We women are speaking up!

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists announces the nominees for the 2010 AWFJ EDA Awards. Topping the list are Black Swan, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network and Winter’s Bone, all nominated for Best Film.

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When four year-old Danny Corbett is accidentally killed by a motorist after darting into a suburban street while chasing the family dog, his parents’ lives are shattered. Read more

“I’m hoping this film enrages you enough to act,” said Andrew Levine after his documentary, “The Day My God Died,” screened at the Human Rights & Sex Trafficking Film Forum held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 2-5. Read more

When Joel and Ethan Coen (“No County For Old Men’) decided to remake this iconic Western, they turned to the source: Charles Portis’s 1968 novel. Yet comparing Jeff Bridges’ irascible Rooster Cogburn with John Wayne’s is inevitable, since Wayne placed an indelible imprint on the role, winning his only Oscar in 1969 and reprising it in the 1975 sequel. That’s perhaps why the Coens focus on the character of Mattie Ross Read more

In alphabetical order:

• A Film Unfinished
• Another Year
• Autobiography of Nicholae Ceausescu
• The Fighter
• The King’s Speech
• Made in Deganham
• Mother
• Rabbit Hole
• Sweetgrass
• The Town

Everyone is weighing in on what movies are the best this year, I couldn’t resist my own selection. Here are my top films of 2010. Read more>>

Carrie Rickey asks why, at the movies, is a scene of a woman’s arm cut off rated R, but one of her being sexually pleasured rated NC-17? Read more>>, and leave comments below!