Boston Society of Film Critics. Juliette is a Rock Star

The Boston Society of Film Critics have been known to surprise in the past and this year, they've opted for Juliette Lewis as Best Supporting Actress in Conviction. Bet you didn't see that under five minute surprise coming! A good day for The Fighter, Black Swan and The Social Network. Less so for The Kids Are All Right which did manage two runner up citations but, alas, runner up citations aren't really official and don't get you great FYC material. It was also a bad day for Ben Affleck's The Town. Home-town bias didn't help it to place anywhere.

Full list with commentary after the jump




Picture The Social Network
Runner up: Toy Story 3
Director David Fincher for The Social Network
Runner up: Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Actress Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Runner up: Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right
Actor Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Runner up: Colin Firth (The King's Speech) who lost by just one vote apparently.
Supporting Actress: Juliette Lewis in Conviction (read the TFE interview)
Runner Up: Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Supporting Actor Christian Bale in The FighterRunner Up: Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
Screenplay Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network
Runner up: Nicole Holocener for Please Give

Cinematography: Roger Deakins for the Coen Bros True Grit Runner up: Matthew Libatique for Black Swan
Editing (in memory of Karen Schmeer) Andrew Weisblum for Black Swan
Runner up: Lee Smith for Inception

"It's our time."

A lot of people 'round the net are calling this a "sweep" for ...Network. It's a very strong showing yes, but a sweep? A sweep implies everything and they didn't win Supporting Actor and they won none of the technical prizes -- not even runner up -- apart from "music". Nitpicking forever! Very very strong showing, yes, but not a sweep. Several other films also won invites to Boston's wonderful Brattle Theater for the ceremony on January 30th, 2011. Think Juliette Lewis will show?

New Filmmaker (in memory of David Brudnoy) Jeff Malmberg for Marwencol
Runner up: David Michôd for Animal Kingdom
Best Use of Music in a Film Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network
Runner up: Carter Burwell for True Grit
Ensemble Cast  The Fighter
Runner up: The Kids Are All Right
Documentary Marwencol
Runner up: Inside Job
Foreign Language Film Mother (South Korea)
Runner up: I Am Love (Italy)
Animated Film  Toy Story 3
Runner up: The Illusionist

Boston Enters The Hurt Locker

The Boston Film Critics Society boarded the Slumdog bandwagon last year though they didn't quite commit wholeheartedly. It tied for best picture with WALL•E and yet it was Milk which took home the most prizes in total: actor, director and screenplay. This year their favorite is easier to spot, The Hurt Locker easily dominated taking five prizes.


Picture The Hurt Locker
Director Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Actress Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia
Actor Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

• Odd duet in the lead awards but fun: the old pro (!) and the rising great (?). Critical attention won't do anything for Renner's Oscar chances unless it happens in mass though. Cross your fingers.
  

Supporting Actress Mo'Nique in Precious
Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

• These two monstrous supporting players seem very far ahead of the rest of their category packs, no? At least both performances are wondrous because potential sweepers aren't often this deserving.
  

Screenplay Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
Editing Bob Murawski and Chris Innis for The Hurt Locker
Cinematography Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker
Documentary The Cove
Animated Film Pixar's Up
Foreign Film TBA
Ensemble Cast (tie) Precious and Star Trek

• I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy this bizarre double feature win. But Star Trek ...seriously? I enjoyed it, I did, but best ensemble performance? Don't they just mean "characters we've loved our whole lives reborn!"
  

New Filmmaker Neil Blomkamp, District 9
Use of Music in a Film Crazy Heart