I’ve been beating this drum for a while now, and it seems that I’m not alone. The Annual LA Film Critic Society awards were announced yesterday and fittingly, the best movie of the year was named the best movie of the year. The critic group gave the nod to Wall-E.
It should also be mentioned that The Dark Knight was named runner up.
The Folks over at Yahoo give us this:
“WALL-E” and “The Dark Knight” were unusually commercial choices for the critics, whose past best-picture winners have tended toward smaller films such as 2007’s “There Will Be Blood” and other recipients that include “Letters From Iwo Jima,” “Brokeback Mountain” and “Sideways.”
This is the correct decision. LA Film Critics… you have chosen wisely.
The awards run down looks like this:
BEST PICTURE – Wall-E
Runner Up – The Dark Knight
BEST ACTOR – Sean Penn (Milk)
Runner Up – Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
BEST ACTRESS – Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky)
Runner Up – Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Runner Up – Eddie Marsan (Happy Go Lucky)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Penelope Cruz (Cristina Barcelona)
Runner Up – Viola Davis (Doubt)
BEST DIRECTOR – Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionare)
Runner Up – Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
BERST SCREENPLAY – Happy Go Lucky
Runner Up – Synecdoche, New York
Wall-E is far and away the very best picture of the year. I have serious doubts that the Academy will give it the award… but it sure as hell better get nominated.
