The Social Network picked up two more critics prizes, winning honors from the San Francisco and Toronto groups. The San Francisco critics also gave Blue Valentine‘s Michelle Williams her first Best Actress prize of the season. For the Toronto reviewers, meanwhile, the kids were really all right: all four of their acting winners (The Social Network‘s Jesse Eisenberg and Armie Hammer, Winter’s Bone‘s Jennifer Lawrence, and True Grit‘s Hailee Steinfeld) are under 28 years old. See all the winners after the jump.

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Image Credit: Merrick MortonSo much for the New York Film Critics Circle going out of their way to be different. The NYFCC has added to the chorus of praise for The Social Network, giving the film its Best Picture and Best Director prizes. The Kids Are All Right‘s Annette Bening and The King’s Speech‘s Colin Firth won the lead acting awards. (Kids actually led overall with three wins.) So far, The Social Network‘s critics-awards sweep is even greater than The Hurt Locker‘s or Slumdog Millionaire‘s. Here are all the NYFCC winners:

Best Film The Social Network
Best Director David Fincher, The Social Network
Best Actor Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
Best Actress Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actor Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Best Screenplay Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right
Best Cinematography Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Best Animated Film The Illusionist
Best Non-Fiction Film Inside Job
Best Foreign-Language Film Carlos
Best First Feature Animal Kingdom

Image Credit: Knut KoivistoEvery year I look to the Broadcast Film Critics Association as the group that most accurately predicts the eventual Oscar nominees. So the BFCA’s Critics Choice nominations announcement this morning may hold many clues as to what may happen later on in the awards season. Here are the five things that most surprised me about their respectable, yet somewhat predictable lists.

1. Black Swan leads with 12 nominations The film with the most BFCA nods wasn’t The Social Network, The King’s Speech, or Inception, but Darren Aronofsky’s polarizing noir thriller. It’s important to remember that one of last year’s top BFCA nominees was Nine, and that movie didn’t exactly score with the Academy. But 12 Critics Choice nods means that Black Swan could have a sizable and ardent fan base throughout the awards season.

2. No Best Picture nod for The Kids Are All Right It failed to snag a spot on the National Board of Review Top 10. And now The Kids Are All Right missed the cut here as well. It should get a nice bump at tomorrow’s Golden Globes announcement, but the indie comedy is now officially on the bubble for a Best Picture nod.

3. Noomi Rapace scores a Best Actress slot The star of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo earned a spot alongside powerhouses like Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, and Natalie Portman, squeezing out Another Year‘s Lesley Manville. This doesn’t mean she’s a sure thing for a SAG or Oscar nod, but in a very competitive year she’s now squarely in the running.

4. Mila Kunis for Best Supporting Actress I had the Black Swan costar at No. 10 on my supporting-actress rankings last week. Getting in there over Rabbit Hole’s Dianne Wiest and Get Low‘s Sissy Spacek (not to mention her own Swan costar Barbara Hershey) means she’s a viable candidate.

5. Nothing for Michael Douglas Even though he’s not one of my top overall contenders in either race, I thought the BFCA might acknowledge him with a supporting actor nomination for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps or, more likely, in the lead category for Solitary Man. If he couldn’t capitalize on the BFCA’s sixth slot in the acting races, he’ll have an even tougher time with the more exclusive Oscars.

Expected Oscar favorite The King’s Speech picked up five trophies at the British Independent Film Awards yesterday, winning Best Film, Best Screenplay, and acting prizes for all three of its main cast members: Colin Firth (Best Actor), Geoffrey Rush (Best Supporting Actor), and Helena Bonham Carter (Best Supporting Actress). Surprisingly, though, King’s Speech director Tom Hooper lost his award to Gareth Edwards for the alien invasion drama Monsters. The Best Actress prize went to Never Let Me Go‘s Carey Mulligan, who won the same award last year for An Education.