The Artist Tops The Critics Choice Award Winners

With all the small critics group awards handed out, it's finally time for the biggest, glitziest critic's prizes of them all. The Critics Choice Awards are voted on by a single group, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, but being televised on TV and having a snappy name, they somehow wind up standing for the opinions of all critics, everywhere. And given how well the winners of tonight's awards ceremony lined up with the other critic group prizes, I guess that makes perfect sense. Here's the list of all the Critics Choice Award winners:


As should well be expected by now, The Artist swept yet another group of critic's awards, though neither of its actors managed to take home a prize-- Jean Dujardin was bested by George Clooney for Best Actor, while Berenice Bejo was bested by The Help's Octavia Spencer. It's interesting that The Artist appears to be the runaway favorite for Best Picture, but neither of its actors-- both very good in their roles-- seem capable of taking home their respective prizes.

If you're watching The Golden Globes on Sunday, keep an eye to see if any of the prize winners match up-- that might be where you see a real Oscar frontrunner start to emerge. In the meantime, just take this as yet more proof that critics really, really love The Artist-- and that they somehow voted for Thomas Horn in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as Best Young Actor, despite the fact that nobody even seems to have seen that movie. Still not sure how that happened.