Online Film Critics Society Awards 2011

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15th Online Film Critics Society Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 2, 2012 </div>

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<br> Best Picture: <br> <big> The Tree of Life </big> </div> The 15th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2011, were announced on 2 January 2012.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

The Tree of Life

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Drive
• Hugo

Best Director

Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life

• Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
• Martin Scorsese – Hugo
• Lars von Trier – Melancholia
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive

Best Actor

Michael Fassbender – Shame

• George Clooney – The Descendants
• Jean Dujardin – The Artist
• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Michael Shannon – Take Shelter

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin

• Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
• Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor

Christopher Plummer – Beginners

• Albert Brooks – Drive
• John Hawkes – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Nick Nolte – Warrior
• Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life

Best Supporting Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life

• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
• Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
• Carey Mulligan – Shame
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen

• Martha Marcy May Marlene – Sean Durkin
• A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
• The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
• Win Win – Tom McCarthy

Best Adapted Screenplay

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

• The Descendants – Nat Faxon, Jim Rash & Alexander Payne
• Drive – Hossein Amini
• Moneyball – Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin
• We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lynne Ramsay & Rory Stewart Kinnear

Best Foreign Language Film

A Separation

• 13 Assassins
• Certified Copy
• The Skin I Live In
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Best Documentary

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

• The Interrupters
• Into the Abyss
• Project Nim
• Tabloid

Best Animated Feature

Rango

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• Arthur Christmas
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Winnie the Pooh

Best Cinematography

The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki

• The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
• Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel
• Hugo – Robert Richardson
• Melancholia – Manuel Alberto Claro

Best Editing

The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber & Mark Yoshikawa

• Drive – Matthew Newman
• Martha Marcy May Marlene – Zachary Stuart-Pontier
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsäter
• We Need to Talk About Kevin – Joe Bini

Special Awards

• To Jessica Chastain, the breakout performer of the year
• To Martin Scorsese in honor of his work and dedication to the pursuit of film preservation

References

• 'The Tree of Life' Leads Online Film Critics Society Award Nominations indieWire
• 15th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards AwardsDaily