Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2012.

Austin Film Critics Association awarded Zero Dark Thirty with Best Picture of the year award while they gave best director to Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master. Yet another back to back win for Looper in Original Screenplay category which makes me more happier than i was and its good for the movie itself. Daniel Day-Lewis didn't win Best Actor but instead they awarded Joaquin Phoenix for The Master. Argo won Adapted Screenplay, The Master won Cinematography and Cloud Atlas won Score. Very interesting.

Below is the full list of the winners:

Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables

Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Looper

Best Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, Argo

Best Cinematography: Mihai Malaimare, Jr., The Master

Best Score: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas

Best Foreign Language Film: Holy Motors

Best Documentary: The Imposter

Best Animated Film: Wreck-It Ralph

Best First Film: Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)

Best Austin Film: Bernie

Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild

Special Honorary Award: Matthew McConaughey, for his exceptional work in four films this year (Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and The Paperboy)

AFCA 2012 Top Ten Films:

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Argo
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Django Unchained
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Holy Motors
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild
8. The Master
9. Silver Linings Playbook
10. Looper