Song

“Skyfall” - Skyfall

“Suddenly” - Les Miserables

“Song of the Lonely Mountain” - The Hobbit

“Lean Me Right” - Brave

“Touch the Sky” - Brave

Foreign Language

Amour

The Intouchables

Holy Motors

A Royal Affair

Rust & Bone

Animated

ParaNorman

Wreck It Ralph

Rise of the Guardians

Frankenweenie

Brave

Worst Film

That’s My Boy

Battleship

Anna Karenina

Prometheus

The Three Stooges

Best Picture

Argo

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Cloud Atlas

Django Unchained

Lincoln

Les Miserables

The Master

Moonrise Kingdom

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Director

Ben Affleck - Argo

Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty

Tom Hooper - Les Miserables

Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained

Actor

Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln

John Hawkes - The Sessions

Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Denzel Washington - Flight

Actress

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty

Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin - Argo

Javier Bardem - Skyfall

Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master

Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Matthew McConaughey - Magic Mike

Supporting Actress

Amy Adams - The Master

Judi Dench - Skyfall

Sally Field - Lincoln

Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables

Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Screenplay

Argo

Lincoln

Looper

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty

Cinematography

Les Miserables

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Skyfall

Score

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Cloud Atlas

Hitchcock

Life of Pi

Lincoln

The Master

Skyfall

The 6th annual Houston Film Critics Society awards have been announced and Argo won the top two prizes taking director and picture. The awards were dispersed to a variety of films with Lincoln taking three trophies including actor for Daniel Day Lewis and supporting actor Tommy Lee Jones. Jones said he couldn’t be more proud than to receive an award from the Houston critics.

However it was Tony Kushner’s acceptance speech that brought laughter due to it’s length and then tears as he talked about his father who lived in Houston and read every draft over the past decade but never lived to see the final film. “I know that if my dad were here today he would have made that trip over I-10 to be there and accept the award.”

Bernie won the Texas Independent Film Award, a special award the HFCS give to the best indie film made in the state. Robert Duvall received the lifetime achievement award.

President Joshua Starnes opened the show reminding the audience and viewers that the Houston critics are the only critics group to actually hold a live award show.