By Mirembe Martina
The 2013 Critics’ Choice Awards took place on Thursday January 10th at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California shortly after the 2013 Oscar nominees were announced.
Argo won Best Picture and Best Director at awards. While receiving the awards, Affleck joked saying, “I’d like to thank the Academy!” before laughing and adding, “It’s very, very cool for me. There was a time that a Ben Affleck critics’ award was a Saturday Night Live sketch.”
Some of those who were awarded was Jennifer Lawrence who took home awards for Best Actress in both the Action and Comedy categories for “The Hunger Games” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” respectively.
Below is the full list of winners.

BEST PICTURE: Argo
ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
ACTRESS: Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS: Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
ACTING ENSEMBLE: Silver Linings Playbook
DIRECTOR: Ben Affleck – Argo
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Tony Kushner – Lincoln
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
ART DIRECTION: Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer; Katie Spencer/Set Decorator
EDITING: Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor
COSTUME DESIGN: Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
MAKEUP: Cloud Atlas
VISUAL EFFECTS: Life of Pi
ANIMATED FEATURE: Wreck-It Ralph
ACTION MOVIE: Skyfall
ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Daniel Craig – Skyfall
ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
COMEDY: Silver Linings Playbook
ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE: Looper
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Amour
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Searching for Sugar Man
SONG: Skyfall – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall
SCORE: Lincoln – John Williams