Critics Awards for Several Cities

Michael Shannon Wins Best Actor for Take Shelter in Two Polls

Winners (and parenthetical commentary) courtesy of Awards Daily.

NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE

BEST PICTURE: THE ARTIST

BEST DIRECTOR – MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS for The Artist

BEST ACTOR: 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”

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST – BRIDESMAIDS

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – ALBERT BROOKS for Drive

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: MELISSA MCCARTHY – Bridesmaids

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: JESSICA CHASTAIN – The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanu

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – EMMANUEL LUBEZKI for The Tree of Life

BEST SCREENPLAY – ALEXANDER PAYNE, NAT FAXON, JIM RASH for The Descendants. Runner-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, “The Descendants.”

BEST USE OF MUSIC – LUDOVIC BOURCE for The Artist

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR – JOE CORNISH for Attack the Block

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – A SEPARATION

BEST DOCUMENTARY – CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE – THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

BOSTON FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

Best Picture: THE ARTIST (close seconds: HUGO and MARGARET)

Best Director: Martin Scorsese for HUGO. Close runner-up: THE ARTIST.

Best Actor: Brad Pitt for MONEYBALL Runners up: George Clooney for THE DESCENDANTS, Michael Fassbender for SHAME

Best Actress (another competitive one!): Michelle Williams for MY WEEK WITH MARILYN.

Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks for DRIVE

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy for BRIDESMAIDS. Jeannie Berlin: close second for MARGARET

Best Ensemble: CARNAGE (“MARGARET was a fairly close runner-up”)

Best Screenplay: MONEYBALL!

Best Use of Music: Cliff Martinez, DRIVE and Ludovic Bource, THE ARTIST! (a tie)  Runner up: THE DESCENDANTS

Best Editing: Christian Marclay for THE CLOCK! Runner-up: HUGO.

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, THE TREE OF LIFE. Runner-up: HUGO.

Best New Filmmaker (David Brudnoy Award): Sean Durkin for MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE. Runner-up: J. C. Chandor for MARIN CALL.

Best Documentary : PROJECT NIM (James Marsh, who made MAN ON WIRE). Close second: BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK.

Best Foreign Film: INCENDIES  Runners up: A SEPARATION and POETRY)

LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION

BEST PICTURE, Winner: “The Descendants.” Runner-Up: “The Tree of Life.”

BEST DIRECTOR, Winner: Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life.” Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese, “Hugo.”

BEST ACTOR, Winner: Michael Fassbender, “A Dangerous Method,” “Jane Eyre,” “Shame,” “X-Men: First Class.” Runner-Up: Michael Shannon, “Take Shelter.”

BEST ACTRESS, Winner: Yun Jung-hee, “Poetry.” Runner-Up: Kirsten Dunst, “Melancholia.”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, Winner: Jessica Chastain, “Coriolanus,” “The Debt,” “The Help,” “Take Shelter,” “Texas Killing Fields,” “Tree of Life” Runner-Up: Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs.”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, Winner: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners.”Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt, “Young Adult.”

BEST SCREENPLAY, Winner: Asghar Farhadi, “A Separation.”

BEST MUSIC/SCORE:  Winner: The Chemical Brothers, “Hanna.”  Runner-Up: Cliff Martinez, “Drive.”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Winner: Dante Ferretti, “Hugo.”  Runner-Up: Maria Djurkovic, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki, “The Tree of Life.”

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION, Winner: “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.”

BEST ANIMATION, Winner: “Rango.”

SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS

Best Picture

“The Tree of Life”

Best Director

Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”

Best Original Screenplay

J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”

Best Adapted Screenplay

Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

Best Actor

Gary Oldman, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”

Best Supporting Actor

Albert Brooks, “Drive”

Best Supporting Actress

Vanessa Redgrave, “Coriolanus”

Best Animated Feature

“Rango”

Best Foreign Language Film

“Certified Copy”

Best Documentary

“Tabloid”

Best Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki, “The Tree of Life”

Special Citation for underappreciated independent cinema

The Mill and The Cross

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