Award show season in high gear

Sunday brought the announcement of two additional award groups: the Los Angeles Film Critics and the American Film Institute.

First up is the AFI list of the top ten films of the year:

"The Fighter"
"Inception"
"The Kids Are All Right"
"Black Swan"
"The Town"
"Toy Story 3"
"True Grit"
"Winter’s Bone"
"The Social Network"
"127 Hours"

Hmmm, look familiar?

My ten had all but "127 Hours" on it. "The Kings Speech," which was on my list, was given a special "award."

The LA Film Critics released their awards Sunday as well, in parts. The first part took care of some of the seconday categories (just the ones we are tracking):

Supporting Actress: Jackie Warner "Animal Kingdom"
Supporting Actor: Niels Arestrup "A Prophet"
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin "The Social Network"

And the second list about an hour and a half later.

Those awards are then added to last week's National Board of Review honors to give us a starting list:

Supporting Actress: Warner (NBR, LAFC)

Supporting Actor: Bale (NBR), Arestrup (LAFC)

Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin "The Social Network" (NBR, LAFC)

Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling "Buried" (NBR)

Director: David Fincher (NBR, LAFC), Olivier Assayas "Carlos" (LAFC - tie)

Best Animated Film: "Toy Story 3" (NBR, LAFC)

Best Actor: Eisenberg (NBR, LAFC), Colin Firth (LAFC)

Best Actress: Lesley Manville (NBR), Kim Hye-ja "Mother" (LAFC)

Best Film: "The Social Network" (NBR, LAFC)

Two sets of individual awards in and a pattern seems to be developing with supporting actress, director, screenplay, animated film (no surprise there) and picture.