After being named the New York Film Critics Online choice for best film of 2011, the silent movie The Artist is the only film to take home more than one Best Picture title from the various awards given out thus far this awards season. The NYFCO also named The Artist director Michael Hazanavicius Best Director.
Michael Shannon won Best Actor for Take Shelter and Meryl Streep scored Best Actress for The Iron Lady.
The complete list of NYFCO Awards winners follows the jump.
Best Picture: The Artist
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Best Screenplay: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Best Ensemble Cast: Bridesmaids
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Best Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin
Breakthrough Performer: Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanus
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezski, The Tree of Life
Best Use of Music: Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Best Debut Director: Joe Cornish, Attack the Block