15th Hollywood Film Awards

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Founded 1997 Website [1]		Festival date 24 October 2011
Location Beverly Hills, United States

The 15th Annual Hollywood Film Awards ceremony was held on the 24th of October 2011. Gala ceremony took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The honorees were:

Winners

Best Actor: George Clooney – The Descendants

Best Actress: Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Best Supporting Actress: Carey Mulligan – Shame

Breakthrough Actor Award: Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 50/50

Breakthrough Actress Award: Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter, The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Coriolanus

Breakthrough Director: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist

Best Director: Bennett Miller – Moneyball

Best Producer: Letty Aronson – Midnight in Paris

Best Editor: Stephen Mirrione – The Ides of March

Best Screenwriter: Diablo Cody – Young Adult

Best Composer: Alberto Iglesias – The Skin I Live In

Best Visual Effects: Scott Farrar – Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon

Best Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life

Best Animation: Gore Verbinski – Rango

Best Production Design: James J. Murakami – Heareafter

Best Movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

New Hollywood Award: Felicity Jones

Career Achievement Award: Glenn Close

Best Ensemble Cast: Viola Davis, Jessica Chastain, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mary Steenburgen, Ahna O'Reilly, and Cicely Tyson – The Help

Spotlight Award: Amber Heard – The Rum Diary, Berenice Bejo – The Artist, Elle Fanning – Super 8, Jean Dujardin – The Artist, Andrea Riseborough – W.E., Anton Yelchin – Like Crazy, Shailene Woodley – The Descendants

References

15th Hollywood Film Awards Wikipedia

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