FILE - This undated file film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Jean-Louis Trintignant in a scene from the Austrian film, "Amour." On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for movies of 2012. The French old-age drama ?Amour? was chosen as the year's best film. The 1950s cult drama ?The Master? earned three awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and supporting actress for Amy Adams. ?The Master? also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. ?Amour? star Emmanuelle Riva shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence for the lost-soul romance ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling ?Beasts of the Southern Wild.? (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)
FILE - This undated file film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Jean-Louis Trintignant in a scene from the Austrian film, "Amour." On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for movies of 2012. The French old-age drama ?Amour? was chosen as the year's best film. The 1950s cult drama ?The Master? earned three awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and supporting actress for Amy Adams. ?The Master? also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. ?Amour? star Emmanuelle Riva shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence for the lost-soul romance ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling ?Beasts of the Southern Wild.? (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)
FILE - This undated file handout film image released by The Weinstein Company shows Joaquin Phoenix, left, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in a scene from "The Master." On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for movies of 2012. The French old-age drama ?Amour? was chosen as the year's best film. The 1950s cult drama ?The Master? earned three awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and supporting actress for Amy Adams. ?The Master? also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. ?Amour? star Emmanuelle Riva shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence for the lost-soul romance ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling ?Beasts of the Southern Wild.? (AP Photo/The Weinstein Company, File)
FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, actress Quvenzhan? Wallis and actor Dwight Henry, first time actors who play the starring roles in the movie "Beasts Of The Southern Wild," speak during an interview in New Orleans, Monday, June 25, 2012. On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for movies of 2012. The French old-age drama ?Amour? was chosen as the year's best film. The 1950s cult drama ?The Master? earned three awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and supporting actress for Amy Adams. ?The Master? also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. ?Amour? star Emmanuelle Riva shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence for the lost-soul romance ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling ?Beasts of the Southern Wild.? (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2012 file photo, director Paul Thomas Anderson, left, poses with actress Amy Adams, center, and producer JoAnne Seller at a photo call before a press conference for their new movie "The Master" at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. On Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for movies of 2012. The French old-age drama ?Amour? was chosen as the year's best film. The 1950s cult drama ?The Master? earned three awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix and supporting actress for Amy Adams. ?The Master? also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. ?Amour? star Emmanuelle Riva shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence for the lost-soul romance ?Silver Linings Playbook.? Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling ?Beasts of the Southern Wild.? (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The French-language drama "Amour" was chosen as the year's best film Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, whose prizes are among a flurry of year-end honors that help sort out the Academy Awards race.
Among the group's other honors, the 1950s cult drama "The Master" earned four awards: best director for Paul Thomas Anderson, best actor for Joaquin Phoenix, supporting actress for Amy Adams and production design for David Crank and Jack Fisk.
"The Master" also was chosen as best-picture runner-up. The film stars Phoenix as a volatile World War II veteran who comes under the sway of a charismatic cult leader. Adams co-stars as the cult leader's tough-minded wife.
"Amour" star Emmanuelle Riva, who plays an elderly, ailing woman being cared for by her husband, shared the best-actress honor in a tie with Jennifer Lawrence of the lost-soul romance "Silver Linings Playbook."
Newcomer Dwight Henry was chosen as supporting actor for the low-budget critical darling "Beasts of the Southern Wild." The film's writer-director, Benh Zeitlin, received the group's New Generation Award and shared the prize for best music score with composing partner Dan Romer.
Directed by Michael Haneke, "Amour" is Austria's entry for the foreign-language Oscar and won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The choice by the Los Angeles critics marked a move away from bigger Hollywood productions that the group favored the last two years when it named George Clooney's "The Descendants" as best film of 2011 and David Fincher's "The Social Network" as tops for 2010.
The Los Angeles critics' picks came days after both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review chose Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden manhunt docudrama "Zero Dark Thirty" as the best film of the year.
Bigelow, who dominated the 2009 Los Angeles critics awards with best-picture and director wins for "The Hurt Locker," was chosen this time as directing runner-up for "Zero Dark Thirty."
"The Hurt Locker" went on to a best-picture win at the Oscars and made Bigelow the first woman ever to earn the best-director Oscar. Bigelow is considered a potential Oscar favorite again this time around with "Zero Dark Thirty."
Shut out at the LA critics honors was Steven Spielberg's Civil War epic "Lincoln."
Runners-up for the acting honors: Denis Levant of "Holy Motors," best actor; Christoph Waltz of "Django Unchained," supporting actor; and Anne Hathaway of "Les Miserables" and "The Dark Knight Rises," supporting actress. The French film "Holy Motors" also was named best foreign-language film, with Israel's "Footnote" named runner-up.
Next up on Hollywood's awards calendar are the Screen Actors Guild nominations Wednesday and Golden Globe nominations Thursday. Oscar nominations follow on Jan. 10.
The Los Angeles group named Tim Burton's dead-dog tale "Frankenweenie" best animated film. Don Hertzfeldt's "It's Such a Beautiful Day" was runner-up.
The documentary prize went to "The Gatekeepers," director Dror Moreh's exploration of intelligence operations by Israel's Shin Bet security agency. The runner-up was "Searching for Sugar Man," Malik Bendjelloul's portrait of obscure 1970s singer-songwriter Rodriguez.
Chris Terrio earned the screenplay honor for Ben Affleck's Iran hostage-crisis thriller "Argo." David O. Russell was the screenplay runner-up for "Silver Linings Playbook."
The critics group gave its first-ever prize for film editing to Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg for "Zero Dark Thirty." Goldenberg also was the editing runner-up for "Argo."
Among other honors Sunday:
? Music score runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, "The Master."
? Cinematography: Roger Deakins, "Skyfall." Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare Jr., "The Master."
? Production design runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, "Moonrise Kingdom."
? Independent experimental film: "Leviathan."
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