Broadcast Film Critics nominees announced

As a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), I usually publish a list of the organization's major nominees for year-end honors. The 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards will be announced Friday, January 15. The list -- more expansive than most other such lists -- provides you with plenty of fuel for your own year-end awards and also gives you something to argue about as the year draws to a close. I voted, but the nominees don't all reflect my taste, an inevitability with any critics' organization. Stay tuned for more.

BEST PICTURE

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An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Invictus

Nine

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart

George Clooney - Up In The Air

Colin Firth - A Single Man

Morgan Freeman - Invictus

Viggo Mortensen - The Road

Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria

Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

Carey Mulligan - An Education

Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones

Gabourey Sidibe - Precious

Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Matt Damon - Invictus

Woody Harrelson - The Messenger

Christian McKay - Me And Orson Welles

Alfred Molina - An Education

Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Marion Cotillard - Nine

Vera Farmiga - Up In The Air

Anna Kendrick - Up In The Air

Mo'Nique - Precious

Julianne Moore - A Single Man

Samantha Morton - The Messenger

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

Jae Head - The Blind Side

Bailee Madison - Brothers

Max Records - Where The Wild Things Are

Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones

Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Inglourious Basterds

Nine

Precious

Star Trek

Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

James Cameron - Avatar

Lee Daniels - Precious

Clint Eastwood - Invictus

Jason Reitman - Up In The Air

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man

Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - (500) Days Of Summer

Bob Peterson, Peter Docter - Up

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell - District 9

Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious

Tom Ford, David Scearce - A Single Man

Nick Hornby - An Education

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up In The Air

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker

Dion Beebe - Nine

Mauro Fiore - Avatar

Andrew Lesnie - The Lovely Bones

Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Coraline

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Princess And The Frog

Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Broken Embraces

Coco Before Chanel

Red Cliff

Sin Nombre

The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Anvil

Capitalism: A Love Story

  The Cove

Food, Inc.

Michael Jackson's This is it