Austin Film Critics Association Announces Awards

Best Film: Hugo

Best Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive

Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive

Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter

Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Best Adapted Screenplay: Hossein Amini, Drive

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

Best Original Score: Steven Price, Attack the Block

Best Foreign Language Film: I Saw the Devil (D: Kim Jee-woon, South Korea)

Best Documentary: Senna (D: Asif Kapadia)

Best Animated Feature: Rango (D: Gore Verbinski)

Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Jessica Chastain for her work in Take Shelter, The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Coriolanus, and Texas Killing Fields

Best First Film: Attack the Block (D: Joe Cornish)

Austin Film Award: Take Shelter (D: Jeff Nichols)

Top 10 Films:

1) Hugo

2) Drive

3) Take Shelter

4) Midnight in Paris

5) Attack the Block

6) The Artist

7) Martha Marcy May Marlene

8) I Saw the Devil

9) 13 Assassins

10) Melancholia

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The membership of the Austin Film Critics Association includes Marjorie Baumgarten (The Austin Chronicle), Jenn Brown (Slackerwood), Dave Campbell (Smells Like Screen Spirit), C. Robert "Massawyrm" Cargill (Film.com, Ain't It Cool News), Laurie Coker (Hill Country News), Korey Coleman (Spill), Chris Cox (Spill), Cole Dabney (Insite magazine), Victor Diaz (YNN Austin), Charles Ealy (Austin American-Statesman), John Gholson (Movies.com), William Goss (MSN Movies, Film.com, Orlando Weekly), Peter S. Hall (Hollywood.com, Horror's Not Dead, and Movies.com), Kimberley Jones (The Austin Chronicle), Jette Kernion (Slackerwood), Harry Knowles (Ain't It Cool News), Neil Miller (Film School Rejects), Brian Salisbury (Fandango, Movies.com, Hollywood.com, Horror's Not Dead), Marc Savlov (The Austin Chronicle), Robert Sims (KOOP 91.7FM), Martin Thomas (Spill), Eric "Quint" Vespe (Ain't It Cool News), Scott Weinberg (Twitch, Fearnet, Fandango), and Chase Whale (GordonAndTheWhale.com). For more info, visit www.austinfilmcritics.org.