page_title: 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Fassbender at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: The 37th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2011.
context_section_description: Best Picture:
  The Descendants
  Runner-up: The Tree of Life
  Best Director:
  Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
  Runner-up: Martin Scorsese – Hugo
  Best Actor:
  Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, and X-Men: First Class
  Runner-up: Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
  Best Actress:
  Yoon Jeong-hee – Poetry (Shi)
  Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
  Best Supporting Actor:
  Christopher Plummer – Beginners
  Runner-up: Patton Oswalt – Young Adult
  Best Supporting Actress:
  Jessica Chastain – Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, and The Tree of Life
  Runner-up: Janet McTeer – Albert Nobbs
  Best Screenplay:
  Asghar Farhadi – A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
  Runner-up: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Alexander Payne – The Descendants
  Best Cinematography:
  Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life
  Runner-up: Cao Yu – City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!)
  Best Production Design:
  Dante Ferretti – Hugo
  Runner-up: Maria Djurkovic – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Best Music Score:
  The Chemical Brothers – Hanna
  Runner-up: Cliff Martinez – Drive
  Best Foreign Language Film:
  City of Life and Death (Nanjing! Nanjing!) • China
  Runner-up: A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) • Iran
  Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Runner-up: The Arbor
  Best Animation:
  Rango
  Runner-up: The Adventures of Tintin
  New Generation Award:
  Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, and Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Career Achievement Award:
  Doris Day
  The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  Bill Morrison – Spark of Being
caption: Michael Fassbender, Best Actor winner
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