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

The Help wins 2 awards at 2011 African-American Film Critics’ Awards

Best Picture:

• 1. Tree of Life (Winner)
• 2. Drive
• 3. Pariah
• 4. Rampart
• 5. Shame
• 6. Moneyball
• 7. The Descendants
• 8. A Better Life
• 9. My Week with Marilyn
• 10. The Help

Best Director: Steve McQueen (Shame)

The Artist and co. walk away most-awarded in Indiana

Best Film
The Artist

• The Descendants (Runner-up)

Other Finalists:

• Coriolanus
• Drive
• Hugo
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• The Muppets
• The Skin I Live In
• Super 8
• The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick and his Tree of Life continue to roll at 2011 SFFCC Awards

Best Picture
The Tree of Life

Best Director
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

Best Original Screenplay
J.C. Chandor, Margin Call

Best Adapted Screenplay
Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Descendants, Terrence Malick surprise at 37th LAFCA Awards

• Best Picture:
  • The Descendants
  • Runner-up: The Tree of Life

• Best Director:
  • Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
  • Runner-up: Martin Scorsese – Hugo

• Best Actor:
  • Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame and X-Men: First Class
  • Runner-up: Michael Shannon – Take Shelter

• Best Actress:
  • Yoon Jeong-hee – Poetry (Shi)
  • Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia

American Film Institute names top 10 in film and TV for 2011

Movies

• Bridesmaids
• The Descendants
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Help
• Hugo

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.

Beginners “dominates” 21st Annual Gotham Awards

Ewan McGregor, right, as Oliver shaving his elderly father Hal, played by Christopher Plummer

Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life," starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, shared the top prize with "Beginners"

A domination took place yesterday during the 21st edition of the Gotham Independent Film Awards. The domination — if you can call it that — occurred courtesy of Beginners, a 2010 comedy-drama directed and written by Mike Mills and starring Ewan McGregor. McGregor heads the stellar cast as Oliver, a man coping with the death of his parents who begins a ominous relationship with a French actress named Anna (Mélanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds). Christopher Plummer appears as Oliver’s gay father Hal. Out of the sparse 6 awards handed out, Mills’s American film took home 2 — perhaps the 2 biggest, “Best Feature” and “Best Ensemble Performance.” Terrence Malick’s epic Tree of Life triumphed through the hype and tied Beginners for the “Best Feature” prize. Alexander Payne’s George Clooney vehicle The Descendents and up-and-coming star Elizabeth Olsen were some of the night’s bigger losers. The night’s four other winners appear after the break.