New York is the first key critics group to announce awards for the 2012 film year, and the big winners were Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow's late-breaking Zero Dark Thirty. Each took home three honours from the NYC crowd.
The big loser has to be Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master. After inducing critical orgasms at all the fall festivals, the mesmerizing character study got shut out, along with more mainstream Oscar hopefuls Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi, and Les Miserables, although they aren't as dependent on the boost of critics awards as The Master is.
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Best Supporting Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike and Bernie
Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie
Best Documentary: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, The Central Park Five
Best Cinematography: Greig Fraser, Zero Dark Thirty
Best First Feature: David France, How to Survive a Plague
