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The 37th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), 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 X-Men: First Class
  • Runner-up: Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
• Best Actress:
  • Yoon Jeong-hee – Poetry (Shi)
  • 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 (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
  • 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 (Nanjing! Nanjing!)
• 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 (Nanjing! Nanjing!) • China
  • Runner-up: A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) • 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

References

1. Knegt, Peter (11 December 2011). "'The Descendants' Takes Top Prize at LA Critics Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

External links

• 37th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 2011 film awards
• 2011 in American cinema
• 2011 in Los Angeles
• December 2011 events in the United States