SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS SOCIETY WINNERS

Best Film
Argo

Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

Best Actress
Michelle Williams (Take This Waltz)

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Emma Watson (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Editing
William Goldenberg (Argo)

Best Production Design
Hugh Bateup and Uli Hanisch (Cloud Atlas)

Best Score
Jonny Greenwood (The Master)

Best Ensemble Performance
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Best Animated Film
ParaNorman

Best Documentary
The Invisible War

Body of Work

Greig Fraser (Killing Them Softly / Snow White and the Huntsman / Zero Dark Thirty)

Kyle Counts Award

Dan Bennett
Best Foreign Language Film
The Kid with a Bike

An eclectic selection from the San Diego critics, who announced their nominees on Sunday. They clearly love Argo, going somewhat against the grain with the critics' groups thus far (is 0D30 losing a little steam at the minute? Or is there nothing to be worried about?). Michelle Williams nabs a surprise Best Actress win, and The Kid with a Bike beats Amour to Best Foreign Language Film. I guess I'm going to have to watch The Perks of Being a Wallflower soon, then, as the critics evidently love it! Interesting that Greig Fraser wins the Body of Work award, which the SDFCS generally give to an actor, when he wasn't nominated for Best Cinematography in any of the five slots for any of his three credited works! A good choice, though.