Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture - The Descendants
                Runner Up - The Tree of Life
Best Foreign Language Film - City of Life and Death
               Runner Up - A Separation
Best Animated Feature - Rango
                Runner Up - The Adventures of Tintin
Best Director - Terrence Malick "The Tree of Life"
               Runner Up - Martin Scorsese "Hugo"
Best Actor - Michael Fassbender "Shame", "X-Men First Class", "Jane Eyre", and "A Dangerous Method"
              Runner Up - Michael Shannon "Take Shelter"
Best Actress - Yun Jung-hee, "Poetry."
              Runner Up - Kirsten Dunst "Melancholia"
Best Independent/Experimental - Spark of Being
Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film - Cave of Forgotten Dreams
              Runner Up - The Arbor
Best Screenplay - Asghar Farhadi, "A Separation"
              Runner Up - Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash "The Descendants"
Best Supporting Actor - Christopher Plummer "Beginners"
              Runner Up - Patton Oswalt "Young Adult" 
Best Supporting Actress - Jessica Chastain "The Help", "The Tree of Life", "Coriolanus", "The Debt", "Take Shelter", "Texas Killing Field" (Cop Outs, pick one, but glad she won nonetheless)
              Runner Up - Janet McTeer "Albert Nobbs"
Best Cinematography - Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Tree of Life."
              Runner Up -  Cao Yu, "City of Life and Death."
Best Productions Design - Dante Ferretti "Hugo"
              Runner Up -  Maria Djurkovic, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
Best Musical Score - My Chemical Brothers "Hanna"
              Runner Up - Cliff Martinez "Drive"
New Generation Award - The Team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene