anvil: The Story of Anvil”
Best Foreign Film
“Red Cliff” (China)
Best Song
“The Weary Kind”
(Theme from “Crazy Heart)
Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best Score
Brian Eno, “The Lovely Bones”
Best Family Film
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Best Animated Film
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Youth in Film
“Saoirse Ronan, “The Lovely Bones”
Best DVD (Packaging, Design, and Content)
“The Wizard of Oz (70th Anniversary Ultimate Edition)
The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award
Roger Deakins
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[...] Update: Also recieved another Best Animated Film, this one from the Toronto Film Critics Association, a nomination in the same category from the Chicago Film Critics, and another Best Animated Film and Best Screenplay win from the Utah Film Critics Association. In addition, Best Family Film and Best Animated Film from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. [...]
M says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:15am
Good for Saoirse – Nice that Lovely Bones got 3 awards, although this doesnt mean much.
I should see Hurt Locker to see what this bizz is all about, because it never looked interesting to me, or much different from other war movies.
Nel says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:18am
As I said in the previous post Yay – Gabby (again I know it does not mean much) but I did think she was getting left behind in the critical nods and undeservedly so!
FromChelseaManhattan says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:26am
I said this for Utah critics too. How many movie critics are there in Vegas (not even Nevada!!)? 5? 25? 50? How many of them voted? What is next? A small town in New Mexico film critics awards!
kk says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 6:22am
wow i have no idea who will win best actor. i mean its pretty obvious who will be nominated but as for winning?! not a clue. clooney won his share, same for firth, same for bridges, freeman won nbr and renner seems to be picking up steam. crazyness
brainypirate says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:06am
@ #3:
Good point. Didn’t someone point out just the other day how small the LA and NY critics’ groups are, especially with the recent round of critic-layoffs?
GFH says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:11am
OK, so which critics groups from all these who announced their picks these last few days can be considered relevant and important enough?
brainypirate says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:16am
Found it: Dave Poland’s comment @ http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2009/12/left_right_cent.html :
“LAFCA sports about 11 full-time employed critics… NYFCC about double that. Meanwhile BFCA’s membership has grown about 25% this year. Bad times for critics.”
Does that mean LAFCA only has 11 voters, or are there more voters who aren’t full-time employed critics?
Anyone?
Pete says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 7:22am
Time for Summit to break out some of that Twilight money to give Hurt Locker some proper marketing.
filmboymichael says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 8:23am
Um….FromChelseaManhattan
what does it matter to you? Do you live in THAT much of a bubble that you don’t think anything exists outside of new york?
I think that just really naive thinking….I am an avid awards watcher and awardsdaily.com watcher and i love reading about this….I’m a Canadian – and I’m sure you think that the Vancouver and Toronto film critics awards are meaningless as well…but I also know that Las Vegas has a very large population and is also arguably the entertainment capital of the world….why should…who are you to decide the relevance of a critics group???
brainypirate says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:07am
I think it’s a legit question, if only because I have no sense of how many publications come out of Vegas. So I don’t know if the Vegas awards represent 12 people’s votes or just 3. I’ll take the award more seriously if it’s 12 people — if it’s just 3, then I’d rather them simply publish their individual Best of 2009 lists….
And FWIW, I live in a city even smaller than Vegas, so I’m not being a big-city snob about this.
Maybe the question is this: How big does a critics’ circle need to be before we see it as legitimate?
And again, are we talking only full-time, employed critics, or anyone who reviews for a publication?
Nic says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:16am
Well as for the relevance of Film Critcs Awards they have their place just like anything does however it’s a subjective place and probably not objective. Just as all our opinions are basically subjective rather than objective.
I would think that a city like Las Vegas would have perhaps ten critics if you included the local networks and local publications just because of the population.
What is interesting is that the critics awards are filtering out and pretty much echoing what has been stated here for the last two or three months. Nominations for many are probably locks at this point. But the only clear front runner is Monique in Precious and Kathryn Bigelow for directing The Hurt Locker. There are probably four spots in each acting category that are locks but that last spot in each category will be the one everyone struggles with.
What I find interesting is that so many reviews aren’t even reviews they are more like press releases.
ladylurks says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:38am
According to the LVFCS website, the city’s population is over 2 million, and it has one of the highest movie theater locations per capita. The membership in 2008 consisted of the following:
Victoria Alexander, Films in Review
Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly
Scott Birmingham, KTVN Channel 2
Jeanette Catsoulis, Las Vegas Citylife
Bob Grimm, Reno News & Review
Forrest Hartman, Reno Gazette-Journal, KTVN Channel 2
Jeffrey K. Howard (President)
Robin Holabird, KUNR-FM
Matthew Scott Hunter, Las Vegas Weekly
Matt Kelemen, Las Vegas City-Life
Tony Macklin, KBAD & KSHP-AM
Derek Sante, Review Nation
Rachel Smith, KVVU – Fox 5
Ryan Adams says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 9:44am
brainypirate, I posted a list of members of the LAFCA a few days ago when they announced their winners. I would guess that all these members get to vote. t would seem especially cold to deny them the right to vote just because they’re not full-time employees someplace. In fact, I think there are critics who are employed who have not yet been invited to join the LAFCA — I don’t see the LATimes’ Betsy Sharkey on this list.
I don’t think having a lot of voters is a guarantee of any better or more intelligent results. The US Presidential elections, case in point.
Robert Abele
David Ansen
Andrew Barker
Charles Champlin
Justin Chang
Peter Debruge
Alonso Duralde
David Ehrenstein
Stephen Farber
F.X. Feeney
Scott Foundas
Todd Gilchrist
Mike Goodridge
James Greenberg
Ray Greene
Tim Grierson
Kirk Honeycutt
Mark Keizer
Leonard Klady
Andy Klein
Robert Koehler
Christy Lemire
Emanuel Levy
Sheri Linden
Lael Loewenstein
Justin Lowe
Wade Major
Leonard Maltin
Willard Manus
Todd McCarthy
Myron Meisel
Joe Morgenstern
Amy Nicholson
Jean Oppenheimer
HJ Park
John Powers
Claudia Puig
Peter Rainer
Michael Rechtshaffen
Harriet Robbins
James Rocchi
Richard Schickel
Henry Sheehan
Brent Simon
Charles Solomon
Bob Strauss
Ella Taylor
Kevin Thomas
Luke Y. Thompson
Kenneth Turan
Glenn Whipp
Chuck Wilson
brainypirate says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:07am
Thanks Ryan and LadyLurks.
I guess I was confused by Poland’s post into thinking that there were only 11 voters.
And as someone who’s sole interaction with critics groups comes from sites like AwardsDaily, it’s easy for me to have no concept of who comprises these groups. (I suppose it’s similar to the way many people don’t know who the HFPA are.)
I agree with your comment about numbers being meaningless (the stories of bad-faith voting among SAG delegates are plenteous), but given the oft-reported stories about how the final critics’ votes are often compromise votes, I think it does make sense to consider the size of the group: My assumption is that the smaller the group, the more idiosyncratic their selections–and not necessarily in a good way. I assume larger groups allow a more representative cross-sample. Isn’t this a key element of statistical analysis?
And remember a couple years back when the NYFCC Animated Feature award hinged on the fact that one of the voters had left the room for a few minutes?
FromChelseaManhattan says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:57am
I asked that question becuase some people try to use those critics awards to make projections about Oscar nominations and even wins. Without knowing sample size/profile you cant do that. It is a bit naive to say that someone is becoming frontrunner based on critics awards if only 7 or 8 people voted for that award. Of course there are some names winning multiple cristics awards and that shows some trend. But by looking only at those critics awards saying someone will win Oscar is a bit nonsense. Of course there are some more important Critics awards than others. They can be a better predictors of major awards because of their size or the people involved etc. I dont think Las Vegas or Utah are among those more influential critics awards!
It was nothing about Vegas (and I love Vegas, been there twice this year!). By the way, Vegas entertainment capital of the world???? Yes, but if you count all those casinos, shows, cirque du soleil, topless shows, and excotic dancers. We are talking about movies. And I dont think Vegas is as important movie center as Los Angeles, New York or even Toronto in that regard.
Replay says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 11:47am
It seems Oscar voters will choose Sandra Bullock not Meryl or Gabby, Carey etc.
Replay says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 12:24pm
Wake up people Meryl Streep especially Carey Mulligan and Gabby Sidibe will not win Oscar. Critic darlings
Anna says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 2:33pm
If Sandra Bullock wins an Oscar for her role in The Blind Side I will be SHOCKED. She was NOT remarkable in that film. I’m cringing that she’ll even get a nomination.
Larry says:
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:52pm
It’s best to look at the stats rather than how many critics are on the panel, etc. So how does LVFC do in predicting past nominees/winners? That’s what you need to look at. For example, the past 10 of 11 years, they corrected predicted who would get a Best Cinematography nomination – this year’s winner The Lovely Bones might just follow in that vein.
Give Meryl Oscar #3 says:
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 2:03pm
@Replay, based on what? She’s won nada. By your logic, Angelina Jolie would have won last year, but she too won nada. Actually, she managed to sneak one or two film critics’ awards. Sandra hasn’t even managed that.