Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. 2011: Complete List of Winners

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BEST PICTURE
"The Descendants"
Runner-Up: "The Tree of Life"

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 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," "Tree of Life"
Runner-Up: Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"

BEST SCREENPLAY
Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation"
Runner-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, "The Descendants"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Tree of Life"
Cao Yu, "City of Life and Death"

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"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Rango"
Runner-Up: "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn"

BEST DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION FILM
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
Runner-Up: "The Arbor"
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On Sunday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. chose "The Descendants" as the Best Picture of the Year continuing their love affair with writer/director Alexander Payne. His last two films -- "Sideways" (2004) and "About Schmidt" (2002) -- each won this top prize while his first film, "Election," earned him and collaborator Jim Taylor the New Generation Award in 1999. The pair also won screenplay honors for both "About Schmidt" and "Sideways" while Payne picked up the Best Director prize for the latter.

This year's Best Director award went to Terrence Malick who helmed "The Tree of Life," which was the runner-up for Best Picture. Martin Scorsese ("Hugo") came second. Asghar Farhadi ("A Separation") claimed the Best Screenplay award over Payne as well as Nat Faxon and Jim Rash who adapted "The Descendants."

LAFCA cited Michael Fassbender for his leading performances in four films ("A Dangerous Method," "Jane Eyre," "Shame" and "X-Men: First Class") while Yun Jung-Hee was named Best Actress for "Poetry." Michael Shannon ("Take Shelter") was the Best Actor runner-up while Cannes champ Kirsten Dunst ("Melancholia") came in second place among the leading ladies.

Christopher Plummer picked up another Supporting Actor prize for "Beginners" (Patton Oswalt of "Young Adult" was second) and Jessica Chastain edged out Janet McTeer ("Albert Nobbs") to win a bookend for her NYFCC award. The LA critics listed six films next to Chastain's name: "Coriolanus," "The Debt," "The Help," "Take Shelter," "Texas Killing Fields" and "The Tree of Life."

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Awards momentum behind "The Descendants" sagged when it was shut out at the New York Critics Circle Awards, but it picked up steam today by winning the Best Picture honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. That doesn't necessarily portend good Oscar news ahead. Over the past 25 years, only "Schindler's List" (1993) and "The Hurt Locker" (2009) lined up with both groups. However, LAFCA has a history of pushing ponies into the derby that ultimately went the distance, dating back to "Rocky" (1976) and "Unforgiven" (1992).

"The Tree of Life" came in second place for Best Picture, but received the consolation prize for Best Director Terrence Malick, thus bolstering his hopes for an Oscar bid. Every director who has won at LA has gone on to reap an Academy Award bid from 1990 onward. An asterisk must be disclosed for last year, which featured a tie between David Fincher ("The Social Network") and the non-nominated Olivier Assayas. His "Carlos" was ineligible at the Oscars because it originally screened as a television miniseries.

"Descendants" writer/director Alexander Payne's script was overlooked in favor of Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation." Payne had won a breakthrough honor previously for his "Election" (1999) plus script laurels for two of his flicks that won Best Picture at LAFCA: "About Schmidt" (2002) and "Sideways" (2004).

Best Actor was L.A.'s key race to watch. Whoever won would follow a hot streak of six men who became eventual Oscar winners: Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote"), Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland"), Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood"), Sean Penn ("Milk"), Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), and Colin Firth ("The King's Speech"). This year's trophy went to Michael Fassbender, who was cited for his work on "Shame," "Jane Eyre," "A Dangerous Method" and "X-Men: First Class."

As is typical for the group, they honored an off-the-wall choice in Yun Jung-hee as Best Actress for "Poetry." Their previous two selections -- Kim Hye-ja ("Mother") and Yolande Moreau ("Seraphine") -- never picked up a modicum of Oscar buzz.
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What do you think of the winners and do you think this helps their overall Oscar chances?

its a possibility that it might help them. congrats to the winners.

I am really happy for The Descendants and Michael Fassbender because they both have not gotten much praise [The Descendants was doing well but lately The Artist has been getting the awards..].

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