Below you will find exactly what my votes were for the 15th Annual Critics' Choice Awards on VH1 this Friday night. I'm a member of the BFCA, and therefore an actual, honest to god, voting member for the awards. I have 1/235th of a voice in exactly what wins. This is simply over-analyzing (a rant) the numbers of how I exactly voted. Again, this is how I voted, not the final results of the show, which won't be known until Friday. Inglourious Basterds - 5 votes Where The Wild Things Are - 4 votes Avatar - 3 votes Fantastic Mr. Fox - 2 votes Star Trek - 2 votes A Single Man - 1 vote An Education - 1 vote Precious - 1 vote The Hurt Locker - 1 vote District 9 - 1 vote Broken Embraces - 1 vote The Hangover - 1 vote The Cove - 1 vote

Well, if you can't tell, Inglourious Basterds is my favorite movie of the year. But Away We Go was in my Top 7 along with (500) Days of Summer, but because of the lack of nominations, those movies are no where on this list. What's most shocking is Where The Wild Things Are. I liked that movie, but didn't love it. Yet, suddenly it is looking like one of the best of the year. The categories helped that one a great deal with YOUNG ACTOR and both MUSIC choices heading that direction. The worst part? I loved Star Trek. It was my number two film of the year. And there's Avatar sitting above it. Sigh.

BEST PICTURE – for me this was a no-brainer

Avatar An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus Nine Precious A Serious Man Up Up In The Air

BEST ACTOR – Bridges and Renner had a chance, there was no heavy lifting for Clooney

Jeff Bridges – “Crazy Heart” George Clooney – “Up In The Air” Colin Firth – “A Single Man” Morgan Freeman – “Invictus” Viggo Mortensen – “The Road” Jeremy Renner – “The Hurt Locker”

BEST ACTRESS – Sidibe and Streep were also good here, but Mulligan blew me away

Emily Blunt – “The Young Victoria” Sandra Bullock – “The Blind Side” Carey Mulligan – “An Education” Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones” Gabourey Sidibe – “Precious” Meryl Streep – “Julie & Julia”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Harrelson would have had a chance in a different year

Matt Damon – “Invictus” Woody Harrelson – “The Messenger” Christian McKay – “Me And Orson Welles” Alfred Molina – “An Education” Stanley Tucci – “The Lovely Bones” Christoph Waltz – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – Mo’Nique’s power wasn’t matched by anyone else

Marion Cotillard – “Nine” Vera Farmiga – “Up In The Air” Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air” Mo’Nique – “Precious” Julianne Moore – “A Single Man” Samantha Morton – “The Messenger”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS – It seemed like a movie not only acted by a kid, but made by a kid

Jae Head – “The Blind Side” Bailee Madison – “Brothers” Max Records – “Where The Wild Things Are” Saoirse Ronan – “The Lovely Bones” Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Road”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE – With Basterds, the 15th person was just as good as the 2nd … excluding Mike Myers of course

Inglourious Basterds Nine Precious Star Trek Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTING – Bigelow would be second, Reitman third, Cameron and Daniels tie for fourth, Eastwood dead last

Kathryn Bigelow – “The Hurt Locker” James Cameron – “Avatar” Lee Daniels – “Precious” Clint Eastwood – “Invictus” Jason Reitman – “Up In The Air” Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Yeah! Hurt Locker wins something!

Mark Boal – “The Hurt Locker” Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – “A Serious Man” Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber – “(500) Days Of Summer” Bob Peterson, Peter Docter – “Up” Quentin Tarantino – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – very tough call, with Hornby missing out

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach – “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell – “District 9″ Geoffrey Fletcher – “Precious” Tom Ford, David Scearce – “A Single Man” Nick Hornby – “An Education” Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner – “Up In The Air”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Yes, the controlled look, and camera shots were most impressive in Basterds

Barry Ackroyd – “The Hurt Locker” Dion Beebe – “Nine” Mauro Fiore – “Avatar” Andrew Lesnie – “The Lovely Bones” Robert Richardson – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST ART DIRECTION – Look, Avatar won my vote, maybe now somebody will go see it

Dan Bishop – “A Single Man” Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg – “Avatar” John Myhre, Gordon Sim – “Nine” Naomi Shohan, George De Titta, Jr. – “The Lovely Bones” David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco – “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST EDITING – Here comes Avatar!

Dana E. Glauberman – “Up In The Air” Sally Menke – “Inglourious Basterds” Bob Murawski, Chris Innis – “The Hurt Locker” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron – “Avatar” Claire Simpson, Wyatt Smith – “Nine”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN – Don’t you love how period pieces ALWAYS get nominated?

Colleen Atwood – “Nine” Janet Patterson – “Bright Star” Sandy Powell – “The Young Victoria” Anna Sheppard – “Inglourious Basterds” Casey Storm – “Where The Wild Things Are”

BEST MAKEUP – District 9 was good ugly

Avatar District 9 Nine The Road Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS – duh

Avatar District 9 The Lovely Bones Star Trek 2012

BEST SOUND – I finally get to give Star Trek something

Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Nine Star Trek

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – from top to bottom, the closest category for my vote

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox Princess And The Frog Up

BEST ACTION MOVIE – Hurt and Basterds shouldn’t count, and I was never bored during Star Trek

Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek

BEST COMEDY – This vote is not complicated

(500) Days Of Summer The Hangover It’s Complicated The Proposal Zombieland

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION – haven’t seen any of these Gifted Hands Grey Gardens Into The Storm Taking Chance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – I really was bored with The White Ribbon … really bored

Broken Embraces Coco Before Chanel Red Cliff Sin Nombre The White Ribbon

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – great action, suspense and purpose with The Cove

Anvil Capitalism: A Love Story The Cove Food, Inc. Michael Jackson’s This Is It

BEST SONG – Frog nominated one of its worst songs, therefore O gets my vote

“All Is Love” – Karen O, Nick Zinner – “Where The Wild Things Are” “Almost There” – Randy Newman – “The Princess And The Frog” “Cinema Italiano” – Maury Yeston – “Nine” “(I Want To) Come Home” – Paul McCartney – “Everybody’s Fine” “The Weary Kind” – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham – “Crazy Heart”

BEST SCORE – O again, but Zimmer was close

Michael Giacchino – “Up” Marvin Hamlisch – “The Informant!” Randy Newman – “The Princess and the Frog” Karen O, Carter Burwell – “Where The Wild Things Are” Hans Zimmer – “Sherlock Holmes”