FLORIDA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCE

Best Picture

                The Descendants

Best Director

                Martin Scorsese (Hugo)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

                Michael Fassbender (Shame)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

                Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

                Albert Brooks (Drive)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

                Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)

Best Original Screenplay

                Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Best Adapted Screenplay

                Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne and Jim Rash (The Descendants)

Best Cinematography

                Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life)

Best Art Direction / Production Design

                Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (Hugo)

Best Visual Effects

                Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Best Animated Film

                The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Best Documentary

                Project Nim

Best Foreign Language Film

                The Skin I Live In

Pauline Kael Breakout Award

                Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) 

Not sure when these announced, but it's at least been in the last few days. Another minor critics group, so their choices may not have much effect on the race, and anyway, these are rather conventional choices, given to films and people with enough buzz around them as it is. All the same, we continue to see the critics support Albert Brooks, despite his SAG snub, and indeed, Michael Fassbender and Shailene Woodley, neither of whom received SAG nominations last week. Also, this is (interestingly) the first win for The Artist in Original Screenplay - surprising for the fact that it hasn't won Best Picture here as well. And, of course, another win for Emmanuel Lubezki. It just wouldn't be right without one, would it?