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Could Fassbender be eyeing Oscar?Andreas here. Want to see end-of-year craziness in action? Look at today: first, the Boston Society of Film Critics announces their awards, then before they've finished, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Online start tag-teaming it! It all starts to blend together sometimes -- Emmanuel Plummer won for something called Drivemaids? -- but no worries, we've got it straightened out:

First, the LAFCA winners...

PICTURE The Descendants (runner-up: The Tree of Life)

DIRECTOR Terence Malick for The Tree of Life

(Runner-up: Martin Scorsese for Hugo)

SCREENPLAY Asghar Farhadi for A Separation (For Your Consideration!)

ACTRESS Yun Jung-hee for Poetry

(Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst for Melancholia)

ACTOR Michael Fassbender for A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, and X-Men: First Class

(Runner-up: Michael Shannon for Take Shelter)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jessica Chastain for everything

(Runner-up: Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs)

SUPPORTING ACTOR Christopher Plummer for Beginners

(Runner-up: Patton Oswalt for Young Adult)

CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel Lubezki for The Tree of Life

(Runner-up: Cao Yu for City of Life and Death)

PRODUCTION DESIGN Dante Ferretti for Hugo

(Runner-up: Maria Djurkovic for Tinker Tailor)

DOCUMENTARY/NONFICTION Cave of Forgotten Dreams

(Runner-up: The Arbor)

ANIMATION Rango

(Runner-up: The Adventures of Tintin)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM City of Life and Death

(Runner-up: A Separation)

NEW GENERATION The creative team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene

INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL Spark of Being

BEST MUSIC/SCORE The Chemical Brothers for Hanna

(Runner-up: Cliff Martinez for Drive)

Commentary and NYFCO awards after the jump.

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