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The 2011-2012 Critics Awards Scoreboard

The Tree of Life leads the Top Tens, but it’s The Artist at the top of the Critics Scoreboard. And The Descendants holds the number two spot on both charts.

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The 2010-2011 Critics Awards Scoreboard

With the Oscars hours away, the Critics have put Social Network on top of the Scoreboard. Who will Oscar put there?

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Nominations by Film

Alice in Wonderland, a Walt Disney Pictures Production (Walt Disney) (3 nominations) Art direction Costume design Visual effects Animal Kingdom, a Porchlight Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination) Jacki Weaver – Performance by an actress in a supporting role Another Year, a Thin Man Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics) (1 nomination) Original screenplay Barney’s…

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2009-2010 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: (500) Days of Summer, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Avatar, Crazy Heart, District 9, Food Inc., Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Julie & Julia, Me and Orson Welles, Nine, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Seraphine, Summer Hours, The Blind Side, The Cove, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The White Ribbon, Up, and Up in the Air

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2008-2009 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: Australia, Changeling, Che, Defiance, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Road, The Soloist, The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, W., Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir

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2007-2008 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Assassination of Jesse James, Atonement, Away From Her, Black Book, Body of War, Caution, Charlie Wilson’s War, Crazy Love, Darjeeling Limited, Eastern Promise, Gone Baby Gone, I’m Not There, In the Shadow of the Moon, Juno, King of Kong, La Vie en Rose, Lars and the Real Girl, Lust, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, No End In Sight, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Sicko, Starting Out in the Evening, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Host, The Lives of Others, The Savages, There Will Be Blood

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2006-2007 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: A Scanner Darkly, An Inconvenient Truth, Army of Shadows, Babel, Blood Diamond, Borat, Brick, Cars, Children of Men, Deliver Us from Evil, Dreamgirls, Factotum, Flags of Our Fathers, Flushed Away, For Your Consideration, Half Nelson, Happy Feet, Hard Candy, L’Enfant, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Manufactured Landscapes, Monster House, Notes on a Scandal, Over the Hedge, Pan’s Labyrinth, Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, Running with Scissors, Shut Up and Sing, Stranger Than Fiction, Thank You for Smoking, The Dead Girl, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, The Last King of Scotland, The Lives of Others, The Painted Veil, The Queen, This Film is Not Yet Rated, United 93, Volver

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2005-2006 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: 2046, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Broken Flowers, Cache, Capote, Casanova, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Cinderella Man, Crash, Down to the Bone, Downfall, Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, Good Night and Good Luck., Grizzly Man, Head-On, Howl’s Moving Castle, Hustle & Flow, Innocent Voices, Junebug, King Kong, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Kung Fu Hustle, Mad Hot Ballroom, March of the Penguins, Me You and Everyone We Know, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mother of Mine, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Munich, Murderball, North Country, Paradise Now, Pride and Prejudice, Rent, Sin City, Syriana, The Consistant Gardener, The Corpse Bride, The Squid and the Whale, The Upside of Anger, Transamerica, Tsotsi, Walk the Line, Wallace and Gromit

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2004-2005 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: A Very Long Engagement, Bad Education, Before Sunset, Being Julia, Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids, Broadway: The Golden Age by the Legends Who Were There, Closer, Collateral, Control Room, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fahrenheit 9/11, Finding Neverland, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Kinsey, Maria Full of Grace, Million Dollar Baby, Moolaade, Ray, Sideways, Super Size Me, Tarnation, The Aviator, The Fog of War, The Incredibles, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Sea Inside, The Story of the Weeping Camel, The Triplets of Belleville, Touching the Void, Vera Drake, We Don’t Live Here Anymore

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2003-2004 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: 21 Grams, A Mighty Wind, All the Real Girls, American Splendor, Bad Santa, Bend it Like Beckham, Big Fish, Blue Car, Calendar Girls, City of God, Cold Mountain, Dirty Pretty Things, Elephant, Finding Nemo, Freaky Friday, Girl With a Pearl Earring, House of Sand and Fog, In America, Japanese Story, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Laurel Canyon, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Monsieur Ibrahim, Monster, Morvern Callar, Mystic River, Open Range, Pieces of April, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Raising Victor Vargas, Seabiscuit, Shattered Glass, Soldier’s Girl, Something’s Gotta Give, Spider, The Barbarian Invasions, The Cooler, The Human Stain, The Last Samurai, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Magdalene Sisters, The School of Rock, The Secret Lives of Dentists, The Singing Detective, The Station Agent, Thirteen, Under the Tuscan Sun, Veronica Guerin, Virgin, Whale Rider

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“I was never let down by the hot dogs, bought from Chicago’s irreplaceable Vienna Beef, which were split down the middle, griddled and laid in a toasted potato bun with or without the classic Chicago garnishes. Better yet is the Bird Dog, a smoked chicken and apple bratwurst from Usinger’s of Milwaukee How the burger could change lives I never divined, but on occasion it was magnificent, as beefy and flavorful as the outer quarter-inch of a Peter Luger porterhouse. More often, though, the meat was cooked to the color of wet newsprint, inside and out, and salted so meekly that eating it was as satisfying as hearing a friend talk about a burger his cousin ate.”
~ Critical Eating: NYTimes Resto Critic Pete Wells Makes A Mouthful Of Shake Shack

“There is an innocence – an almost monastic purity – about Adam Ant’s enduring devotion to pop; after coming off antidepressants a few years ago, he began performing live again, playing modest venues, often unannounced, and later this year he will release a new album. I find myself hoping his audiences are respectful, and kind. Though still beautiful, he has to wear hats and bandanas to disguise the fact that he is now bald. He was always very conscious of his own beauty – “I think to be a pop star you need sex, subversion, style and humour” – and the hair loss seems gratuitously cruel. “Yeah,” he admits with quiet sadness. “It was pretty awful. But – I dunno – you’ve just got to do what you can. It’s part of the job, really. Just gotta get up, have a shave, and get on with it, really.”
~ Adam Ant On A Life In And Out Of Punk And Pop

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