The Washington DC Area Film Critics Awards

The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

Key awards:

Best picture: The Artist. The NY Critics made the same choice.

Best director: Scorsese for Hugo. The NY critics picked Michel Hazanavicius, director of The Artist.

Best actor: Clooney for The Descendants. The NY critics went with Brad Pitt in Moneyball.

Best actress: Michelle Williams for her Marilyn Monroe impersonation. The NY Critics picked Meryl Streep for her Margaret Thatcher impersonation.

Best foreign language: The Skin I Live In (dir: Almodovar). The NY Film Critics picked A Separation, the Iranian film which is #1 of the year at both Rotten Tomatoes (100%) and IMDb (8.6). The Skin I Live In has good, not great scores (79%, 7.8), but has a famous director, whatever that means.