16th SDFCS Awards December 14, 2011
Best Film: The Artist
Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Drive The 16th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 12, 2011.
Winners and nominees
Best Actor Michael Shannon – Take Shelter as Curtis LaForcheGeorge Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin Brendan Gleeson – The Guard as Gerry Boyle Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Bean
Best ActressBrit Marling – Another Earth as Rhoda WilliamsViola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clarke Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene as Martha Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin as Eve Khatchadourian Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe
Best Animated FilmArthur Christmas Happy Feet Two Kung Fu Panda 2 Rango Winnie the Pooh
Best Cinematography The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel Hugo – Robert Richardson Take Shelter – Adam Stone
Best Director Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Best Documentary Project Nim Buck Cave of Forgotten Dreams Into the Abyss Page One: Inside the New York Times
Best Editing Beginners – Olivier Bugge Coutté The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius Drive – Mat Newman Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber and Mark Yoshikawa
Best Ensemble Performance Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Carnage The Help Margin Call Midnight in Paris
Best Film The Artist Drive Hugo Midnight in Paris The Tree of Life
Best Foreign Language Film Le Quattro Volte • Italy The Double Hour (La doppia ora) • Italy Happy, Happy (Sykt lykkelig) • Norway Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) • France A Somewhat Gentle Man (En ganske snill mann) • Norway
Best Production Design Hugo – Dante Ferretti The Artist – Laurence Bennett Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craig Midnight in Paris – Anne Seibel The Tree of Life – Jack Fisk
Best Score Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Alexandre Desplat The Artist – Ludovic Bource Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Alexandre Desplat Hugo – Howard Shore The Tree of Life – Alexandre Desplat
Best Original Screenplay Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen 50/50 – Will Reiser The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius Beginners – Mike Mills Win Win – Tom McCarthy
Best Adapted Screenplay Moneyball – Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash Drive – Hossein Amini Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Steve Kloves Hugo – John Logan
Best Supporting Actor Nick Nolte – Warrior as Paddy Conlon Albert Brooks – Drive as Bernie Rose Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields Andy Serkis – Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar Max von Sydow – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as The Renter
Best Supporting Actress Shailene Woodley – The Descendants as Alexandra King Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Foote Mélanie Laurent – Beginners as Anna Carey Mulligan – Shame as Sissy Sullivan
Body of Work Jessica Chastain
References
San Diego Film Critics Award The Artist Best Picture, Refn Best Director AwardsDaily