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"The Artist," "Descendants" lead critics awards

"The Artist," "Descendants" lead critics awards

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Artist," a black-and-white wordless film about Hollywood, play "The Descendants," Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese and Terrence Malick all won large on Sunday among U.S. film critics and attention groups that doled out honors for a year's best movies.

The Boston Society of Film Critics, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association and a New York Film Critics Online all announced their choices for a best films and performances of 2011, kicking off a pivotal week in Hollywood with both a Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guilds announcing nominations.

The Los Angeles-based film humanities and educational organisation The American Film Institute also released a list of a year's 10 best films on Sunday.

In Boston, critics chose "The Artist," set opposite a backdrop of Hollywood relocating from wordless films to talkies, as a year's best film, apropos a latest tip esteem for a wordless film that has generated hum in 2011 during festivals.

The film unsuccessful to make AFI's tip 10, though usually since it was not an American-made movie. The organisation did bring "The Artist" and a "Harry Potter" array for AFI Special Awards.

The AFI tip 10 enclosed George Clooney-starring "The Descendants," Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" and in a raunchy twist, womanlike comedy "Bridesmaids."

The Boston critics named Pitt best actor for his description of a numbers-crunching ball male in "Moneyball" and Michelle Williams best singer for her spin in "My Week With Marilyn" personification shade summons Marilyn Monroe.

Pitt already won a New York Film Critics prize, while Williams' much-lauded opening scored one of a initial vital wins on Sunday.

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This entrance week, a Screen Actors Guild names nominees for best performances on Dec 14, and one day after a Hollywood Foreign Press Association likewise unveils a picks to strive for awards such as best film dramas and comedies.

Early nominations and honors assistance slight a list of movies, stars and filmmakers who will contest for Oscars, a film industry's tip awards to be given out Feb 26 in Hollywood, where on Sunday L.A. critics' gave tip behaving honors to Michael Fassbender and Korea's Yun Jung-hee.

Fassbender claimed his best actor win for a organisation of 4 cinema from "Shame," that featured his full-frontal depiction of sex-addiction," to psychotherapy play "A Dangerous Method," duration square "Jane Eyre" and action-packed "X-Men: First Class." Yun Jung-hee took a esteem for best singer her opening in a Korean film "Poetry."

Scorsese was named best executive by a Boston critics for a duration 3D film "Hugo," about a child vital in a Paris sight station, while a L.A. organisation chose Terrence Malick for his visionary play "The Tree of Life."

The L.A. organisation sloping Christopher Plummer and Jessica Chastain with ancillary actor and singer wins, respectively, for his purpose in happy comedy "Beginners" and hers in 6 cinema that enclosed southern polite rights play "The Help" and indie heavenly "Take Shelter."

The Boston critics' ancillary behaving honorees were Albert Brooks as a tiny time hood in "Drive" and Melissa McCarthy for "Bridesmaids." The expel of "Carnage" won a garb award.

The New York Online critics also chose "The Artist" as a year's best film, and gave a tip behaving awards to Meryl Streep as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady" and Michael Shannon for "Take Shelter."

Michel Hazanavicius was named best executive for "The Artist" while "Bridesmaids" won a garb award.

Among other films on AFI's tip 10 list were "J. Edgar," "The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo," "The Help," "Moneyball" and "The Tree of Life."

(Reporting and Writing by Chris Michaud; modifying by Bob Tourtellotte and Jill Serjeant)


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