THE SOCIAL NETWORK tops DFW Film Critics Picks

The Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, of which I must disclose I am a voting member, announced the results of its 17th annual awards today. The Association’s selection for Best Picture is THE SOCIAL NETWORK, for which director David Fincher also won Best Director. Rounding out the Top Ten: THE KING’S SPEECH, BLACK SWAN, 127 [...]

AMPAS Selects Best Visual Effects Candidates

Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the seven contenders for Best Visual Effects in the 82nd Academy Awards®: Twentieth Century-Fox’s $400 million gamble, Avatar, Tri-Star’s alien allegory to Apartheid, District 9, Warner Bros. Pictures’ releases Terminator Salvation andHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Paramount Pictures’ rebooted Star Trek, DreamWorks’ Transformers: [...]

UP IN THE AIR Dominates Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards

Today, Todd Jorgenson of the Denton Record-Chronicle announced the 2009 selections in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association’s sixteenth annual awards. Also the National Board of Review’s and Washington Area Film Critics Association’s winner, Writer/director Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air was voted Best Film, with George Clooney taking Best Actor for his performance as [...]