Iowa Film Critics Awards

PICTURE: The Social Network
DIRECTOR: David Fincher, The Social Network
ACTOR: Colin Firth, The King's Speech
ACTRESS: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christian Bale, The Fighter
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
ANIMATED FEATURE: Toy Story 3
BEST FILM THAT HAS YET TO OPEN IN IOWA: Another Year

INCONVENIENTLY HIDING IN 7 THEATERS!

 I like that last mention.  I live in Los Angeles, one the top and most essential cities in the country, and Another Year has barely opened here.  For an alleged Oscar contender, it's barely registered anything.  What's sad about that mention is the fact to so few films are actually accessible, sometimes even here, and movies are required to open in LA per Oscar eligibility status.  The dumping of every "worthy" title in the last week of the calendar year is depressing, but the hustle and tightness of theater space makes so many movies barely register any sort of pulse.  And that's the respect given to a legitimate Oscar frontrunner; finding lesser known, non-commercial American indie or foreign films, even in one of the largest cities in the world is a damning, fateful to doom, cause.