Best Film
Zero
Dark Thirty
Best Director
Kathryn
Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Actor
Daniel
Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Best Actress
Jessica
Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Supporting Actor
Philip
Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
Best Supporting Actress
Anne
Hathaway (Les Misérables)
Best Original Screenplay
Rian
Johnson (Looper)
Best Adapted Screenplay
David O.
Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
Claudio
Miranda (Life of Pi)
Best Art Direction
Rebecca
Alleway, Hugh Bateup, Uli Hanisch and Peter Walpole (Cloud Atlas)
Best Score
Jonny
Greenwood (The Master)
Best Acting Ensemble
Les
Misérables
Best Animated Feature
ParaNorman
Best Documentary
Bully
Best Foreign Language
Film
Amour
Best Youth Performance
Quvenzhané
Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
As expected, the WDCAFCA have aligned themselves with the current critical consensus and voted Zero Dark Thirty their Best Film of 2012, also giving it their Best Director and Best Actress prizes. They announced their nominations on Saturday.
Well, I kinda figured they'd go down this road, but the group is to be applauded in my view, for going with five originally to see what films they really like even at the expense of parroting the big bad Oscar. Bigelow's film opens here on the 19th, and my wife and even my five teenage kids are eager to watch it. There used to be a time when I thought the critics' awards were ultra-important, but while I don't quite feel that way anymore, I still think they do help to size things up and they are always fun to follow. Back in the day (I am 57 now) I followed the National Society of Film Critics, who were always reliable to pick an excellent foreign-language film (i.e. Z, CLAIRE'S KNEE and THE CONFORMIST) Nive to Day-Lewis win and Hathaway get a second nod from the various groups. I'm sure Chastain is great, though my own top choice is Weisz, with Riva and Chastain still to be seen in their respective films.
ReplyDeleteGreat jump here on the announcement!
-Sam Juliano
Well, that's what happens when one spends half their time looking up critic groups on Google!
ReplyDeleteYeah, they're not ultra-important. They're not even important. WAFCA are pretty mid-tier important, and that's only within the spectrum of critic groups.