Movie Award Season

The nominations for the 2010 Golden Globes were announced last night.

Nominations for Best Motion Picture - Drama:

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The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based on The Novel Push by Sapphire

Up In The Air

Normally, the Golden Globes nomination list serves as a rough draft for what can be expected to be nominated for the Academy Awards; however, this year the Academy has expanded to 10 nominations for the Best Picture category.

So to help build suspense for the discussion of best movies of 2009 here is Rolling Stones' movie critic Peter Travers' Top 10 movies of the year and director Quentin Tarantino's Top 8 movies of 2009.

Peter Travers' Top 10 Movies of 2009:

10) The Messenger

9) (500) Days of Summer

8) District 9

7) A Serious Man

6) Where the Wild Things Are

5) Up

4) An Education

3) The Hurt Locker

2) Up In The Air

1) Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Quentin Tarantino's Top 8 Movies of 2009: