The busy awards season continues and Anna continues to be recognized for her work in “Up in the Air”. She has racked up 2 more wins and 1 more nomination. And “Up in the Air” is racking up a huge number of other awards as well. Big continued congrats to Anna and the cast and crew of “Up in the Air”.

Tomorrow is the prestigious SAG Award nominations, and I’m betting we’ll see her name pop up there too! Stay tuned.

WINS:

Austin Film Critics Association:

• Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

Toronto Film Critics Awards

• Best Supporting Performance, Female: Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”

NOMINATION:

Chicago Film Critics

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga (-) Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick (-) Up in the Air
Mo’Nique (-) Precious
Julianne Moore (-) A Single Man
Natalie Portman (-) Brothers

Here’s another GG reaction video interview, this time with E! News.

022 x Screen Captures – 12.15.09: E! News GG Nomination Reaction Interview

Now it’s getting real! Anna is officially a Golden Globe Nominee. She is nominated along with co-star Vera Farmiga (YAY!!!) and “Up in the Air” led all films with 6 total nominations, including Best Film (Drama)!

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo’nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man

It also includes Best Actor for George Clooney, Best Director for Jason Reitman and Best Screenplay for Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner. All the big ones!

Anna, co-star Vera Farmiga and writer/director Jason Reitman sat down with Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers for an interview on his ABC show Popcorn to talk about “Up in the Air”. The video and some caps are now available below.

056 x Screen Captures – 12.03.09: Popcorn with Peter Travers

Anna is nominated for 3 acting awards and “Up in the Air” leads all films with 8 nominations total! We won’t have to wait long for the winners, they will be announced tomorrow.

Best Breakthrough Performance
Anna Kendrick | Up in The Air
Christian McKay | Me and Orson Welles
Carey Mulligan | An Education
Jeremy Renner | The Hurt Locker
Gabourey Sidibe | Precious

Best Ensemble
The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment
Nine | The Weinstein Company
Precious | Lionsgate
Star Trek | Paramount
Up in the Air | Paramount

Best Supporting Actress
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 Film
The Hurt Locker | Summit Entertainment
Inglourious Basterds | Weinstein Company
Precious | Lionsgate
Up | Walt Disney
Up in the Air | Paramount

Full nominations list: DCFilmCritics.org

Out in limited release today is Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, the year’s presumed Best Picture front-runner, starring George Clooney as a frequent-flying corporate terminator who meets his match in Anna Kendrick, an efficiency expert with plans to ground him. Kendrick got her start onstage, scoring a Tony nomination for her role in High Society at only 12-years-old before transitioning to small films, like 2007’s Sundance hit Rocket Science and the recent art-house favorite The Twilight Saga: New Moon. She spoke with Vulture about auditioning for Air and her own Oscar buzz.

How did your role come about?
Well, Jason Reitman saw me in a film I did called Rocket Science, and he started writing the role with me in mind after he saw that.

Did you know that when you auditioned?
No, actually. I just went in and read and I thought it didn’t go well at all. And so I was really surprised when they called like two days later and just offered me the job. I was at least expecting to have to go in and read a million times for a role like this.

Why didn’t he just tell you?
Jason, I guess, was trying not to psych me out, because he thought if he told me that he’d written the role with me in mind that it would feel like it was mine to lose, and I would choke. So he was trying to keep a poker face, and so I just thought he didn’t like me.

Did you know you’d be working with George Clooney and Vera Farmiga?
No! Certainly, I didn’t know that Vera was attached to it. And I’d heard that George was, but I thought it was kind of just a rumor. And then Jason was telling me all about meeting George and how excited George was to do the movie. And I was trying to act really cool and act like that didn’t faze me, like I was totally up to the task.

In both Up in the Air and Rocket Science, your characters are very smart, aggressive women.
I like playing characters like that because they’re really outspoken and really opinionated, and I often censor myself and don’t say the thing that I’m feeling. And, you know, it’s great to be able to tell George Clooney off in a movie. It feels very cathartic.

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Anna participated in MySpace’s Artist on Artist interview with “Up in the Air” soundtrack artist Sad Brad Smith, and you can watch it and view some caps below.

140 x Screen Captures – 12.03.09: MySpace Artist on Artist

Here is a new interview the LA Daily News did with the women of “Up in the Air”, and a new photoshoot is included as well.

002 x Photoshoot – 2009: LA Daily News

Walter Kirn’s 2001 novel “Up in the Air” rather brilliantly depicted the inner life of one Ryan Bingham. A corporate downsizing facilitator desperate for both a new job and more frequent flyer miles, Bingham thought in a perceptive stream-of-consciousness informed by state-of-the-art marketing concepts.

It was a pretty great book, but a tough one to turn into a movie. Especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, as Bingham’s cushy life in the privileged business class of what he called Airworld became increasingly unrealistic in a time of airline cost-cutting and inconvenienced travelers.

But Jason Reitman, the director of “Juno,” has nonetheless made “Up in the Air” into a compelling, relevant movie, with George Clooney all-too-perfectly cast as the charmingly untethered Bingham.

He did it by pretty much rewriting the story from scratch.

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Congratulations to Anna, George Clooney, Jason Reitman, and the rest of the cast and crew!

“Up in the Air,” which opens Friday, was named today as the best film of 2009 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

The dramedy directed by Jason Reitman revolves around a corporate downsizer (George Clooney) who begins to question his isolated life.

The film also won awards for best actor (Clooney tied with Morgan Freeman for “Invictus”), supporting actress for Anna Kendrick and adapted screenplay by Reitman and Sheldon Turner.

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures consists of film professionals, educators, historians and students. The group is often a leading bellwether for the Academy Awards. Its past three best film selections — “The Departed,” “No Country for Old Men” and “Slumdog Millionaire” — went on to receive the top Academy Award.

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