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Published: 12/22/2009 4:35 PM
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"The Hurt Locker" is the best motion picture of 2009, according to the Oklahoma Film Critic's Circle, which also announced George Clooney and Meryl Streep as the best in their fields this year.
"The Hurt Locker," a war film about a bomb-disposal unit in Iraq, edged out "Up in the Air" as top film, and it also won the best director prize for Kathryn Bigelow.
Clooney was named best actor for "Up in the Air," as a frequent-flyer who specializes in firing employees, ahead of Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker." Meanwhile, Streep took the lead actress award for her depiction of chef Julia Child in the comedy "Julie & Julia," just nudging out Gabourey Sidibe, the young star of "Precious."
Christoph Waltz ("Inglourious Basterds") and Mo'Nique ("Precious") won their respective supporting actor and actress categories in voting from the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle.
The OFCC membership includes film critics who publish in print and on online outlets, including the Tulsa World, The Oklahoman and Oklahoma Gazette.
The group's top 10 films, in order, were: "The Hurt Locker"; "Up in the Air"; "Inglourious Basterds"; "(500) Days of Summer"; "Precious"; "A Serious Man"; "Up"; "District 9"; "Fantastic Mr. Fox"; and "Avatar."
"Up in the Air" also won for best screenplay adaptation, while the relationship comedy "(500) Days of Summer" took top honors as the best original screenplay.
Other OFCC awards included "Fantastic Mr. Fox" as best animated film; for best first film, a tie between director Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" and director Marc Webb's "(500) Days of Summer"; "Anvil! The Story of Anvil" as best documentary; and the French drama "Coco Before Chanel" as best foreign film.
In the categories of dishonor, Oklahoma film critics agreed on "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" as the "Obviously worst film" of 2009. "Amelia" took the booby prize as "Not-so-obviously worst" picture of the year, in a category, according to an OFCC press release, contains films that may have great talent behind them, but somehow add up to less than the sum of their parts."
The group's Web site, ofccircle.org, includes links to the Oklahoma film critics' reviews as well as feature articles.

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