2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
The 37th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2011.Winners
- Best Picture:
- *The Descendants
- *Runner-up: The Tree of Life
- Best Director:
- *Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
- *Runner-up: Martin Scorsese – Hugo
- Best Actor:
- *Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, and '
- *Runner-up: Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
- Best Actress:
- *Yoon Jeong-hee – Poetry
- *Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
- Best Supporting Actor:
- *Christopher Plummer – Beginners
- *Runner-up: Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
- Best Supporting Actress:
- *Jessica Chastain – Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, and The Tree of Life
- *Runner-up: Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
- Best Screenplay:
- *Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
- *Runner-up: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Best Cinematography:
- *Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life
- *Runner-up: Cao Yu – City of Life and Death
- Best Production Design:
- *Dante Ferretti – Hugo
- *Runner-up: Maria Djurkovic – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Best Music Score:
- *The Chemical Brothers – Hanna
- *Runner-up: Cliff Martinez – Drive
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- *City of Life and Death • China
- *Runner-up: A Separation • Iran
- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- *Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- *Runner-up: The Arbor
- Best Animation:
- *Rango
- *Runner-up: The Adventures of Tintin
- New Generation Award:
- *Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, and Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Career Achievement Award:
- *Doris Day
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:'
- *Bill Morrison – Spark of Being''