Last night, the Critics Choice Movie Awards singled out The Hurt Locker as Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director.  The two supporting actors winners, Mo'Nique for "Precious" and Christoph Waltz for "Inglourious Basterds," continue to sweep critics groups choices.  There seems to be more unanimity this year than in the past. Will they win the Golden Globes and the Oscars?

In addition to Best Actor (Giancarlo Giannini) and Best Director (Line Wertmuller), "Seven Beauties" was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.

Shampoo received for Oscar nominations: Supporting Actress: Lee Grant; Supporting Actor: Jack Warden; Screenplay (Original): Robert Towne and Warren Beatty; Art Direction-Set Decoration: Richard Sylbert and W. Stewart Campbell; George Gaines.

"Z," Costa-Gavras's extraordinarily compelling thriller is one of the fastest, most exciting political melodramas ever made. It's also one of the few foreign-language films to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.