The National Society of Film Critics, consisting of 61 of the top film critics in the country, released their 2010 awards, and The Social Network took most of the prizes including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) [Roger Ebert’s Blog].
The King’s Speech was reasonably well represented also, taking Best Supporting Actor with Geoffrey Rush, while garnering a number of runner-up awards. Elsewhere, True Grit took home Best Cinematography with Roger Deakins, cementing it as one of the only real genuine front-runners for the Oscars.
The documentary award went to Inside Job giving us one of our first looks into a tightly contested awards season race for documentaries. What might be more surprising there was the runner-up: Exit Through the Gift Shop. If Banksy‘s genre bending piece can pick up some momentum, we might be in for a 5-way dog-fight for this category.
Check out the full run-down of votes over at Roger Ebert’s page, but here are the winners:
Best Actor- Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Best Actress- Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Vincere)
Best Supporting Actor- Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Best Supporting Actress- Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer)
Best Picture- The Social Network
Best Director- David Fincher (The Social Network)
Best Nonfiction- Inside Job
Best Screenplay- Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Best Foreign-Language FIlm- Carlos
Best Cinematography- Roger Deakins (True Grit)
Do you think The Social Network can maintain this momentum? How about the documentaries?