By Steve Crum
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master was chosen Best Picture of 2012 at yesterday’s (Dec. 16) KCFCC awards voting. In fact, the film garnered a trifecta, with Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Best Supporting Actor as well as Anderson’s Original Screenplay.
Ang Li received Best Director for Life of Pi, which prompted my groaner-quip, “Pi r won.” I was among 32 vote-casting film critics, representing KC mass media outlets, who are members of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle, the oldest major city film critic organization in the nation.
The complete slate of winners at the 46th Annual Loutzenhiser Awards, named for the late founder of the KCFFC, Dr. James Loutzenhiser:
BEST PICTURE…The Master
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR…Ang Li [Life of Pi]
BEST ACTRESS…Jennifer Lawrence [Silver Linings Playbook]
BEST ACTOR…Daniel Day-Lewis [Lincoln]
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS…Anne Hathaway [Les Miserables]
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR…Philip Seymour Hoffman [The Master]
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY…Chris Terrio [Argo]
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY…Paul Thomas Anderson [The Master]
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM…Amour [Austria/France]
VINCE KEOHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY OR HORROR FILM…The Cabin in the Woods
BEST ANIMATED FILM…Frankenweenie
BEST DOCUMENTARY…The Imposter
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