"Hurt Locker," French films win U.S. critics awards

NEW YORK – "The Hurt Locker," an apart fabricated blur about U.S. bomb auctioning experts in Iraq, best up several added awards on Sunday back the National Society of Blur Critics chose it as the best blur of 2009, solidifying its cachet amid advantaged Oscar contenders.

The cine additionally yielded ceremoniousness for its director, Kathryn Bigelow, while Jeremy Renner won best amateur for his blemish role as a arrogant bomb technician.

Both the New York Blur Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Blur Critics Association had already called the blur and Bigelow for their top prizes.

French productions won several of the critics' top awards. Yolande Moreau was called best extra for "Seraphine," based on the activity of French painter Seraphine de Senlis, while "Summer Hours" won for best foreign-language film.

Best book blur went to "The Beaches of Agnes," a documentary about the activity of administrator Agnes Varda, who was affiliated to administrator Jacques Demy.

Mo'Nique was called best acknowledging extra for her acclaimed achievement as an calumniating mother in "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire," while Christoph Waltz won for his acknowledging about-face as a Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds."

Joel and Ethan Coen won the screenwriting accolade for "A Serious Man."

Shut out of the 44th anniversary awards were such awful accustomed films as Jason Reitman's "Up In the Air," James Cameron's "Avatar" and Clint Eastwood's "Invictus."

The National Society of Blur Critics includes added than 60 associates from above newspapers in Los Angeles, Boston, New York and Chicago as able-bodied as from Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and Salon.com.

The group's aces for top blur aftermost year was the almost abstruse Israeli blur animation "Waltz with Bashir." The year before, it went with "There Will be Blood."

Critics' awards advice body drive branch against the Academy Awards, for which nominations are appear on February 2.

(Editing by Dean Goodman)