The Hurt Locker cleaned up at tonight’s National Society of Film Critics awards, just like it did with the New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film won best picture, best director (Kathryn Bigelow) and best actor (Jeremy Renner). Lucky for all the other Academy Award hopefuls, this pretty much guarantees that The Hurt Locker won’t win the Oscar.
Here is the complete list of winners:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Best Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: Yolande Moreau, Seraphine
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds, and Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Foreign-Language Film: Summer Hours
Non-fiction Film: The Beaches of Agnes
Cinematography: Christian Berger, The White Ribbon
Production Design: Nelson Lowry, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Related: David Edelstein at the Voting, and His Entrapment List of Movies [Projectionist]