Monday, December 17, 2012
African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2012 – winners
The African-American Film Critics' Association has revealed its winners for their year-end awards. As is usual, many of the winners are African-American or from African-American friendly movies.
However, the winner of the top award Best Picture was Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, the drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. It was the film's only award.
The biggest haul went to African-American filmmaker Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere, taking four prizes. It won for Best Actress, Screenplay, Independent Film and Music. It was #4 on their Top 10 list.
Ben Affleck was named Best Director for Argo. Denzel Washington took Best Actor for Flight, while Best Supporting Actor and Actress went to Nate Parker for Arbitrage and Sally Field for Lincoln respectively.
The African-American Film Critics' Association is one of two critics' groups for black critics. The other is the Black Film Critics Circle, a splinter group which formed after a scandal involving the movie Precious in 2009.
Winners of the African-American Film Critics Association Awards 2012
Best Picture
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actor
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Actress
Emayatzy Corinealdi, Middle of Nowhere
Best Supporting Actor
Nate Parker, Arbitrage
Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field, Lincoln
Best Screenplay
Ava DuVernay, Middle of Nowhere
Best Foreign Language Film
The Intouchables
Best Documentary (TIE)
The House I Live In and Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution
Best Animated Feature
Rise of the Guardians
Best Independent Film
Middle of Nowhere
Best Breakthrough Performer
Quvenzhanè Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Music
Kathryn Bostic and Morgan Rhodes, Middle of Nowhere
Special Achievement Award
Cicely Tyson and Billy Dee Williams
TOP 10 FILMS OF 2012
1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Argo
3. Lincoln
4. Middle of Nowhere
5. Life of Pi
6. Les MisÈrables
7. Django Unchained
8. Beasts of the Southern Wild
9. Moonrise Kingdom
10. Think Like a Man
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