title: Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2011
text: # Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2011
  
  7th AFCA Awards
  
  Best Film:
  
  Hugo
  
  The 7th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2011, were announced on December 28, 2011.
  
  ## Top 10 Films
  
  * Hugo
  * Drive
  * Take Shelter
  * Midnight in Paris
  * Attack the Block
  * The Artist
  * Martha Marcy May Marlene
  * I Saw the Devil (Akmareul boatda)
  * 13 Assassins
  * Melancholia
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Film:
     * Hugo
  * Best Director:
     * Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
  * Best Actor:
     * Michael Shannon – Take Shelter
  * Best Actress:
     * Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Albert Brooks – Drive
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
  * Best Original Screenplay:
     * Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
  * Best Adapted Screenplay:
     * Drive – Hossein Amini
  * Best Cinematography:
     * The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki
  * Best Original Score:
     * Attack the Block – Steven Price
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * I Saw the Devil (Akmareul boatda) • South Korea
  * Best Documentary:
     * Senna
  * Best Animated Feature:
     * Rango
  * Best First Film:
     * Joe Cornish – Attack the Block
  * Bobby McCurdy Breakthrough Artist Award:
     * Jessica Chastain – Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, and The Tree of Life
  * Austin Film Award:
     * Take Shelter – Jeff Nichols
  