The Southeastern Film Critics Association named its 2010 award winners today, voted on among 43 critics — myself included — from nine states. Here are the SEFCA winners, with my votes for each category:
TOP TEN FILMS
1 – The Social Network
2 – The King’s Speech
3 – Winter’s Bone
4- Black Swan
5 – Inception
6 – True Grit
7 – Toy Story 3
8 — 127 Hours
9 – The Fighter
10 – The Kids Are All Right
My picks: I’m not going to give my full best film votes here so as not to step on my year-end list for the December 30th edition of the Flyer. But I’ll give a few notes:
A snafu in regard to year-end screeners kept me from seeing three of these films — The King’s Speech, True Grit, and The Fighter — in time for voting, though, based on what I’ve seen and read I’m somewhat skeptical that any of them would have shown up on my ballot. As is, I voted for four films that finished in the SEFCA Top Ten — The Social Network, Winter’s Bone, Black Swan, and Inception.
There are three films that made my SEFCA ballot that will not show up on my Flyer year-end list because they did not screen in Memphis in 2010. Two of these — Carlos (fourth on my ballot) and Mother (9th) are foreign films that never opened here and which I wrote about recently. The third is Another Year (my third-place finisher,) the latest work from British master Mike Leigh, which is likely to open locally sometime in January or February.
