11th Annual Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards

The Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA) announced their awards on January 3rd, 2013 with giving away the Best Film award to much surprising MOONRISE KINGDOM, directed by Wes Anderson who also won the Best Director award. This is the first major critic win by Moonrise Kingdom as it was also the biggest winner with total 5 awards including Best Original Screenplay, Best Ensemble and Best Score.

Important point: Safety Not Guaranteed should have won the Best Overlooked Film award, not Killer Joe. Foreign Language Film category winner and runner-up make no sense to me.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Film:

1. Moonrise Kingdom


2. Argo


3. Django Unchained


4. Zero Dark Thirty


5. The Cabin in the Woods


6. Silver Linings Playbook


7. Lincoln


8. Looper


9. The Master


10. Les Misérables

Best Director:

• Winner: Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)


• Runner-Up: Ben Affleck (Argo)

Best Actor:

• Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)


• Runner-Up: John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Actress:

• Winner: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)


• Runner-Up: Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Best Supporting Actor:

• Winner: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)


• Runner-Up: Leonardo DiCaprio (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress:

• Winner: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)


• Runner-Up (tie): Helen Hunt (The Sessions)


• Runner-Up (tie): Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Best Ensemble:

• Winner: Moonrise Kingdom


• Runner-Up: Lincoln

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work): 

• Winner: Matthew McConaughey (Bernie; Killer Joe; Magic Mike; The Paperboy)


• Runner-Up: Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises; Les Misérables)

Breakthrough Film Artist:

• Winner: Bart Layton (The Imposter (for directing))


• Runner-Up: Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild (for acting))

Best Cinematography:

• Winner: Roger Deakins (Skyfall)


• Runner-Up: Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Winner: Tony Kushner (Lincoln)


• Runner-Up: Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Original Screenplay:

• Winner: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)


• Runner-Up: Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods)

Best Score:

• Winner: Alexandre Desplat (Moonrise Kingdom)


• Runner-Up: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)

Best Documentary:

• Winner: How to Survive a Plague


• Runner-Up: The Imposter

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Winner: The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo)


• Runner-Up: Headhunters (Hodejegerne)

Best Animated Film:

• Winner: ParaNorman


• Runner-Up: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Overlooked Film:

• Winner: Killer Joe


• Runner-Up: Safety Not Guaranteed

11th Annual Utah Film Critics Association Awards

The Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) announced their awards on December 20th, 2012 with giving away the Best Picture award to ZERO DARK THIRTY, directed and co-produced by Kathryn Bigelow. Whereas the Best Director award went to Wes Anderson for MOONRISE KINGDOM which is surprising and good! Other important things to notice are the Best Non-English Feature and Best Documentary Feature categories, both of these wins are unexpected.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Picture:

• Winner: Zero Dark Thirty


• Runner-up: Looper

Best Achievement in Directing:

• Winner: Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)


• Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Lead Performance by an Actor:

• Winner: Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)


• Runner-ups: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln); John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Lead Performance by an Actress:

• Winners (TIE): Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook); Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor:

• Winner: Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)


• Runner-up: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress:

• Winner: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)


• Runner-up: Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Best Original Screenplay:

• Winner: Rian Johnson (Looper)


• Runner-up: Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Winner: Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)


• Rrunner-up: David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography:

• Winner: Roger Deakins (Skyfall)


• Runner-up: Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Documentary Feature:

• Winner: Indie Game: The Movie


• Runner-up: The Invisible War

Best Non-English Language Feature:

• Winner: Headhunters


• Runner-up: Amour

Best Animated Feature:

• Winner: ParaNorman


• Runner-ups: Frankenweenie;  Wreck-It Ralph

38th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) announced their awards on December, 9th, 2012 with giving away the Best Picture award to French drama film, AMOUR, written and directed by Michael Haneke which really comes as a genuine surprise because everyone was thinking that Kathryn Bigelow’s ZERO DARK THIRTY would win it as well but I was secretly hoping that they’d give us a surprise which they really did by giving the Best Picture award to Amour.

Another unusual and important thing to notice is that the Kathryn Bigelow didn’t win the Best Director award as well, instead it went to Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master making it the biggest winner with four wins i.e. Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Production Design.

This is Emmanuelle Riva’s third win today, the other ones being in 10th New York Film Critics Online Awards and 33rd Boston Society of Film Critics Awards which is equally surprising and awesome and it just makes me want to watch Amour so bad.

BEST PICTURE:

• Winner: AMOUR


• Runner-up: THE MASTER

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson (THE MASTER)


• Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow (ZERO DARK THIRTY)

BEST ACTOR:

• Winner: Joaquin Phoenix (THE MASTER)


• Runner-up: Denis Lavant (HOLY MOTORS)

BEST ACTRESS:

• Winner (tied): Jennifer Lawrence (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK); Emmanuelle Riva (AMOUR)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Winner: Dwight Henry (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD)


• Runner-up: Christoph Waltz (DJANGO UNCHAINED)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Winner: Amy Adams (THE MASTER)


• Runner-up: Anne Hathaway (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES; LES MISÉRABLES)

BEST SCREENPLAY:

• Winner: Chris Terrio (ARGO)


• Runner-up: David O. Russell (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• Winner: Roger Deakins (SKYFALL)


• Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare, Jr. (THE MASTER)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

• Winner: THE MASTER


• Runner-up: MOONRISE KINGDOM

BEST EDITING:

• Winner: Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg (ZERO DARK THIRTY)


• Runner-up: William Goldenberg (ARGO)

BEST MUSIC/SCORE:

• Winner: Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD)


• Runner-up: Johnny Greenwood (THE MASTER)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

• Winner: FRANKENWEENIE


• Runner-up: IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY

BEST FOREIGN LANGAUGE FILM:

• Winner: HOLY MOTORS


• Runner-up: FOOTNOTE

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM:

• Winner: THE GATEKEEPERS


• Runner-up: SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN

NEW GENERATION AWARD:

• Winner: Benh Zeitlin (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD)

DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM: 

• Winner: LEVIATHAN