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The wins bolster the movie's claim to being a front-runner for Academy Awards after already sweeping best picture honors from several other critics groups including those in New York,
Los Angeles and Boston. Facebook film _The Social Network _continued its winning ways during Hollywood's awards season on Saturday as the National Society of Film Critics named it best
movie of 2010 and gave awards to its director, star and screenwriter. The wins bolster the movie's claim to being a front-runner for Academy Awards after already sweeping best picture
honors from several other critics groups including those in New York, Los Angeles and Boston. The National Society of Film critics also named Jesse Eisenberg best actor in the role of
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, David Fincher best director, and writer Aaron Sorkin claimed best screenplay. Giovanna Mezzogiorno was named best actress for _Vincere, _in which she plays
Mussolini's lover during his early years. _Social Network _is a fictionalised story telling of the rise of social networking website Facebook from an idea dreamed up in a college
dormitory to its first one million users. Critics' awards are important in helping build momentum heading toward the Academy Awards, or Oscars, which are the world's top film
awards given out on the final Sunday in February by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The NFSC includes 61 members from major newspapers in Los Angeles, Boston, New York and
Chicago as well as from _Time, Newsweek _and _The New Yorker._ The group's awards for best supporting performances went to Geoffrey Rush, who plays King George VI's speech
therapist in _The King's Speech, _and Olivia Williams for the Roman Polanski thriller _The Ghost Writer._ The award for best foreign language film was won by the French-German film
Carlos, about the life of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, a Venezuelan-born leftist revolutionary known as the Jackal who raided the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria in 1975. The film critics, in
their 45th annual awards, named _Inside Job, _the documentary about the 2008 financial crisis, as the year's best nonfiction film, while _True Grit _took the prize for cinematography.
Highly-touted films including _The Fighter, Black Swan _and _The Kids Are All Right _were shut out of the awards.