Several critics organizations announced their awards over the weekend, but others aren't quite so forthcoming. So here's a roundup of the groups that want to tease us by releasing their choices in two batches: first the nominees, and later the winners.
Detroit Film Critics Society: "The King's Speech" and "Winter's Bone" lead with six nominations each. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" director Edgar Wright gets a Best Director nod. Carey Mulligan (left) lands a Best Actress nomination, but Annette Bening doesn't.
Best Film nominees:
“127 Hours”
“Inception”
“The King’s Speech”
“The Social Network”
“Winter’s Bone”
The full list: Detroit Film Critics Society
St. Louis Film Critics Association: the only place where you'll see "The King's Speech" going head-to-head with Harmony Korine's "Trash Humpers," in an apparently meaningless category called Best Artistic/Creative Film (Excellence in Arthouse Cinema). Also: Noomi Rapace and Naomi Watts for Best Actress, but no Lesley Manville, Michelle Williams or Annette Bening.
Best Film nominees:
“Black Swan”
“The Fighter”
"Inception”
“The King’s Speech”
“The Social Network”
Runners-up: "True Grit," "Winter's Bone"
The full list at Awards Daily
Houston Area Film Critics: "Kick Ass" makes it into the Best Picture lineup but "Winter's Bone" doesn’t. Noomi Rapace edges out Lesley Manville as the token non-American Best Actress nominee. Bill Murray crashes the Supporting Actor race. And they also add a category for Worst Movies of the Year, which includes "Sex and the City 2," "The Last Airbender" and "Jonah Hex."
Best Picture nominees:
“Black Swan”
“Inception”
“Kick-Ass”
“The Kids Are All Right”
“The King’s Speech”
“127 Hours”
“The Social Network”
“Toy Story 3″
“True Grit”
The full list at indieWIRE
The Indiana Film Journalists, meanwhile, go all the way and announce their winners – and like their brethren in L.A., Boston and Washington, they pick "The Social Network" as the best film of 2010. But their choices contain a few oddities: while David Fincher directed the year's best movie, he is neither the winner (that's Christopher Nolan for "Inception") nor the runner-up (Debra Granik for "Winter's Bone") in the Best Director competition. And "Toy Story 3" fails to win Best Animated Film for the first time in a critics' competition, losing not to usual runner-up "The Illusionist" but to "How to Train Your Dragon." (Winners at In Contention)
Moving on to a group that is definitely not known for its critical acuity, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Sasha Stone says the Golden Globes are occasionally surprising, distinctly behind-the-times, and mostly irrelevant when it comes to predicting the Oscars. But she nonetheless does a pretty exhaustive job of giving some history and then running down the major Globes categories in advance of Tuesday's nominations announcement – a more exhaustive job, you could argue, than the Globes deserve. (Awards Daily)
