DUBLIN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCE

Best Picture

                Drive

Best Director

                Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive)

Best Performance by an Actor

                Ryan Gosling (Drive)

Best Performance by an Actress

                Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life)

Best Documentary

                Senna

Best Foreign Language Film

                A Separation

Best International Breakthrough

                Jessica Chastain (The Help / Tale Shelter / The Tree of Life)

Best Domestic Breakthrough

                John Michael McDonagh (The Guard)

Best Irish Film

                The Guard

Best Irish Documentary

                Knuckle

Not many surprises here. Another good performance from Drive - two in one day. Otherwise, love for The Guard, as expected, and for Jessica Chastain, as there has been in the majority of critics' results. I'm not a fan of The Guard, but how could it not have turned up here?