Complete list of awards:
Best Film
1. Drive
2. Martha Marcy May Marlene
3. Take Shelter
4. Melancholia
5. The Descendants
6. Midnight in Paris
7. The Tree of Life
8. The Artist
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Hugo
Best Director
-Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
-Runner-up: Lars von Trier, Melancholia
Best Actor
-Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
-Runner-up: Ryan Gosling, Drive
Best Actress
-Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene
-Runner-up: Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Best Supporting Actor
-Christopher Plummer, Beginners
-Runner-up: Albert Brooks, Drive
Best Supporting Actress
-Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
-Runner-up: Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life
Best Ensemble
-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
-Runner-up: The Descendants
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
-Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields,
and The Tree of Life
-Runner-up: Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Drive, and The Ides of March
Breakthrough Film Artist
– Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (for directing)
-Runner-up: Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields,
and The Tree of Life (for acting)
Best Cinematography
-Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life
-Runner-up: Manuel Alberto Claro, Melancholia
Best Adapted Screenplay
-Steven Zaillian, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
-Runner-up: Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball
Best Original Screenplay
-Ben Ripley, Source Code
-Runner-up: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Best Score
-The Chemical Brothers, Hanna
-Runner-up: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Best Documentary
-Cave of Forgotten Dreams
-Runner-up: Project Nim
Best Foreign Language Film
-Of Gods and Men (Des homes et des dieux)
-Runner-up: The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)
Best Animated Film
-Arthur Christmas
-Runner-up: Winnie the Pooh
Best Overlooked Film
-Margaret
-Runner-up: Beginners
COFCA offers its congratulations to the winners.
Previous Best Film winners:
2002: Punch-Drunk Love
2003: Lost in Translation
2004: Million Dollar Baby
2005: A History of Violence
2006: Children of Men
2007: No Country for Old Men
2008: WALL·E
2009: Up in the Air
2010: Inception
