TV Article Critics' Choice Awards: 'Argo,' 'Silver Linings Playbook' big winners By Adam B. Vary Adam B. Vary Staff Editor EW's editorial guidelines Published on January 10, 2013 12:00PM EST At least the critics still love him! On the same day he was snubbed of an Oscar nomination, Ben Affleck took home the Best Director award at the Critics’ Choice Awards for Argo, which also won Best Picture. The rest of the honorees — held by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest critics group in the country — were made up of newly-minted Oscar nominees like Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor for Lincoln), Jessica Chastain (Best Actress for Zero Dark Thirty), Anne Hathaway (Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Supporting Actor for The Master). Thecast of Silver Linings Playbook won the Ensemble award, and Beasts of the Southern Wild’s Quvenzhané Wallis received Best Young Actor/Actress. Judd Apatow, the writer-producer-director of This is 40, won the somewhat tongue-in-cheek Louis XIII Genius Award for “an unprecedented demonstration of excellence in the cinematic arts.” Movie fans, meanwhile, were invited to vote for their favorite film franchise for this year’s awards, and they chose Twilight over the likes of Batman, Harry Potter, James Bond, and Star Wars. Check out the full list of winners below: BEST PICTURE Argo BEST ACTOR Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln BEST ACTRESS Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Silver Linings Playbook BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck – Argo BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Tony Kushner – Lincoln BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda BEST ART DIRECTION Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer; Katie Spencer/Set Decorator BEST EDITING Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor BEST COSTUME DESIGN Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran BEST MAKEUP Cloud Atlas BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Life of Pi BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Wreck-It Ralph BEST ACTION MOVIE Skyfall BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE Daniel Craig – Skyfall BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games BEST COMEDY Silver Linings Playbook BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE Looper BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Amour BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Searching for Sugarman BEST SONG “Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall BEST SCORE Lincoln – John Williams Follow @adambvary Read more: Critics’ Choice Awards: Full list of nominees Close