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Best Picture: “The Descendants”
Runner Up: “The Tree of Life”
Best Animated Feature: “Rango”
Runner Up: “The Adventures of Tintin”
Best Director: Terrence Malick for “The Tree of Life”
Runner Up: Martin Scorsese for “Hugo”
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender for “Jane Eyre” “X-Men: First Class” “A Dangerous Method” and “Shame”
Runner Up: Michael Shannon for “Take Shelter”
Best Actress: Yun Jung-hee for “Poetry”
Runner Up: Kirsten Dunst for “Melancholia”
Best Independent/Experimental: “Spark of Being”
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
Runner Up: “The Arbor”
Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation”
Runner Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash – “The Descendants”
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer for “Beginners”
Runner Up: Patton Oswalt for “Young Adult”
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain for “The Help” “Coriolanus” “Take Shelter” “The Tree of Life” “Texas Killing Fields” “The Debt”
Runner Up: Janet McTeer for “Albert Nobbs”
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – “The Tree of Life”
Runner Up: Cao Yu – “City of Life and Death”
Best Production Design: Dante Ferreti – “Hugo”
Runner Up: Maria Djurkovic – “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Best Music/Score: The Chemical Brothers – “Hanna”
Runner Up: Cliff Martinez – “Drive”
Read more on Los Angeles Film Critics Goes with “Descendants”…
- The Descendants
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Help
- J. Edgar
- Hugo
- Midnight In Paris
- Moneyball
- Tree of Life
- War Horse
- Bridesmaids
Read more on AFI Top Ten Announced!…
 If this isn’t already the busiest day EVER!
Best Picture: “The Artist”
Best Animated Feature: “The Adventures of Tintin”
Best Documentary Feature: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”
Best Foreign Language Film: “A Separation”
Best Cast Ensemble – “Bridesmaids”
Best Actor: Michael Shannon for “Take Shelter”
Runners Up: Michael Fassbender for “Shame” and Gary Oldman for “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Best Actress: Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady”
Runner Up: Viola Davis for “The Help”
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius for “The Artist”
Best Debut Director: Joe Cornish for “Attack the Block”
Best Use of Music: Ludovic Bource for “The Artist”
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki – “The Tree of Life”
Best Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash – “The Descendants”
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks for “Drive”
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy for “Bridesmaids”
Breakthrough Performer: Jessica Chastain for The Help, Take Shelter, The Tree of Life, The Debt, Coriolanus, Texas Killing Fields
Read more on New York Film Critics Online Love “Artist” Too!…
 Being announced as they come in from @BSFC:
“Margaret” makes a strong showing along with “Hugo” and “Moneyball.” ”The Artist” takes another big one! All the way to Oscar they go!:
Best Picture: “The Artist”
Runners Up: “Hugo” and “Margaret”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Incendies”
Runners Up: “A Separation” and “Poetry”
Best Documentary: “Project Nim”
Runner Up: “Bill Cunningham New York”
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for “Hugo”
Best Screenplay: “Moneyball”
Runner Up: “Margaret”
Best Cast Ensemble: “Carnage”
Runner Up: “Margaret”
Best Actress: Michelle Williams for “My Week with Marilyn”
Runner Up: Meryl Streep for “The Iron Lady”
Best Actor: Brad Pitt for “Moneyball”
Runner Up: George Clooney for “The Descendants” and Michael Fassbender for “Shame”
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy for “Bridesmaids”!!!!!!!
Runner Up: Jeannie Berlin for “Margaret”
They’re on break for pizza now.
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks for “Drive”
Best New Filmmaker Award: Sean Durkin for “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Runner-Up: J.C. Chandor for “Margin Call”
Best Cinematography: “The Tree of Life”!!!
Runner Up: “Hugo”
Best Editing: Christian Marclay for “The Clock”
Runner Up: “Hugo”
Best Use of Music: (tie) “The Artist” and “Drive”
Runner-Up: “The Descendants”
Read more on Boston Film Critics Go for The Artist!!…
 Best Picture
- Drive, Film District
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Warner Bros.
- Midnight in Paris, Sony Pictures Classics
- Take Shelter, Sony Pictures Classics
- The Artist, The Weinstein Company
- The Descendants, Fox Searchlight
- The Help, Dreamworks & Touchstone
- The Tree of Life, Fox Searchlight
- War Horse, Dreamworks & Disney
- Win Win, Fox Searchlight
Best Director
- Alexander Payne, The Descendants
- Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
- Nicholas Winding Refn, Drive
- Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
- Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Read more on Houston Film Critics Nominations…
Categories: Precursors Tags: Alexander Payne, Drive, extremely loud and incredibly close, Houston Film Critics, Michel Hazanavicius, Midnight in Paris, Nicolas Winding Refn, Precursors, Precursors 2011, Take Shelter, the artist, The Descendants, The Help, The Tree of Life, war horse, Win Win
 I wish I could write more film reviews for The Awards Circuit. My busy schedule and availability of titles relevant to the site (as well as films I actually want to see) prevent me from publishing more than a meager amount of articles focused solely on analyzing a single film. This is also partially because I try to be as topical as I can with every article of mine. If too much time has passed between a film’s theatrical release and my viewing of it, then I don’t write a review. To me, my opportunity has gone and the readers have moved on.
I now realize the foolishness of that position, particularly for something I love, as I can think of no more egregious disservice to a great film than staying silent on it. I hope I can at least partially rectify that mistake with a belated endorsement of Abbas Kiarostami’s warm, beautifully played and flawlessly acted Certified Copy, which I caught back in late March and still remains one of the year’s standout achievements. Read more on Certified Copy (****)…
Will "The Tree of Life" capitalize on a win from the LAFCA?
Los Angeles will be announcing their winners for year 2011 in just under 12 to 15 hours or so. This will complete the “tri-fecta” that is the LAFCA, New York Film Critics, and the National Board of Review. Hopefully we’ll have some cool, out-of-the-box choices tomorrow but one can dream. Include your predictions in the comment section.
Read more on Los Angeles Film Critics Predictions…
 There’s about to be a lot of talk about The Dark Knight Rises. In a matter of days we’ll be seeing the opening prologue unspooled in IMAX theaters attached to Mission: Impossible 4 and the new trailer hitting with that film and Sherlock Holmes 2. In the meantime, here’s a new Bane-centric poster for the last Christopher Nolan Batman flick…
Read more on The Dark Knight Rises gets a new Poster!…
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