Local film critics announce winners

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association announced its year-end awards. The winners are:

Best Picture: Up in the Air
Best Director: Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Best Actor: George Clooney, Up in the Air
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best Foreign-Language Film: Sin Nombre
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Animated Film: Up
Best Cinematography: The Lovely Bones

Top Ten:

1. Up in the Air
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Precious
4. Up
5. An Education
6. A Serious Man
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. District 9
9. Avatar
10. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Russell Smith Award: Precious

I can't quibble with these choices except to say that the film that tops my list as the best film I've seen this year is Goodbye, Solo, which has been totally ignored by absolutely everyone. In fact, if I had to name my 10 best right now, it would be:
1. Goodbye, Solo
2. Gomorrah
3. Tyson
4. The Cove
5. Sugar
6. Up in the Air
7. Up
8. Humpday
9. Il Divo
10. A Woman in Berlin