Last night, the Broadcast Film Critics Association handed out their accolades for the cinema of 2012. It was aired on television (via the illustrious CW Network), which surprises me, since I didn’t think anyone cared what critics thought about anything. Anyway, there weren’t many surprises in the choices – lot’s of gold (or rather, a glassy…. thing that looks kind of like a medieval mace) for Argo, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, and Silver Linings Playbook.
Although looking over these categories… Best Actor in an Action movie? Wha? These are the Critics’ Choice Awards, and not the People’s? Are you sure? What a useless, lowest-common-denominator-baiting thing to do. Plus it means that The Hunger Games now has the official recognition of one aspect of the critical establishment, which is sad. Oh, and someday everyone will wake up and realize how hollow Searching for Sugar Man actually is.
Anyway, here are the winners:
BEST PICTURE
Argo
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain –Zero Dark Thirty
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
BEST ART DIRECTION
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer, Katie Spencer/Set Decorator
BEST EDITING
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
BEST MAKEUP
Cloud Atlas
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life of Pi
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wreck-It Ralph
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Skyfall
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Daniel Craig – Skyfall
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
BEST COMEDY
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Looper
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Searching for Sugar Man
BEST SONG
“Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall
BEST SCORE
Lincoln – John Williams
Louis XIII Genius Award
Judd Apatow
