The Edge of the Frame

As if yesterday wasn’t quite ridiculously chaotic enough, a handful of cities decided to pile on. Along with these choices, Detroit and Houston also decided to issue their lists of nominees. At this point in time, one has to ask if it’s really necessary for cities such as Detroit or Houston to actually issue nominees. Therefore, I will postpone posting about their decisions until they actually make them.

In the meantime, here are the winners of the always interesting San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the particularly unusual and surprisingly unique decisions of the Indiana Film Critics Association. “Win Win” was certainly the unsung favorite of the hoosier state (despite “The Artist” taking the top prizes). Meanwhile, San Francisco chose to honor “The Tree of Life,” while also being the first critics group to finally bestow some love on “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.”

Here’s the winners:

SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS CIRCLE:

BEST PICTURE: “The Tree of Life”

BEST DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick – “The Tree of Life”

BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman – “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

BEST ACTRESS: Tilda Swinton – “We Need to Talk About Kevin”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Albert Brooks – “Drive”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Vanessa Redgrave – “Coriolanus”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: “Margin Call”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: “The Tree of Life”

BEST ANIMATED FILM: “Rango”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “Certified Copy”

BEST DOCUMENTARY: “Tabloid”

SPECIAL CITATION: “The Mill and the Cross”

INDIANA  FILM JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION:

BEST FILM: “The Artist”

runner-up: “The Descendants”

BEST DIRECTOR: Michel Hazanavicius – “The Artist”
runner-up: “Terrence Malick – “The Tree of Life”

BEST ACTOR: Paul Giamatti – “Win Win”
runner-up: Ralph Fiennes – “Coriolanus”

BEST ACTRESS: Elizabeth Olsen – “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
runner-up: Tilda Swinton – “We Need to Talk About Kevin”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Christopher Plummer – “Beginners”
runner-up: Albert Brooks – “Drive”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Viola Davis – “The Help”
runner-up: Amy Ryan – “Win Win”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: “The Descendants”
runner-up: “Moneyball”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: “Win Win”
runner-up: “Margin Call”

BEST MUSICAL SCORE: “The Artist”
runner-up: “Hugo”

BEST ANIMATED FILM: “Rango”
runner-up: “Winnie the Pooh”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: “The Skin I Live In”
runner-up: “13 Assassins”

BEST DOCUMENTARY: “Project Nim”
runner-up: “Into the Abyss”

ORIGINAL VISION AWARD: “The Tree of Life”
runner-up: “The Artist”

HOOSIER AWARD: Lindsay Goffman, producer – “Dumbstruck”