CFCA. Awards.

"No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of the acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel, was the big winner in the voting for the 20th annual Chicago Film Critics Association awards. In a year with no clear front-runners in the majority of the 15 categories, it led the pack with four awards. The only other film to win multiple prizes was Jason Reitman's Juno, which came away with three awards from the 60-member group."

Not many of these critics circles have a site as clean and functional as the CFCA's, by the way. Nice logo, too. At any rate, No Country scores Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem). Juno's wins are for Best Original Screenplay (Diablo Cody), Best Actress (Ellen Page) and Most Promising Performer (Michael Cera, who's also mentioned for Superbad).

The other awards:

• Best Foreign Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.

• Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There.

• Best Original Score: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for Once.

• Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

• Best Documentary: Sicko.

• Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille.

• Most Promising Filmmaker: Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone).

Posted by dwhudson at December 14, 2007 1:15 AM