George to receive humanitarian of the year award at the Houston Film Critics Society annual awards

From The Examiner

12 December 2010

The Houston Film Critics Society will be holding its 4th Annual Year-End Awards Show this Saturday, December 18th at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at 4:00pm. The presentation will be free and open to the public, but seating will be limited so please come early if you plan on attending.

The awards will cover what the HFCS considers the best and worst in film. The program itself will run for about 60 minutes and be filled with film clips and montages. The clip we were shown at the social last Friday was really spectacular and I'm looking forward to seeing that again along with whatever new clips make their way into the show. The Lifetime Achievement Award will also be presented to Sissy Spacek while a Humanitarian Award will be presented to George Clooney. A reception will be held in the museum galleries following the program.

Here are the nominees:

BEST PICTURE:

•127 Hours, Fox Searchlight
•Black Swan, Fox Searchlight
•Inception, Warner Bros.
•Kick Ass, Lionsgate
•The Kids are All Right, Focus Features
•The King´s Speech, The Weinstein Company
•The Social Network, Columbia Pictures
•Toy Story 3, Walt Disney Pictures
•True Grit, Paramount Pictures
•Winter's Bone, Roadside Attractions
BEST DIRECTOR:

•Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
•Danny Boyle, 127 Hours
•Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
•David Fincher, The Social Network
•Christopher Nolan, Inception
BEST ACTOR:

•Jeff Bridges, True Grit
•Robert Duvall, Get Low
•Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
•Colin Firth, The King´s Speech
•James Franco, 127 Hours
BEST ACTRESS:

•Annette Bening, The Kids are All Right
•Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
•Jennifer Lawrence, Winter´s Bone
•Natalie Portman, Black Swan
•Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

•Christian Bale, The Fighter
•Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
•Bill Murray, Get Low
•Jeremy Renner, The Town
•Geoffrey Rush, The King´s Speech
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

•Helena Bonham Carter, The King´s Speech
•Melissa Leo, The Fighter
•Julianne Moore, The Kids are All Right
•Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
•Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST SCREENPLAY:

•Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg, The Kids are All Right
•Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini (based on the novel Winter´s Bone by Daniel Woodrell), Winter´s Bone
•John Lasseter (story) & Andrew Stanton (story) & Lee Unkrich (story) and Michael Arndt (screenplay), Toy Story 3
•Christopher Nolan, Inception
•Aaron Sorkin (based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich), The Social Network
BEST ANIMATED FILM:

•Despicable Me, Universal Pictures
•How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation
•Megamind, Paramount Pictures
•Tangled, Walt Disney Pictures
•Toy Story 3, Walt Disney Pictures
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

•Roger Deakins, BSC, ASC, True Grit
•Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
•Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC & Enrique Chediak, 127 Hours
•Wally Pfister, ASC, Inception
•Eduardo Serra, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One
BEST DOCUMENTARY:

•Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Magnolia Pictures
•Marwencol, The Cinema Guild
•Restrepo, National Geographic Entertainment
•The Tillman Story, The Weinstein Company
•Waiting for Superman, Paramount Pictures
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

•Biutiful, Mexico
•Carlos, France/Germany
•Mother, South Korea
•The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sweden
•The Secret in their Eyes, Argentina
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

•Carter Burwell, True Grit
•John Powell, How to Train your Dragon
•A.R. Rahman, 127 Hours
•Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, The Social Network
•Hans Zimmer, Inception
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

•"If I Rise," from 127 Hours, music by A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Dido Armstrong & Rollo Armstrong
•"Shine," from Waiting for Superman, music & lyrics by John Legend
•"The Clap," from Get Him to the Greek, music & lyrics by Dan Bern & Mike Viola
•"We are Sex Bob-Omb!" from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, music & lyrics by Beck
•"You Haven´t Seen the Last of Me," from Burlesque, music & lyrics by Diane Warren
WORST MOVIES OF THE YEAR:

•Furry Vengeance, Summit Entertainment
•Jonah Hex, Warner Bros.
•Sex and the City 2, Warner Bros.
•Splice, Warner Bros.
•The Last Airbender, Paramount Pictures