The Hurt Locker wins the LA Film Critics best picture award

Katheryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker has taken the L.A. Film Critics prizes for both Best Picture and Best Director. The film, a highly tense feature about a U.S. bomb disposal unit in Iraq, pipped Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air to the post with the Clooney-starring picture finishing second. Michael Haneke was runner up in the director category for his work on The White Ribbon.

   Scott Copper’s Crazy Heart was the only other feature to take home two awards with Jeff Bridges portrayal as an alcoholic washed-up song writer scooping him the Best Actor prize and T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton winning Best Film Music for the same picture.

   Other winners include Belgian actress Yolanda Moreau being decorated for her turn as the French painter Seraphine de Senlis in Serpahine, Mo’Nique claiming Best Supporting Actress for her turn in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire. Christoph Waltz was honoured for Best Suppoting Actor, beating out In The Loop’s Peter Capaldi, for his breakthrough role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Other awards are as follows:

Up In The Air was voted best screenplay.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox beat Up for Best Animated Film.

Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours beat The White Ribbon for Best Foreign Language Film.

Neil Blomkamp won the New Generation award following rave reviews of his film District 9.

Christian Berger won in the cinematography category for his work on The White Ribbon.

The Best Documentary feature was tied between Louis Psihoyos’ eco-doc The Cove, a disturbing look at the Japanese treatment of dolphins, and Agnes Varda’s The Beaches Of Agnes.

French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo was honoured with a Career Achievement award.

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter