2011 SLFC Awards Winners
Best Film
The Artist
runner-up: The Descendants
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
runner-up: Terrence Malick (Tree of Life)
Best Actor
George Clooney (The Descendants)
runner-up: Ryan Gosling (Drive)
Best Actress
Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
runners-up – tied: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) and Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn)
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks (Drive)
runner-up: Alan Rickman (Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2)
Best Supporting Actress
Bérénice Bejo (The Artist)
runners-up – tied: Octavia Spencer (The Help) and Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Best Original Screenplay
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
runner-up: Will Reiser (50/50)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and Kaui Hart Hemmings (novel) for The Descendants
runner-up: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin and Michael Lewis (book) for Moneyball
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki (Tree Of Life)
runners-up – tied: Jeff Cronenweth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
and Janusz Kaminski (War Horse)
Best Visual Effects
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part 2
runner-up: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Best Music
The Artist
runner-up: Drive
Best Foreign-Language Film
13 Assassins
runner-up: Winter in Wartime
Best Documentary
Being Elmo
runner-up: Tabloid
Best Comedy
Bridesmaids
runner-up: Midnight In Paris
Best Animated Film
The Adventures of Tintin
runner-up: Rango
Best Art-House or Festival Film
– for artistic excellence in quality art-house cinema, limited to films that played at film festivals or film series here or those that had a limited-release here, playing one or two cinemas.
We Need To Talk About Kevin
runner-up: Win Win
Best Scene
– favorite movie scene or sequence
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: the opening credits
runner-up: The Artist: the dance scene finale
The original GWTDT was amazing, liked it much better than the remake, I gave the new one a B+ mostly for the music and Mara’s performance. and the credits so glad they were recognized!
Lots of people really like Tree of Life.
Lots of people really don’t like it, too.
It’s the most polarizing film (for non-political reasons, purely as a work of art/film) that has come out in a very long time as far as I can recollect. Every year there is debate about which film is best and every year there is controversy about snubs or what film or performance was ‘clearly’ superior but didn’t win best picture. But when was the last time there was so much ado about one film, seemingly in a vacuum. We don’t seem to be talking about Tree of Life’s oscar chances, or even comparing it to another movie, as much as we’re debating just how good or bad it is. Some say it will be remember for decades, a new classic, while others say it’s a pretentious piece of pretty celluloid.
I’d like to hear any and all suggestions on a film as polarizing as Tree of Life in the past 20 years.
I’d also like to hear an explanation for why Tree of Life has been so amazingly popular with the critics (and a fair number of the public) and yet is also so derided. An explanation that doesn’t involve the word ‘snobs’ perhaps.
Jeff, metacritics has all the info you are looking for.
I apologize if this is redundant, but is there a website that lists a grid or something for all of the critics award winners thus far?
@JMcoy- LMAO. That is so harsh but funny.
I don’t think this will really help Mara surge ahead. The lack of a BFCA and/OR SAG nomination is pretty telling. Plus, I know some people seem to think the GG nomination was more for publicity than anything else. I’m not saying she doesn’t deserve to be nominated by the HFPA, BUT when you look at the other contenders who were left out- Kirsten Dunst and Elizabeth Olsen, who have been racking up critics nominations left and right, it’s a bit hard to swallow that Mara just swooped in front of them based on her performance alone. I’ve seen all three performances and I DO NOT think Mara outperformed Olsen. Dunst wasn’t my favorite female performance of the year (that honor goes to Charlize Theron in Young Adult) but she was fantastic in Melancholia. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.
There was never a movie that picked up all the critics awards and then lost Best Picture. Until there was. So statistics aren’t really all that telling for a critic award that is so new.
Not when this case it should be mentioned that this is Mara’s first and so far only win. I think Mara’s only shot is her movie becoming such a box office hit that it puts the whole movie back into the game.
Ugh, I will punch a baby if Mara is nominated.
Good for Mara.
Also I’m Dying to see their best 2011 sequence !
I hear you, Ryan, but I would only be able to agree with you if The original was any good. Which it was not.
ROONEY!
“worth noting that a St Louis actress winner has always gone on to be nominated for an Oscar.”
This isn’t quite as impressive as it sounds, though. For one, St. Louis Film Critics only started handing out awards in 2004. They don’t really have the history of some other award groups. Secondly, while it’s true that Kate Winslet won St. Louis Film Crits Best Actress award in 2008, she won for Revolutionary Road, not The Reader. So yes, the St. Louis actress winner went on to get Oscar nominated, but she went on to get nominated for a different movie than the one she was awarded from St. Louis.
Good for Rooney Mara! Hope this means she’s picking up steam.
I feel that Rooney Mara will be nominated for an Oscar, too. She will take either Swinton´s or Theron´s place. Their movies weren´t successful enough and I think “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” will be a hit.
I am a weirdly annoyed that Mara gets so much accolades when the original Noomi got so ignored.
Marie, at least you concede your annoyance is “weirdly”
😉
Noomi Rapace wasn’t ignored last year. She got lead actress nominations from the BFCA & BAFTA & European Film Awards. She was nominated by the Ohio, Vegas and London critics. She won the Hollywood Film Festival spotlight award.
If you want to be weirdly annoyed at something, be annoyed at how the Swedish film only earned $10 million in the USA.
I’m annoyed that the original never showed at more than 200 theaters nationwide. I’m annoyed at American audiences. On a daily basis.
Is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows only known to the film critics for only being good in Visual Effects?!
WOWWWWWWWWWW gooo ROONEY!
Florida Film Critics Circle awards The Descendants, Scorsese, Fassbender, Williams, Brooks and Woodley. http://bit.ly/vVEqYX
Sometimes, i fell something weird in my mind.
I know, nobody really liked Tree of Life, but the movie is always there (i am not counting with the SAG or GG). Always getting his cinematography award, sometimes give to malcik best director or best picture.
Yes, it doesn’t mean anything, but we could see clearly that the nominees for best ensamble in SAG awards are not what we would it be.
I remember, even now, slumdog got the top prize with only patel nominated for supporting (he doesn’t got it). Of course it’s totally different, but what i’m trying to say is:
the SAG nominees do not reflect on his fully form what will happen in january.
The Goldens doesn’t have so many tech cathegories as critcs, so… that’s why Tree appear five times over there and not even one on globes.
I don’t know… maybe I’m wrong, but it feels pretty weird for me now.
@laura – thanks for the tidbit (never knew that). Advanced showing here tomorrow of TGWTDT – high hopes
worth noting that a St Louis actress winner has always gone on to be nominated for an Oscar.
@ Mattenroe
Not so fast. Every year, there’s at least one screenplay which picks up several wins and nominations from the critics’ groups, but falls out of favour with industry. Indeed, sometimes even the WGA recognises them, but AMPAS fails to do so. 50/50 fits that bill precisely – the critics seem to be loving it, but I doubt the Academy will nominate it.
Looks like Gosling and Mara found their cleats. And a few category ties in runner-up position – nice.
Wow. I’d say Rooney Mara will get a nod. But not based on this. I can just feel it.
Man. It would’ve been an insane acting line-up if they went with Gosling and Rickman (to go along with Mara and Bejo).
Also, I’d say it’s safe to say Will Reiser is an Oscar nom lock.
Mara wins. Sweet.
Rickman!!