UTAH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES

Best Picture

1.     Zero Dark Thirty

2.        Looper

Best Achievement in Directing

1.     Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)

2.        Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Lead Performance by an Actor

1.     Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)

2.        Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)

John Hawkes (The Sessions)

Best Lead Performance by an Actress

Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor

1.     Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

2.        Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress

1.     Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)

2.        Ann Dowd (Compliance)

Best Original Screenplay

1.     Rian Johnson (Looper)

2.        Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1.     Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

2.        David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography

1.     Roger Deakins (Skyfall)

2.        Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Animated Feature

1.     ParaNorman

2.        Frankenweenie

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Documentary Feature

1.     Indie Game: The Movie

2.        The Invisible War

Best Non-English Language Feature

1.     Headhunters

2.        Amour

Controversy be damned, Zero Dark Thirty is the best reviewed American film of the year, according to critics, and the Utah lot are in agreement, it would seem. Curious, though, that they award Wes Anderson for Director rather than Bigelow. Some healthy love for Looper, which hasn't been neglected this season, as some feared, and a more sensible selection than many similar, more obscure critics' groups often make. I'm still not getting on board with The Cabin in the Woods, now. No-one gives a shit what I think, but I think that's a shit film.