MUMBAI: The Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the Critics Choice Awards that had Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist score wins for best picture and best actor.

Meanwhile, George Clooney won for best actor in The Descendants, Viola Davis, for best actress in The Help, Christopher Plummer, as best supporting actor in Beginners and Octavia Spencer as best actress in The Help.

It is interesting to note that for two years running, the Critics Choice have correctly predicted every single acting winner at the Oscars. That goes to show the abovementioned four films have good reason to start getting some more speeches ready.

Other winners included Moneyball and Midnight in Paris in the screenplay categories and A Separation in the foreign language film category.