The Tree of Life, Malick reappear at 15th Toronto Awards

The 2011 TFCA (Toronto Film Critics Association) Award winners

Best Picture
The Tree of Life

Best Director
Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life

Best Actor
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter

Best Actress
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter

Best Screenplay
Moneyball

Best Foreign-Language Film
Mysteries of Lisbon

Best Documentary Feature
Nostalgia for the Light

Best First Feature
Attack the Block

Best Animated Feature
The Adventures of Tintin

Double-/triple-duty actors honored at NYFCC Awards

Is Brad Pitt "Money" in the bank this time around? He seems pretty sure about his chances.

Brad Pitt is enjoying a renaissance of sorts with his current slate of released films. Appearing in both Bennett Miller’s (Capote) Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’s book of the same name, and Terrence Malick’s experimental epic The Tree of Life, the acclaimed veteran star won the New York Film Critics’ Circle Award for “Best Actor” due to his work in both films. Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, with their sharp screenplay, were the other Moneyball winners. Michel Hazanavicius and his film The Artist were awarded “Best Director” and “Best Film,” respectively.

Rising star Jessica Chastain needed no "Help" in garnering her first award -- surely one of many to come.

Pitt’s The Tree of Life co-star Jessica Chastain is quickly rising not only to her peer’s “star” status, but also to the acclaimed one. She won the “Supporting Actress” award for her role in Malick’s indie, but also for her roles as a naive, enthusiastic Marilyn Monroe-esque Southerner in The Help and for her stint as wife to a tortured man in Take Shelter. With an astounding 9 films prepped for release, Chastain’s storming the film industry with her prowess and talent. Speaking of talent, we also got our first look at what is sure to be Meryl Streep’s dominant awards campaign all the way to Oscar glory. The 77th edition of this small but very prestigious set of awards saw her walk away with the “Best Actress” trophy. Her role as former British PM Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady makes her the clear frontrunner right now. Just beware, there could easily be a Sandra Bullock waiting in the wings to make the glory all her own. I’m looking at you, Viola Davis and Kirsten Dunst.