Following rapidly on the heels of the board-sweeping success at the People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles (see yesterday), Batman flick The Dark Knight has scored further movie gongs at the Critic’s Choice Awards (given out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association). The late Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for his turn as a psychotic and anarchic Joker, while The Dark Knight beat Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Wanted and James Bond to nab the Best Action Movie category.With the BAFTAs, Oscars and the Golden Globes still to come close together I suspect I may run out of ways to say Batman has won. Its gratifying to see a comics-based movie do so well at the box office, with audiences and the critics (how often do all three report such success?), although the cynical part of me can’t help but wonder if the dreadfully premature death of Heath Ledger added to it all, which is not to detract from his performance in the film (here was a film Joker that was up there with Moore and Bolland’s murderous lunatic in The Killing Joke), but a part of me can’t help but wonder.
(the reduction of Russian gas supplies forced the Joker to find alternative methods of heating his lair)
Animated documentary Waltz With Bashir (which sadly has become more topical given the current situation in Israel and Gaza) won the Best Foreign Language category, although it lost out to Pixar’s Wall-E for the Best Animated Feature gong. The full list and video clips can be found on the Critic’s Choice site.
(director Christopher Nolan accepts his Critic’s Choice Awards for Best Action Movie for The Dark Knight, pic borrowed from the official awards site)
Fri, Jan 9, 2009
Art and animation, Awards, Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio