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.