Talk about medals of honor.
Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war action-thriller, The Hurt Locker, has just banked a couple more big prizes in the run-up to its inevitable Academy Award nomination, scoring top honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association and at the Satellite Awards.
Hurt has also been named the year's top film by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the San Francisco Film Critics, the Las Vegas Film Critics and the Gotham Independent Awards. It was also nominated for the Golden Globes and SAG Awards and made the AFI's list of the year's Top 10 flicks.
Among its other Chicago accolades, The Hurt Locker won for Best Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Director (Bigelow), Best Screenplay (Mark Boal) and Best Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd).
Best Supporting wins meanwhile went to the usual suspects: Christoph Waltz for Inglorious Basterds and Mo'Nique for Precious.
At the Satellite Awards, The Hurt Locker also snagged Best Director, Actor and Film Editing, while Nine took home Best Musical and Best Cinematography.
2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners:
- Picture: The Hurt Locker
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
- Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
- Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, Precious
- Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
- Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
- Foreign-Language Film: The White Ribbon
- Animated Feature: Up
- Documentary: Anvil: The Story of Anvil
- Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
- Original Score: Up, Michael Giacchino
- Most Promising Performer: Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Most Promising Filmmaker: Neill Blomkamp, District 9
2009 Satellite Award winners:
- Motion Picture, Drama: The Hurt Locker
- Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Nine
- Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Stoning of Soraya M.
- Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
- Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
- Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
- Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique, Precious
- Actor in a Supporting Role: Chrisoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
- Motion Picture, Foreign Language Film: The Maid and Broken Embraces (tie)
- Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Motion Picture, Documentary: Every Little Step
- Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- Screenplay, Original: Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, (500) Days of Summer
- Screenplay, Adapted: Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
- Original Score: Rolfe Kent, Up in the Air
- Original Song: "The Weary Kind," Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett, Crazy Heart
- Cinematography: Nine
- Visual Effects: 2012
- Film Editing: The Hurt Locker
- Sound (Mixing & Editing): 2012
- Art Direction & Production Design: A Single Man
- Costume Design: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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