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MUMBAI: The 17th Annual Critics? Choice Movie Awards will be showcased live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Zee Studio at 6:30 am on 13 January.
Films nominated for best picture are ?The Artist?, ?The Descendants?, ?Drive?, ?Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close?, ?The Help?, ?Hugo?, ?Midnight in Paris?, ?Moneyball?, ?The Tree of Life? and ?War Horse?.
200 film critics make up the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organisation in the US and Canada.
The Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, commonly called the Critics? Choice Awards, are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honour cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, and were announced in December.
Actor/comedians Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer will host the 17th annual Critics? Choice Movie Awards. Fitz and The Tantrums will also participate in the Critics? Choice Movie Awards, taking the stage as the evening?s house band, performing between awards and commercials.
Sean Penn will receive the 2012 Joel Siegel Award at the 17th Annual Critics Choice Movie Awards. Sean Penn has been chosen to receive the Joel Siegel Award at the 17th Annual Critics? Choice Movie Awards, with Oscar winner George Clooney tapped to present the award. Previous winners of the Joel Siegel Award include Matt Damon, Kevin Bacon, Richard Gere, and Don Cheadle.
The Joel Siegel Award honours the memory of the Good Morning America critic who lost his battle to cancer in 2007. It?s awarded each year in recognition of a celebrity who uses their fame to do good work for others.
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