"The Social Network" was voted best picture today by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. "Carlos" was runner-up. Olivier Assayas, for "Carlos," and David Fincher, for "The Social Network," tied for the top director nod. In the top acting categories, Colin Firth and Kim Hye-ja won for best actor. Aaron Sorkin's screenplay for "The Social Network" won that category. Full list of 2010 winners.
More by Kevin Roderick:
Ralph Lawler of the Clippers and the age of AquariusRiding the Expo Line to USC 'just magical'
Last bastion of free parking? Loyola Marymount to charge students
Matt Kemp, Dodgers and Kings start big weekend the right way
LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
Recent Hollywood stories on LA Observed:
Hollywood Reporter gets politicalRejected Joe Eszterhas' Maccabees script is "a Jewish Braveheart'
Publicist Michael Sands dies after choking on sample at Gelson's
Moving day at KCET
Mel Gibson and Joe Eszterhas exchange words over Maccabee script *
New at LA Observed
Follow us on Twitter
On the Media Page
Go to Media
LA Biz Observed
Go to LA Biz Observed
Sign up for daily email from LA Observed
An update [already] on Hawaii's classic ukulele