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2010 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Critics Choice Award - Best Comedy Movie(Nominee)
Critics Choice Award - Best Screenplay, Original(Nominee) – Scott Neustadter
500 Days Of Summer is a HIGH FIDELITY and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. 500 Days Of Summer sheds a linear plot in favor of a memory-driven look at a failed&hellip…
2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Director Ari Folman interviews old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about his own life and about himself during the 1980's war with Lebanon. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images&hellip&hellip…
2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Critics Choice Award (Nominated)(Best Documentary)
There's more drama in this small documentary than in most serious Oscar contenders. A marriage is on the line, integrity is tested, and friendships falter--all in the name of a video game called DONKEY KONG. THE KING OF KONG may inspire both tears and frustrated sighs, but it's&hellip…
Critics Choice Award(Best Documentary)
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the nation's&hellip…
2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
In this hilarious yet informative documentary, debut director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's health quickly deteriorates. The film&hellip…
Best Soundtrack(Nominee)
Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the&hellip…
Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
In the spring of 2003, just before President Bush declared that the United States would go to war with Iraq, documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim and her crew set up their cameras inside Al Jazeera, the satellite news network for the Arab world. Though US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accuses&hellip…
BFCA Award, Best Actress(Nominee)
As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her life, a clandestine affair begins&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying Daggers&hellip…
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2004 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress
Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci costars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a romantic bond with&hellip…
Best Documentary(Nominee)
Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad overview of&hellip…
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Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges's PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. To reconnect with her mother, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), and father, Jim (Oliver Platt), she invites&hellip…
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
2003 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary(Nominee)
Robert Evans got his break portraying Irving Thalberg in THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES. Evans would eventually become the next Thalberg as Vice President in charge of production at Paramount. The studio was destitute and confused in a changing marketplace in the late 1960s. Evans would guide Paramount to&hellip…
2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find&hellip…
2001 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director
Best Screenplay, Adapted
Best Picture(Nominee)
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap&hellip…
2000 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Spanish director Pedro Almodvar's tender, intelligent drama follows the emotional journey of Manuela, an organ transplant coordinator who scours the back alleys and gutters of Barcelona in search of her errant ex-husband (a half-transsexual prostitute named Lola), saddled with the devastating news that&hellip…
1997 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture(Nominee)
Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach&hellip…
1996 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground&hellip…