2010 Awards

Quick Look

Check out the winners and other nominees from the 2010 Cosmo Awards:

Synopsis

We took a pause from the awards for a few years, which resulted in film from 2007 through 2009 not getting their own awards year. Those films are, of course, still eligible for Lifetime Achievement Awards, and we may consider special one-off recognition at some point.

After our hiatus, the Cosmo Awards returned to honor the best (and worst) films of 2010.

The King’s Speech and Inception were the big winners. While The King’s Speech took home five awards, including Best Film and Best Actor (Colin Firth), Inception won seven of its 14 nominations, including Best Director for Christopher Nolan.

The two films dominated over the heavily-nominated The Social Network, which received 12 nominations but only took home a single award: Actor’s Character You Would Most Like to be Intimate With for newcomer Andrew Garfield. (I mean, his character is a billionaire who looks like Andrew Garfield!)

Fan favorite Black Swan was also nearly shut out, achieving an unexpected sole Best Supporting Actress victory for Mila Kunis while Natalie Portman was surprisingly edged out for Best Actress by Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right, which also won Best LGBTQ Film. Christian Bale won Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter, the film’s only award.

Easy A fared surprisingly well, winning three of its five nominations, including Best Comedic Film. Other top winners included Alice in Wonderland (2010) with three awards, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Toy Story 3 with two awards each. While The Twilight Saga: Eclipse might have been a fan favorite at the MTV Movie Awards, Cosmo voters only gave it a single dubious honor: Most Over-Rated Film of 2010.

Both Apocalypse Now and The Godfather were inducted into the Best Films Hall of Fame. Glenn Close narrowly edged out sentimental favorite Elizabeth Taylor to be inducted into the Best Actresses of All Time Hall of Fame. Al Pacino was inducted into the Best Actor Hall of Fame, while Cloris Leachman, Danny Kaye, and Robin Williams were honored in the Best Comedic Acting categories.

As we were just getting back into things, we attempted to do a little streamlining. Best Musical was temporarily dropped. The male and female villain awards were recombined. And we briefly experimented with combining the male and female Best Heroic Character awards into a single, co-sexual category. This resulted in only male characters being nominated, so we changed it back to separate categories the following year.