Broadcast Film Critics Name 'Argo' Best Picture of 2012

Earlier tonight, The Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the winners of their annual awards for 2012, naming Ben Affleck's "Argo" as the best film of the year. The film also received Best Director for Affleck.

The awards were very spread out with just about every top contender receiving at least one award. There weren't any particular surprises with the top categories, but there were a number of questionable choices elsewhere, though you'd mostly have to look in their minor categories to find them. The only really major surprise in a semi-major category came in Best Acting Ensemble where "Silver Linings Playbook" somehow managed to beat out the superior casts of "Les Misérables" and "Lincoln." Hopefully when it's left to the Screen Actors Guild it will be much different.

Check out a full list of winners below:

Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Best Acting Ensemble: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
Best Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Documentary: Searching for Sugarman
Best Comedy Movie: Silver Linings Playbook
Best Comedy Actor: Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Comedy Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Sci-fi/Horror Film: Looper
Best Action Film: Skyfall
Best Action Actor: Daniel Craig, Skyfall
Best Action Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Best Song: Skyfall
Best Score: Lincoln
Best Cinematography: Life of Pi
Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Best Art Direction: Anna Karenina
Best Costume Design: Anna Karenina
Best Makeup: Cloud Atlas
Best Young Actor/Actress: Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild