2012 Critics Choice Award Winners

Best Picture

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Best Actor

George Clooney - The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Ryan Gosling - Drive
Brad Pitt - Moneyball

Best Actress

Viola Davis - The Help
Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Charlize Theron - Young Adult
Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor

Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks - Drive
Nick Nolte - Warrior
Patton Oswalt - Young Adult
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Andrew Serkis - Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Best Supporting Actress

Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Melissa McCarthy - Bridesmaids
Carey Mulligan - Shame
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants

Best Young Actor/Actress

Asa Butterfield - Hugo
Elle Fanning - Super 8
Thomas Horn - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Ezra Miller - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Saoirse Ronan -Hanna
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants

Best Acting Ensemble

The Artist
Bridesmaids
The Descendants
The Help
The Ides of March

Best Director

Stephen Daldry - Extreme Loud & Incredibly Close
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Steven Spielberg - War Horse

Best Original Screenplay

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
50/50 - Will Reiser
Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
Win Win - screenplay by Tom McCarthy, story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni
Young Adult - Diablo Cody

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Descendants - Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Eric Roth
The Help - Tate Taylor
Hugo - John Logan
Moneyball - Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, story by Stan Chervin

Best Animated Feature

The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Kung Fu Panda 2
Puss in Boots
Rango

Best Comedy

Bridesmaids
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Horrible Bosses
Midnight in Paris
The Muppets

Best Foreign Language Film

In Darkness
Le Havre
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Where Do We Go Now?

Best Documentary Feature

Buck
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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