The screening takes place at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinemas. There is a $10 suggested donation, and tickets will be available at the door. Proceeds will benefit the Greg Muskovitz Scholarship Fund and Film School Confidential, an annual student film festival in San Diego.

The filmmakers and lead actors will appear at the screening and participate in a Q/A session. More information on the film at IMDB.

The film, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, tells the story of several disparate characters navigating survival and revenge in the chaos of World War II Europe, employing Tarantino’s merge of comedy, violence, poignancy and pathos. The critics voted Tarantino as Best Director, and also chose his Inglourious Basterds as Best Original Screenplay. The film won six awards total from the group.

The society’s critics, comprising print, television, radio and Internet critics working in San Diego County, voted Michelle Monaghan as Best Actress for her riveting portrayal as a carefree long-haul trucker whose life suddenly changes in the indie film Trucker. Colin Firth, playing a college professor devastated by the loss of his longtime partner in A Single Man, was voted Best Actor.

Earning the Best Supporting Actress nod was Samantha Morton for her performance as a grieving war widow in The Messenger. The critics voted Christoph Waltz as Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the ever-deceptive Nazi officer in Inglourious Basterds.

The critics honored Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the novella by Roald Dahl.

Chosen as Best Foreign Language Film was Il Divo, the story of persevering Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.

The critics voted the Disney-Pixar film Up as Best Animated Film.

The Best Documentary award went to The Cove, documenting the killing of dolphins in a Japanese fishing village.

For Best Cinematography honors, the critics chose Javier Aguirresarobe for his work on The Road, while honoring David Wasco for Best Production Design on Inglourious Basterds.

Winner of the Best Editing award went to Alan Edward Bell for his efforts on the film (500) Days of Summer.

Winning for Best Score was Abel Korzeniowski for the music in A Single Man. The cast of “Inglourious Basterds” was honored for Best Ensemble Performance.

The critics honored Woody Harrelson for Body of Work during 2009, citing the actor’s performances in the films The Messenger, Zombieland and 2012.

The critics chose the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp Stadium 15 to receive the annual Kyle Counts Award. The award, named after the late San Diego film critic, honors those who have made contributions to film in the city. The critics cited the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp Stadium 15 for its bold and consistent booking of vital new independent and foreign films.

Also honored at the luncheon was Destin Cretton, a San Diego film student and Jury Prize winner for Best Short Film at Sundance. Destin spoke about his efforts to promote his film, Short Term 12, and the next film he is working on.

The Critics’ Kyle Counts Award was given to the San Diego Library in support of their film program. Lynn Whitehouse and her assistant Ralph DeLauro, were on hand from the Library to accept their awards.

Kate Winslet, playing a former German prison guard who engages in an affair with a younger man in the drama The Reader, was voted Best Actress. The critics chose Mickey Rourke as Best Actor for his work as a washed-up athlete making a desperate comeback attempt in The Wrestler. Marisa Tomei, playing the equally desperate stripper and single mother who befriends Rourke’s character in The Wrestler, was voted Best Supporting Actress. The late Heath Ledger was honored for his kinetic work as the Joker in The Dark Knight, earning the Best Supporting Actor award.

The critics gave the Best Original Screenplay award to Tom McCarthy for The Visitor, while honoring Simon Beaufoy for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire, working from Vikas Swarup’s novel.

In what might be called the year of the vampire, the critics voted the Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In as Best Foreign Language Film. Man on Wire was chosen as Best Documentary. Wall-E was voted Best Animated Film.

Anthony Dod Mantle was honored for Best Cinematography for his work on Slumdog Millionaire, while Donald Graham Burt won Best Production Design honors for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The critics chose Chris Dickens and his work on Slumdog Millionaire for Best Editing. A.R. Rahman won for Best Score for Slumdog Millionaire.

The cast of Frost/Nixon was honored for Best Ensemble Performance. The critics also honored Richard Jenkins for Body of Work for 2008, citing his performances in The Visitor, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers and The Tale of Desperaux.

The San Diego Film Critics Society chose the film program at the San Diego Central Library for its annual Kyle Counts Award, named for the late San Diego film critic. The film program was honored for its outstanding contribution to film education and its commitment to eclectic and excellent free public film programs.

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San Diego Film Critics Society and the San Diego’s Women’s History Museum and Educational Center present a benefit screening of Iron Jawed Angels starring Hilary Swank, Julia Ormond and Patrick Dempsey.

When: 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008

Where: Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego 

Tickets: Suggested donation $10; available at the door.

Please make reservations at filmclub@kpbs.org

The benefit includes comments from local dignitaries and celebrates Women’s Equality Day, the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The film reenacts the story of the defiant young activists who risked their lives to help American women earn the right to vote. As shown in the film, this battle was hard-fought over a significant period of time. Women were fined, jailed, force-fed and vilified, because they pursued the same rights as men. Hilary Swank and Frances O’ Connor artfully portray Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. During the long battle of the movement, Paul, on day 22 of her prison hunger strike, had doctors brutally force a tube into her nose and down her throat, pouring liquids into her stomach, three times a day for three weeks. Despite the pain and illness this caused, Alice refused to end the hunger strike. One physician reported: “[She has] a spirit like Joan of Arc, and it is useless to try to change it. She will die but she will never give up.”

Directed by Katja von Garnier, the movie also stars Anjelica Huston, Julia Ormond, Frances O’Connor, Lois Smith and Patrick Dempsey among other credible actors. The film won a Cinematography award, Golden Globe, was for nominated for five Emmys, other awards and a Humanitas Prize.

Although Congress passed the law in 1919, amending the Constitution required ratification by at least two-thirds of the states. On August 26th, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, and women officially won the right to vote. The Women’s History Museum celebrates Women’s Equality each year with a variety of events. On Sat., August 23 there will be a Suffrage March across the bridge in Balboa Park, followed by a Suffrage Ball with dancing, food, historic reenactments and a “voting” theme.

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