Maggie Gyllenhaal has believed for years that there would come a time when she'd act opposite
Jeff Bridges in a movie. And now, finally, Gyllenhaal and Bridges team up in the dramatic film,
Crazy Heart, written and directed by Scott Cooper. Gyllenhaal plays a single mother and journalist who makes an unlikely connection with an aging, alcoholic country music singer, played by Bridges. The two have great chemistry onscreen and their performances have generated lots of award attention.
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The Princess and the Frog will be hopping out of the first place position on the box office charts with the opening of James Cameron's gigantic action/romance/3D spectacle. Also hitting theaters this weekend is a romantic comedy starring two genre veterans, Jeff Bridges as an aging country singer, a period drama, and - in limited release - the year's biggest musical:
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The Hurt Locker and
Inglourious Basterds picked up more awards steam with two California critics' groups throwing their support behind the two war-based films. San Diego film critics gave
Inglourious Basterds six awards including the Best Film honors. Quentin Tarantino won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Christoph Waltz was best supporting actor, and the cast earned the Best Ensemble award. Michelle Monaghan (
Trucker) was voted Best Actress, Colin Firth (
A Single Man) won Best Actor, and Samantha Morton (
The Messenger) was named Best Supporting Actress. The San Diego critics chose Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach as winners in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for adapting Roald Dahl's
Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The San Diego Film Critics Society (which I'm part of) also selected Woody Harrelson as the winner of its annual Body of Work award for his performances this year in
The Messenger,
Zombieland and
2012 (although one member who shall remain nameless thought he should have had points subtracted for being a part of
2012).
Meanwhile Northern California critics were more into
The Hurt Locker. San Francisco Film Critics Circle members gave
The Hurt Locker its Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow its Best Director awards. Like the San Diego critics, the San Fran group was also impressed with
Colin Firth's performance in
A Single Man, naming him Best Actor of 2009. SFFCC opted for Meryl Streep as Best Actress for
Julie & Julia, Christian McKay (
Me and Orson Welles) as Best Supporting Actor, and Mo'Nique (
Precious) as Best Supporting Actress.
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Jason Reitman's third film,
Up in the Air, leads the pack of Golden Globe nominees with six, including acting noms for George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. The dramatic musical
Nine is gathering a little awards steam, nipping at
Up in the Air's heels by earning five Golden Globe nominations. James Cameron's groundbreaking action epic
Avatar and Quentin Tarantino's rewrite of WWII,
Inglourious Basterds, each earned four nominations.
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