Hugo, Drive, and Take Shelter gain traction with the Austin Film Critics

Today the Austin Film Critics named Hugo their Best Picture. However that wasn't the biggest news as Drive took home a screenplay, Supporting Actor and Directing award. In addition Take Shelter went home with both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress award. The Austin film critics also unveiled an unusual top ten list leaving out heavy favorites The Descendants, The Tree of Life, Moneyball, and The Help.  

Top 10 Films

1. Hugo
2. Drive
3. Take Shelter
4. Midnight in Paris
5. Attack the Block 
6. The Artist 
7. Martha Marcy May Marlene 
8. I Saw the Devil 
9. 13 Assassins 
10. Melancholia

Best FilmHugo

Best Director
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive

Best ActorMichael Shannon, Take Shelter

Best Actress
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive

Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter

Best Original Screenplay
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen

Best Adapted Screenplay
Drive, Hossein Amini

Best Cinematography
The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Original Score
Attack the Block, Steven Price

Best Foreign Language FilmI Saw the Devil, South Korea (Jee-woon Kim)

Best DocumentarySenna (Asif Kapadia)

Best Animated Feature
Rango (Gore Verbinski)