Film News: Nominations For Critics’ Choice Awards Revealed

Submitted by TimBMartens on December 13, 2011 - 12:15pm

CHICAGO – Nominations have just been released this morning for this year’s Critics’ Choice Awards, and some common trends in award ceremonies we have already seen continue in this set of nominees. With ten different Best Picture nominees and thirty different actors and actresses nominated, it is no surprise that there are some similarities.

The nominees for Best Picture include several films that have already been winners at other awards, like “The Artist,” “The Descendants,” “Hugo,” and “The Tree of Life,” but also include nominees “Drive,” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” “The Help,” “Midnight in Paris,” “Moneyball,” and “War Horse.”

Along with the normal categories (acting, directing, writing), the Critics’ Choice Awards is one of the first to have a full list of categories, like art direction, makeup, costume, visual effects, score, and song. The most notable here may be “The Muppets” receiving three of the five Best Song nominations: “Life’s a Happy Song” “Man or Muppet” and “Pictures in My Head.”

Also, the highly anticipated “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” only received two nominations, Best Editing and Best Score. Perhaps the film doesn’t stack up as high as the other ten films on the list or the subject matter was a little too much for voters.

You can see the entire list of nominations below and don’t forget to watch the Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday, January 12 on VH1.

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, “Extremely 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 & 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 CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Artist,” Guillaume Schiffman
“Drive,” Newton Thomas Sigel
“Hugo,” Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life,” Emmanuel Lubezki
“War Horse,” Janusz Kaminski

BEST ART DIRECTION
“The Artist”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“Hugo”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

BEST EDITING
“The Artist”
“Drive”
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
“Hugo”
“War Horse”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“The Artist”
“The Help”
“Hugo”
“Jane Eyre”
“My Week with Marilyn”

BEST MAKEUP
“Albert Nobbs”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“The Iron Lady”
“J. Edgar”
“My Week with Marilyn”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“Hugo”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Super 8”
“The Tree of Life”

BEST SOUND
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
“Hugo”
“Super 8”
“The Tree of Life”
“War Horse”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“The Adventures of Tintin”
“Arthur Christmas”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss in Boots”
“Rango”

BEST ACTION MOVIE
“Drive”
“Fast Five”
“Hanna”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Super 8”

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”
“Page One: Inside the New York Times”
“Project Nim”
“Undefeated”

BEST SONG
“Hello Hello,” performed by Elton John and Lady Gaga/written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin; “Gnomeo & Juliet”
“Life’s a Happy Song,” performed by Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie; “The Muppets”
“The Living Proof,” performed by Mary J. Blige/written by Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman and Harvey Mason, Jr.; “The Help”
“Man or Muppet,” performed by Jason Segel and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie; “The Muppets”
“Pictures in My Head,” performed by Kermit and the Muppets/written by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman; “The Muppets”

BEST SCORE
“The Artist,” Ludovic Bource
“Drive,” Cliff Martinez
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
“Hugo,” Howard Shore
“War Horse,” John Williams