^ Winner ^
Best Picture
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
Hugo
^ The Tree of Life ^
Best Animated Feature
The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Kung Fu Panda 2
^ Rango ^
Winnie the Pooh
Best Foreign Language Film
13 Assassins
Certified Copy
^ A Separation ^
The Skin I Live In
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best Documentary
^ Cave of Forgotten Dreams ^
The Interrupters
Into the Abyss
Project Nim
Tabloid
Best Director
Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
^ Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life ^
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Lars von Trier – Melancholia
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Best Actor
George Clooney – The Descendants
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
^ Michael Fassbender – Shame ^
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
Best Actress
Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
^ Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin ^
Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks – Drive
John Hawkes – Martha Marcy May Marlene
Nick Nolte – Warrior
Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
^ Christopher Plummer – Beginners ^
Best Supporting Actress
^ Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life ^
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
Carey Mulligan – Shame
Shailene Woodley – The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay
Martha Marcy May Marlene – Sean Durkin
^ Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen ^
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick
Win Win – Tom McCarthy
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants – Nat Faxon, Jim Rash & Alexander Payne
Drive – Hossein Amini
Moneyball – Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin
^ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan ^
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lynne Ramsay & Rory Stewart Kinnear
Best Editing
Drive – Matthew Newman
Martha Marcy May Marlene – Zachary Stuart-Pontier
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Dino Jonsäter
^ The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber & Mark Yoshikawa ^
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Joe Bini
Best Cinematography
The Artist – Guillaume Schiffman
Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel
Hugo – Robert Richardson
Melancholia – Manuel Alberto Claro
^ The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki ^
Special Awards
^ To Jessica Chastain, the breakout performer of the year ^
^ To Martin Scorsese in honor of his work and dedication to the pursuit of film preservation ^
