Nominations are in for Best Progressive Films and Artists of 2009

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Nominations in for Best Progressive Film Awards of 2009
February 2, 2010

2009 PROGIE NOMINATIONS FOR BEST PROGRESSIVE FILMS & ARTISTS
The Awards Honor Outstanding Movies and Artists of Conscience and Consciousness

Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 2010 – The James Agee Cinema Circle is announcing the third annual “Progie” nominations for Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers in 2009.

The James Agee Cinema Circle is a new international, independent umbrella group of lefty film critics, reviewers, scholars and historians dedicated to raising public awareness about films dealing with political, social and cultural issues such as: Human rights, workers’ struggles, women’s rights, environmentalism, ethnic rights, free speech, gay rights, civil liberties, immigrant rights, people’s activism and peace. The JACC annually presents the Progies to the year’s Best Progressive studio features, indies, documentaries and artists. The Progies are the “un-Oscar”, the “people’s alternative Academy Awards,” honoring movies and talents of conscience and consciousness.

Among the 2009 Progie nominees are: Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s
Invictus; Michael Moore’s anti-corporate Capitalism, A Love Story; Woody Harrelson and the antiwar The Messenger; George Clooney and the unemployment dramedy Up in the Air; The Baader-Meinhoff Complex, about German ultra-left terrorists; Burma VJ, an underground doc about a Buddhist monk uprising; the antiwar satire In the Loop starring James Gandolfini and Mimi Kennedy; Quentin Tarantino’s anti-Nazi Inglourious Basterds; Woody Allen’s secular humanist, pro-gay comedy Whatever Works starring Larry David; the pro-gay, anti-abuse inner city drama Precious; and James Cameron’s pro-indigenous, anti-colonial Avatar.

Read the full list of nominees at:

http://www.progressive.org/progies10.html

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1. I vote for In the Loop

Really, biggest laughs I've had in years. I don't need any more serious, apocalyptic, or depressing moralizing. There's enough in real life. This was good pure fun ... the best way to make a point, imo.