17th Critics' Choice Awards

The Artist

• The Descendants
• Drive
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• The Help
• Hugo
• Midnight in Paris
• Moneyball
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

• Stephen Daldry – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• Alexander Payne – The Descendants
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
• Martin Scorsese – Hugo
• Steven Spielberg – War Horse

George Clooney – The Descendants as Matt King

• Leonardo DiCaprio – J. Edgar as J. Edgar Hoover
• Jean Dujardin – The Artist as George Valentin
• Michael Fassbender – Shame as Brandon Sullivan
• Ryan Gosling – Drive as Driver
• Brad Pitt – Moneyball as Billy Beane

Viola Davis – The Help as Aibileen Clark

• Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene as Martha/Marcy May/Marlene Lewis
• Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady as Margaret Thatcher
• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin as Eva Khatchadourian
• Charlize Theron – Young Adult as Mavis Gary
• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe

Christopher Plummer – Beginners as Hal Fields

• Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn as Laurence Olivier
• Albert Brooks – Drive as Bernie Rose
• Nick Nolte – Warrior as Paddy Conlon
• Patton Oswalt – Young Adult as Matt Freehauf
• Andy Serkis – Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar

Octavia Spencer – The Help as Minny Jackson

• Bérénice Bejo – The Artist as Peppy Miller
• Jessica Chastain – The Help as Celia Rae Foote
• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids as Megan Price
• Carey Mulligan – Shame as Sissy Sullivan
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants as Alex King

Thomas Horn – Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Oskar Schell

• Asa Butterfield – Hugo as Hugo Cabret
• Elle Fanning – Super 8 as Alice Dainard
• Ezra Miller – We Need to Talk About Kevin as Kevin Khatchadourian
• Saoirse Ronan – Hanna as Hanna
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants as Alex King

The Help

• The Artist
• Bridesmaids
• The Descendants
• The Ides of March

Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen

• 50/50 – Will Reiser
• The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
• Win Win – Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni
• Young Adult – Diablo Cody

Moneyball – Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin, and Steven Zaillian

• The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Eric Roth
• The Help – Tate Taylor
• Hugo – John Logan

Rango

• The Adventures of Tintin
• Arthur Christmas
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Puss in Boots

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

• Buck
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Page One: Inside the New York Times
• Project Nim
• Undefeated

Drive

• Fast Five
• Hanna
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Super 8

Bridesmaids

• Crazy, Stupid, Love
• Horrible Bosses
• Midnight in Paris
• The Muppets

A Separation • Iran

• In Darkness • Poland
• Le Havre • Finland
• The Skin I Live In • Spain
• Where Do We Go Now? • Lebanon

Hugo – Dante Ferretti (Production Design) / Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)

• The Artist – Laurence Bennett (Production Design) / Robert Gould (Set Decoration)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Stuart Craig (Production Design) / Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
• The Tree of Life – Jack Fisk (Production Design) / Jeanette Scott (Set Decoration)
• War Horse – Rick Carter (Production Design) / Lee Sandales (Set Decoration)

The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki (TIE)
War Horse – Janusz Kamiński (TIE)

• The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
• Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel
• Hugo – Robert Richardson

The Artist – Mark Bridges

• The Help – Sharen Davis
• Hugo – Sandy Powell
• Jane Eyre – Michael O'Connor
• My Week with Marilyn – Jill Taylor

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

• The Artist – Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
• Drive – Matthew Newman
• Hugo – Thelma Schoonmaker
• War Horse – Michael Kahn

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

• Albert Nobbs
• The Iron Lady
• J. Edgar
• My Week with Marilyn

The Artist – Ludovic Bource

• Drive – Cliff Martinez
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Hugo – Howard Shore
• War Horse – John Williams

"Life's a Happy Song" – The Muppets

• "Hello Hello" – Gnomeo & Juliet
• "The Living Proof" – The Help
• "Man or Muppet" – The Muppets
• "Pictures in My Head" – The Muppets

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

• Hugo
• Super 8
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
• Hugo
• Super 8
• The Tree of Life