OKLAHOMA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCE

Best Picture

1.    The Artist

2.       Drive

3.       The Descendants

4.       Hugo

5.       Shame

6.       Moneyball

7.       Midnight in Paris

8.       Melancholia

9.       The Tree of Life

10.    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Best Director

                Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

                George Clooney (The Descendants)

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

                Octavia Spencer (The Help)

Best Original Screenplay

                Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Best Adapted Screenplay

                Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball)

Best Animated Feature

                The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Best Documentary

                Page One: Inside the New York Times

Best Foreign Language Film

                The Skin I Live In

Best First Feature

                Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene)

Best Guilty Pleasure

                Fright Night

Obviously Worst Film

                Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Not-So-Obviously Worst Film

                The Hangover Part II

That Top 10 is great, isn't it? So many of my favourite films of the year: Shame, Melancholia, Drive, Midnight in Paris, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - k, I haven't seen it, but I expect it to be pretty damn good, based on my own tastes and expectations. Other than that, I'm not a big fan of these results - Clooney, Williams and Spencer aren't the most exciting choices, and I can't help but think that people must be voting for The Skin I Live In purely because it's Almodovar, because it's pretty shit. And in what sense is The Hangover Part II not obviously one of the year's worst films? At least they mentioned it.