Tuesday 20 December 2011

BLACK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCE


Best Picture
1.    The Help
2.       The Artist
3.       Pariah
4.       Drive
5.       The Descendants
6.       Attack the Block
7.       The Tree of Life
8.       Hugo
9.       The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10.    Warrior
Best Director
                Dee Rees (Pariah)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
                Oliver Litondo (The First Grader)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
                Viola Davis (The Help)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
                Albert Brooks (Drive)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
                Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Best Original Screenplay
                Dee Rees (Pariah)
Best Adapted Screenplay
                Tate Taylor (The Help)
Best Ensemble Cast
                The Help
Best Animated Film
                Rango
Best Documentary
                Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Best Foreign Film
                Life, Above All
Rising Star Award
                Adepero Oduye (Pariah)
Best Independent Film
                Pariah
Special Mention
                Attack the Block
Pioneer
                Harry Belafonte

The Black Film Critics Circle is a splinter group (entirely detached) of the African-American Film Critics Association - a more well-established and, perhaps, reasonable critics' group. It's thereby pretty new, and its choices are at once very unusual and yet very expected. Good to see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo still clocking up mention after mention, extremely gradually, of course, but significantly nonetheless. However, this story is clearly all about The Help and Pariah. Both might have benefitted more from this boost were this not the Black Film Critics Circle.

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