Best Film, Best Director Awards go to Martin Scorsese's Hugo
The John Logan-adapted family adventure based on the Brian Selznick book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," was honored with top honors, while George Clooney snagged Best Actor for his work in Fox Searchlight Pictures' drama The Descendants.
Actress Award-wise, Tilda Swinton impressed most with her work in We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Shailene Woodley won Best Supporting Actress for her work in Alexander Payne's Descendants.
Michael Fassbender received the Spotlight Award for his contribution to Shame, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, and X-Men: First Class. while Felicity Jones was honored with the Breakthrough Performance prize for Paramount's Like Crazy. Top animated film went to Gore Verbinski-directed Rango, starring Johnny Depp.
See below for the complete list of winners (Courtesy of Variety):
Best Film: Hugo
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Actor: George Clooney, "The Descendants"
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble: The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime
NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise - A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film
Top Films:
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Tree of Life
War Horse
Top 5 Foreign Language Films:
13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank
Top 5 Documentaries:
Born to be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
Top 10 Independent Films:
50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Win Win