Kansas City Film Critics Circle announces 44th Annual Award Winners

by Eric Melin on January 4, 2010

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The Kansas City Film Critics Circle (of which I am a member) gathered last night to vote on the group’s 44th annual year-end awards.

The Loutzenhiser Awards are named after KCFCC founder James Loutzenhiser.

The KCFCC is the second oldest professional film critics’ association in the United States.

Due to an insane amount of snow, I wasn’t able to attend, but I did send my votes through proxy.

The winners were:

UP IN THE AIR 2009 CLOONEY KENDRICKBest Film – “Up in the Air”

Robert Altman Award for Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”

Best Actress – Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique, “Precious”

Best Actor – George Clooney, “Up in the Air”

Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Animated Film – “Up”

Best Foreign Language Film – “Gomorrah”, Italy

Best Documentary – “Every Little Step”

tarantino basterds 2009Best Original Screenplay – Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Adapted Screenplay – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

Vince Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film – “District 9”

Eric is the Editor-in-Chief of Scene-Stealers.com, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and contributor for The Pitch. He’s former President of the KCFCC, and drummer for The Dead Girls, Ultimate Fakebook, and Truck Stop Love . He is also the 2013 Air Guitar World Champion Mean Melin, ranked 4th best of all-time. Eric goes to 11. Follow him at:

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{ 2 comments }

1 ChrisKnudsen January 12, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Pretty boring this year. You guys should have done something radical to stand out like give Adventureland best film and then you can start the momentum of it being nominated in the 10.

2 ChrisKnudsen January 12, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Pretty boring this year. You guys should have done something radical to stand out like give Adventureland best film and then you can start the momentum of it being nominated in the 10.

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