2011 Chicago Film Critics Awards - winners

The Chicago Film Critics Association met to determine their 2011 Award winners and the dominant winner was Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. It won Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Cinematography.

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive picked up two awards for Supporting Actor Albert Brooks and for the score by Cliff Martinez. The only other multiple prize-winner was Martha Marcy May Marlene, which won Most Promising Performer for Elizabeth Olsen and Most Promising Filmmaker for writer-director Sean Durkin.

The Best Actor Award went to Chicago actor Michael Shannon for Take Shelter. Michelle Williams was named Best Actress for playing Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn.

The Artist won for Best Original Screenplay. For Adapted Screenplay, the winner was the baseball film Moneyball.

A Separation was named Best Foreign Film. The Best Documentary award went to the Chicago-set The Interrupters about former gangsters who are determined to stop violence in their neighbourhoods. Unfortunately, it was left off the short list for the Academy Awards.

Among the contenders which came away empty-handed were The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, Shame, Midnight in Paris and Beginners.

The 2011 Chicago Film Critics Awards ceremony will take place on January 7, 2012 at Chicago's Broadway Playhouse.

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Complete list of winners for the 2011 Chicago Film Critics Awards

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
Albert Brooks—Drive

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain—The Tree of Life

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michel Hazanavicius—The Artist

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin—Moneyball

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Tree of Life—Emmanuel Lubezki

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Drive—Cliff Martinez

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Rango

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Interrupters

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Elizabeth Olsen—Martha Marcy May Marlene

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
Sean Durkin—Martha Marcy May Marlene

SPECIAL AWARDS

COMMITMENT TO THE CRAFT AWARD
Shirley MacLaine

OSCAR MICHEAUX AWARD
James Earl Jones

COMMEDIA EXTRAORDINAIRE AWARD
Jason Segel

COMMITMENT TO CHICAGO AWARD
Dennis Farina

BIG SHOULDERS AWARD
Second City