2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Winners: 'Descendants', 'Rango' and More

Michael Fassbender, Jessica Chastain, Christopher Plummer and The Chemical Brothers are some of the artists honored at the event, which winners could influence next year's Academy Awards.

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The 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, whose prizes are an early influence on the way to the Academy Awards, has announced its winners on Sunday, December 11. This year, George Clooney-starring dramedy "The Descendants" was honored with the coveted Best Picture award, while "The Tree of Life" was named the runner-up.

The prestigious film critics awards also picked "Rango" as the Best Animation, while Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" trailed behind. Meanwhile, Michael Fassbender and Korean actress Yun Jung-Hee were named the Best Actor and Actress respectively.

Other winners of the annual awards included Jessica Chastain and Christopher Plummer as the Best Supporting Actress and Actor respectively, Terrence Malick as the Best Director, and Asghar Farhadi for the Best Screenplay. The Chemical Brothers also won the Best Music/Score award for composing the original score for thriller film "Hanna".

Beside the 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, there were two more prestigious film critics awards that have announced their winners on Sunday. They were New York Film Critics Online Awards and Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, which both picked silent drama "The Artist" as the winner of Best Picture.

While NYFCO named Michael Shannon and Meryl Streep the Best Actor and Actress respectively, BSFC picked Brad Pitt and Michelle Williams to receive the same awards. As for the Best Supporting Actor and Actress, both associations chose Albert Brooks and Melissa McCarthy as the winners.

2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Winners:

• Best Picture: "The Descendants" (Runner Up: "The Tree of Life")
• Best Animation: "Rango" (Runner-Up: "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn")
• Best Director: Terrence Malick - "The Tree of Life" (Runner-Up: Martin Scorsese - "Hugo")
• Best Actor: Michael Fassbender - "A Dangerous Method", "Jane Eyre", "Shame", "X-Men: First Class" (Runner-Up: Michael Shannon - "Take Shelter")
• Best Actress: Yun Jung-Hee - "Poetry" (Runner-Up: Kirsten Dunst - "Melancholia")
• Best Independent/Experimental: "Spark of Being"
• Best Documentary/Nonfiction: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (Runner-Up: "The Arbor")
• Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi - "A Separation" (Runner-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - "The Descendants")
• Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer - "Beginners" (Runner-Up: Patton Oswalt - "Young Adult")
• Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain - "Coriolanus", "The Debt", "The Help", "Take Shelter", "Texas Killing Fields", "The Tree of Life" (Runner-Up: Janet McTeer - "Albert Nobbs")
• Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki - "The Tree of Life" (Runner-Up: Cao Yu - "City of Life and Deaths")
• Best Production Design: Dante Ferretti - "Hugo" (Runner-Up: Maria Djurkovic - "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy")
• Best Music/Score: The Chemical Brothers - "Hanna" (Runner-Up: Cliff Martinez - "Drive")

2011 NY Film Critics Online Awards Winners:

• Film: "The Artist"
• Director: Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"
• Actor: Michael Shannon - "Take Shelter"
• Actress: Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"
• Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks - "Drive"
• Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy - "Bridesmaids"
• Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki - "The Tree of Life"
• Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, "The Descendants"
• Foreign Language Picture: "A Separation"
• Documentary: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
• Animated Feature: "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn"
• Use of Music: Ludovic Bource - "The Artist"
• Breakout Performer: Jessica Chastain - "The Tree of Life", "The Help", "The Debt", "Take Shelter"
• Debut as Director: Joe Cornish, "Attack the Block"
• Ensemble Cast: "Bridesmaids"

2011 Boston Film Critics Awards Winners:

• Best Pictures: "The Artist" (Runner-Up: "Hugo" and "Margaret")
• Best Director: Martin Scorsese - "Hugo" (Runner-Up: Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist")
• Best Actor: Brad Pitt - "Moneyball" (Runner-Up: George Clooney - "The Descendants" and Michael Fassbender - "Shame")
• Best Actress: Michelle Williams - "My Week with Marilyn" (Runner-Up: Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady")
• Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks - "Drive" (Runner-Up: Max Von Sydow - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close")
• Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy - "Bridesmaids" (Runner-Up: Jeannie Berlin - "Margaret")
• Best Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin - "Moneyball" (Runner-Up: Kenneth Lonergan - "Margaret")
• Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki - "The Tree of Life" (Runner-Up: Robert Richardson - "Hugo")
• Best Documentary: "Project Nim" (Runner-Up: "Bill Cunningham New York")
• Best Animated Film: "Rango"
• Best Film Editing: Christian Marclay - "The Clock" (Runner-Up: Thelma Schoonmaker - "Hugo")
• Best New Filmmaker: Sean Durkin - "Martha Marcy May Marlene" (Runner-Up: J.C. Chandor - "Margin Call")
• Best Ensemble Cast: "Carnage" (Runner-Up: "Margaret")
• Best Use of Music in a Film: "Drive" and "The Artist" (Runner-Up: "The Descendants")

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