The 2010 Critics’ Choice Awards: Best Actors, Best Films

Liliana Dumitru-Steffens
Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock have something in common: they are all winners at this year’s edition of Critics’ Choice Awards – best actor and best actress categories (a tie for Streep and Bullock). As expected, the film that scored best is Avatar, six wins in the categories best action movie, best visual effects, best cinematography (Mauro Fiore), best sound, best art direction (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg), and best editing (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron).

The Hurt Locker got two awards, topping Avatar as best picture, and best director (Kathryn Bigelow). Other awards: best supporting actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), best supporting actress Mo’Nique (Precious), best acting ensemble Inglourious Basterds, best original screenplay Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), best adapted screenplay Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air), best animated feature Up, best young actor/actress (under 21) Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), best comedy The Hangover, best picture made for television Grey Gardens, best foreign language film Broken Embraces, best documentary feature The Cove, best song “The Weary Kind” (Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett), Crazy Heart, best score Michael Giacchino (Up), best costume design Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria), best makeup (District 9).

These are all well deserved awards, for impeccable professionals. As it always happens the tabloid media lost focus of what really mattered, and highlighted other occurrences during the ceremony, like Meryl Streep’s unfortunate proximity to Sandra Bullock, who in the heat of the moment forgot for a while that she was in the presence of a lady. Sandra Bullock tried to make history, attempting to “french kiss” Meryl Streep. This puts Meryl Streep on the same list with Britney Spears, Madonna, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx and Angelina Jolie, all characters who, at a moment in time displayed a little too much enthusiasm and made the headlines for something other than their talents.