Gold Derby Award winners: 'The Hurt Locker,' Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep
"The Hurt Locker" won the most Gold Derby Awards bestowed by posters in our forums -- best picture, director (Kathryn Bigelow), film editing and cinematography. Most interesting among the results was Meryl Streep's victory over Sandra Bullock for best lead actress. Is that a hint at what might occur at the Oscars?
Gold Derby Film Awards have been an annual tradition since 2002. Previous best-picture winners were "Wall-E," "No Country for Old Men," "The Departed," "Brokeback Mountain," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" and "Chicago."
To read reax to this year's batch of winners, check out this forum thread. Many thanks to our forum notables Chris "Boomer" Beachum, Andrew "andrew" Pickett and Matt "Noble" Noble for organizing these awards.
MOTION PICTURE: "The Hurt Locker"
DIRECTOR: "The Hurt Locker" (Kathryn Bigelow)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "Up in the Air" (Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "Inglourious Basterds" (Quentin Tarantino)
LEAD ACTOR: Jeff Bridges as Bad Blake in "Crazy Heart"
LEAD ACTRESS: Meryl Streep as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia"
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo'Nique as Mary Jones in "Precious"
ENSEMBLE CAST: "Inglourious Basterds"
ART DIRECTION: "Avatar" (Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: "The Hurt Locker" (Barry Ackroyd)
COSTUME DESIGN: "The Young Victoria" (Sandy Powell)
FILM EDITING: "The Hurt Locker" (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)
MAKEUP/HAIR: "District 9" (Joe Dunckley, Sarah Rubano, Leon von Solms)
ORIGINAL SCORE: "Up" (Michael Giacchino)
ORIGINAL SONG: "Crazy Heart" (“The Weary Kind” – Ryan Bingham, T-Bone Burnett)
SOUND EDITING/MIXING: "Avatar" (Christopher Boyes, Tony Johnson, Andy Nelson, Gary Summers, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
VISUAL EFFECTS: "Avatar" (Richard Baneham, Andrew Jones, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum)
ANIMATED FEATURE: "Up"
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: "The Cove"
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "The White Ribbon" (Germany)
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT (PERFORMER): Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor
LIFE ACHIEVEMENT (OTHER): Ennio Morricone, Mike Nichols
Gold Derby Award illustration by Ty Wilson
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DISTRICT 9 is not even nominated in the Best Make-Up category. How is it going to win that award then?
Posted by: Ricardo Pineda | March 07, 2010 at 10:07 AM
...and just why is it a surprise that Meryl Streep beat Bull-ock???? True talent will win over nonsense evety single time. Bull-cok is COMPLETELY out of her league...not only with Streep of course but with all four of the other nominees...Bulloock is a joke...plain and simple....THAT'S WHY SHE LOST.. but take, she does now have a title...Worst Actress of the Year!
Posted by: Diane | March 07, 2010 at 05:18 AM
Check out this article: "Nicolas Chartier and the HIdden Hands Who Financed "The Hurt Locker"
It's some really great insight of how a feature really gets made. A film financier named Jeff Steele wrote it.
http://filmclosings.com/2010/03/06/hidden-hands-on-the-hurt-locker/
Posted by: mattzen | March 07, 2010 at 12:12 AM