UPDATE: CFCA Award Winners for 2011
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
FYI, here’s our FF2 haiku for The Tree of Life.
Posted 12/18/11: Receiving my final ballot from the Chicago Film Critics Association this year was heartbreaking… I will post the final results as soon as they are announced, but almost nothing on the CFCA list of finalists reflects input from me (or, I would guess, most of the other women–few as they are–who are actually in this group).
If you want a case in point of the kind of thing that happens when male voters outnumber female voters by approximately 4 to 1, just consider these facts posted below 🙁
NO WOMEN IN THE BEST DIRECTOR CATEGORY
- Michel Hazanavicius: The Artist
- Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life
- Alexander Payne: The Descendants
- Nicolas Winding Refn: Drive
- Martin Scorsese: Hugo
NO WOMEN IN THE BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CATEGORY
- The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius
- Martha Marcy May Marlene: Sean Durkin
- Midnight In Paris: Woody Allen
- A Separation: Asghar Farhadi
- The Tree of Life: Terrence Malick
ONLY ONE WOMAN IN THE BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY CATEGORY (but nominated for a film that has almost no female characters in it)
- The Descendants: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
- Drive: Hossein Amini
- Hugo: John Logan
- Moneyball: Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
NO WOMEN IN THE MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER CATEGORY
- J.C. Chandor: Margin Call
- Simon Curtis: My Week With Marilyn
- Drake Doremus: Like Crazy
- Sean Durkin: Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Tate Taylor (-) The Help
BABE-HEAVY LIST IN THE BEST ACTRESS CATEGORY (with no mention of Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Tilda Swinton & other women over 35 who have appeared in some combination on almost every other list posted to date)
- Kirsten Dunst: Melancholia
- Elizabeth Olsen: Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Anna Paquin: Margaret
- Meryl Streep: The Iron Lady
- Michelle Williams: My Week With Marilyn
