Critics Choice Awards: 'The Artist' Scores Best Picture (Complete Winners List)

Critics Choice Awards: 'The Artist' Scores Best Picture (Complete Winners List)."The Artist" won the honors for best film, George Clooney and Viola Davis picked up Best Actor and Actress awards and "aid" has won three Best Actors Award as the 2012 Film Critics' choices have been broadcast Live VH1's Hollywood Palladium.

Comedians Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel hosted the festivities, where the movie on film - "The Artist" - won top honors, and "help" was the CCMA for best actress, best supporting actress ( Octavia Spencer) and Best Ensemble Acting. .

Leonardo DiCaprio and Olivia Harrison (George Harrison's widow) presented the Music + Film Award to Martin Scorsese. The presentation also included a performance by Bob Dylan.

Sean Penn also received the Joel Siegel Award for his humanitarian work. The award was presented to Penn - who appeared live via satellite - by George Clooney.

The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are voted by the Film Critics Association mailing, a group of critics of television, radio and Internet to over 250. It is most important organization of the nation's film critics.

The CCMA generally correspond to the Oscars pretty well; with voters agree with the Academy for four of the last five winners for Best Picture. The only case in which they disagreed last year, when "The Social Network" won the CCMA and "The King's Speech" the Oscar.

Last year all four acting winners - Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo - won Academy Awards. Overall, 12 reviews last year, the winner’s choice (of 20 overlapping categories) won the Oscars, the year before, 13 did.

2012 Critics' Choice Movie Awards winners:

Best supporting actor: Christopher Plummer - "Beginners"

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer - "Help"

Best Picture: "The Artist"

Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"

Best Actor: George Clooney - "The Descendants"

Best Actress: Viola Davis - "Help"

Best Young Actress Actor / Thomas Horn - "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Best Acting Ensemble: The Cast of "The Help"

Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen - "Midnight in Paris"

Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian and Stan Chervin - "Moneyball"

Best Cinematography: (tie) "War Horse" and "The Tree of Life"

Best Animation: "Rango"

Best action film: "Drive"

Best Comedy: "ladies"

Best Foreign Film: "Separation"

Best Documentary Feature: "George Harrison: Living in the material world"

Best Song: "Life is a happy song" from "The Muppets"

Art Direction: "Hugo"

Best Editing: "The girl with the dragon tattoo"

Best Costume Design: "The Artist"

Best Makeup: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"

Best Visual Effects: "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Best Sound: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"

Best Score: "The Artist"

Joel Siegel Award: Sean Penn

Music Critics' Choice Award + Film: Martin Scorsese

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