The Comedy Film Awards are an annual award ceremony honoring achievement in comedic film making. Nominees and winners are voted on by a group of critics and prizes are awarded in eight categories.

2010

BEST MOTION PICTURE

• Easy A
  Easy A
  Easy A is a 2010 teen comedy film written by Bert V. Royal, directed by Will Gluck, and starring Emma Stone. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel The Scarlet Letter. The film was shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California. Screen Gems distributed with a release on...
  
  
• The Kids Are All Right
  The Kids Are All Right
  The Kids Are All Right is a television game show made by Initial, an Endemol UK company, for the BBC. An eight-episode series was ordered by the BBC, and is presented by John Barrowman. The first episode was broadcast on 12 April 2008. It is recorded at BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow.It shares some...
  
  
• Life During Wartime
  Life During Wartime
  Life During Wartime could refer to:*"Life During Wartime" , a song by Talking Heads*"Life During Wartime", a song by Pinhead Gunpowder*Life During Wartime , a 2009 film from director Todd Solondz...
  
  
• Please Give
  Please Give
  Please Give is a 2010 dark comedy film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Catherine Keener. It is the fourth film Keener and Holofcener have made together...
  
  
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a 2010 comedy film directed by Edgar Wright, based on the graphic novel series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is about Scott Pilgrim , a young Canadian musician, meeting the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers , an American delivery girl...
  
  

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

• Jim Carrey
  Jim Carrey
  James Eugene "Jim" Carrey is a Canadian-American actor and comedian. He has received two Golden Globe Awards and has also been nominated on four occasions. Carrey began comedy in 1979, performing at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto, Ontario...
  
  , I Love You, Phillip Morris
• Paul Giamatti
  Paul Giamatti
  Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several projects in the...
  
  , Barney’s Version
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating
  Jack Goes Boating
  Jack Goes Boating is a 2007 play by Robert Glaudini. An unconventional romantic comedy set in the midst of working-class New York City life, Jack Goes Boatings original production was directed by Peter Dubois and starred Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Jack, John Ortiz as Clyde, Daphne Rubin-Vega as...
  
  
• John C. Reilly
  John C. Reilly
  John Christopher Reilly, Jr. is an American film and theater actor, singer, and comedian. Debuting in Casualties of War in 1989, he is one of several actors whose careers were launched by Brian De Palma. To date, he has appeared in more than fifty films, including three separate films in 2002...
  
  , Cyrus
• Ben Stiller
  Ben Stiller
  Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara....
  
  , Greenberg
  Greenberg
  Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg or the Jewish Ashkenazi Yiddish Grinberg, an artificial surname.Notable people with the surname Greenberg include:- A–C :...
  
  

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

• Annette Benning, The Kids Are All Right
• Catherine Keener
  Catherine Keener
  Catherine Ann Keener is an American actress. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich and Capote...
  
  , Please Give
• Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore
  Julianne Moore is an American actress and a children's book author. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for four Oscars, six Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards....
  
  , The Kids Are All Right
• Amy Ryan
  Amy Ryan
  Amy Ryan is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The...
  
  , Jack Goes Boating
• Emma Stone, Easy A

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters....
  
  , Barney’s Verson
• Ewan McGregor
  Ewan McGregor
  Ewan Gordon McGregor is a Scottish actor. He has had success in mainstream, indie, and art house films. McGregor is perhaps best known for his roles as heroin addict Mark Renton in the drama Trainspotting , young Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy , and poet Christian in the...
  
  , I Love You, Phillip Morris
• John Ortiz
  John Ortiz
  John Ortiz is an American actor and Artistic Director/Co-Founder of LAByrinth Theater Company.-Career:In 1993, John made his film debut as Al Pacino’s young cousin ‘Guajiro’ in Carlito’s Way. He went on to appear in over 30 films including El Cantante, Take the Lead, Before Night Falls, Amistad,...
  
  , Jack Goes Boating
• Mark Ruffalo
  Mark Ruffalo
  Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He starred in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zodiac, Shutter Island, Just Like Heaven, You Can Count on Me and The Kids Are All Right for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best...
  
  , The Kids Are All Right
• Stanley Tucci
  Stanley Tucci
  Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...
  
  , Easy A

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...
  
  , Alice in Wonderland
  Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
  Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...
  
  
• Ann Morgan Guilbert
  Ann Morgan Guilbert
  Ann Morgan Guilbert , sometimes credited as Ann Guilbert, is an American actress, who played the neighbor Millie Helper in 61 episodes of the early 1960s’ sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, and later Yetta Rosenberg, Fran Fine’s doddering grandmother, in 56 episodes of the 1990s’ sitcom The Nanny...
  
  , Please Give
• Shirley Henderson
  Shirley Henderson
  Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .-Early life:...
  
  , Life During Wartime
• Allison Janney
  Allison Janney
  Allison Brooks Janney is an American actress, best known for her role as C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.- Personal life :...
  
  , Life During Wartime
• Daphne Rubin-Vega
  Daphne Rubin-Vega
  Daphne Rubin-Vega is a dancer, singer, and actress. She is best known for originating the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, and the role of Lucy, in the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating.-Biography:Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Vega, a...
  
  , Jack Goes Boating

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Lisa Cholodenko
  Lisa Cholodenko
  Lisa Cholodenko is an American film and television writer/director. She is best known for her highly acclaimed 2010 comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right which was nominated for a number of awards including four Academy Awards, Best Picture among them.- Career :Having grown up in a Jewish family ,...
  
   & Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
• Robert Glaudini
  Robert Glaudini
  Robert Glaudini, who goes by the name Bob Glaudini, is an American actor, playwright, director and teacher who is father to actress Lola Glaudini. He wrote a hit off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating directed by Peter DuBois and starring the actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Daphne...
  
  , Jack Goes Boating
• Nicole Holofcener
  Nicole Holofcener
  Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director. She has directed four feature films, most recently Please Give.-Career:...
  
  , Please Give
• Todd Solondz
  Todd Solondz
  Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...
  
  , Life During Wartime
• Bert V. Royal, Easy A

BEST DIRECTOR

• Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right
• Gleen Ficarra & John Requa
  John Requa
  John Requa is a screen writer of Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears.The DVD commentary for Bad News Bears revealed that Requa was to have had a bit role in the film, but it was not shot....
  
  , I Love You, Phillip Morris
• Todd Solondz, Life During Wartime
• Matthew Vaughn
  Matthew Vaughn
  Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch and directing the films Layer Cake , Stardust and Kick-Ass...
  
  , Kick-Ass
  Kick-Ass
  Kick-Ass is a creator-owned comic book series written by Mark Millar and illustrated by John Romita, Jr. It is published by Marvel Comics under the company's Icon imprint....
  
  
• Edgar Wright
  Edgar Wright
  Edgar Howard Wright is an English film and television director and writer. He is most famous for his work with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost on the films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the TV series Spaced, and for directing the film Scott Pilgrim vs...
  
  , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

• Easy A
• Jack Goes Boating
• The Kids Are All Right
• Life During Wartime
• Please Give

2009

BEST MOTION PICTURE

• A Serious Man
  A Serious Man
  A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading to questions about his faith...
  
  
• Away We Go
• The Hangover
  The Hangover
  The Hangover is the second solo album by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke, released in 1997.-Track listing:All tracks by Clarke unless otherwise stated.# "Wasn't Yesterday Great" – 2:45# "It's Good Enough for Rock N' Roll" – 3:12...
  
  
• Inglorious Bastards
  Inglorious Bastards
  Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent...
  
  
• Up in the Air
  Up in the Air
  Up in the Air is a 2001 novel by American author Walter Kirn. It was later adapted into the 2009 feature film Up in the Air, starring George Clooney.-Plot summary:...
  
  

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Sacha Baron Coen, Bruno
  Bruno
  Bruno is a male given name. It is derived from the Germanic word brun meaning "brown". It is also one of the most frequent Italian surnames. It also occurs very frequently in continental Europe and parts of Brazil as a given name for men and boys...
  
  
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
  The Last Station
  The Last Station is a 2009 biographical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman. It is an adaptation of the 1990 biographical novel of the same name by Jay Parini about the final months of Leo Tolstoy's life. The film stars Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as his wife Sophia Tolstaya...
  
  
• Michael Stulberg, A Serious Man

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

• Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
  Julie & Julia
  Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Amy Adams, and Chris Messina...
  
  
• Maya Rudolph, Away We Go
• Charlyne Yi, Paper Heart

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
  In the Loop
  In the Loop is an idiom meaning "informed" or "up-to-date". It may also refer to:*In The Loop, a radio and internet program produced by Minnesota Public Radio*In the Loop , a 2009 feature film directed by Armando Iannucci...
  
  
• Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover
• Richard Kind, A Serious Man
• Stanley Tucci, Julie & Julia
• Christophe Waltz, Inglorious Bastards

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mimi Kennedy, In the Loop
• Diane Kruger, Inglorious Bastards
• Betty White, The Proposal

BEST DIRECTOR

• Ethan & Joel Coen, A Serious Man
• Sam Mendes, Away We Go
• Todd Phillips, The Hangover
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Bastards
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci, Tony Roche, In the Loop
• Ethan & Joel Coen, A Serious Man
• Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, (500) Days of Summer
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Bastards
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

• A Serious Man
• Away We Go
• In the Loop
• Inglorious Bastards
• Up in the Air