You-review-it Monday plus Indiana Film Journalists awards

My weekend A&E was focused on watching as many films as possible.

Why?

Well, for pleasure, of course. But also because I'm a voting member in the Indiana Film Journalists Association and this is when we pick our annual awards.

I'll be writing about the winners, the process, and my choices in next week's IBJ. 

For now, here's what resulted from our multi-hour debate at Sahm's Tavern (remember, these are the results of the group debating and voting):

Best Film of the Year

Winner: “The Artist”

Runner-up: “The Descendants”

Other Finalists: “Coriolanus,” “Drive,” “Hugo,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “The Muppets,” “The Skin I Live In,” “Super 8,” “The Tree of Life.

Best Animated Film

Winner: “Rango”

Runner-up: “Winnie the Pooh”

Best Foreign Language Film

Winner: “The Skin I Live In”

Runner-up: “13 Assassins”

Best Documentary

Winner: “Project Nim”

Runner-up: “Into the Abyss”

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Thomas McCarthy, “Win Win”

Runner-up: J.C. Chandor, “Margin Call”

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, “The Descendants”

Runner-up: Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, “Moneyball”

Best Director

Winner: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”

Runner-up: Terrence Malick, “The Tree of Life”

Best Actress

Winner: Elizabeth Olsen, “Martha Marcy May Marlene”

Runner-up: Tilda Swinton, “We Need To Talk About Kevin”

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Viola Davis, “The Help”

Runner-up: Amy Ryan, “Win Win” 

Best Actor

Winner: Paul Giamatti, “Win Win”

Runner-up: Ralph Fiennes, “Coriolanus”

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”

Runner-up: Albert Brooks, “Drive”

Best Musical Score

Winner: Ludovic Bource, “The Artist”

Runner-up: Howard Shore, “Hugo”

Original Vision Award

Winner: “The Tree of Life”

Runner-up: “The Artist”

The Hoosier Award

Winner: Lindsay Goffman, producer of “Dumbstruck”

Your thoughts?