Best Picture
Drive (runner-up: The Artist)
Best Achievement in Directing
Michael Hazanavicius, The Artist (runner-up: Nicholas Winding Refn, Drive)
Best Lead Performance by an Actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 50/50 (runner-up: Jean Dujardin, The Artist)
Best Lead Performance by an Actress
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn (runner-up: Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive (runner-up: Christopher Plummer, Beginners)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress
Amy Ryan, Win Win (runner-up: Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus)
Best Original Screenplay
Will Reiser, 50/50 (runner-up: Mike Mills, Beginners)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants (runner-up: Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets)
Best Cinematography
Newton Thomas Sigel, Drive (runner-up: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life)
Best Documentary Feature
Senna (runner-up: Project Nim)
Best Non-English Language Feature
A Separation (runner-up: 13 Assassins)
Best Animated Feature
Rango (runners-up: The Adventures of Tintin and Kung Fu Panda 2)
Zooey-
I wouldn’t call Chicago a “minor” critics group, nor Washington, D.C…
Meryl has only the NYFC and NYFCO, which she has won before and then lost the Oscar…
Another one for RANGO.
I’m not surprised Rooney got runner-up since TGWTDT was screened for us just this Monday night and they did the voting Tuesday night. With more time to sink in, I think she could have taken it.
@Zooey: That win does not mean anything for Meryl. In the last 12 years, they have only matched the Oscars twice (2005 and 2006), which happened to be Reese Witherspoon and Helen Mirren. The real test is the BFCA, which will start separating who is the frontrunner. Williams has won the most awards and has goodwill left over. Plus her nomination won’t be the only nomination from the film like Meryl’s might be.
I am happy that they recognise Joseph Gordon-Levitt for his role in 50/50. He deserves a nomination for an Oscar.
Yes! Go Drive!
Rooney!
Love Win Win, Drive, and and Rango!
@ kai lor,
she is – the minor ones. Meryl still has the NYFCC. 😉 GO MERYL! And MERYL really is campaigning this time around!
Thanks dave
So happy to see Amy Ryan and Vanessa Redgrave recognised – I thought Ryan was great in Win Win, and much overlooked this season.
apparently Drive also won Dublin http://entertainment.ie/cinema/news/The-Dublin-Film-Critics-Circle-Announce-Best-Of-2011/95786.htm
Go Michelle!SO DESERVED!!!
I loved both Drive and The Tree of Life, but, while I have not seen The Artist yet, it seems like a film which will be loved throughout most of the categories at the Oscars. Many of my friends who saw Drive were not impressed. When I saw The Tree of Life there were many walk-outs, people falling asleep, and, at the end, a guy screamed “It’s finally over.” Granted, I live in Jersey and most people do not care about films that challenge them intellect. However, I feel that that is what will hold films like Drive and The Tree of Life back in the Oscar race if the same sort of moviegoers are voting on their #1 picks. Hopefully they’ll have enough devotees to bring them into the race regardless of the typical moviegoer picks.
I meant “wide open Oscar race.”
Good to see the critics’ groups spreading the wealth; bodes well for an interesting and open Oscar race.
First critics lost by Lubezki?
Happy for JGL.
Another critics win for Michelle Williams. She sure is racking up the critics wins this year.
Are we really underestimating Drive?
And Mara is picking up steam – will there be time enough for her to make it? The first week of box-office for Dragon Tattoo will maybe seal the deal, if she can also be everywhere in the media for the next two weeks.
If I ran a studio, I would hire Sam Mendes to direct a film version of
Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Peter O’Toole, Vanessa Redgrave,
Billy Crudup and Ryan Gosling.
Oh, we’ll… Dreaming is cheap
Michelle is getting a lot of love from the critics!
Also, nice to see Redgrave not being forgotten. I so hope she wins the Oscar.
Only one supporting Oscar is not at all enough for this great actress.
Wow, go Utah! Loved 50/50 and Joseph Gordon-Levitt was great in it so it’s cool to see him get some recognition. And Drive was amazing.
This is so much more interesting than last year.
I like how, this year, the awards in so many of the categories are all over the place with all of the different critics groups. 🙂
Extremely close(with critics), Incredibly far(from Oscar)
I’m not counting these but it feels like Drive is getting most of them. If not then Tree of Life. Why is The Artist the frontrunner again?