December 20, 2010 – Christopher Nolan’s Inception led the way with four awards in the Florida Film Critics Circle’s (FFCC) annual honors, but critical darling The Social Network is the group’s Best Picture of 2010. The film, about the founding of Facebook, won three awards, including Best Director (David Fincher) and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin).

Natalie Portman won Best Actress for her performance as a tortured ballerina in Black Swan, and Colin Firth took Best Actor honors for his turn as King George VI in The King’s Speech. Director David O. Russell’s The Fighter took home both Supporting Actor awards, with Christian Bale and Melissa Leo each winning by comfortable margins.

In addition to Nolan’s win for Best Original Screenplay, the other awards for Inception were in technical categories: Cinematography (Wally Pfister), Visual Effects, and Art Direction/Production Design (Brad Ricker and Guy Hendrix Dyas, respectively).

In other awards, I Am Love won for Best Foreign Language Film, Toy Story 3 took Best Animated Film and The Tillman Story was hailed as the Best Documentary. And in a close competition with True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld, Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence won the Pauline Kael Breakout Award.

The Golden Orange award, given for a significant contribution to film and/or filmmaking in Florida, went to Matthew Curtis, programming director for the Enzian Theater and FL Film Festival in Orlando. He was honored for “continuing to bring diverse programming to Orlando’s lone art house and being similarly dedicated to ensuring that the Florida Film Festival is a significant component of Central Florida’s film culture for the past two decades.”

 

 

Best Film:

The Social Network

 

Best Director:

David Fincher – The Social Network

 

Best Actor:

Colin Firth – The King’s Speech

 

Best Actress:

Natalie Portman – Black Swan

 

Best Supporting Actor:

Christian Bale – The Fighter

 

Best Supporting Actress:

Melissa Leo – The Fighter

 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network

 

Best Original Screenplay:

Christopher Nolan – Inception

 

Best Animated Film:

Toy Story 3

 

Best Art Direction/Production Design:

Brad Ricker and Guy Hendrix Dyas – Inception

 

Best Cinematography:

Wally Pfister – Inception

 

Best Documentary Film:

The Tillman Story

 

Best Foreign Language Film:

I Am Love (Io sono l’amore) – Italy

 

Best Visual Effects:

Inception

 

Pauline Kael Breakout Award:

Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone

 

Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film:

Matthew Curtis, programming director for the Enzian Theater and FL Film Festival in Orlando.  Honored for bringing diverse programming to Orlando’s lone art house and being similarly dedicated to ensuring that the Florida Film Festival is a significant component of central Florida’s film culture for the past two decades.