No sooner had I posted the results today of three critics groups' film awards, than three more groups quickly followed with their year-end winners. The St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association, The Indiana Film Journalists Association and The Southeastern Film Critics Association have all announced their picks for the best in film in 2012.
The only big surprise from these last three groups' picks was Indiana's selection of "Safety Not Guaranteed" as its Best Picture. We can safely say that this small film was not on anyone's awards radar, but now that it's gotten a small bit of attention, who knows? Stranger things have happened. St. Louis and the Southeastern critics both named "Argo" as Best Picture.
(christoph waltz in "django unchained")Best Actor-
St. Louis: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Indiana: (TIE) Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln", and Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"SouthE: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Best Actress-
St. Louis: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Indiana: Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
SouthE: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Supporting Actor-St. Louis: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Indiana: Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
SouthE: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"
(ann dowd in "compliance")
Best Supporting Actress-
St. Louis: (TIE) Ann Dowd, "Compliance" and Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Indiana: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
SouthE: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
In the Best Picture Race, after an early dominating lead, "Zero Dark Thirty" is losing a bit of its luster, but the race that you can practically bet the house on at this point is for Daniel Day-Lewis. Of the seventeen Best Actor awards given so far, Day-Lewis has won twelve of them. Ann Dowd, ("Compliance"), is building slow but steady steam in the Supporting Actress category; could she be the surprise of the year in the Oscar nominations?
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