The 15th Critics’ Choice Awards will be given to honour the finest achievements in 2009 filmmaking on January 15, 2010 on VH1. Kristin Chenoweth will be hosting the event. Here I will give you up to date winners as they are revealed during the show tonight (1/15) 8pm CST! Tune in to VH1 to see it all live and a special tribute to the late great John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Uncle Buck, The Breakfast Club)

The Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, commonly called the Critics’ Choice Awards, are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, and are announced in December. The winners are revealed at the annual Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony in January

And the winners are…………(Winners are marked in bold)

BEST PICTURE

Nominees:
• Avatar
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• Nine
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR

Nominees:
• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart (WINNER)
• George Clooney – Up In The Air
• Colin Firth – A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus
• Viggo Mortensen – The Road
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Nominees:
• Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side (TIE – WINNER)
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (TIE – WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Nominees:
• Matt Damon – Invictus
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christian McKay – Me And Orson Welles
• Alfred Molina – An Education
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Nominees:
• Marion Cotillard – Nine
• Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
• Mo’Nique – Precious (WINNER)
• Julianne Moore – A Single Man
• Samantha Morton – The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Nominees:
• Jae Head – The Blind Side
• Bailee Madison – Brothers
• Max Records – Where The Wild Things Are
• Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones (WINNER)
• Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Nominees:
• Inglourious Basterds  (WINNER)
• Nine
• Precious
• Star Trek
• Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING

Nominees:
• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lee Daniels – Precious
• Clint Eastwood – Invictus
• Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Nominees:
• Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
• Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
• Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – (500) Days Of Summer
• Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – Up
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nominees:
• Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – District 9
• Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
• Tom Ford, David Scearce – A Single Man
• Nick Hornby – An Education
• Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – Up In The Air (WINNER)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nominees:
• The Hurt Locker
• Nine
• Avatar (WINNER)
• The Lovely Bones
• Inglourious Basterds

BEST ART DIRECTION

Nominees:
• A Single Man
• Avatar (WINNER)
• Nine
• The Lovely Bones
• Inglourious Basterds

BEST EDITING

Nominees:
• Up In The Air
• Inglourious Basterds
• The Hurt Locker
• Avatar (WINNER)
• Nine

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Nominees:
• Nine
• Bright Star
• The Young Victoria (WINNER)
• Inglourious Basterds
• Where The Wild Things Are

BEST MAKEUP

Nominees:
• Avatar
• District 9 (WINNER)
• Nine
• The Road
• Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Nominees:
• Avatar (WINNER)
• District 9
• The Lovely Bones
• Star Trek
• 2012

BEST SOUND

Nominees:
• Avatar (WINNER)
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Nine
• Star Trek

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Nominees:
• Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Princess And The Frog
• Up (WINNER)

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Nominees:
• Avatar (WINNER)
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek

BEST COMEDY

Nominees:
• (500) Days Of Summer
• The Hangover (WINNER)
• It’s Complicated
• The Proposal
• Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Nominees:
• Gifted Hands
• Grey Gardens (WINNER)
• Into The Storm
• Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Nominees:
• Broken Embraces (WINNER)
• Coco Before Chanel
• Red Cliff
• Sin Nombre
• The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Nominees:
• Anvil
• Capitalism: A Love Story
• The Cove (WINNER)
• Food, Inc.
• Michael Jackson’s This Is It

BEST SONG

Nominees:
• “All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – Where The Wild Things Are
• “Almost There” – Randy Newman – The Princess And The Frog
• “Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – Nine
• “(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – Everybody’s Fine
• “The Weary Kind” – Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett – Crazy Heart (WINNER)

BEST SCORE

Nominees:
• Michael Giacchino – Up (WINNER)
• Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
• Randy Newman – The Princess and the Frog
• Karen O, Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are
• Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes

Joel Siegal Award Recipient

• Kevin Bacon

Joel Siegel (July 7, 1943 – June 29, 2007) was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. Born to a Jewish family, and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated cum laude from UCLA. During college, he worked to register black voters in Georgia, and he spoke frequently of having met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also worked as a joke writer for Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was at the Ambassador Hotel the night the senator was assassinated. According to some reports, he also led student opposition to the construction of a football stadium on campus. Siegel died of complications from colon cancer on June 29, 2007, in New York.

“The Joel Siegel Award was created to celebrate its namesake’s way of life in the spotlight.  It honors a person who understands that the true value of celebrity is as an enhanced platform to do good works for others.  Kevin personifies the values celebrated by this award.”