New York Critics Awards

BEST PICTURE: THE ARTIST
-The Artist is giving a tough competition for War Horse and Hugo.

BEST DIRECTOR – MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS for The Artist
-well deserving

BEST ACTOR- MICHAEL SHANNON for Take Shelter,(runner-up:Michael Fassbender and Gary Oldman)
-Michael Shannon was superb in Take Shelter and Fassbender to the Oscars!

BEST ACTRESS-MERYL STREEP for The Iron Lady(runner-up:Viola Davis)
-Meryl Streep!!!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – ALBERT BROOKS for Drive
-its gonna be  a tight race between Albert Brooks and Christopher Plummers for the Oscars

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: MELISSA MCCARTHY – Bridesmaids
-I don't see her winning the Oscars but  a Golden Globe,maybe.Anyways congratulations.

BEST ENSEMBLE: BRIDESMAID
-everyone in Bridesmaids were good and funny but I felt The Help or Margin Call should have win.just my opinion

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – EMMANUEL LUBEZKI for The Tree of Life
-Emmanuel ,better get your  Oscar speech ready!

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: JESSICA CHASTAIN – The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanus
-2011 is Jessica's year packed with strong performances.Congratulations!

BEST SCREENPLAY – ALEXANDER PAYNE, NAT FAXON, JIM RASH for The Descendants. (runner-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, “The Descendants.”)
-not a surprise,Payne had  won before for his screenplay.

BEST USE OF MUSIC – LUDOVIC BOURCE for The Artist
-again well deserving

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR – JOE CORNISH for Attack the Block

BEST FOREIGN FILM- A SEPARATION

BEST DOCUMENTARY:CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN