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Slumdog Millionaire continues it domination of year-end kudos locking up Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Assn. Top Film and Top Director awards. Among the more noteworthy selections is Anne Hathaway’s win for Rachel Getting Married which bets out some stiff competition and the most successful picture with subtitles this year picked up the best Foreign Language film of the year. Tell No One had a miracle run at the box office and made over six million and some change in a crazy theatrical run.

Gus Van Sant and David Fincher’s respective films grabbed eight nominations each in the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics Choice Awards (a group which is an amalgamation of 235 film reviewers in TV, radio or web outlets.

I’m pleased by some of the names and film titles that were nominated in the fifteen categories and especially glad to see that Lance Hammer’s Ballast grabbed six nominations but I’m perplexed by one of the two films it shares a total of six nominations with.

Essentially, the Annual Satellite Award nominations (now in their 13th year) is some crazy round up that resembles what the Golden Globes usually looks like, and with the extra categories it comes as no surprise that we find a horrible picture like Baz Luhrmann's Australia leading the nominations (thankfully it covers the tech categories and not the main) with Van Sant's Milk and Boyle's Slumdog leading the main caegories.