Central Ohio Film Critics Praise 'Moonrise Kingdom'

The Central Ohio Film Critics Association has announced their awards for 2012 with the results having them going for Wes Anderson's latest quirky outing in a big way, giving the film its first big win of the season. "Moonrise Kingdom" took a total of five awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Ensemble, and Best Score. Not much else to note here other than "The Cabin in the Woods" making the top ten list above some of the top contenders for this year's Oscars.

Check out a complete list of winners below:

Best Film
1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Argo
3. Django Unchained
4. Zero Dark Thirty
5. The Cabin in the Woods
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Lincoln
8. Looper
9. The Master
10. Les Misérables

Best Director
• Wes Anderson - (Moonrise Kingdom)
Runner-Up: Ben Affleck - (Argo)

Best Actor
• Daniel Day-Lewis - (Lincoln)
Runner-Up: John Hawkes - (The Sessions)

Best Actress
• Jennifer Lawrence - (Silver Linings Playbook)
Runner-Up: Naomi Watts - (The Impossible)

Best Supporting Actor
• Christoph Waltz - (Django Unchained)
Runner-Up: Leonardo DiCaprio - (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
• Anne Hathaway - (Les Misérables)
Runner-Up (tie): Helen Hunt - (The Sessions)
Runner-Up (tie): Ann Dowd - (Compliance)

Best Ensemble
• Moonrise Kingdom
Runner-Up: Lincoln

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)
• Matthew McConaughey - (Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and The Paperboy)
Runner-Up: Anne Hathaway - (The Dark Knight Rises and Les Misérables)

Breakthrough Film Artist
• Bart Layton - (The Imposter) - (for directing)
Runner-Up: Quvenzhané Wallis - (Beasts of the Southern Wild) - (for acting)

Best Cinematography
• Roger Deakins - (Skyfall)
Runner-Up: Claudio Miranda - (Life of Pi)

Best Adapted Screenplay
• Tony Kushner - (Lincoln)
Runner-Up: Chris Terrio - (Argo)

Best Original Screenplay
• Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola - (Moonrise Kingdom)
Runner-Up: Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon - (The Cabin in the Woods)

Best Score
• Alexandre Desplat - (Moonrise Kingdom)
Runner-Up: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer - (Cloud Atlas)

Best Documentary
• How to Survive a Plague
Runner-Up: The Imposter

Best Foreign Language Film
• The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vélo)
Runner-Up: Headhunters (Hodejegerne)

Best Animated Film
• ParaNorman
Runner-Up: Wreck-It Ralph

Best Overlooked Film
• Killer Joe
Runner-Up: Safety Not Guaranteed

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Jeff Beck was raised in Springfield, Virginia where he graduated from West Springfield High School. He also attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he graduated "cum laude" with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He is a member of the Allied Richmond Press and currently writes movie reviews...

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