Emily Watson received best actress nominations at the British Independent Film Awards and the London Film Critics Circle Awards.

* In 1982, it won the Best Experimental / Independent Film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

* Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: BSFC Award ; Best Independent Film ; 1981.

She received vast critical acclaim for her performance and won the Best Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Critics Society, a first Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

For his role in My Own Private Idaho, Phoenix won Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Awards.

Black Swan has received high praise from film critics, and received a record 12 Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations, four Independent Spirit Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations, three SAG nominations, and many more accolades.

Singer and McQuarrie collaborated again on the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, for which McQuarrie received best screenplay awards from Premiere magazine, The Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics as well as the Edgar Award, The Independent Spirit Award, and the British and American Academy Awards.

The British Independent Film Awards nominated him for Best Actor, and the London Film Critics ' Circle nominated him for British Newcomer of the Year.

For his performance, Stamp received nominations for Best Male Lead at the 2000 Independent Spirit Awards and for Best British Actor at the London Film Critics ' Circle ( ALFS ) Awards.

Critics such as Delvin Cree ( Turtle Mountain Chippewa ), a reporter with the The Tribal Independent, wrote in an Opinion piece on Indianz. com that the tribe's practices of high-interest, short-term lending are generally classified as predatory lending.

" Leigh won a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle and another from the Montreal World Film Festival, as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Critics claimed the Independent Panel was stacked with opponents of international adoptions.

The film won the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival, and major awards and nominations at the Deauville Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, the Society of Texas Film Critics Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle.

" She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and the 25th Independent Spirit Awards.

Lt. Henry Oak in the Joe Carnahan-directed film Narc, receiving an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards nomination for Best Supporting Male, a praised performance that many critics considered to be Liotta's career best.

Swank and Sevigny both received Best Actress Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award.

His performance ended up winning numerous awards, including " Best Supporting Actor " citations from the Boston Society of Film Critics, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Online Film Critics Society, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, and the Toronto Film Critics Association, as well as nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards and the Golden Globes.

In 1998, the film won the Audience Award at Frameline, the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and was named Best Documentary of the Year ( Runner-Up ) by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

The film also received recognition from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Documentary Film Festival, the American Film and Video Festival, and the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

* The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films — Their Stars, Makers, Characters, and Critics is a collection of gay and lesbian film lore covering movies with homoerotic themes and more or less openly gay films throughout the history of film.

* The Lavender Screen: Gay and Lesbian Films — Their Stars, Makers, Characters and Critics ( 1993 )

The film was awarded several prizes including: the 2005 Marlon Riggs Award ( for courage & vision in Bay Area filmmaking ) by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle ; the 2005 Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award by Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the 2005 Best US Narrative Screenplay Award from The New Festival, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Critics point to statements in his early writings that proved to be inaccurate.

Critics pointed to writings by Sangarakshita, and his senior advisor Dharmachari Subhuti, which placed such emphasis on single-sex activities, and what the Triratna Buddhist Community calls “ spiritual friendship ”, that the potential for misunderstandings or inappropriate behaviour appeared to some to be inevitable.

Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.

Critics have claimed that Christensen advocated National Socialism, however, it can be clearly seen from her own writings that she actually advocated the Anarcho-syndicalism of her youth.

Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst journalists, professors, and other members of the intelligentsia who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers.

Critics of this ethics-driven approach to language tend to accept that idioms reflect underlying conceptual metaphors, but that actual grammar, and the more basic cross-cultural concepts of scientific method and mathematical practice tend to minimize the impact of metaphors.

Critics argue that slum clearances tend to ignore the social problems that cause slums and simply redistribute poverty to less valuable real estate.

Critics allege that test makers and facilitators tend to represent a middle class, white background.

Critics of governments from the public choice school argue that government public services tend to add more staff than they need, because they claim that government managers

Critics of the novel tend to see it as full of interesting ideas but its writing as dry, characterless, difficult, as well as scientifically implausible at points.

Critics tend to agree that Charrière's depictions included events that happened to others and that Brunier was at the prison at the same time.

Critics from defenders of proprietorship sometimes assert that the All People's Right threatens the essence of ownership and the " management practices " of property owners, who may or may not have created and preserved environmentally important qualities Private owners and their representatives have also argued that newly created access rights ought to lead to financial compensation for private landowners, though they tend to also argue that there should be no corresponding compensation for people who historically tended now-expropriated land in common, with proven ecological records — for example, aboriginals.

Critics claim that the oak flavoring from chips tend to be one-dimensional and skewed towards the vanilla extract with the wines still lacking some of the physical benefits that barrel oak imparts.

Critics have claimed that this can tend to break up the natural family, but the Jesus Fellowship maintains that many relationships with parents have been strengthened and that the Fellowship encourages ( and the community pays for ) community members to visit relatives: including visits overseas if family members are abroad.

Critics tend to oppose the idea in tandem with other critiques on multiculturalism, saying that American needs to have a common culture in order to preserve a common " American " identity.

Critics and longtime Seger fans tend to regard the album as a lost classic, much like its predecessor Back in ' 72.

Critics tend to associate post-Zionism with anti-Zionism or postmodernism, both of which claims are strenuously denied by proponents.

Critics of corporate-led globalization have expressed concern about the methodology used in arriving at the World Bank's statistics and argue that more detailed variables measuring poverty should be studied.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

Critics also question how any two given properties are determined to be properties of the same object if there is no substance in which they both inhere.

In October 2011, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced that Day would be the recipient of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics of this theory regard it as simplistic, arguing that ( unlike New Zealand and America ) there is little direct evidence of hunting, and that the dates on which the theory rests are too uncertain to be relied on.

Critics of experimental parapsychology hold that there are no consistent and agreed-upon standards by which " ESP powers " may be tested.

Critics of foundationalism often argue that for a belief to be justified it must be supported by other beliefs ; in Donald Davidson's phrase, " only a belief can be a reason for another belief ".

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Critics claim that, in political contexts, labeling certain opinions and statements " hate speech " can be used to silence unfavorable or critical opinions and play down debate.

Critics of the view have questioned the original thought experiments saying that the lessons that Putnam and later writers such as Tyler Burge ( 1979, 1982 ) have urged us to draw can be resisted.

Critics suggest that ICANN should not be allowed to impose business rules on market participants, and that all TLDs should be added on a first-come-first-served basis and the market should be the arbiter of who succeeds and who does not.

* " Professor Behe admitted in " Reply to My Critics " that there was a defect in his view of irreducible complexity because, while it purports to be a challenge to natural selection, it does not actually address " the task facing natural selection.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

Critics have doubted both the feasibility of self-replicating nanorobots and the feasibility of control if self-replicating nanorobots could be achieved: they cite the possibility of mutations removing any control and favoring reproduction of mutant pathogenic variations.

Critics believed the film to be " too sweet " but appreciated Dixit's performance as she mesmerized on the screen.

Critics have doubted that any of the annotations in the Bible can be reliably attributed to de Vere and not the book's other owners prior to its acquisition by the Folger Shakespeare Library in 1925, as well as challenging the strictness of Stritmatter's standards for a Biblical allusion in Shakespeare's works and arguing that there is no statistical significance to the overlap.

Critics have coined the term The Psi Assumption to describe " the assumption that any significant departure from the laws of chance in a test of psychic ability is evidence that something anomalous or paranormal has occurred ... other words assuming what they should be proving.

Critics of this traditional view have observed that the types can be quite strongly stereotyped by professions ( although neither Myers nor Keirsey engaged in such stereotyping in their type descriptions ), and thus may arise more from the need to categorize people for purposes of guiding their career choice.

Critics have pointed to the Forer effect to suggest some of these appear to be more accurate and discriminating than they really are.