The 77th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2011, were announced on 29 November 2011 and presented on 9 January 2012.^[1][2][3]

Winners

• Best Film:
  • The Artist
  • Runners-up: Melancholia and Hugo
• Best Director:
  • Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
  • Runners-up: Martin Scorsese – Hugo and Lars von Trier – Melancholia
• Best Actor:
  • Brad Pitt – Moneyball and The Tree of Life
  • Runners-up: Michael Fassbender – Shame and Jean Dujardin – The Artist
• Best Actress:
  • Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
  • Runners-up: Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn and Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Albert Brooks – Drive
  • Runners-up: Christopher Plummer – Beginners and Viggo Mortensen – A Dangerous Method
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Jessica Chastain – The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life
  • Runners-up: Carey Mulligan – Shame and Vanessa Redgrave – Coriolanus
• Best Screenplay:
  • Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian – Moneyball
• Best Cinematography:
  • Emmanuel Lubezki – The Tree of Life
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) • Iran
  • Runner-up: Incendies • Canada
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Best First Film:
  • J. C. Chandor – Margin Call
• Special Award:
  • Raúl Ruiz