4th Annual Black Film Critics Circle Awards

The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) announced their awards on December 22nd, 2012 with giving away the Best Picture award to ZERO DARK THIRTY, directed and co-produced by Kathryn Bigelow who also won the award for Best Director.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Picture: ZERO DARK THIRTY

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (ZERO DARK THIRTY)

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (LINCOLN)

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (ZERO DARK THIRTY)

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (DJANGO UNCHAINED)

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (LES MISÉRABLES)

Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino (DJANGO UNCHAINED)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio (ARGO)

Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda (LIFE OF PI)

Best Foreign Film: THE INTOUCHABLES

Best Documentary: THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE

Best Animated Film: RISE OF THE GAURDIANS

Best Ensemble: LINCOLN

7th Annual Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (OFCC) announced their awards on December 23rd, 2012 with giving away the Best Film award to ARGO, directed by Ben Affleck who also won the Best Director award. The Not-So-Obviously Worst Movie award went to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. I don’t know whether they are calling it obviously worst or even worst, they’re wrong. Prometheus was one of the wonderful films of 2012.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Top Ten Films: 

1. Argo


2. Zero Dark Thirty


3. Moonrise Kingdom


4. Django Unchained


5. Silver Linings Playbook


6. Beasts of the Southern Wild


7. The Master


8. Lincoln


9. Looper


10. Les Misérables

Best Director: Ben Affleck (Argo)

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

Best Original Screenplay: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man

Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Best First Feature: Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Best Guilty Pleasure: 21 Jump Street

Best Body of Work: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises; Lincoln; Looper)

Obviously Worst Movie: That’s My Boy

Not-So-Obviously Worst Movie: Prometheus

2nd Annual Nevada Film Critics Society Awards

The Nevada Film Critics Society (NFCS) announced their awards on December 23rd, 2012 with giving away the Best Film award to ARGO, directed by Ben Affleck, who also won the Best Director award and shared it with ZERO DARK THIRTY’s director and co-producer Kathryn Bigelow.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Film: Argo

Best Director (TIE): Ben Affleck (Argo); Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Actor: John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Actress (TIE): Helen Hunt (The Sessions); Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field (Lincoln)

Best Youth Performance: Tom Holland (The Impossible)

Best Ensemble Cast: Lincoln

Best Animated Movie: Frankenweenie

Best Production Design: Les Misérables

Best Cinematography: Life of Pi

Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi

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

9th Annual Women Film Critics Circle Awards

The Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) announced its awards in December 2012 with giving away the top prize to A ROYAL AFFAIR.

Here is the complete list of winners:

BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN: A Royal Affair

BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST WOMAN STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]: Julie Delpy (Two Days In NY)

BEST ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)

BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS: Quvenzhanee Wallis (Beast Of The Southern Wild)

BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS: Maggie Smith (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

BEST FOREIGN FILM BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: Where Do We Go Now

BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: Zero Dark Thirty

WORST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE (TIE): Killer Joe;  Think Like A Man

BEST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: Lincoln

WORST MALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE: Killer Joe

BEST THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED MOVIE BY OR ABOUT WOMEN: Hemingway And Gellhorn

BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ANIMATED FEMALES: Brave

BEST FAMILY FILM (TIE): Life Of Pi; Rise Of The Guardians

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Barbra Streisand

ACTING AND ACTIVISM.AWARD: Sally Field

ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD - For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women (TIE): Compliance; The Invisible War

JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD - For best expressing the woman of color experience in America: Middle Of Nowhere

KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity: A Royal Affair

COURAGE IN ACTING - Taking on unconventional roles that radically redefine the images of women on-screen: Helen Hunt (The Sessions)

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN AWARD - Performance by a woman whose exceptional impact on the film dramatically, socially or historically, has been ignored: Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)

BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT A WOMAN: Queen Of Versailles

WOMEN’S WORK: BEST ENSEMBLE: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

BEST SCREEN COUPLE: Bill Murray and Frances McDormand (Moonrise Kingdom)

WFCC HALL OF SHAME

Bachelorette with Kirsten Dunst, had all sorts of ditzy former high school classmates getting together for the wedding of a girl they used to make fun of. Just stupid on so many levels: male strippers, drinking, general girly silliness.

Ici-Bas [Down Below]. Rape romance: A raped nun (Celine Sallette) falls in love with her rapist.

Skyfall: 'Bond Girl' is only on screen long enough to sell trailers and products like OPI's 'Skyfall Collection' of nail polishes, and gets bumped off at the end of Act II; M turns into a cowering incompetent and gets bumped off at the end of Act III; and the female sharp-shooter in Act I loses her nerve and leaves 'Field Operations' to become an office assistant in Act III. I loved the Sean Connery/James Bond films as a kid. Women got to be part of the action; the Bond Girl was always there to celebrate success at the end. But as a 50th anniversary tribute to the Bond series made in 2012, Skyfall truly broke my heart!

MOMMIE DEAREST WORST SCREEN MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD: Helena Bonham Carter (Les Miserables)

BEST LINE IN A MOVIE: "...You can't kill the animals in a movie, only the women." — Christopher Walken (Seven Psychopaths)

JUST KIDDING AWARD - Best Male Images In A Movie: Magic Mike

19th Annual Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) announced their awards on December 18th, 2012 with giving away the Best Film award to LINCOLN, directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg. Whereas the Best Diretor award went to Kathryn Bigelow for ZERO DARK THIRTY.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Film: Lincoln

Top Ten Films:

1. Lincoln


2. Argo


3. Zero Dark Thirty


4. Life of Pi


5. Les Misérables


6. Moonrise Kingdom


7. Silver Linings Playbook


8. Skyfall


9. The Master


10. Beasts of the Southern Wild

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Runner-ups:

• Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)


• Ben Affleck (Argo)


• Ang Lee (Life of Pi)


• Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Runner-ups:

• Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)


• John Hawkes (The Sessions)


• Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)


• Denzel Washington (Flight)

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Runner-ups:

• Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)


• Helen Mirren (Hitchcock)


• Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)


• Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)


• Naomi Watts (The Impossible)

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)

Runner-ups:

• Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)


• Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)


• Alan Arkin (Argo)


• Robert De Niro (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field (Lincoln)

Runner-ups:

• Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)


• Amy Adams (The Master)


• Helen Hunt (The Sessions)


• Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Best Foreign Film: Amour

Runner-ups:

• A Royal Affair


• The Intouchables


• Holy Motors


• The Kid With a Bike

17th Annual Florida Film Critics Circle Awards

The Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) announced their awards on December 18th, 2012 with giving away the Best Picture award to ARGO, directed by Ben Affleck who also won the award for Best Director.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Picture: Argo

Director: Ben Affleck (Argo)

Leading Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Leading Actress: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio (Argo)

Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson (Looper)

Cinematography: Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

Visual Effects: Life of Pi

Art Direction/Production Design: Thomas Brown, et. Al, and Sarah Greenwood (Anna Karenina)

Foreign Language Film: The Intouchables

Animated Film: Frankenweenie

Documentary Film: The Queen Of Versailles

Breakout Performance: Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)