“Hugo” gains its first big win this awards season. George Clooney wins a well-deserved acting award, something that could easily translate come Academy Awards season. “Rango” picks up its first animation feature award which many are predicting will occur on Oscar night. Chalk up another award win for Felicity Jones and her lovely performance in “Like Crazy” and the first of many awards I see coming for Rooney Mara and “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”.
Best Film: “Hugo”
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
Best Actor: George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, “The Descendants”
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, “50/50”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, “The Descendants”
Best Animated Feature: “Rango”
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, “Like Crazy”
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”
Best Ensemble: “The Help”
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (“A Dangerous Method”, “Jane Eyre”, “Shame”, “X-Men: First Class”)
NBR Freedom of Expression: “Crime After Crime”
NBR Freedom of Expression: “Pariah”
Best Foreign Language Film: “A Separation”
Best Documentary: “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The “Harry Potter” Franchise – A Distinguished Translation from Book
to Film
Top Films
(in alphabetical order)
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Tree of Life
War Horse
Top 5 Foreign Language Films
(In Alphabetical Order)
13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank
Top 5 Documentaries
(In Alphabetical Order)
Born to be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
Top 10 Independent Films
(In Alphabetical Order)
50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need To Talk About Kevin
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