Critics' Choice Awards Winners 2011: 'The Fighter' Takes Early Lead

The movie awards season officially moved into high gear Friday night with the 16th annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards, put on by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing about 250 television, radio and online critics.

With the first hour of the show now past, here's a rundown on some of the winners:

'The Fighter,'director David O. Russell's stirring ring drama, has already nabbed two awards: Best Acting Ensemble and Best Supporting Actor forChristian Bale.

Hailee Steinfeldwon the nod for Best Young Actor/Actress for her role in the Coen Bros.' 'True Grit.'

In the feature film categories,'Inception,'the over-the-edge sci-fi thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, won for Best Action Movie. Best Animated Feature went to Disney's'Toy Story 3'and'Easy A'nabbed Best Comedy.'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'won for Best Foreign language Film and'Waiting for"Superman"'took Best Documentary.

In the music categories, 'If I Rise' from '127 Hours' won for Best Song and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross shared composer nods for 'The Social Network.'

On TV, 'The Pacific' took Best Made for Television feature.

The Critics' Choice Movie Awards seem to be a good predictor of the Academy Award nominations. Last year, all four major acting category winners at the Academy Awards in 2010 were Critics' winners in the same categories -- and the Critics chose"The Hurt Locker"for Best Picture and Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director.

This is the fourth year in a row that VH1 broadcast the show live (9PM ET) from the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, and the first year the show was broadcast internationally.

Stay tuned as we update the winners.:

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