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BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS
ANNOUNCES AWARDS CEREMONY
CONTACT: Tom Meek,
Event Coordinator/President, Boston Society of Film Critics
Thom3@aol.com
617-957-3896
Loren King,
Event PR Coordinator
Loren.king@comcast.net
(617) 921-4605
STAR OF ACCLAIMED DRAMA THE HURT LOCKER, JEREMY RENNER, TO BE
FETED AT BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS AWARDS CEREMONY
JULIA CHILD’S
NIECE TO ACCEPT AWARD FOR MERYL STREEP
BOSTON — Jeremy
Renner, star of the acclaimed Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, will accept his best actor honor from the Boston
Society of Film Critics (BSFC) at the BSFC’s third annual awards ceremony
Saturday, February 6 at 7 p.m. at the Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square,
Cambridge, MA.
Renner, who plays a volatile
soldier defusing bombs, has made a career out of playing edgy characters. His
past credits include the title role in Dahmer, as well as roles in The North Country and 28 Weeks Later.
Also attending will be Philadelphia Cousins, niece of celebrated chef and author Julia
Child, who will accept the BSFC award for Meryl Streep, the BSFC awardee for best actress for her performance as Child in Julie & Julia.
Other special guests are expected as well and veteran arts
and entertainment critic and BSFC member Joyce Kulhawik
will emcee the evening.
Tickets to the event are available to the public through
the Brattle Theater. There will be a pre-event cocktail reception at 5:30
p.m. at Casablanca restaurant in Harvard Square and a screening of The Hurt Locker following the awards
presentation. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, January 20th.
The ceremony will also honor several members of the Boston
film community cited by BSFC for their contributions in 2009. Local awardees
include Gerald
Peary and Amy Geller, director and producer of For the Love of Movies; Haden
Guest, David Pendleton and the
staff of the Harvard Film Archive; and David
Bramante of the Stuart Street Playhouse.
In addition to commending
Renner’s performance, the BSFC cited The
Hurt Locker with a record four other awards including best film. The BSFC
honored Kathryn Bigelow as best
director, Barry Ackroyd
for cinematography and Chris Innis and Bob Murawski for film editing.
The BSFC’s annual awards ceremony has become a
much-anticipated event for the Boston film community. The BSFC’s first awards
ceremony in 2008 featured Frank Langella, named
best actor for Starting Out in the
Evening. In 2009, producer Maureen A. Ryan presented the acclaimed
documentary Man on Wire, which went
on to win the Academy Award.
Formed in 1981, the BSFC is made up of 20 professional
film critics working in the print and broadcast media in and around Boston.
Visit the BSFC website at www.thebsfc.org
for more information on the organization and for a complete list of winners.
For more information or to purchase tickets to the awards
event, visit the Brattle Theatre website at www.brattlefilm.org
Members of the BSFC will also be on hand to introduce
films that are part of the Brattle’s Best of 2009
series which runs from February 5th through February 11th.
Event sponsors are The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe
and Big Picture Framing.
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