My Awards (Directing and Acting Categories)

Best Director:

1. Katherine Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
2. James Cameron (Avatar)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Bastards)
4. Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
5. Lee Daniels (Precious)

My Winner- Katherine Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actor:

1. Jeff Bridges as washed-up country singer Bad Blake (Crazy Heart)
2. George Clooney as corporate jet-setter Ryan Bingham (Up in the Air)
3. Jeremy Renner as U.S Army bomb squad SFC William James (The Hurt Locker)
4. Viggo Mortensen as the post-apocolyptic wanderer protecting his son (The Road)
5. Morgan Freeman as South African President Nelson Mandela (Invictus)

My Winner- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

Best Actress:

1. Meryl Streep as cooking legend Julia Childs (Julie and Julia)
2. Sandra Bullock as adoptive mother Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
3. Carey Mulligan as coming of age British girl Jenny Mellor (An Education)
4. Zooey Deschanel as endearing and quirky girlfriend Summer Finn (500 Days of Summer)
5. Gabourey Sidibe as heartbreaking inner-city mother Precious Jones (Precious)

My Winner- Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Christopher Waltz as chilling and intelligent German SS Col. Hans Landa (Inglorious Bastards)
2. Anthony Mackie as U. S Army bomb squad Sgt. JT Sanborn (The Hurt Locker)
3. Peter Saarsgard as cultural romantic love interest David Goldman (An Education)
4. Jackie Earl Haley as the morally questionable masked protector Rorschach (Watchmen)
5. Alfred Molina as socially awkward and overprotective father Jack Mellor (An Education)

My Winner- Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Mo'Nique as mentally and physically abusive mother Mary Jones (Precious)
2. Vera Farmiga as career woman and love interest Alex Goran (Up in the Air)
3. Anna Kendrick as recent college grad trying to make a splash in the corporate world Natalie Keener (Up in the Air)
4. Melanie Laurent as Jewish movie theatre owner set on revenge Shoshanna (Inglorious Bastards)
5. Marrion Cotillard as lonely and betrayed wife Luisa Contini (Nine)

My Winner- Mo'Nique (Precious)