Seriously? OMG! WTF?

"United 93," a tense drama focusing on one of the hijacked planes used in the September 11 attacks, won the best picture prize on Monday in the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The awards, the third major film honors at the start of the Oscar season, can help narrow the field of contenders but is not always a prediction of Academy Award winners. Jennifer Hudson won the best supporting actress award for her show-stealing role in "Dreamgirls," the movie adaptation of the famed Broadway musical. Jackie Earle Haley won best supporting actor for playing a man who exposes himself to children in "Little Children." The best actor and best actress awards were due to be announced later on Monday. Critics picked Peter Morgan’s screenplay for "The Queen" as the best of the year for his story of how the death of Princess Diana in 1997 threw the British royal family into crisis. Penguin cartoon and box-office hit "Happy Feet" won the best animation film category. The film has earned $137.7 million so far at the U.S. box office. Best foreign film went to the French film "Army of Shadows" by legendary French director Jean-Pierre Melville. The awards, voted on by a group of New York’s newspaper and magazine critics, follows other major film awards in Los Angeles and New York that both awarded best picture to Clint Eastwood’s war film "Letters from Iwo Jima." Last year the New York Film Critics Circle’s best film choice was the gay cowboy love story "Brokeback Mountain," which lost the Oscar to "Crash." In 2004 it named "Sideways" as the year’s best picture, while the Oscar went to the another Clint Eastwood film, "Million Dollar Baby."

Reuters 

I think so, don’t you? 

AFI’s top 10 movies and television programs of the year:

Films in alphabetical order:

"Babel"
"Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan"
"The Devil Wears Prada"
"Dreamgirls"
"Half Nelson"
"Happy Feet"
"Inside Man"
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
"Little Miss Sunshine"
"United 93"

Television programs in alphabetical order:

"Battlestar Galactica"
"Dexter"
"Elizabeth I"
"Friday Night Lights"
"Heroes"
"The Office"
"South Park"
"24"
"The West Wing"
"The Wire"

Variety

Another yawner 

2006 Los Angeles Critics Association winners

Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Runner-up: "The Queen"

Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan’s Labyrinth"

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan’s Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"

Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin’s Nightmare"

Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"

Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan

Variety 

How boring 

Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards:

Record of the Year: "Be Without You," Mary J. Blige; "You’re Beautiful," James Blunt; "Not Ready to Make Nice," Dixie Chicks; "Crazy," Gnarls Barkley; "Put Your Records On," Corinne Bailey Rae.

Album of the Year: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks; "St. Elsewhere," Gnarls Barkley; "Continuum," John Mayer; "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers; "FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake.

Song of the Year: "Be Without You," Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox and Jason Perry (Mary J. Blige); "Jesus, Take the Wheel," Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson (Carrie Underwood); "Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks); "Put Your Records On," John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou and Corinne Bailey Rae (Corinne Bailey); "You’re Beautiful," James Blunt, Amanda Ghost and Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt).

New Artist: James Blunt; Chris Brown; Imogen Heap; Corinne Bailey Rae; Carrie Underwood.

Pop Vocal Album: "Back to Basics," Christina Aguilera; "Back to Bedlam," James Blunt; "The River in Reverse," Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint; "Continuum," John Mayer; "FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake.

Rock Album: "Try," John Mayer Trio; "Highway Companion," Tom Petty; "Broken Boy Soldiers," The Raconteurs; "Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers; "Living With War," Neil Young.

R&B Album: "The Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige; "Unpredictable," Jamie Foxx; "Testimony: Vol. 1, Life and Relationship," India.Arie; "3121," Prince; "Coming Home," Lionel Richie.

Rap Album: "Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor," Lupe Fiasco; "Release Therapy," Ludacris; "In My Mind," Pharrell; "Game Theory," the Roots; "King," T.I.

Country Album: "Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks; "Like Red on a Rose," Alan Jackson; "The Road to Here," Little Big Town; "You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker," Willie Nelson; "Your Man," Josh Turner.

Latin Pop Album: "Adentro," Arjona; "Lo Que Trajo El Barco," Obie Bermodez; "Individual," Fulano; "Trozos De Mi Alma 2," Marco Antonio Solis; "Limon Y Sal," Julieta Venegas.

AP for the rest of the list go to Grammys.com

Whatever, I personally don’t care about them…do you?

UPDATE: Weird Al blogs about his two Grammy noms on MySpace!!! Good luck to Weird Al! 

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